Build next-generation security operations with Microsoft Sentinel

Microsoft Sentinel is the scalable, cloud-native, security information and event management (SIEM) solution for automating and streamlining threat identification and response across your enterprise. Now, three leading experts guide you step-by-step through planning, deployment, and operations, helping you use Microsoft Sentinel to escape the complexity and scalability challenges of traditional solutions. Fully updated for the latest enhancements, this edition introduces new use cases for investigation, hunting, automation, and orchestration across your enterprise and all your clouds. The authors clearly introduce each service, concisely explain all new concepts, and present proven best practices for maximizing Microsoft Sentinel’s value throughout security operations.

 

Three of Microsoft’s leading security operations experts show how to:



Review emerging challenges that make better cyberdefense an urgent priority
See how Microsoft Sentinel responds by unifying alert detection, threat visibility, proactive hunting, and threat response
Explore components, architecture, design, and initial configuration
Ingest alerts and raw logs from all sources you need to monitor
Define and validate rules that prevent alert fatigue
Use threat intelligence, machine learning, and automation to triage issues and focus on high-value tasks
Add context with User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) and Watchlists
Hunt sophisticated new threats to disrupt cyber kill chains before you’re exploited
Enrich incident management and threat hunting with Jupyter notebooks
Use Playbooks to automate more incident handling and investigation tasks
Create visualizations to spot trends, clarify relationships, and speed decisions
Simplify integration with point-and-click data connectors that provide normalization, detection rules, queries, and Workbooks

 

About This Book



For cybersecurity analysts, security administrators, threat hunters, support professionals, engineers, and other IT professionals concerned with security operations
For both Microsoft Azure and non-Azure users at all levels of experience