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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

Steps to integrate Microsoft Sentinel with ServiceNow

This section will outline how to integrate Microsoft Sentinel with ServiceNow Security Incident Response using the latest ServiceNow plugin, which taps directly into an API in Sentinel. ServiceNow provides good documentation on how to establish this integration. There is no need to fully reproduce these steps in this chapter. We will outline the steps and point out the common pitfalls, as well as the opportunities to optimize the integration.

Configuring the Microsoft Azure portal

This step is where you will configure Azure to allow ServiceNow to integrate with it. To do this, you will need to create an application in Azure. When you configure the ServiceNow Sentinel plugin later, the key variables you will need to collect are as follows:

  • Tenant ID
  • Client ID
  • Client secret
  • Subscription ID
  • Resource Group name
  • Workspace name

You will need these variables when you configure ServiceNow to authenticate...