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Extend sentinel/LAW table schema
Hi, we are working on migrating from a SIEM solution to sentinel and for users to migrate easily, we want to have some custom fields to LAW/Sentinel tables (eg) a filed named brand_CF needs to be added to common security log, syslog, etc tables … we can do vi a UI, but just wondering if it can be done via api/terraform , as we want to put it in code than UI… did anyone created custom columns via API? Further not all tables visible via UI under tables in LAW..
Bulk Closure of old Incidents via PowerShell
Hi All, I am trying to close all MS Sentinel incidents via PowerShell using below script. Get-AzSentinelIncident -WorkspaceName "XXXXXX_XXXXXX" -All | Where-Object {$_.status -eq "New"} | ForEach-Object {update-AzSentinelIncident -WorkspaceName "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" -CaseNumber $_.CaseNumber -Status Closed -CloseReason FalsePositive -ClosedReasonText "Bulk Closure " -Confirm:$false} This works fine for incidents, triggered in last 48 hr. For older incident (older than 48 hr) it is giving below error. Update-AzSentinelIncident: Unable to update Incident 7833 with error message Response status code does not indicate success: 500 (Internal Server Error). Please help me over here, as I need to close over 8k old incidents. Rod Trent
Sentinel Log Volume vs Defender Log Volume
Dear community, we're currently building up our first SOC service and wondering about the costs (not realy, we know that SIEM is expencive, but we don't understand the log volumes). We started with sentinel and enabled the XDR connector with all log sources (Device information, Defender for Identity etc). If we take a look into the LAW and log volumes for those tables, we've an ingest as shown in the following exibit: BUT, in comparison, we did a cost analysis with the real defender information (from Defender portal). We come to an estimated log volume from approx. 45GB (and usually billable around 25GB, because the customer has E5 licenses, which should include the AADNonInteractiveUserSignInLogs table (5MB/user/day for free) We're asking ourself why we got this differences in comparison to the last few days, shown in the exibit (attention: we started with a daily ingest cap, so the daily ingest would be around 90 - 100GB/day). Where is our mistake/lag of knowledge? Here are the KQL, sent wihtin the Defender portal to get the volumes from there AlertInfo | union AlertEvidence | summarize RecordCount = count(), AlertTotalSizeMB = round(sum(estimate_data_size(*))/pow(1024,2),2) EmailEvents | union EmailUrlInfo | union EmailAttachmentInfo | union EmailPostDeliveryEvents | union UrlClickEvents | summarize RecordCount = count(), MDOTotalSizeMB = round(sum(estimate_data_size(*))/pow(1024,2),2) IdentityLogonEvents | union IdentityQueryEvents | union IdentityDirectoryEvents | summarize RecordCount = count(), IDTotalSizeMB = round(sum(estimate_data_size(*))/pow(1024,2),2) DeviceInfo | union DeviceNetworkInfo | union DeviceProcessEvents | union DeviceNetworkEvents | union DeviceFileEvents | union DeviceRegistryEvents | union DeviceLogonEvents | union DeviceImageLoadEvents | union DeviceEvents | union DeviceFileCertificateInfo | summarize RecordCount = count(), MDETotalSizeMB = round(sum(estimate_data_size(*))/pow(1024,2),2) CloudAppEvents | summarize RecordCount = count(), CAppsTotalSizeMB = round(sum(estimate_data_size(*))/pow(1024,2),2) Thanks a lot! Best & have nice a nice easter :-)Extract Email Address from Incident Entity
I'm trying to put together a logic app that will reset a users password and also send them as email notifying them why their password was reset. The logic app triggers off a sentinel incident. The users email address I need to send to is from the Entities properties of the Sentinel incident. How can I extract the users email address? Its in the "MailAddress" property of each Entity. I believe Im going to have to parse it out of the JSON result but need some guidance if that is the case. Appreciate any help.
