Summary

In this chapter, we started with our hands-on examples. We focused on the enrichment of incidents so that we could speed up MTTA and MTTR in Microsoft Sentinel. We introduced how to access a trial of Microsoft Sentinel, continued with step-by-step playbook creation, and finished with an example of how to test our playbooks. We used two enrichment methods – IP and URL enrichment – and two different playbook triggers – alert and incident triggers.

In our second hands-on example, we went through the step-by-step process of creating a playbook while investigating each action and its output to plan what to utilize in the next action. This is important, especially when dealing with new actions, and we need to figure out what kind of information each piece of dynamic content contains.

In the next chapter, we will focus more on incident management automation, which will involve the expansion of the playbooks we created in the first and second examples, and...