Revolutionizing log collection with Azure Monitor Agent
The much awaited deprecation of the MMA agent is finally here. While still sunsetting, this blog post reviews the advantages of AMA, different deployment options and important updates to your favorite Windows, Syslog and CEF events via AMA data connectors.
Microsoft Sentinel Project Deployment Tracker
The Microsoft Sentinel Project Deployment Tracker is a workbook designed to automatically track the completion status of Microsoft Sentinel deployments, providing a centralized view of critical components such as workspaces, data connectors, and incident monitoring, thus eliminating the need for manual updates and facilitating efficient progress monitoring within the defined project scope.
Help Protect your Exchange Environment With Microsoft Sentinel
TL;DR; Sentinel + Exchange Servers or Exchange Online = better protected New Microsoft Sentinel security solution for Exchange Online and on premises servers : Microsoft Exchange Security! This content is very useful for any organization concerned about keeping the highest security posture as possible and be alerted in case of suspicious activities for those critical items.What's New: View Microsoft Sentinel Workbooks Directly from Unified SOC Operations Platform
*This blog was posted on behalf of the original author, Aman Kaur. Thank you Aman for preparing this content for the community.* Key Benefits Unified Viewing Experience: Microsoft Sentinel workbook templates and saved workbooks can now be accessed directly within the Defender XDR portal. This eliminates the need to switch between different portals, providing a seamless experience. Increased Efficiency and Time Saving: The ability to view workbooks within the Defender XDR portal cuts down on the time spent navigating between portals, leading to faster access to critical information. Improved User Experience: This integration simplifies the process of referencing important data and insights, making it easier for security professionals to monitor security events, analyze trends, and review historical data. Important Note While viewing capabilities have been integrated into the Defender XDR portal, editing or creating workbooks will still require you to navigate to the Azure portal. This ensures that you have access to the full suite of editing tools and functionalities available in Azure. How to Get Started Getting started with viewing Microsoft Sentinel workbooks in the Defender XDR portal is simple: Access the Microsoft Defender XDR Portal: Log in to the Microsoft Defender XDR portal using your credentials. Navigate to Microsoft Sentinel > Threat Management > Workbooks : Select any workbook. View Workbooks: Access and view the templates and saved workbooks directly within the portal. Moving Forward with Sentinel Workbooks in Defender XDR Portal With the ability to view Microsoft Sentinel workbooks directly within the Microsoft Defender XDR portal, organizations can significantly enhance their security operations. This feature empowers security teams with the tools they need to efficiently monitor, investigate, and respond to threats—all from a single interface. By bringing together a unified viewing experience across incidents, alerts, users, devices, and files, this enhancement streamlines threat hunting, investigation, and response workflows. This ultimately helps organizations stay ahead of evolving threats and ensures they have the necessary context to protect their environment effectively. Get started with workbooks in the unified portal today!What’s New: Exciting new Microsoft Sentinel Connectors Announcement - Ignite 2024
Microsoft Sentinel continues to be a leading cloud-native security information and event management (SIEM) solution, empowering organizations to detect, investigate, and respond to threats across their digital ecosystem at scale. Microsoft Sentinel offers robust out of the box (OOTB) content, allowing seamless connections with a wide array of data sources from both Microsoft and third-party providers. This enables comprehensive collection and analysis of security signals across multicloud, multiplatform environments, enhancing your overall security posture. In this Ignite 2024 blog post, we are thrilled to present the latest integrations contributed by our esteemed Partners. These new integrations further expand the capabilities of Microsoft Sentinel, enabling you to connect your existing security solutions and leverage Microsoft Sentinel’s powerful analytics and automation capabilities to fortify your defenses against evolving cyber threats. Featured ISV 1Password for Microsoft Sentinel The integration between 1Password Extended Access Management and Microsoft Sentinel provides businesses with real-time visibility and alerts for login attempts and account changes. It enables quick detection of security threats and streamlines reporting by monitoring both managed and unmanaged apps from a single, centralized platform, ensuring faster response times and enhanced security. Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense Sentinel Application This application collects threat information from Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense and ingests it into Microsoft Sentinel for visualization and analysis. It enhances email security by detecting and blocking advanced threats, providing comprehensive visibility and fast remediation. Cribl Stream Solution for Microsoft Sentinel Cribl Stream accelerates SIEM migrations by ingesting, transforming, and enriching third party data into Microsoft Sentinel. It simplifies data onboarding, optimizes data in various formats, and helps maintain compliance, enhancing security operations and threat detection. FortiNDR Cloud FortiNDR Cloud integrates Fortinet’s network detection and response capabilities with Microsoft Sentinel, providing advanced threat detection and automated response. Fortinet FortiNDR Cloud enhances network security by helping to identify and mitigate threats in real-time. Pure Storage Solution for Microsoft Sentinel This solution integrates Pure Storage’s data storage capabilities with Sentinel, providing enhanced data protection and performance. It helps optimize storage infrastructure and improve data security. New and Notable CyberArk Audit for Microsoft Sentinel This solution extracts audit trail data from CyberArk and integrates it with Microsoft Sentinel, providing a comprehensive view of system and user activities. It enhances incident response with automated workflows and real-time threat detection. Cybersixgill Actionable Alerts for Microsoft Sentinel Cybersixgill provides contextual and actionable alerts based on data from the deep and dark web. It helps SOC analysts detect phishing, data leaks, and vulnerabilities, enhancing incident response and threat remediation. Cyware For Microsoft Sentinel Cyware integrates with Microsoft Sentinel to automate incident response and enhance threat hunting. It uses Logic Apps and hunting queries to streamline security operations and provides contextual threat intelligence. Ermes Browser Security for Microsoft Sentinel Ermes Browser Security ingests security and audit events into Microsoft Sentinel, providing enhanced visibility and reporting. It helps monitor and respond to web threats, improving the organization’s security posture. Gigamon Data Connector for Microsoft Sentinel This solution integrates Gigamon GigaVUE Cloud Suite, including Application Metadata Intelligence, with Microsoft Sentinel, providing comprehensive network traffic visibility and insights. It helps detect anomalies and optimize network performance, enhancing overall security. Illumio Sentinel Integration Illumio integrates its micro-segmentation capabilities with Microsoft Sentinel, providing real-time visibility and control over network traffic. It helps prevent lateral movement of threats and enhances overall network security. Infoblox App for Microsoft Sentinel The Infoblox solution enhances SecOps capabilities by seamlessly integrating Infoblox's AI-driven analytics, providing actionable insights, dashboards, and playbooks derived from DNS intelligence. These insights empower SecOps teams to achieve rapid incident response and remediation, all within the familiar Microsoft Sentinel user interface. LUMINAR Threat Intelligence for Microsoft Sentinel LUMINAR integrates threat intelligence and leaked credentials data into Microsoft Sentinel, helping organizations maintain visibility of their threat landscape. It provides timely, actionable insights to help detect and respond to threats before they impact the organization. Prancer PenSuite AI Prancer PenSuite AI now supercharges Microsoft Sentinel by injecting pentesting and real-time AppSec data into SOC operations. With powerful red teaming simulations, it empowers teams to detect vulnerabilities earlier, respond faster, and stay ahead of evolving threats. Phosphorus Connector for Microsoft Sentinel Phosphorus Cybersecurity’s Intelligent Active Discovery provides in-depth context for xIoT assets, that enhances threat detection and allows for targeted responses, enabling organizations to isolate or secure specific devices based on their criticality. Silverfort for Microsoft Sentinel Silverfort integrates its Unified Identity Protection Platform with Microsoft Sentinel, securing authentication and access to sensitive systems, both on-premises and in the cloud without requiring agents or proxies. Transmit Security Data Connector for Sentinel Transmit Security integrates its identity and access management capabilities with Sentinel, providing real-time monitoring and threat detection for user activities. It helps secure identities and prevent unauthorized access. In addition to commercially supported integrations, Microsoft Sentinel Content Hub also connects you to hundreds of community-based solutions as well as thousands of practitioner contributions. For more details and instructions on how to set up these integrations see Microsoft Sentinel data connectors | Microsoft Learn. To our partners: Thank you for your