Merge pull request #1870 from MicrosoftDocs/main

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Author: padmagit77

defender-office-365/attack-simulation-training-get-started.md

@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ Watch this short video to learn more about Attack simulation training.
 
 - There are no corresponding PowerShell cmdlets for Attack simulation training.
 
-- Attack simulation and training related data is stored with other customer data for Microsoft 365 services. For more information, see [Microsoft 365 data locations](/microsoft-365/enterprise/o365-data-locations). Attack simulation training is available in the following regions: APC, EUR, and NAM. Countries within these regions where Attack simulation training is available include ARE, AUS, BRA, CAN, CHE, DEU, ESP, FRA, GBR, IND, ISR, ITA, JPN, KOR, LAM, MEX, NOR, POL, QAT, SGP, SWE, and ZAF.
+- Attack simulation and training related data is stored with other customer data for Microsoft 365 services. For more information, see [Microsoft 365 data locations](/microsoft-365/enterprise/o365-data-locations). Attack simulation training is available in the following regions: APC, EUR, and NAM. Countries within these regions where Attack simulation training is available include ARE, AUS, BRA, CAN, CHE, DEU, ESP, FRA, GBR, IND, ISR, ITA, JPN, KOR, LAM, MEX, NOR, POL, QAT, SGP, SWE, TWN and ZAF.
 
   > [!NOTE]
   > NOR, ZAF, ARE and DEU are the latest additions. All features except reported email telemetry are available in these regions. We're working to enable the features and we'll notify customers as soon as reported email telemetry becomes available.

defender-office-365/tenant-allow-block-list-email-spoof-configure.md

@@ -55,10 +55,10 @@ This article describes how admins can manage entries for email senders in the Mi
 
 - You need to be assigned permissions before you can do the procedures in this article. You have the following options:
   - [Microsoft Defender XDR Unified role based access control (RBAC)](/defender-xdr/manage-rbac) (If **Email & collaboration** \> **Defender for Office 365** permissions is :::image type="icon" source="media/scc-toggle-on.png" border="false"::: **Active**. Affects the Defender portal only, not PowerShell): **Authorization and settings/Security settings/Detection tuning (manage)** or **Authorization and settings/Security settings/Core security settings (read)**.
-  - [Exchange Online permissions](/exchange/permissions-exo/permissions-exo):
+  - [Exchange Online permissions](/exchange/permissions-exo/permissions-exo) in the  **Exchange admin center** at <https://admin.exchange.microsoft.com> \> **Roles** \> **Admin Roles**:
     - *Add and remove entries from the Tenant Allow/Block List*: Membership in one of the following role groups:
       - **Organization Management** or **Security Administrator** (Security admin role).
-      - **Security Operator** (Tenant AllowBlockList Manager).
+      - **Security Operator** (Tenant AllowBlockList Manager role)
     - *Read-only access to the Tenant Allow/Block List*: Membership in one of the following role groups:
       - **Global Reader**
       - **Security Reader**

defender-xdr/advanced-hunting-defender-use-custom-rules.md

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ For editable functions, more options are available when you select the vertical
 - **Edit details** – opens the function side pane to allow you to edit details about the function (except folder names for Sentinel functions)
 - **Delete** – deletes the function
 
-### Use arg() operator for Azure Resource Graph queries (Preview)
+### Use arg() operator for Azure Resource Graph queries
 The *arg()* operator can be used to query across deployed Azure resources like subscriptions, virtual machines, CPU, storage, and the like. 
 
 This feature was previously only available in log analytics in Microsoft Sentinel. In the Microsoft Defender portal, the `arg()` operator works over Microsoft Sentinel data (that is, Defender XDR tables are not supported). This allows users to use the operator in advanced hunting without needing to manually open a Microsoft Sentinel window. 

defender-xdr/breadcrumb/toc.yml

@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@
   - name: Microsoft Defender XDR
     tocHref: /defender-for-identity/
     topicHref: /defender-xdr/index
+  - name: Microsoft Defender XDR
+    tocHref: /unified-secops-platform/
+    topicHref: /defender-xdr/index
 
 ## Azure override
 - name: 'Microsoft Defender'
@@ -18,4 +21,3 @@
   - name: 'Microsoft Defender XDR'
     tocHref: /azure/sentinel/
     topicHref: /defender-xdr/index
-

defender-xdr/data-privacy.md

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ ms.topic: conceptual
 search.appverid: 
   - MOE150
   - MET150
-ms.date: 08/19/2024
+ms.date: 11/03/2024
 appliesto: 
 - Microsoft Defender XDR 
 ---
@@ -28,22 +28,66 @@ appliesto:
 
 [!INCLUDE [Microsoft Defender XDR rebranding](../includes/microsoft-defender.md)]
 
-Microsoft Defender XDR operates in Microsoft Azure data centers in the European Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and Switzerland. Customer data collected by the service is stored at rest in (a) the geo-location of the tenant as identified during provisioning or, (b) the geo-location as defined by the data storage rules of an online service if this online service is used by Microsoft Defender XDR to process such data.
+Microsoft Defender XDR integrates with several different Microsoft security services, which collect data using various technologies. Integrated services allow Microsoft Defender XDR to access their data for the purpose of identifying cross-product correlations.
 
