Blue Team

CW10 Protect Your Industrial Control Systems with Microsoft Defender for IoT

August 5th, 2026

9:30am - 10:45am

Level: Intermediate

John Joyner

Senior Director, Technology

AccountabilIT

Make OT security a core part of your SOC strategy with Microsoft Defender for IoT. Learn the 'why and how' for Defender for IoT to include an OT overview, IT vs OT security discussion, OT customer challenges, IoT market drivers, and Defender for IoT architecture to include sensor engines and the OT alerting catalog. See industrial systems integrated into Defender XDR/Sentinel SIEM for unified threat visibility and automation capabilities. Understand at a high level a project plan for discovery, deployment, tuning and operationalization of Defender for IoT best practices.

You will learn:

  • Defender for IoT sensor and license planning to include form factors, capacity ratings, and costs.
  • Zero Trust policy compliance with Defender for IoT's firmware analysis feature for proactive supply chain security.
  • Copilot for Security and Agentic AI integration with Defender for IoT.