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📋 Summary

Customers without advanced hunting on device data cannot add the Microsoft Defender data source today. This affects Defender for Endpoint Plan 1, Defender for Business and Defender for Office 365-only tenants, plus least-privilege setups that grant only some permissions. The cause: the Alerts and Advanced hunting validation steps are required, and the device import (KQL on DeviceInfo) fails, as reported by a Plan 1 customer: Failed to resolve table or column expression named 'DeviceInfo'.

This PR makes each capability degrade on its own:

• Config validation: every step is now optional. Each message names the missing permission or licence and what stops working. If every check fails, the message points at the tenant ID, client ID or secret.
• Import: the 4 device import steps are optional, so the import completes with a warning when hunting is unavailable.
• Readable errors: Graph streams share an error script. A missing device table explains that the licence has no advanced hunting on device data and points to Overview and Incidents; a 403 says to grant the missing permission and keeps Graph's message naming the role; a 401 points at the credentials.
• Data stream descriptions name the permission or licence each stream needs.
• Dashboards, reorganised by capability:
  • Top level, works on any licence: Overview (new, replaces Cockpit: Secure Score, active incidents, active alerts by severity / service / category, list of active high severity alerts) and Incidents (unchanged).
  • Advanced Hunting folder: Threat Detections (the 8 hunting tiles from Cockpit), Devices Health (now also has Device Exposure State from Cockpit), and the 3 device pages (Device Status, Vulnerabilities, Recommendations).
• Alerts data stream: adds the serviceSource column ("Service Source"), and fixes the "New" status filter, which sent newAlert (rejected by Graph as an invalid enumeration value) instead of new. Tiles already saved with newAlert are mapped to new.
• README: a capability / permission / licence table, guidance to grant only the Defender permissions, troubleshooting for warnings, and fixes for REVIEW.md issues.
• Fixes on the moved Current Score % tile: it had a scope pinned to a node from the authoring tenant, and its scalar pointed at a column the SQL doesn't return.
• Version 1.0.4 → 1.1.0. Authentication is unchanged from 1.0.4 (built-in OAuth2).

Held back: vulnerability data without advanced hunting (a Vulnerability Exposures stream on the Defender for Endpoint API, its dashboard and setup check). It needs a second API token, which this PR obtained with a pre-request script; that approach won't be approved until the platform supports it. It was built and tested in ae06cee…e944a71 and removed in b00b609; reverting that commit restores it.

🔗 Related issue(s)

• Relates to PLUG-4744

🧩 Plugin details

• Plugin name: Microsoft Defender (plugins/MicrosoftDefender/v1)
• Type of change:
  • Bug fix
  • New datastream
  • Enhancement to existing datastream
  • Performance improvement
  • Documentation / metadata / logo
  • Other (please describe): out-of-the-box dashboards reorganised into capability folders

🧪 Testing

Live testing on a Defender tenant with 82 devices (Les Bleus DEV), with credentials that pass on 1.0.4:

• Upgrade in place (1.0.4 deployed with --suffix upg, data source and custom dashboard created, then 1.1.0 deployed over it): same plugin and data source IDs; the custom Alerts and Devices tiles match the baseline; re-index returns 82 devices; Advanced Hunting dashboards work.

• Overview alert tiles failed on newAlert, fixed in 424e21b.

• Graph error script verified on the live platform: a query on a missing device table returns the readable message; a valid hunting query still returns data.

• Since b00b609 the authentication config is byte-for-byte the 1.0.4 one.

• CI validate and deploy pass (including the Advanced Hunting folder name with a space)

• Existing 1.0.4 data source upgraded in place keeps working without being edited

• Overview alert tiles render without errors, and serviceSource is returned by alerts_v2

• Re-check on b00b609: fresh data source, checks, import, Overview and Advanced Hunting dashboards

• Tenant without advanced hunting (or app without ThreatHunting.Read.All): hunting check is a warning, data source saves, import completes with no devices, Overview and Incidents render, hunting tiles show the readable message

• App with only ThreatHunting.Read.All (least-privilege case): data source saves, Advanced Hunting dashboards render

• Wrong client secret: every check shows a warning that mentions credentials

⚠️ Breaking changes

Does this PR introduce any breaking changes?

• No

Out-of-the-box dashboards change (Cockpit is replaced by Overview, and the hunting dashboards move into an Advanced Hunting folder). OOB dashboards are updated on upgrade and customer-created dashboards are not touched, so nothing customers built breaks. No data stream is removed or renamed, and authentication is unchanged.

One behaviour change: a wrong client secret no longer blocks saving the data source. It shows a warning on every check instead.

📚 Documentation

• Documentation updated
• No documentation changes needed

✅ Checklist

• This PR changes a single plugin only
• No secrets or credentials included
• Plugin, datastream and UI naming follow SquaredUp guidelines
• I agree to the Code of Conduct

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Walkthrough

The Microsoft Defender plugin adds vulnerability data access and a Vulnerability Exposure dashboard. It adds Defender for Endpoint authentication, updates permission and device-import configuration, and revises the default Overview and Advanced Hunting dashboards.