-Customer data in pseudonymized form might also be stored in central storage and processing systems in the United States.
+## Collected data
 
-The table below shows the general information on the data retention of specific service sources in Defender XDR:
+Customer data collected from integrated services includes *processed data*, such as incidents and alerts, and *configuration data*, such as connector settings, rules and so on.
 
-|Product|Default data retention period|More information|
-|:---|:---|:---|
-|Microsoft Defender for Endpoint|180 days|[Defender for Endpoint data storage and privacy](/defender-endpoint/data-storage-privacy)|
-|Microsoft Defender for Office 365|Varies according to feature and license|[Defender for Office 365 data retention information](/defender-office-365/mdo-data-retention)|
-|Microsoft Defender for Identity|180 days|[Defender for Identity data storage and privacy](/defender-for-identity/privacy-compliance)|
-|Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps|180 days|[Defender for Cloud Apps data storage and privacy](/defender-cloud-apps/cas-compliance-trust)|
-|Microsoft Entra|Varies according to feature and license|[Microsoft Entra data storage and privacy](/entra/identity/monitoring-health/reference-reports-data-retention)|
-|Microsoft Sentinel|90 days for Basic logs, varies depending on pricing|[Microsoft Sentinel pricing](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/details/microsoft-sentinel/)|
+## Data storage location
 
-> [!NOTE]
-> [Advanced hunting](advanced-hunting-overview.md) lets you query up to 30 days of raw data.
+Microsoft Defender XDR operations in Microsoft Azure data centers in the following geographical regions:
+
+- **European Union**: North Europe and West Europe
+- **United Kingdom**: UK South and UK West
+- **United States**: East US 2 and Central US
+- **Australia**: Australia East and Australia Southeast
+- **Switzerland**: Switzerland North and Switzerland West
+- **India**: Central India and South India
+
+Once created, the Microsoft Defender XDR tenant isn't movable to a different region. Your geographical region is shown in the Microsoft Defender portal, under **Settings > Microsoft Defender XDR > Account**.
+
+Customer data stored by integrated services might also be stored in the following locations:
+
+- The original location for the relevant service.
+- A region defined by data storage rules of an integrated service, if Microsoft Defender XDR shares data with that service.
+
+## Data retention
+
+Microsoft Defender XDR data is retained for 180 days, and is visible across the Microsoft Defender portal during that time, except for in **Advanced hunting** queries. 
+
+In the Microsoft Defender portal's **Advanced hunting** page, data is accessible via queries for only 30 days, unless it's streamed through [Microsoft's unified security operations platform with Microsoft Sentinel](/azure/sentinel/microsoft-365-defender-sentinel-integration?toc=%2Fdefender-xdr%2Ftoc.json&bc=%2Fdefender-xdr%2Fbreadcrumb%2Ftoc.json&tabs=defender-portal), where retention periods may be longer.
+
+Data continues to be retained and visible, even when a license is under a grace period or in suspended mode. At the end of any grace period or suspension, and no later than 180 days from a contract termination or expiration, data is deleted from Microsoft's systems and is unrecoverable.
+
+Most Defender services also have a default data retention period of 180 days. More information on data retention period per product is found in [relevant service docs](#related-content).
+
+## Data sharing
+
+Microsoft Defender XDR shares data among the following Microsoft products, also licensed by the customer:
+
+- Microsoft Defender for Cloud
+- Microsoft Defender for Identity
+- Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
+- Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
+- Microsoft Defender for Office 365
+- Microsoft Defender for IoT
+- Microsoft Sentinel
+- Microsoft Intune
+- Microsoft Purview
+- Microsoft Entra
+- Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management
+- Microsoft Copilot for Security
+
+## Related content
+
+For more information, see:
+
+- [Defender for Endpoint data storage and privacy](/defender-endpoint/data-storage-privacy)
+- [Defender for Office 365 data retention information](/defender-office-365/mdo-data-retention)
+- [Defender for Identity data storage and privacy](/defender-for-identity/privacy-compliance)
+- [Defender for Cloud Apps data storage and privacy](/defender-cloud-apps/cas-compliance-trust)
+- [Microsoft Entra data storage and privacy](/entra/identity/monitoring-health/reference-reports-data-retention)
+- [Microsoft Sentinel pricing](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/details/microsoft-sentinel/)
 
