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Microsoft Sentinel
Manufacturing: one SOC across office, plant and cloud with Microsoft Sentinel
Research-backedA global car manufacturer reduced a landscape of hundreds of custom-built tools to a single security picture across office, production, cloud and supply chain, with Microsoft Defender on the endpoints and Microsoft Sentinel as the SOC.
- Microsoft Sentinel
- Microsoft Defender XDR
- +2
8 Aug 20265 min read
Microsoft Sentinel
Finance: a single investigation view for a Data & AI platform with Microsoft Sentinel
Research-backedA bank brings the signals from Defender, Purview and Entra together in Microsoft Sentinel, so an incident on the Data & AI platform gets one timeline instead of four consoles.
- Microsoft Sentinel
- Microsoft Defender XDR
- +4
6 Aug 20263 min read
Azure Databricks
Government: one Databricks workspace per domain, deployed with Terraform
Research-backedA large Dutch government organization gives every domain its own Azure Databricks workspace, deployed with Terraform and Declarative Automation Bundles, with Unity Catalog as the shared governance layer and a central platform team underneath.
- Azure Databricks
- Unity Catalog
- +4
6 Aug 20265 min read
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Healthcare: continuous visibility of a Data & AI platform's security posture with Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Research-backedA hospital group makes the security posture of Fabric, Databricks and Foundry measurable with Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and gives every recommendation an owner instead of a dashboard.
- Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- Microsoft Defender XDR
- +4
6 Aug 20265 min read
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