Microsoft Sentinel, previously known as Azure Sentinel, is a leading security solution that allows you to easily collate and monitor your security data logs. It is a key security solution that helps organisations more easily identify and respond to security threats. It falls into the category of a SIEM or security information and event management.
In this article we discuss and explain why Microsoft Sentinel is a key addition needed in your cyber security setup.
What is a SIEM?
SIEM is a centralised security centre that collects and monitors all the various activity across your estate. This data includes log data from devices, applications and systems. SIEMs generally normalise the data for easier analysis and then sift through this data in real-time to identify potential security threats.
Microsoft Sentinel
Dominating the SIEM landscape, Microsoft Sentinel offers a cloud-based security command centre. This Microsoft solution seamlessly integrates with your Azure environment, ingesting data from across your network for real-time threat detection.
Its advanced analytics identify suspicious activity, while automation capabilities streamline response. With a focus on scalability and user-friendliness, Microsoft Sentinel empowers you to proactively safeguard your business in today’s ever-evolving threat landscape.
Microsoft Sentinel is a scalable, cloud-native security information and event management (SIEM) that delivers an intelligent and comprehensive solution for SIEM and security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR). Microsoft Sentinel provides cyberthreat detection, investigation, response, and proactive hunting, with a bird’s-eye view across your enterprise.
Microsoft Sentinel also natively incorporates proven Azure services, like Log Analytics and Logic Apps, and enriches your investigation and detection with AI. It uses both Microsoft’s threat intelligence stream and also enables you to bring your own threat intelligence.
Use Microsoft Sentinel to alleviate the stress of increasingly sophisticated attacks, increasing volumes of alerts, and long resolution time frames. This article highlights the key capabilities in Microsoft Sentinel.
Microsoft Sentinel inherits the Azure Monitor tamper-proofing and immutability practices. While Azure Monitor is an append-only data platform, it includes provisions to delete data for compliance purposes.
Delivering data to Microsoft Sentinel
Microsoft Sentinel is empowered by the components that send data to your workspace and is made stronger through integrations with other Microsoft services. Any logs ingested into products, such as Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, and Microsoft Defender for Identity, allow these services to create detections, and in turn provide those detections to Microsoft Sentinel.
Logs can also be ingested directly into Microsoft Sentinel to provide a fuller picture for events and incidents. There is a range of connectors available with API solution that can easily add in data logs from other third-party solutions.
As it is clear Microsoft Sentinel is a comprehensive solution that helps you combine and analyse a broad spectrum of risks and threats allowing you to quickly take action to protect your business. To find out more about Microsoft Sentinel, visit our cyber security services or contact us.