Playbook when incident trigger is not working
Hi I want to create a playbook to automatically revoke session user when incident with specifics title or gravity is created. But after some test the playbook is'nt run autimacally, it work when I run it manually. I did'nt find what I do wrong. See the image and the code bellow. Thanks in advance! { "definition": { "$schema": "https://schema.management.azure.com/providers/Microsoft.Logic/schemas/2016-06-01/workflowdefinition.json#", "contentVersion": "1.0.0.0", "triggers": { "Microsoft_Sentinel_incident": { "type": "ApiConnectionWebhook", "inputs": { "host": { "connection": { "name": "@parameters('$connections')['azuresentinel']['connectionId']" } }, "body": { "callback_url": "@{listCallbackUrl()}" }, "path": "/incident-creation" } } }, "actions": { "Get_incident": { "type": "ApiConnection", "inputs": { "host": { "connection": { "name": "@parameters('$connections')['azuresentinel-1']['connectionId']" } }, "method": "post", "body": { "incidentArmId": "@triggerBody()?['object']?['id']" }, "path": "/Incidents" }, "runAfter": {} }, "Send_e-mail_(V2)": { "type": "ApiConnection", "inputs": { "host": { "connection": { "name": "@parameters('$connections')['office365']['connectionId']" } }, "method": "post", "body": { "To": "email address removed for privacy reasons", "Subject": "Ceci est un test", "Body": "</p> <p class="\"editor-paragraph\"">@{body('Get_incident')?['id']}</p> <p class="\"editor-paragraph\"">@{body('Get_incident')?['properties']?['description']}</p> <p class="\"editor-paragraph\"">@{body('Get_incident')?['properties']?['incidentNumber']}</p> <p>", "Importance": "Normal" }, "path": "/v2/Mail" }, "runAfter": { "Get_incident": [ "Succeeded" ] } } }, "outputs": {}, "parameters": { "$connections": { "type": "Object", "defaultValue": {} } } }, "parameters": { "$connections": { "type": "Object", "value": { "azuresentinel": { "id": "/subscriptions/xxxx/providers/Microsoft.Web/locations/xxxxx/managedApis/xxxxxxx", "connectionId": "/subscriptions/xxxxxxx/resourceGroups/xxxxxx/providers/Microsoft.Web/connections/azuresentinel-Revoke-RiskySessions1", "connectionName": "azuresentinel-Revoke-RiskySessions1", "connectionProperties": { "authentication": { "type": "ManagedServiceIdentity" } } }, "azuresentinel-1": { "id": "/subscriptions/xxxxxx/providers/Microsoft.Web/locations/xxxx/managedApis/xxx", "connectionId": "/subscriptions/xxxxxxx/resourceGroups/xxxxx/providers/Microsoft.Web/connections/xxxx", "connectionName": "xxxxxx", "connectionProperties": { "authentication": { "type": "ManagedServiceIdentity" } } }, "office365": { "id": "/subscriptions/xxxxxx/providers/Microsoft.Web/locations/xxxxx/managedApis/office365", "connectionId": "/subscriptions/xxxxx/resourceGroups/xxxxxx/providers/Microsoft.Web/connections/o365-Test_Send-email-incident-to-xxxx", "connectionName": "o365-Test_Send-email-incident-to-xxxxx" } } } } }
CCP ProofPoint and Zscaler
Hi, I have ProofPoint and Zscaler Data Connector which appear to show as Deprecated. Logs are still flowing via native Azure Function uninterrupted. Per PP - CCP is suggested approach to replace Zscaler - No replacement method but I assume this will also require CCP Has anyone created CCP for these and successfully deployed these solutions?
Insecure Protocol Workbook
Greetings, maybe most orgs have already eliminated insecure protocols and this workbook is no longer functional? I have it added and it appears to be collecting but when I go to open the template it is completely empty. Is the Insecure Protocol aka IP still supported and if so is there any newer documentation than the blog from 2000 around it? I am hoping to identify ntlm by user and device as the domain controllers are all logging this and the MDI agents on them are forwarding this data to Defender for Identity and Sentinel.Sentinel incident playbook - get alert entities
Hi! My main task is to get all alerts (alerts, not incidents) from sentinel (analytics rules and Defender XDR) to external case management. For different reasons we need to do this on alert level. Alert trigger by design works perfectly, but this does not trigger on Defender alerts on Sentinel, only analytic rules. When using Sentinel incident trigger, then i'm not able to extract entities related to alerts, only incident releated entities. Final output is sent with HTTP post to our external system using logic app. Any ideas how to get in logic app all alerts with their entities?Retrieving MailAddress from Entity for Logic App
I'm trying to put together a logic app that will reset a users password and also send them an email notifying them why their password was reset. The logic app triggers off a sentinel incident. The users email address I need to send to is from the Entities properties of the Sentinel incident. How can I extract the users email address? Its in the "MailAddress" property of each Entity. I believe Im going to have to parse it out of the JSON result but need some guidance if that is the case. Appreciate any help.Log Analytics Workspace - ThreatIntelIndicators