 [!INCLUDE [Microsoft Defender XDR rebranding](../includes/defender-m3d-techcommunity.md)]

defender-xdr/whats-new.md

@@ -29,11 +29,13 @@ For more information on what's new with other Microsoft Defender security produc
 
 You can also get product updates and important notifications through the [message center](https://admin.microsoft.com/Adminportal/Home#/MessageCenter).
 
+## November 2024
+- (GA) The `arg()` operator in [advanced hunting](advanced-hunting-defender-use-custom-rules.md#use-arg-operator-for-azure-resource-graph-queries) in Microsoft Defender portal is now generally available. Users can now use the *arg()* operator for Azure Resource Graph queries to search over Azure resources, and no longer need to go to Log Analytics in Microsoft Sentinel to use this operator if already in Microsoft Defender.
 
 ## October 2024
 
 - [Microsoft Unified RBAC roles](experts-on-demand.md#required-permissions-for-using-ask-defender-experts) are added with new permission levels for Microsoft Threat Experts customers to use Ask Defender experts capability.
-- (Preview) In [advanced hunting](advanced-hunting-defender-use-custom-rules.md#use-arg-operator-for-azure-resource-graph-queries-preview), Microsoft Defender portal users can now use the *arg()* operator for Azure Resource Graph queries to search over Azure resources. You no longer need to go to Log Analytics in Microsoft Sentinel to use this operator if you are already in Microsoft Defender.
+- (Preview) In [advanced hunting](advanced-hunting-defender-use-custom-rules.md#use-arg-operator-for-azure-resource-graph-queries), Microsoft Defender portal users can now use the *arg()* operator for Azure Resource Graph queries to search over Azure resources. You no longer need to go to Log Analytics in Microsoft Sentinel to use this operator if you are already in Microsoft Defender.
 
 ## September 2024
 
@@ -337,7 +339,7 @@ The security operations team can view all actions pending approval, and the stip
 
 ## June 2021
 
-- (Preview) [View reports per threat tags](threat-analytics.md#view- reports-by-category)
+- (Preview) [View reports per threat tags](threat-analytics.md#view-reports-by-category)
 
   Threat tags help you focus on specific threat categories and review the most relevant reports.
 

exposure-management/exposure-insights-overview.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ author: dlanger
 manager: rayne-wiselman
 ms.topic: overview
 ms.service: exposure-management
-ms.date: 08/20/2024
+ms.date: 11/04/2024
 ---
 
 # Overview - Exposure insights
@@ -51,12 +51,12 @@ Security Exposure Management provides initiatives that currently include:
 
 ### Initiative elements
 
-**Element** | **Goal** | **Details**
---- | --- | ---
-**Initiative** | Initiatives help you to gather security projects that have similar resources and workloads, and to assess and remediate the security posture of each project.| Each security initiative provides an all-up score that provides a fast measure of how strong security posture is for the initiative at the current point in time.<br/><br/> The all-up score also provides a target score indicator, the number of critical assets affected, and shows how the score has moved over the last 24 hours.
-**Metric** | Metrics in security initiatives help you to measure exposure risk for different areas within the initiative.| Each metric gathers together one or more recommendations for similar assets.<br/><br/>Metrics can be associated with one or more initiatives.<br/><br/>**Important**: Threat analytics initiatives don't have metrics. They have recommendations only.
-**Recommendations** |Security recommendations help you to understand the compliance state for a specific security initiative.  | All security initiatives have recommendations associated with them.<br/><br/>Recommendations can be associated with one or more initiatives.<br/><br/> Within initiatives, recommendations are assigned a compliance state.
-**Events** | Events help you to  monitor initiative changes.  | Events notify you when there's a drop in an all-up initiative score or metric score, indicating that exposure risk grew.
+|**Element** | **Goal** | **Details**|
+|--- | --- | ---|
+|**Initiative** |Initiatives help you to gather security projects that have similar resources and workloads, and to assess and remediate the security posture of each project.|Each security initiative provides an all-up score that provides a fast measure of how strong security posture is for the initiative at the current point in time.<br/><br/>The all-up score also provides a target score indicator, the number of critical assets affected, and shows how the score has moved over the last 24 hours.|
+|**Metric** |Metrics in security initiatives help you to measure exposure risk for different areas within the initiative.|Each metric gathers together one or more recommendations for similar assets.<br/><br/>Metrics can be associated with one or more initiatives.<br/><br/>**Important**: Threat analytics initiatives don't have metrics. They have recommendations only.|
+|**Recommendations** |Security recommendations help you to understand the compliance state for a specific security initiative.  |All security initiatives have recommendations associated with them.<br/><br/>Recommendations can be associated with one or more initiatives.<br/><br/>Within initiatives, recommendations are assigned a compliance state.|
+|**Events** |Events help you to  monitor initiative changes.  |Events notify you when there's a drop in an all-up initiative score or metric score, indicating that exposure risk grew.|
 