unwavering partnership and invaluable contributions on this journey to deliver the most comprehensive, timely insights and security value to our mutual customers. Security is indeed a team sport, and we are grateful to be working together to enhance the security landscape. Your dedication and innovation are instrumental in our collective success. We hope you find these new partner solutions useful, and we look forward to hearing your feedback and suggestions. Stay tuned for more updates and announcements on Microsoft Sentinel and its partner ecosystem. Learn More Microsoft’s commitment to Security Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative Unified SecOps | SIEM and XDR Solutions Unified Platform documentation | Microsoft Defender XDR What else is new with Microsoft Sentinel? Microsoft Sentinel product home Schema Mapping Microsoft Sentinel Partner Solution Contributions Update – Ignite 2023 Additional resources: Sentinel Ignite 2024 Blog Latest Microsoft Tech Community Sentinel blog announcements Microsoft Sentinel solution for SAP Microsoft Sentinel solution for Power Platform Microsoft Sentinel pricing Microsoft Sentinel customer stories Microsoft Sentinel documentationIntroducing the Use Cases Mapper workbook
1. Intro While looking for the most effective use cases for Sentinel, it usually makes sense to start with data sources that already exist in some way in the corporate environment, whether due to a previous / third-party SIEM integration or due to an already implemented security stack / solution. The next logical step in this process is to determine preexisting sentinel solutions for the products already in use. Unfortunately, this often occurs only inadequately or is not carried out completely due to lack of resources. In addition, the solutions available (so called Content-Hub-Solutions) continue to evolve and once implemented, necessary updates may be neglected. This is where the Use Case Mapper Workbook can help. The workbook and the complementary resources (watchlists) can be used to map common Use Cases to the Mitre ATT&CK framework, i.e. the tactics and techniques listed there. This gives you a quick overview of the analysis options available in Sentinel (e.g. Analytic Rules & Hunting Queries) according to these Use Cases. The identified Use Cases in this context are: Credential Exploitation Lateral Movement Rapid Encryption Command and Control Communication Insider Risk Anomalous Privilege Escalation Third-Party Abuses Overexposure Data Exfiltration Mobile Data Security Communication Abuse Web Application Abuse NOTE: These can change over time, as attack & defense strategies and techniques are constantly changing as well. To be able to adapt this information to your own needs, the option of reducing the results to selected Data Sources (Content Hub Solutions) has been implemented as well. 2. Prerequisites Before getting started, you have to check the prerequisites that should be fulfilled. an Azure subscription with a Sentinel equipped Log Analytic Workspace The correct RBAC roles assigned - for the sake of simplicity, it should be 'Contributor' or 'Owner' 3. How to deploy/get started Go to the following website: Azure-Sentinel/Workbooks/use cases mapper workbook at master · Azure/Azure-Sentinel · GitHub Look for the 'Deploy to Azure' button Log into a suitable tenant Enter the required information (subscription, resource group, region, workspace name) (1) and click 'Review + create' (2) Check your entered information again and confirm it by clicking on 'Create' The new workbook (Use Case Mapper) should now appear in Sentinel in 'Workbooks' section. 4. How to use & structure In the first section of the workbook, you have the option to select one of the predefined Use Cases. The next step (2nd step) is to select the right data source/solution. The selection made before is presented in section 3 below. Based on the selections made, the following information is presented. Analytical rules - ID | Name | Solution | Technique + graphical representation Hunting Queries - ID | Name | Solution | Technique + graphical representation Workbooks - Name | Solution 5. Conclusion The Use Case Mapper Workbook is an invaluable tool for identifying gaps in your Sentinel environment and the established Content-Hub-Solutions. It simplifies the process of supplementing your solutions to achieve a complete implementation. Additionally, it helps you stay informed about updates (such as new hunting queries, analytic rules, or workbooks) and makes it possible to integrate them promptly. The workbook also provides a clear picture of the threats and vulnerabilities that should be mitigated with your solutions and where they can be found within the Mitre Att&ck Framework.Create Codeless Connectors with the Codeless Connector Builder (Preview)
Hate JSON templates? Looking to make your own Codeless Connectors for Microsoft Sentinel? You’re in luck. This workbook sets out to create a UI experience for creating Codeless Connectors in order to make it as easy as possible.
