You're reading from Microsoft Sentinel in Action Architect, design, implement, and operate Microsoft Sentinel as the core of your security solutions

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801815536

Length 478 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

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Richard Diver

Gary Bushey

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Design and Implementation

2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Microsoft Sentinel FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Azure Monitor – Introduction to Log Analytics

4. Section 2: Data Connectors, Management, and Queries

5. Chapter 3: Managing and Collecting Data

6. Chapter 4: Integrating Threat Intelligence with Microsoft Sentinel

7. Chapter 5: Using the Kusto Query Language (KQL)

8. Chapter 6: Microsoft Sentinel Logs and Writing Queries

9. Section 3: Security Threat Hunting

10. Chapter 7: Creating Analytic Rules

11. Chapter 8: Creating and Using Workbooks

12. Chapter 9: Incident Management

13. Chapter 10: Configuring and Using Entity Behavior

14. Chapter 11: Threat Hunting in Microsoft Sentinel

15. Section 4: Integration and Automation

16. Chapter 12: Creating Playbooks and Automation

17. Chapter 13: ServiceNow Integration for Alert and Case Management

18. Section 5: Operational Guidance

19. Chapter 14: Operational Tasks for Microsoft Sentinel

20. Chapter 15: Constant Learning and Community Contribution

21. Assessments

22. Other Books You May Enjoy

Introduction to Azure Monitor Log Analytics

Azure Monitor is the name of a suite of solutions built within the Azure platform to collect logs and metrics, with that information then being used to create insights, visualizations, and automated responses. Log Analytics is one of the main services created to analyze the logs gathered. The platform supports near real-time scenarios, is automatically scaled, and is available to multiple services across Azure (including Microsoft Sentinel). The Kusto Query Language (KQL) is used to obtain information from logs, allows complex information to be queried quickly, and the queries can be saved for future use. In this book, we will refer to this service simply as Log Analytics.

To create a Log Analytics workspace, you must first have an Azure subscription. Each subscription is based on a specific geographic location that ties the data storage to that region. The region selection is decided based on where you want your data to be stored; consider...

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