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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

Implementing TI connectors

Microsoft Sentinel provides a data connector specifically for integration with TIP solutions (both commercial and open source). This section will provide walk-through guidance for the steps required to ingest TI data into Microsoft Sentinel, using MineMeld as an example:

  1. Enabling the data connector for TIPs
  2. Registering app permission in Azure Active Directory (AD)
  3. Configuring the TI feed (MineMeld)
  4. Confirming that the TI feed data is visible

    Note

    At the time of writing, this feature is still in public preview. You can enable this solution in your Microsoft Sentinel workspace to gain access to these features; however, you should expect it to change as it is developed.

Let's discuss each of these steps in detail in the following sections.

Enabling the data connector

Use the following steps to enable the data connector for TIPs within Microsoft Sentinel:

  1. Navigate to the Microsoft Sentinel portal and go to the Data...