Morning! I have been working on migrating some of our tenant analytic rules to use the new TI ThreatIntelIndicators table. However, I noticed the following: When querying against the new table, I get these values in a tenant log workspace When I do the same query in another tenant logs workspace, I get this result back If I expand the query to grab last 7 days, I get results back but they are wildly different from what I see from one tenant to another. I can find big and small discrepancies in the logs I see. I still can't find the connector on the connectors page (When I filter them out by data type). I can see the one that is being used for the soon to be decommissioned table. As far as I understand, the connector is not going to be changed per se, just how we access the logs from any given log analytics workspace. I'm expecting to see the same values across my log workspaces since it comes from the same connector, and provided by MS, or is this ingestion of TI logs tenant scope and each one has different settings? I couldn't find something that tells me this in the docs. Or is this part of the rollout problems we are expecting to see? Thanks!Generic Logic App to ingest IOCs in text format
Hi all, I configured Sentinel to ingest IOC from different Threat Intelligence sources (free) using TAXII connector. I would like to ingest others feeds in text format (like https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openphish/public_feed/refs/heads/main/feed.txt, , https://bazaar.abuse.ch/export/txt/sha1/recent/ ) using a generic Logic App to Security Graph. These IOCs could be IP, Hash, URL or domain. Does this kind of Logic App exists ?? Regards, HAResearching a rule template "FailedLogonToAzurePortal"
Hello, I have the template rule "FailedLogonToAzurePortal"(https://github.com/Azure/Azure-Sentinel/blob/master/Detections/SigninLogs/FailedLogonToAzurePortal.yaml) and there is a column of data that I don't understand. The column is "FailedLogonCount" and it was showing inconclusive data because it was showing more data than it was... Here is an example: The issue states that 38 login failures have been detected, but if I investigate in the non-interactive login logs I only see one failure which matches the error code type "50173" but this only shows me one failure, I don't understand where the remaining 37 failures come from... Can you help me?, I am a beginner in KQL and I don't think I understand the context of the alert. Regards.
Logic app - Escaped Characters and Formatting Problems in KQL Run query and list results V2 action
I’m building a Logic App to detect sign-ins from suspicious IP addresses. The logic includes: Retrieving IPs from incident entities in Microsoft Sentinel. Enriching each IP using an external API. Filtering malicious IPs based on their score and risk level. Storing those IPs in an array variable (MaliciousIPs). Creating a dynamic KQL query to check if any of the malicious IPs were used in sign-ins, using the in~ operator. Problem: When I use a Select and Join action to build the list of IPs (e.g., "ip1", "ip2"), the Logic App automatically escapes the quotes. As a result, the KQL query is built like this: IPAddress in~ ([{"body":"{\"\":\"\\\"X.X.X.X\\\"\"}"}]) Instead of the expected format: IPAddress in~ ("X.X.X.X", "another.ip") This causes a parsing error when the Run Query and List Results V2 action is executed against Log Analytics. ------------------------ Here's the For Each action loop who contain the following issue: Dynamic compose to formulate the KQL query in a concat, since it's containing the dynamic value above : concat('SigninLogs | where TimeGenerated > ago(3d) | where UserPrincipalName == \"',variables('CurrentUPN'),'\" | where IPAddress in~ (',outputs('Join_MaliciousIPs_KQL'),') | project TimeGenerated, IPAddress, DeviceDetail, AppDisplayName, Status') The Current UPN is working as expected, using the same format in a Initialize/Set variable above (Array/String(for IP's)). The rest of the loop : Note: Even if i have a "failed to retrieve" error on the picture don't bother with that, it's just about the dynamic value about the Subscription, I've entered it manually, it's working fine. What I’ve tried: Using concat('\"', item()?['ip'], '\"') inside Select (causes extra escaping). Removing quotes and relying on Logic App formatting (resulted in object wrapping). Flattening the array using a secondary Select to extract only values. Using Compose to debug outputs. Despite these attempts, the query string is always malformed due to extra escaping or nested JSON structure. I would like to know if someone has encountered or have the solution to this annoying problem ? Best regards
Tips on how to process firewall URL/DNS alerts
Greetings I've been tossing this around ever since I've started using Sentinel, or Defender XDR rather, a few years ago. How to process events from our firewalls. Specifically all the URL and DNS block alerts generated. I don't want to tune them out completely because they might be an indication of something bigger but as the situation is now it's almost impossible to process them. All alerts are created by an NDR rule that processes CommonSecurityLog entires based on syslog data and creates incidents with entities for the incident. The way Defender XDR then process these Sentinel incidents seems to be to create "mega incidents" where it dumps all incidents for a specific time. I can understand the logic behind this thinking where Defender XDR tries to piece together differenct incidents and alerts that have common elements, users, mitre attributes or any combination. But it becomes unmanagable. I would like some input from the community, or references to best practicies.Scheduled Analytics Rule not triggering...
