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Learn Azure Sentinel

By : Richard Diver, Gary Bushey
Book Image

Learn Azure Sentinel

By: Richard Diver, Gary Bushey

Overview of this book

Azure Sentinel is a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tool developed by Microsoft to integrate cloud security and artificial intelligence (AI). Azure Sentinel not only helps clients identify security issues in their environment, but also uses automation to help resolve these issues. With this book, you’ll implement Azure Sentinel and understand how it can help find security incidents in your environment with integrated artificial intelligence, threat analysis, and built-in and community-driven logic. This book starts with an introduction to Azure Sentinel and Log Analytics. You’ll get to grips with data collection and management, before learning how to create effective Azure Sentinel queries to detect anomalous behaviors and patterns of activity. As you make progress, you’ll understand how to develop solutions that automate the responses required to handle security incidents. Finally, you’ll grasp the latest developments in security, discover 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 Azure Sentinel to fit your needs and be able to protect your environment from cyber threats and other security issues.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Section 1: Design and Implementation
4
Section 2: Data Connectors, Management, and Queries
9
Section 3: Security Threat Hunting
14
Section 4: Integration and Automation
17
Section 5: Operational Guidance

Chapter 8:Introducing Workbooks

Azure Sentinel workbooks are a way to create and show customizable and interactive reports that can display graphs, charts, and tables. Information can be presented from Log Analytics workspaces using the same Kusto Query Language (KQL) queries that you already know how to use. These workbooks are based on the workbook technology that has been in use with other Azure resources, including Azure Monitor and Log Analytics workspaces.

Azure Sentinel provides a number of templates that are ready for use. You can use these templates to create your own workbook that can then be modified as needed. Most of the data connectors that are used to ingest data come with their own workbooks, to allow you better insight into the data that is being ingested through the use of tables and visualizations, including bar and pie charts. You can also make your own workbooks from scratch, if required.

In this chapter, you will learn the following topics:

  • An overview...