Cloud Defense Strategies with Azure Sentinel (eBook)

Use various defense strategies with Azure Sentinel to enhance your cloud security. This book will help you get hands-on experience, including threat hunting inside Azure cloud logs and metrics from services such as Azure Platform, Azure Active Directory, Azure Monitor, Azure Security Center, and others such as Azure Defender's many security layers.This book is divided into three parts. Part I helps you gain a clear understanding of Azure Sentinel and its features along with Azure Security Services, including Azure Monitor, Azure Security Center, and Azure Defender. Part II covers integration with third-party security appliances and you learn configuration support, including AWS. You will go through multi-Azure Tenant deployment best practices and its challenges. In Part III you learn how to improve cyber security threat hunting skills while increasing your ability to defend against attacks, stop data loss, prevent business disruption, and expose hidden malware. You will get an overview of the MITRE Attack Matrix and its usage, followed by Azure Sentinel operations and how to continue Azure Sentinel skill improvement.

Marshall Copeland is a Senior Consultant focused on Cyber Security in Azure public cloud defensive deployments using Azure cloud native and third-party cyber solutions. His work focuses on security in customers hybrid cloud deployments, Secure DevOps and security partner cloud integrations that enhance 'blue team hunting' efficiencies. Marshall currently works at Microsoft Corporation supporting enterprise customers security teams using Azure security services for hybrid network security management and data protection. He previously worked in cloud security roles at Optiv Security, and Salesforce.

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Use various defense strategies with Azure Sentinel to enhance your cloud security. This book will help you get hands-on experience, including threat hunting inside Azure cloud logs and metrics from services such as Azure Platform, Azure Active Directory, Azure Monitor, Azure Security Center, and others such as Azure Defender's many security layers.This book is divided into three parts. Part I helps you gain a clear understanding of Azure Sentinel and its features along with Azure Security Services, including Azure Monitor, Azure Security Center, and Azure Defender. Part II covers integration with third-party security appliances and you learn configuration support, including AWS. You will go through multi-Azure Tenant deployment best practices and its challenges. In Part III you learn how to improve cyber security threat hunting skills while increasing your ability to defend against attacks, stop data loss, prevent business disruption, and expose hidden malware. You will get an overview of the MITRE Attack Matrix and its usage, followed by Azure Sentinel operations and how to continue Azure Sentinel skill improvement.After reading this book, you will be able to protect Azure resources from cyberattacks and support XDR (Extend, Detect, Respond), an industry threat strategy through Azure Sentinel. What You Will LearnUnderstand Azure Sentinel technical benefits and functionalityConfigure to support incident responseIntegrate with Azure Security standardsBe aware of challenges and costs for the Azure log analytics workspaceWho This Book Is ForSecurity consultants, solution architects, cloud security architects, and IT security engineers