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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Authors (2):

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

Understanding connectors

Microsoft Sentinel relies on Log Analytics to store data for all ingested security sources, process that data, and find useful information about potential risks and security threats. The data required may be generated by many different types of resources across many different platforms, which is why we need many different options for connecting to those data sources. Understanding the options available, and how to configure them, is key to developing a strong data architecture to support the Microsoft Sentinel solution.

A summary of the connectors is shown in the following diagram:

Figure 3.3 – Microsoft Sentinel connector flow

Connectors can be categorized based on the method used to ingest data from the source. Currently, there are four main types:

Native connections
Direct connections
API connections
Agent-based (Windows Server Agent and Syslog)

Let's explore each of these types in more detail...

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