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Microsoft Sentinel in Action - Second Edition

By : Richard Diver, Gary Bushey, John Perkins
Book Image

Microsoft Sentinel in Action - Second Edition

By: Richard Diver, Gary Bushey, John Perkins

Overview of this book

Microsoft Sentinel is a security information and event management (SIEM) tool developed by Microsoft that helps you integrate cloud security and artificial intelligence (AI). This book will teach you how to implement Microsoft Sentinel and understand how it can help detect security incidents in your environment with integrated AI, threat analysis, and built-in and community-driven logic. The first part of this book will introduce you to Microsoft Sentinel and Log Analytics, then move on to understanding data collection and management, as well as how to create effective Microsoft Sentinel queries to detect anomalous behaviors and activity patterns. The next part will focus on useful features, such as entity behavior analytics and Microsoft Sentinel playbooks, along with exploring the new bi-directional connector for ServiceNow. In the next part, you’ll be learning how to develop solutions that automate responses needed to handle security incidents and find out more about the latest developments in security, techniques to enhance your cloud security architecture, and explore how you can contribute to the security community. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to implement Microsoft Sentinel to fit your needs and protect your environment from cyber threats and other security issues.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Section 1: Design and Implementation
4
Section 2: Data Connectors, Management, and Queries
9
Section 3: Security Threat Hunting
15
Section 4: Integration and Automation
18
Section 5: Operational Guidance

Walking through an existing workbook

We are going to look at an existing template that has most of the features available to workbooks. This may give you an idea of what you can do with your workbooks, or at least show you how to set up a workbook to do what you want.

The Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Sign-in logs template has a wide variety of charts and graphs in it. In addition, it shows how to allow users to change parameters, and it shows how you can make columns in a table and display information in a more graphical way.

If you do not have the SigninLogs data type available, which the Azure AD Sign-in logs workbook uses to get its information, it is recommended that the Azure AD connector be enabled for your Microsoft Sentinel instance. Refer to Chapter 3, Managing and Collecting Data, for guidance on how to do this. If you cannot get this connector activated, for whatever reason, you can follow along in the book. However, you will have a better experience if you can...