Changes: Microsoft Defender plugin

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Authentication and capability configuration plugins/MicrosoftDefender/v1/preRequest.js, plugins/MicrosoftDefender/v1/metadata.json, plugins/MicrosoftDefender/v1/configValidation.json, plugins/MicrosoftDefender/v1/indexDefinitions/default.json, plugins/MicrosoftDefender/v1/dataStreams/alerts.json, plugins/MicrosoftDefender/v1/docs/README.md	The plugin routes Defender for Endpoint requests and obtains cached client-credentials tokens. Permission checks and device-import steps are optional. Validation messages and the README describe permission and licence requirements and their effects. Alert metadata adds the serviceSource label. Plugin metadata changes to version 1.1.0.
Vulnerability exposure stream and dashboard plugins/MicrosoftDefender/v1/dataStreams/validationVulnerabilities.json, plugins/MicrosoftDefender/v1/dataStreams/vulnerabilityExposures.json, plugins/MicrosoftDefender/v1/defaultContent/vulnerabilityExposure.dash.json	The plugin adds a validation stream and a paged vulnerability exposure stream with an optional severity filter. The new dashboard displays CVE and exposure counts, charts, and a table.
Overview dashboard and default manifest plugins/MicrosoftDefender/v1/defaultContent/manifest.json, plugins/MicrosoftDefender/v1/defaultContent/overview.dash.json	The default manifest replaces Cockpit with Overview and adds Vulnerability Exposure. The Overview dashboard displays Secure Score, active incidents, and active alerts.
Advanced Hunting dashboards plugins/MicrosoftDefender/v1/defaultContent/Advanced Hunting/*	Dashboards use the Advanced Hunting folder. Threat Detections contains tiles for malware and antivirus, persistence and privilege escalation, application control, and exploits. Devices Health adds a device exposure-state tile, and the Advanced Hunting manifest lists dashboard items.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ExposureDashboard
  participant VulnerabilityExposures
  participant DefenderEndpoint
  ExposureDashboard->>VulnerabilityExposures: Request vulnerability records with severity selection
  VulnerabilityExposures->>DefenderEndpoint: GET machine vulnerabilities with paging and optional severity filter
  DefenderEndpoint->>VulnerabilityExposures: Return vulnerability records
  VulnerabilityExposures->>ExposureDashboard: Provide data for dashboard tiles and table

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Merge Risk: Minimal · up to b6587

The change lets Defender data sources authenticate separately for Graph and Defender for Endpoint and work with partial permissions. No concrete defect was established in the reviewed files. The one remaining uncertainty is that the new token host has not been shown to work in the deployed environment. The author's remaining live-tenant checks should cover this before release.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 1d36d

The update supports partial-capability setups without increasing the application's declared permissions or changing its authentication model. Existing registration guidance can still lead administrators to grant broader access than Defender needs; no PR-specific increase in that exposure was established.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — If an administrator follows the linked guide's broader permission list and consents directory or SharePoint read access, misuse of that application's credentials can expose tenant data beyond Defender. The relevant scope follows the application's consented grants, not the dashboards selected in the plugin. This grant route already exists in the base documentation.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• observed — Both retained findings concern README line 19 directing administrators to the generic Microsoft 365 registration guide. Supplied verification identifies permissions including Directory.Read.All and Sites.Read.All in that guide. The README's instruction to grant only selected permissions is meaningful counterevidence, but does not explicitly replace the guide's permission list. The findings remain relevant without establishing a PR-introduced authority expansion.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• inferred — Capability validation probes Graph reads or a DeviceInfo hunting query. Making those probes optional relaxes onboarding acceptance, not token issuance or Graph permission enforcement. A missing capability can produce warnings, but the inspected change supplies no mechanism to obtain data without the application's corresponding authority.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Use Defender-specific registration guidance that explicitly substitutes selected capability permissions for the generic guide's permission list. Include guidance for reviewing and removing unnecessary existing grants while accounting for applications shared with other integrations.

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The description follows the repository's PR template sections: Summary, Related issue(s), Plugin details, Testing, Breaking changes, Documentation, and Checklist. It explains the problem (device import fails without advanced hunting), the fix (optional validation steps, optional import steps, readable errors, reorganised dashboards, new Vulnerability Exposures check), and the version bump. Most required information is present. Some testing items are unchecked, and the vulnerability work was removed from this PR, which the description states clearly.

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🧩 Plugin PR Summary

📦 Modified Plugins

• plugins/MicrosoftDefender/v1

📋 Results

Step	Status
Scope & version	✅ Passed
Validation	✅ Passed
Deployment	🚀 Deployed

🔍 Validation Details

✅ microsoft-defender

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    "UI Configuration": true,
    "Has Icon": true,
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