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Defender for Endpoint and ASR controls

Every device onboarded, tamper protection on, and ASR rules moved from Audit to Block without outages.

ID Control Priority Effort
DE01 Check every device is onboarded and its sensor is healthy Highest 1 h
DE02 Make sure Defender Antivirus is active with cloud protection and block at first sight Highest 1 h
DE03 Turn on tamper protection tenant-wide Highest 30 min
DE04 Put all ASR rules in Audit and block the three standard protection rules High 2 h + 2-4 weeks audit
DE05 Turn on network protection (audit, then block) High 1 h + 2 weeks audit

These are the free Top 5. The Defender for Endpoint and ASR Kit has all 15 controls, with the Jira import, Excel plan and read-only script.