Keep this document to one review outcome: Review identity Secure Score, custom detections, and hunting every week. Only the official source and traced locations below supply facts. Confirm applicability before acting.
\nThe official Weekly operational guide – Microsoft Defender for Identity from Microsoft supports the following bounded statements:
\nThese statements are the factual basis for this document. Do not extend them into a broader assurance. Review identity alerts, investigations, remediation roles, evidence retention, escalation, exclusions, and incident workflows only where the source and recorded environment align.
\nA weekly vendor checklist does not override incident urgency or prove that accepted recommendations are applicable or complete. Do not read the source as proof of implementation or permission to change production. Its guidance remains conditional on Active Directory, Windows DNS, time, cloud portals, endpoint data, network telemetry, privileged access, and response staffing and the environment’s recorded constraints.
\nDSE recommends using the cited source as the evidence anchor for this decision. Start with applicability, then compare the observed state with the cited source. Record the source location, examined part of identity alerts, investigations, remediation roles, evidence retention, escalation, exclusions, and incident workflows, observed and expected states, owner, and reason for deviation.
\nTranslate the conclusion into change control only after documenting dependencies, impact, test method, expected signals, failure signals, and restoration steps. Include Active Directory, Windows DNS, time, cloud portals, endpoint data, network telemetry, privileged access, and response staffing, while excluding secrets and sensitive personal or topology data from ordinary tickets.
\nKeep the source locations Opening scope statement; Secure Score section adjacent to the sanitized artifacts used for comparison. Prefer alert records, investigation timelines, analyst actions, tuning or exclusion approvals, remediation results, and case closure, with enough identity and timing data for an independent recheck.
\nRecord the decision even when no change is made, including uncertainty and the next trigger. Use safe testing conditions for disruptive work, preserve rollback proof, and revisit the conclusion after relevant platform, dependency, vendor, or ownership changes.
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