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Learn Azure Sentinel

By : Richard Diver, Gary Bushey
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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

Logging in to ServiceNow

ServiceNow is offered as a fully customizable ITSM platform, running as a cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) platform (that is, there is no infrastructure to deploy in order to get started). As an extensive platform, many additional modules are offered via the ServiceNow store (https://store.servicenow.com), allowing you to choose solutions from first- and third-party solutions to fully expand the capabilities and integrations across your technology landscape.

While there are a lot of options to cover with ServiceNow, we are going to focus on the specific areas that we need in order to create integration with Azure Sentinel, and confirm that incidents are correctly triggered.

When you first sign in to the ServiceNow portal (https://www.servicenow.com/products/service-portal.html), you will be presented with the following home screen:

Figure 12.1 – ServiceNow home screen

You can use the menu on the left-hand side of...