Hello, I am trying to trigger the following KQL query in a custom scheduled Analytics Rule... It is to identify ANY Global Administrator and verify if they have committed any activity (Sign-in) over the last 24 hours. Simple testing is to get a Global Administrator to sign in within the last 24 hours. Now the query triggers and returns records when run in the Logs pane... What I have noticed is that when activated in a custom-scheduled Analytics Rule, it fails to return records! Now the time range set for the analytics rule (query frequency & lookback duration) aligns properly with the query logic or any log ingestion delay. Query scheduling Run query every: 1 day Lookup data from the last: 1 day The funny thing is, when testing the KQL query in the Analytics Rule and Set rule logic/View query results, if the FIRST ATTEMPT returns no results (in the simulation), after repeatedly testing (clicking the test link), it DOES return records! Why is there a time-lag? How can I ensure the query triggers correctly, returning records accordingly, and related Incidents? This is the KQL query... let PrivilgedRoles = dynamic(["Global Administrator"]); let PrivilegedIdentities = IdentityInfo | summarize arg_max(TimeGenerated, *) by AccountObjectId | mv-expand AssignedRoles | where AssignedRoles in~ (PrivilgedRoles) | extend lc_AccountUPN = tolower(AccountUPN) | summarize AssignedRoles=make_set(AssignedRoles) by AccountObjectId, AccountSID, lc_AccountUPN, AccountDisplayName, JobTitle, Department; SigninLogs | where TimeGenerated > ago (1d) | extend lc_UserPrincipalName = tolower(UserPrincipalName) | join kind=inner PrivilegedIdentities on $left.lc_UserPrincipalName == $right.lc_AccountUPN | project TimeGenerated, AccountDisplayName, AccountObjectId, lc_AccountUPN, lc_UserPrincipalName, AppDisplayName, ResultType, ResultDescription, IPAddress, LocationDetailsMissing details in Azure Activity Logs – MICROSOFT.SECURITYINSIGHTS/ENTITIES/ACTION
The Azure Activity Logs are crucial for tracking access and actions within Sentinel. However, I’m encountering a significant lack of documentation and clarity regarding some specific operation types. Resources consulted: Audit logs for Microsoft Sentinel Entities API reference – Microsoft Sentinel Operations list – Microsoft Sentinel REST API My issue: I observed unauthorized activity on our Sentinel workspace. The Azure Activity Logs clearly indicate the user involved, the resource, and the operation type: "MICROSOFT.SECURITYINSIGHTS/ENTITIES/ACTION" But that’s it. No detail about what the action was, what entity it targeted, or how it was triggered. This makes auditing extremely difficult. It's clear the person was in Sentinel and perform an activity through it, from search, KQL, logs to find an entity from a KQL query. But, that's all... Strangely, this operation is not even listed in the official Sentinel Operations documentation linked above. My question: Has anyone encountered this and found a way to interpret this operation type properly? Any insight into how to retrieve more meaningful details (action context, target entity, etc.) from these events would be greatly appreciated.
Unknown Behaviour Involving GroupsService in OfficeActivity
I have spotted a few hundred events with the following KQL query in my environment. This is the result of one of the entries. It looks like a regular legitimate behaviour by Microsoft but I don't seem to find any documentation about it. Can anyone share the insight of it? Thank you!ARC Server disappear after less than 10 days
Hi all, I have several servers (Linux or Windows) using ARC. Some of these servers are sometimes in shutdown state for several days (less than 30 days or even sometimes less like 10 days). Once up again, these servers are not visible into the ARC console and I need to use "azcmagent connect" command to see them again. According to the documentation, the disconnected time is 45 days... Any idea to change this behaviour ? Regards, HALookup data from the last == ingestion_time()
Howdy! In "Analytics rule wizard - Create a new Scheduled rule" under Query scheduling you have to fill out "Lookup data from the last" What time field is Sentinel looking at when determine which events to include in the lookup data? Is it ingestion_time()? Is it TimeGenerated? How does it know?
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