 ## Working with initiatives
 
@@ -88,6 +88,12 @@ In some cases, metrics display grayed out because the underlying data for the me
 
 Grayed out metrics aren't considered for score calculation.
 
+> [!NOTE]
+> The versioning feature in Exposure Management provides proactive notifications to users about upcoming version updates, providing advanced visibility into the expected metric changes and their impact on related initiatives.
+> A dedicated side panel offers more details about the update, including the expected date of the change, release notes, and current and new metric values, as well as changes to the related initiatives' scores.
+> Users can share feedback about the update directly through the platform.
+> The information is dynamic and may vary depending on when it is accessed.
+
 ## Working with recommendations
 
 Security Exposure Management ingests security recommendations from multiple sources, including Microsoft Defender for Cloud running the  [Defender for Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) plan](/azure/defender-for-cloud/concept-cloud-security-posture-management), [Microsoft Secure Score](/defender-xdr/microsoft-secure-score), Microsoft threat analytics, and other Microsoft workloads. Security Exposure Management integrates all of these recommendations into a single security catalog.
@@ -103,7 +109,7 @@ Security Exposure Management categorizes recommendations by compliance status, a
 - **Mitigated by organization**: Displays when steps to mitigate recommendations were taken elsewhere, and Security Exposure Management can't know whether recommendations are compliant. For example, by changing a status in Secure score.
 - **Not available**: Means there isn't enough information to determine the compliance status.
 
-:::image type="content" source="./media//exposure-insights-overview/recommendation-ransomeware-advanced-protection.png" alt-text="Screenshot of the ransomware advanced protection recommendation details ":::
+:::image type="content" source="./media//exposure-insights-overview/recommendation-ransomware-advanced-protection.png" alt-text="Screenshot of the ransomware advanced protection recommendation details ":::
 
 ### Secure score
 
@@ -145,9 +151,9 @@ When you drill down into a specific change, you can see the percentage effects o
 - **Metric removed** - The metric is no longer relevant for that specific initiative. For instance, if a better suggestion is introduced or it becomes irrelevant.
 - **Metric depreciated** - The metric is removed globally.
 
-Selecting the metric that changed provides more details about the change. For instance, it might display the new weight of a property change, or the number of affected assets before or after the change.
+Selecting the metric that changed provides more details about the change. For instance, it might display the new weight of a property change, and the number of affected assets before and after the change. It also offers a dropdown for changes to exposed assets, displaying up to the top 100 assets and indicating whether the asset exposure was added or removed.
 
-:::image type="content" source="media/exposure-insights-overview/initiatives-history-details.png" alt-text="Screenshot of the metric change side panel in the Initiatives history tab." lightbox="media/exposure-insights-overview/initiatives-history-details.png":::
+:::image type="content" source="media/exposure-insights-overview/Initiatives-history-updated.png" alt-text="Screenshot of initative history side panel" lightbox="media/exposure-insights-overview/Initiatives-history-updated.png":::
 
 You can't control the metric or score changes in advance.
 

exposure-management/initiatives.md

@@ -77,8 +77,9 @@ The changes in your score provide you with useful feedback about how well you're
     1. If needed, filter for specific time points.
     1. Choose the time point and select to examine the percent effect on the initiative score and the reason for the change.
     1. Select a metric to explore the change's effect further, if applicable.
+    1. Open the **Changes to exposed assets** dropdown to view up to the top 100 changed assets. The status will indicate whether the asset exposure has been added or removed.
 
-:::image type="content" source="media/initiatives/history-details.png" alt-text="Screenshot of the history metric change details side panel.":::
+:::image type="content" source="media/exposure-insights-overview/initiatives-history-details-redcued.jpg" alt-text="Screenshot of history side panel" lightbox="media/initiatives/initiatives-history-details.png":::
 
 ## Review metrics and recommendations