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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

Chapter 1: Getting Started with Microsoft Sentinel

Welcome to the first chapter in this book about Microsoft Sentinel. To understand why this solution was developed and how best to use it in your organization, we need to explore the cloud security landscape and understand each of the components that may feed data into, or extract insights from, this system. We also need to gain a baseline understanding of what a strong Security Operations Center (SOC) architecture looks like, and how Microsoft Sentinel is going to help build the foundations for a cost-effective and highly automated cloud security platform.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • The current cloud security landscape
  • The cloud security reference framework
  • SOC platform components
  • Mapping the SOC architecture
  • Security solution integrations
  • Cloud platform integrations
  • Private infrastructure integrations
  • Service pricing for Microsoft Sentinel
  • Scenario mapping