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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

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to create a playbook that you can use in your analytic query rules to perform SOAR actions. Playbooks are based on Azure Logic Apps, with the only difference being that the Azure Sentinel connector must be used in order for a logic app to be a playbook.

With what you have learned, you can now create playbooks to automate a lot of actions that had to be performed manually previously. You read about one such example, but there is no limit to what you can do!

In the next chapter, we will use what we learned in this chapter to build a playbook that will create a new ServiceNow ticket and update the incident with the ticket number.