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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

Creating workbooks

Now that you have an idea of what you can do with workbooks, it is time to see how to create your own. There are two ways of doing this:

  • Using a workbook template
  • Creating one from scratch

Either way, we will get a working workbook; however, you may find it easier to create workbooks from templates to begin with, to get a better understanding of how workbooks function and what you can do with them. There is no reason why you cannot create your own workbook using the queries from a workbook created from a template as your starting point.

To be able to create a new workbook, you will need to have the proper rights. Refer to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sentinel/roles#roles-and-allowed-actions to see the rights that are required to create and edit workbooks.

Creating a workbook using a template

The following steps show how to create a workbook using a template. This makes it easier to create a new workbook, as it gives you a basis...