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August 2025 Update

I am currently taking a break from active updates to the website. As mentioned below I created this website to gather knowledge and continue to learn for myself.

My role has evolved and I am currently refocusing efforts there. By the end of 2025 I am planning to rehaul the website. My plan is not finalized but I will likely "archive" all the current content and build new content. I think the non-archived part of the site will likely fall into three areas:

  • Reference material for all Microsoft security products
    • Things like stated times for a feature to update, useful tips and tricks I have found
    • Focusing less on the basic "changing this setting will do this". I think it has its place but its hard to maintain that depth of knowledge with the security products I am planning to add soon
  • A deeper dive into products like Sentinel, IoT, and AI
    • I think these are harder for people to approach
  • Articles exploring new feature releases "beyond the obvious" and guides
    • A lot of bloggers are talking about the Sentinel data lake, how to enable it, use it, etc. I want to take a look at some things people might not be thinking about

Basically, I want product articles to be ~200 level or greater while a guide might be talking at 100 level linking to the 200 level articles. We will see where it lands.

My goals

I created this website to compile knowledge on Microsoft security products I have gathered after years of architecting and deploying best practice Microsoft cybersecurity solutions for organizations utilizing E5 security. I share this knowledge to hopefully educate others and to make sure I am continuing to develop my knowledge as well. If this ends up being a site only I reference, that is fine as well! I am considering adding some more security tools outside of Microsoft in the future but my focus will be Microsoft for now. Some facts about myself:

  • I maintain multiple Microsoft certifications in security
  • I have worked in various domains/disciplines of security for almost a decade
  • I have deployed Microsoft Security products to many environments

If you wish to contact me I can be reached at info@secoptimized.com. I am open to feedback, questions, corrections, or general inquires. Commenting is available on most articles, it uses Giscus and requires a GitHub account to prevent spam from building up on these pages.

Disclaimer

  1. Any guide on this site is provided for educational purposes, I am not privy to your environment and any recommendations I make are not factoring in your environment's unique requirements.
  2. Some page on this site are in developement. If you see this next to an article it is unfinished.
    1. These products are very intricate and feature rich, I am generally trying to do a first pass of all of them to get something started, I will add to them again and as new features come out once the base documentation is covered.
  3. If you see features I list that you do not have it may be because you do not have E5 licensing. I am deciding how best to denote licensing requirements and also evaluating the feasibility of perhaps documenting protections at various licensing levels. I have ideas but my main goal is to actually get all product notes down before focusing further on this.
  4. This site is made with Material for MkDocs.