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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

Technical requirements

Before you start creating Log Analytics workspaces and using Microsoft Sentinel, you will need to set up an Azure tenant and subscription. It does not matter what type of Azure tenant you have, if you have one that you can use. If you do not have access to an Azure tenant, you can set up a free trial by following the instructions at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/.

Once you have a tenant, you will need a subscription as well, if there is not one that you can use already. Depending on the type of Azure tenant you have access to, you may need to contact someone else to create the subscription. If you need help creating a new subscription, go to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/manage/create-subscription.