Cloudflare Log ingestion in Sentinel with CCF
Hi all, I built a connector to ingest cloudflare firewall logs using CCF. The reason why I had to build this custom one while the official one was available was because official one uses Logpush which is a service that is available only on Enterprise plan, so if you are on pro or business plan you can not use it. Putting it out here in case anyone wants to try. https://amankhan.net/posts/Cloudflare-CCF-Connector/Sentinel Foundry - MCP Server (Github Community Release)
I’ve been cooking something that a lot of people in SOC have been struggling with — especially on the engineering side of Microsoft Sentinel. Thanks to the Microsoft Security team for shaping the capabilities of Sentinel even better with Sentinel Data Lake & Modern SecOps. Today’s the day I can finally share it. Note: This is not an official Microsoft product, but it is designed to make the Sentinel Build even better (complement) with much more intelligence. 🚀 Sentinel Foundry is now in public preview with 43 tools. (Sentinel Foundry - MCP Server) It’s an MCP server built to act like the brain of a strong Sentinel engineer — helping make building, improving, and operating Sentinel far more practical, faster, and honestly more enjoyable. For a lot of teams, the challenge is not understanding what Sentinel can do. The hard part is the engineering work around it: -> Deciding what data should actually be ingested -> Building a clean, scalable Sentinel foundation -> Writing useful detections instead of noisy ones -> Balancing security value with cost -> Turning ideas into deployable engineering outputs That is exactly why I built Sentinel Foundry to help communities grow stronger. It helps with the real engineering tasks behind Sentinel — from architecture thinking to detection design, deployment planning, ingestion strategy, automation ideas, and many of the workflows outlined in the GitHub project. How does it work? Here’s one of the flagship prompts I ran with it: “Give me a complete security posture report for our workspace. Score each pillar and tell me what to prioritise.” And within seconds, it produced a structured engineering blueprint that would normally take a lot longer to pull together manually. You can see the example prompts here in what it can do: https://github.com/prabhukiranveesam/Sentinel-Foundry#what-can-it-do I want building Sentinel to feel less like repetitive engineering overhead — and more like real security engineering that is fast, creative, and enjoyable. If you work with Sentinel as a SOC L2 analyst, engineer, detection engineer, consultant, or architect, I’d genuinely love for you to try it and tell me what you think. 🔗 Public Preview: https://github.com/prabhukiranveesam/Sentinel-Foundry This is just the start of an AI era — and I’m excited to keep shaping it with more powerful features over the coming days. This is very easy to set up and will be available to all of you at no cost during this month as part of the public preview, and your feedback is extremely valuable to shape this as a powerful solution.
Data Connectors Storage Account and Function App
Several data connectors downloaded via Content Hub has ARM deployment templates which is default OOB experience. If we need to customize we could however I wanted to ask community how do you go about addressing some of the infrastructure issues where these connectors deploy storage accounts with insecure configurations like infrastructure key requirement, vnet intergration, cmk, front door etc... Storage and Function Apps. It appears default configuration basically provisions all required services to get streams going but posture configuration seems to be dismissing security standards around hardening these services.
CrowdStrike API Data Connector (via Codeless Connector Framework) (Preview)
API scopes created. Added to Connector however only streams observed are from Alerts and Hosts. Detections is not logging? Anyone experiencing this issue? Github has post about it apears to be escalated for feature request. CrowdStrikeDetections. not ingested Anyone have this setup and working?
