Fortifying Your Defenses: How Microsoft Sentinel Safeguards Your Organization from BEC Attacks
Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks continue to be some of the most prevalent and costly attacks facing organizations worldwide. Between April 2022 and April 2023, Microsoft Threat Intelligence detected and investigated 35 million BEC attempts with an adjusted average of 156,000 attempts daily. In just the last 30 days we have observed potential BEC attack related activity in over 150 customers. Microsoft 365 Defender has comprehensive prevention, detection, and disruption options for BEC attacks across Microsoft’s products and solutions. Using Microsoft Sentinel’s ability to collect data across all users, devices, applications, and infrastructure, both on-premises and in multiple clouds, we have now extended this level of detection and response to areas outside of Microsoft’s own platforms and to where your organization operates.Anomaly detection on the SAP audit log using the Microsoft Sentinel for SAP solution
Organizations who use the Microsoft for SAP solution obtain valuable security insights from events in the SAP security audit log as it contains trail on many important activities on both standard SAP and customer enhanced events. The current Sentinel solution encapsulates a variety of out of the box detections and visualization based on the valuable information in the SAP security log. We are proud to announce that the new Microsoft Sentinel for SAP Solution is enhanced with a feature designed to detect suspicious events in the SAP security audit log based on deviation from the norm, meaning anomalies, in addition to the existing deterministic detection patterns previously included with the solution.What's New: SOC Process Framework is Now Live in Content Hub!
I am excited to announce that the SOC Process Framework has been updated and moved into Sentinel's Content Hub for installation across multiple workbooks, watchlists, and the amazing Get-SOCActions Playbook for analyst actions to be taken during Triage and Investigation. When you click on the SOC Process Framework Tile in Content Hub, you will see the Description details, as well as the content associated with the Framework, i.e. (7) Workbooks, (12) Watchlists, (1) Playbook. By clicking on the "Install" button, you will be prompted to follow the on-screen instructions. This Content Hub Solution contains all resources for the SOC Process Framework Microsoft Sentinel Solution. The SOC Process Framework Solution is built in order to easily integrate with Microsoft Sentinel and build a standard SOC Process and Procedure Framework within your Organization. By deploying this solution, you'll be able to monitor progress within your SOC Operations and update the SOC CMMI Assessment Score. This solution consists of the following resources: Integrated workbooks interconnected into a single workbook for single pane of glass operation. One Playbook for pushing SOC Actions to your Incidents. Multiple Watchlists helping you maintain and organize your SOC efforts, including IR Planning, SOC CMMI Assessment Score, and many more. Workbooks The workbooks contained in this solution have visualizations about the SOC Progress, Procedures, and Activity and provides an overview of the overall SOC Maturity. These workbooks and their dependances are deployed for you through this solution. NOTE: Be aware that after you have installed the workbooks, you must save the workbooks and edit the Watchlist Queries and run them, so they initialize for the framework to leverage the applied watchlists. Please use the steps below to initialize the Watchlist Queries. Save Workbook's and Edit Watchlist Queries Step 1. Save and Open the Workbook, "Update SOC Maturity Score". Step 2. Edit Workbook and click the Edit button to open the pills. Step 3. Click the box next to Watchlist. Step 4. Click the pencil icon to open the Settings Context Pane. Step 5. Click the "Run Query" button to execute the query and initialize the link between the workbook and the watchlists. Step 6. Click the "Save" Icon to save these settings. Step 7. Click Done Editing in the Workbook. Step 8. Click the "Save" Icon in the Workbook to save the Workbook. Step 9. Repeat Steps for the Workbooks called out below. Repeat this process for the following Workbooks: Workbook: Update SOC IR Planning Workbook: SOC Process Framework Watchlists The watchlists contained within this solution have information that pertain to Incident Response Planning, the SOC Maturity (CMMI) Scoring, Recommended SOC Actions, and more... All of these watchlists give the customer ease of access to updating pertinent information regarding their SOC Operations and more. Playbooks Currently the only Playbook in this solution is the Get-SOCActions Playbook for delivering custom Analyst Actions to take per Incident. This allows Organizations the ability to create/add their own scripted actions they want an Analyst to take. After deploying this Solution, please see the Post-Deployment Instructions before executing the Playbook. Post-Deployment Instructions After deploying this Solution and its associated playbook, you must authorize the connections leveraged within the Playbook before running. Visit the playbook resource. Under "Development Tools" (located on the left), click "API Connections". Ensure each connection has been authorized. Note: If you've deployed the [SOC Process Framework Playbook](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Azure/Azure-Sentinel/master/Solutions/SOC Process Framework/Playbooks/Get-SOCActions/azuredeploy.json) playbook, you will only need to authorize the Microsoft Sentinel connection. Now that I have covered the installation of this framework, let's get to the content updates that have been made to this solution as a whole that I know you will be excited to learn more about! This solution contains a large number of updates: 4 new workbooks outlining the growth path along the SOC Journey and best practices regarding building a SOC Team. 2 new workbooks that outline both Incident Response Planning and SOC Maturity. 12 new Watchlists from SOC Contacts to IR Planning as well as ~800 questions regarding your SOC Maturity Score. New Content in the SOC Process Framework: SOC Capability Maturity Model Integration Incident response planning SOC RaMP (Rapid Modernization Plan) SOC Part-Time Staff SOC Small Staff SOC Medium Staff SOC Large Staff SOC Framework for Microsoft 365 Defender Planning Readiness Catalog of Services Roles Develop & Test SOC Tasks Investigations Phishing Incident Automation with Shifts for Teams Additional Tools in the SOC Tools and Resources Content API Call outs to update Watchlists without leaving the Framework SOC Maturity Update SOC Incident Response Planning This solution is supported by Microsoft Support and will be updated regularly with new content. We hope you enjoy the new version of the SOC Process Framework and that it will help you to mature your businesses SOC Operations!Announcing the Microsoft Sentinel: NIST SP 800-53 Solution
The Microsoft Sentinel: NIST SP 800-53 Solution enables compliance teams, architects, SecOps analysts, and consultants to understand their cloud security posture related to Special Publication (SP) 800-53 guidance issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). This solution is designed to augment staffing through automation, visibility, assessment, monitoring, and remediation. Content features include an intuitive user interface, policy-based assessments, control cards for guiding alignment with control requirements, alerting rules to monitor configuration drift, and playbook automations for response. The power of this solution lies in its ability to aggregate at big data scale across first- and third-party products to provide maximum visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud workloads.What’s new: Incident tasks
SOC analysts can follow checklists to handle the processes of incident triage, investigation, and response without worrying about missing a critical step; SOC managers and MSSPs can document, update, and align the standards of incident response across the analysts' teams and shifts.
