Cado and Microsoft Defender - Streamlined Incident Response

As organizations adapt their security infrastructure to ever-changing and evolving threats, integrations between tools can help streamline the investigative and response processes. The Cado platform's integration with Microsoft Defender demonstrates how automation and forensic capabilities can enhance incident detection and response workflows, empowering teams to operate faster and more efficiently.

Enhanced Visibility with Microsoft Defender

Microsoft Defender is well known for its ability to detect and flag malicious activity, but understanding the full context of these alerts is crucial. With Cado’s integration, you gain instant access to deep forensic data immediately after an alert is triggered. Instead of switching between tools, analysts can view and interact with relevant data in one place.

Once Defender detects an issue, Cado automatically conducts a forensic triage capture of the affected devices as well as collects additional contextual data in the form of telemetry and lower-priority alerts, allowing for deeper investigation. By simply clicking on the alert, security teams can access additional context to understand the full scope of an incident.

The Cado platform makes adding integrations simple, just select the platform you want to integrate with from the integrations page and the platform will ask you for the relevant credentials:

When fully integrated into your environment the Cado platform will allow you to view all of your alerts in one place:

The Cado platform also allows you to dive deep into every single one of those alerts from the same console no extra tools needed:

Diving into Full Investigations

From detection, Cado’s integration allows analysts to seamlessly transition into a full investigation. Whether it’s reviewing specific files, examining the file system, or accessing data types like the UserAssist registry key, Cado provides a comprehensive toolkit. This integration reduces the manual steps required to gather information, reducing the mean time to respond and offering a clear path to incident resolution.

Additionally, users can download files for further analysis or send them to a sandbox environment for more in-depth exploration. Whether you're tracking down every application a user has run or analyzing patterns within a file system, Cado ensures you have the tools necessary for a complete and efficient investigation.

Adding an integration to the Cado Platform is simple.

Streamlining SOC Workflows

This is just one of the many integrations available in the Cado Platform. Integrations are more than just about forensic capabilities; it's also about empowering security teams to operate faster and more efficiently by giving them a more thorough understanding of events and threats, as well as allowing security teams to make more confident informed decisions. By working directly within the platforms where teams already spend their time, such as Jira, Cado ensures that response times are minimized and investigations are more comprehensive.

When Defender picks up an alert, the Cado Platform can add significant contextual data to the alert before forwarding it to a ticketing system. Providing analysts with the data they need to make informed decisions they can be confident in.  

Want to Learn More?

The Cado platform is continually evolving, and this Microsoft Defender integration represents just one of the many ways Cado is improving the day-to-day operations of security teams.

If you're interested in seeing a demo or learning more about how Cado can help your organization respond to incidents faster, contact a member of our team to schedule a demo.