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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Azure Functions

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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

Connecting your first data source

Before we dig into the details of the Microsoft Sentinel data connectors (see Chapter 3, Managing and Collecting Data), we will review how Log Analytics enables connectivity to a range of different sources to receive data to store and analyze. Some of the data source options include the following:

Application and OS diagnostics
Virtual machine log data
Azure storage account logs
Azure Activity log
Other Azure resources

In this section, we will show you how you can enable log collection from Azure virtual machines.

Obtaining information from Azure virtual machines

To have the virtual machines (VMs) populate a Log Analytics workspace, they need to be connected to it. This is done from the Log Analytics workspace Overview page.

There are two different ways to get to this page. First, you can select Log Analytics in the Azure portal navigation menu and then select the appropriate workspace. The second, and perhaps...

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