Microsoft Sentinel in Action - Second Edition

Diver, Richard|Bushey, Gary|Perkins, John

ISBN 10: 1801815534 / ISBN 13: 9781801815536

Published by Packt Publishing, 2022

About this Item

Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. Use Microsoft s own intelligent security service that brings together cloud security and AI to protect your organization. Microsoft Sentinel in Action will help you to gain enough understanding to make the most of Azure services and secure your environment .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Microsoft Sentinel in Action - Second Edition
• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1801815534
• ISBN 13: 9781801815536
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Learn how to set up, configure, and use Microsoft Sentinel to provide security incident and event management services for your multi-cloud environment

Key Features

• Collect, normalize, and analyze security information from multiple data sources
• Integrate AI, machine learning, built-in and custom threat analyses, and automation to build optimal security solutions
• Detect and investigate possible security breaches to tackle complex and advanced cyber threats

Book Description

Microsoft Sentinel is a security information and event management (SIEM) tool developed by Microsoft that helps you to integrate cloud security and artificial intelligence (AI). This book will enable you to implement Microsoft Sentinel and understand how it can help detect security incidents in your environment with integrated AI, threat analysis, and built-in and community-driven logic.

The book begins by introducing you to Microsoft Sentinel and Log Analytics. You'll then get to grips with data collection and management, before learning how to create effective Microsoft Sentinel queries to detect anomalous behaviors and activity patterns. Moving ahead, you'll learn about useful features such as entity behavior analytics and Microsoft Sentinel playbooks along with exploring the new bi-directional connector for ServiceNow. As you progress, you'll find out how to develop solutions that automate responses needed 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 Microsoft Sentinel book, you'll have learned how to implement Microsoft Sentinel to fit your needs and be able to protect your environment from cyber threats and other security issues.

What you will learn

• Implement Log Analytics and enable Microsoft Sentinel and data ingestion from multiple sources
• Get to grips with coding using the Kusto Query Language (KQL)
• Discover how to carry out threat hunting activities in Microsoft Sentinel
• Connect Microsoft Sentinel to ServiceNow for automated ticketing
• Find out how to detect threats and create automated responses for immediate resolution
• Use triggers and actions with Microsoft Sentinel playbooks to perform automations

Who this book is for

If you are an IT professional with prior experience in other Microsoft security products and Azure and are now looking to expand your knowledge to incorporate Microsoft Sentinel, then this book is for you. Security experts using an alternative SIEM tool who want to adopt Microsoft Sentinel as an additional service or as a replacement will also find this book useful.

Table of Contents

1. Getting started with Microsoft Sentinel
2. Azure Monitor-Introduction to Log Analytics
3. Managing and collecting data
4. Integrating Threat Intelligence with Microsoft Sentinel
5. Using the Kusto Query Language
6. Microsoft Sentinel Logs and Writing Queries
7. Creating Analytic Rules
8. Creating and Using Workbooks
9. Incident Management
10. Configuring and Using Entity Behavior
11. Threat Hunting in Microsoft Sentinel
12. Creating Playbooks and Automation
13. ServiceNow integration for Alert and Case Management
14. Operational Tasks for Microsoft Sentinel
15. Constant Learning and Community Contribution

About the Author

Richard Diver is a senior technical business strategy manager for the Microsoft Security Solutions group, focused on developing security partners. Based in Chicago, Richard works with advanced security and compliance partners to help them build solutions across the entire Microsoft platform, including Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender, Microsoft 365 security solutions, and many more. Prior to Microsoft, Richard worked in multiple industries and for several Microsoft partners to architect and implement cloud security solutions for a wide variety of customers around the world. Any spare time he gets is usually spent with his family. Gary Bushey is an Azure security expert with over 25 years of IT experience. He got his start early on when he helped his fifth-grade math teacher with their programming homework and worked all one summer to be able to afford his first computer, a Commodore 64. When he sold his first program, an apartment management system, at 14 he was hooked. During his career, he has worked as a developer, consultant, trainer, and architect. When not spending time in front of a computer, you can find him hiking in the woods, taking pictures, or just picking a direction and finding out what is around the next corner. John Perkins is the founder and principal of Threat Angler, a cybersecurity service provider that specializes in managed services, professional services, and training with a focus on delivering cybersecurity outcomes to customers of all shapes and sizes. John has over 20 years of experience in cybersecurity and has contributed to nearly all cybersecurity disciplines during his career. He has experience with numerous applications, including Microsoft Sentinel, and has designed, built, and led managed security services for several large service providers. In his free time, John enjoys spending time with his family, traveling, and staying active.