Azure Sentinel

Azure provides an SIEM and security orchestration automated response (SOAR) as a standalone service that can be integrated with any custom deployment on Azure. Figure 8.8 shows some of the key features of Azure Sentinel:

Figure 8.8: Key features of Azure Sentinel

Azure Sentinel collects information logs from deployments and resources and performs analytics to find patterns and trends related to various security issues that are pulled from data sources.

There should be active monitoring of the environment, logs should be collected, and information should be culled from these logs as a separate activity from code implementation. This is where the SIEM service comes into the picture. There are numerous connectors that can be used with Azure Sentinel; each of these connectors will be used to add data sources to Azure Sentinel. Azure Sentinel provides connectors for Microsoft services such as Office 365, Azure AD, and Azure Threat Protection...