Issue connecting Azure Sentinel GitHub app to Sentinel Instance when IP allow list is enabled
Hi everyone, I’m running into an issue connecting the Azure Sentinel GitHub app to my Sentinel workspace in order to create our CI/CD pipelines for our detection rules, and I’m hoping someone can point me in the right direction. Symptoms: When configuring the GitHub connection in Sentinel, the repository dropdown does not populate. There are no explicit errors, but the connection clearly isn’t completing. If I disable my organization’s IP allow list, everything works as expected and the repos appear immediately. I’ve seen that some GitHub Apps automatically add the IP ranges they require to an organization’s allow list. However, from what I can tell, the Azure Sentinel GitHub app does not seem to have this capability, and requires manual allow listing instead. What I’ve tried / researched: Reviewed Microsoft documentation for Sentinel ↔ GitHub integrations Looked through Azure IP range and Service Tag documentation I’ve seen recommendations to allow list the IP ranges published at //api.github.com/meta, as many GitHub apps rely on these ranges I’ve already tried allow listing multiple ranges from the GitHub meta endpoint, but the issue persists My questions: Does anyone know which IP ranges are used by the Azure Sentinel GitHub app specifically? Is there an official or recommended approach for using this integration in environments with strict IP allow lists? Has anyone successfully configured this integration without fully disabling IP restrictions? Any insight, references, or firsthand experience would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!McasShadowItReporting / Cloud Discovery in Azure Sentinel
Hi! I´m trying to Query the McasShadowItReporting Table, for Cloud App DISCOVERYs The Table is empty at the moment, the connector is warning me that the Workspace is onboarded to Unified Security Operations Platform So I cant activate it here I cant mange it via https://security.microsoft.com/, too The Documentation ( https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-cloud-apps/siem-sentinel#integrating-with-microsoft-sentinel ) Leads me to the SIEM Integration, which is configured for (for a while) I wonder if something is misconfigured here and why there is no log ingress / how I can query themCodeless Connect Framework (CCF) Template Help
As the title suggests, I'm trying to finalize the template for a Sentinel Data Connector that utilizes the CCF. Unfortunately, I'm getting hung up on some parameter related issues with the polling config. The API endpoint I need to call utilizes a date range to determine the events to return and then pages within that result set. The issue is around the requirements for that date range and how CCF is processing my config. The API expects an HTTP GET verb and the query string should contain two instances of a parameter called EventDates among other params. For example, a valid query string may look something like: ../path/to/api/myEndpoint?EventDates=2025-08-25T15%3A46%3A36.091Z&EventDates=2025-08-25T16%3A46%3A36.091Z&PageSize=200&PageNumber=1 I've tried a few approaches in the polling config to accomplish this, but none have worked. The current config is as follows and has a bunch of extra stuff and names that aren't recognized by my API endpoint but are there simply to demonstrate different things: "queryParameters": { "EventDates.Array": [ "{_QueryWindowStartTime}", "{_QueryWindowEndTime}" ], "EventDates.Start": "{_QueryWindowStartTime}", "EventDates.End": "{_QueryWindowEndTime}", "EventDates.Same": "{_QueryWindowStartTime}", "EventDates.Same": "{_QueryWindowEndTime}", "Pagination.PageSize": 200 } This yields the following URL / query string: ../path/to/api/myEndpoint?EventDates.Array=%7B_QueryWindowStartTime%7D&EventDates.Array=%7B_QueryWindowEndTime%7D&EventDates.Start=2025-08-25T15%3A46%3A36.091Z&EventDates.End=2025-08-25T16%3A46%3A36.091Z&EventDates.Same=2025-08-25T16%3A46%3A36.091Z&Pagination.PageSize=200 There are few things to note here: The query param that is configured as an array (EventDates.Array) does indeed show up twice in the query string and with distinct values. The issue is, of course, that CCF doesn't seem to do the variable substitution for values nested in an array the way it does for standard string attributes / values. The query params that have distinct names (EventDates.Start and .End) both show up AND both have the actual timestamps substituted properly. Unfortunately, this doesn't match the API expectations since the names differ. The query params that are repeated with the same name (EventDates.Same) only show once and it seems to use the value from which comes last in the config (so last one overwrites the rest). Again, this doesn't meet the requirements of the API since we need both. I also tried a few other things ... Just sticking the query params and placeholders directly in the request.apiEndpoint polling config attribute. No surprise, it doesn't do the variable substitution there. Utilizing queryParametersTemplate instead of queryParameters. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sentinel/data-connector-connection-rules-referenceindicates this is a string parameter that expects a JSON string. I tried this with various approaches to the structure of the JSON. In ALL instances, the values here seemed to be completely ignored. All other examples from Azure-Sentinel repository utilize the POST verb. Perhaps that attribute isn't even interpreted on a GET request??? And because some AI agents suggested it and ... sure, why not??? ... I tried queryParametersTemplate as an actual query string template, so "EventDates={_QueryWindowStartTime}&EventDates={_QueryWindowEndTime}". Just as with previous attempts to use this attribute, it was completely ignored. I'm willing to try anything at this point, so if you have suggestions, I'll give it a shot! Thanks for any input you may have!
Issue when ingesting Defender XDR table in Sentinel
Hello, We are migrating our on-premises SIEM solution to Microsoft Sentinel since we have E5 licences for all our users. The integration between Defender XDR and Sentinel convinced us to make the move. We have a limited budget for Sentinel, and we found out that the Auxiliary/Data Lake feature is sufficient for verbose log sources such as network logs. We would like to retain Defender XDR data for more than 30 days (the default retention period). We implemented the solution described in this blog post: https://jeffreyappel.nl/how-to-store-defender-xdr-data-for-years-in-sentinel-data-lake-without-expensive-ingestion-cost/ However, we are facing an issue with 2 tables: DeviceImageLoadEvents and DeviceFileCertificateInfo. The table forwarded by Defender to Sentinel are empty like this row: We created a support ticket but so far, we haven't received any solution. If anyone has experienced this issue, we would appreciate your feedback. Lucas
