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woelki
Aug 31, 2021Iron Contributor
Supported firewall without delivering usernames?
Hi there, currently I'm struggling with the first tests in MCAS. I'm executing the tests in my DEV tenant or in a customer tenant. In both I have no possibility to use Defender for Endpoint. So I'...
JaredPoeppelman
Dec 03, 2021Microsoft
Well, the fact is that many firewalls (whether by design or by implementation) do not support identifying the identity of the user. Guess what?!? Neither does MDE integration. MDE is device-centric, as is the approach of using source IP when no user id is available.
Regarding the perspective on visualizing senseful data, the problem is the fidelity of the original data. It is just flow data about http/s connections. That's it. There is no info about what is actually happening or even whether that was a place the user navigated to in a browser or was hit via a drive-by ad or something embedded in a page, like Facebook and Twitter login.
Regarding the perspective on visualizing senseful data, the problem is the fidelity of the original data. It is just flow data about http/s connections. That's it. There is no info about what is actually happening or even whether that was a place the user navigated to in a browser or was hit via a drive-by ad or something embedded in a page, like Facebook and Twitter login.