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Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies - Second Edition

By : Yuri Diogenes, Dr. Erdal Ozkaya
Book Image

Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies - Second Edition

By: Yuri Diogenes, Dr. Erdal Ozkaya

Overview of this book

Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies, Second Edition is a completely revised new edition of the bestselling book, covering the very latest security threats and defense mechanisms including a detailed overview of Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and an assessment of the current threat landscape, with additional focus on new IoT threats and cryptomining. Cybersecurity starts with the basics that organizations need to know to maintain a secure posture against outside threat and design a robust cybersecurity program. It takes you into the mindset of a Threat Actor to help you better understand the motivation and the steps of performing an actual attack – the Cybersecurity kill chain. You will gain hands-on experience in implementing cybersecurity using new techniques in reconnaissance and chasing a user’s identity that will enable you to discover how a system is compromised, and identify and then exploit the vulnerabilities in your own system. This book also focuses on defense strategies to enhance the security of a system. You will also discover in-depth tools, including Azure Sentinel, to ensure there are security controls in each network layer, and how to carry out the recovery process of a compromised system.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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Index

Azure Activity logs

Microsoft Azure also has platform logging that enables you to visualize subscription-level events that have occurred in Azure. These events include a range of data, from Azure Resource Manager (ARM) operational data to updates on Service Health events. These logs are also stored for 90 days by default, and this log is enabled by default.

To access the Azure Activity log, go to Azure Portal, in the search box type Activity and once you see the Activity log icon, click on it. The result may vary, but you should see some activities similar to the sample screen that follows:

Figure 8: A sample of the Azure Activity log

You can expand these activities to obtain more information about each action, and you can also retrieve the raw JSON data with all the details about the activity.

Accessing Azure Activity logs from Azure Sentinel

If you are using Azure Sentinel as your SIEM platform, you can use the native Azure Activity log connector to ingest data...