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Microsoft Security Operations Analyst Exam Ref SC-200 Certification Guide

By : Trevor Stuart, Joe Anich
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Microsoft Security Operations Analyst Exam Ref SC-200 Certification Guide

By: Trevor Stuart, Joe Anich

Overview of this book

Security in information technology has always been a topic of discussion, one that comes with various backgrounds, tools, responsibilities, education, and change! The SC-200 exam comprises a wide range of topics that introduce Microsoft technologies and general operations for security analysts in enterprises. This book is a comprehensive guide that covers the usefulness and applicability of Microsoft Security Stack in the daily activities of an enterprise security operations analyst. Starting with a quick overview of what it takes to prepare for the exam, you'll understand how to implement the learning in real-world scenarios. You'll learn to use Microsoft's security stack, including Microsoft 365 Defender, and Microsoft Sentinel, to detect, protect, and respond to adversary threats in your enterprise. This book will take you from legacy on-premises SOC and DFIR tools to leveraging all aspects of the M365 Defender suite as a modern replacement in a more effective and efficient way. By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to plan, deploy, and operationalize Microsoft's security stack in your enterprise and gained the confidence to pass the SC-200 exam.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Section 1 – Exam Overview and Evolution of Security Operations
4
Section 2 – Implementing Microsoft 365 Defender Solutions
8
Section 3 – Familiarizing Yourself with Alerts, Incidents, Evidence, and Dashboards
13
Section 4 – Setting Up and Connecting Data Sources to Microsoft Sentinel
15
Section 5 – Hunting Threats within Microsoft 365 Defender and Microsoft Sentinel

Hunting for threats in Microsoft Sentinel

Hunting for threats in Microsoft Sentinel lets you hunt more holistically across your organization because you can hunt across much more than just the M365 security stack. You can add things such as Syslog, common event format (CEF), REST APIs, and a host of external third-party data sources. For a full list of the available data connectors, go to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sentinel/data-connectors-reference.

Being able to pipe in all of the data from your systems and security appliances makes it much easier to parse it into something meaningful, in one central place.

The following screenshot shows the Microsoft Sentinel Hunting dashboard. This should give you some sense of everything that's going on, such as the tabs for Queries, Livestream, and Bookmarks, which we'll touch on later in this chapter. The main section of this page lists all of your queries, both custom and built-in ones written by Microsoft security...