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Gain insight into the latest trends and tricks with Microsoft Azure Sentinel. As a recognized leader in consulting & implementation, Managed Sentinel offers a unique perspective on the current state, and future, of this SEIM tool.

Jul 13, 2021

Mapping of On-Premises Security Controls Versus Services Offered by Major Cloud Providers

We are happy to publish the fifth version of a diagram that started in March 2017, with just AWS and Azure versus On-Premises. The diagram began as an effort to make a translation between the typical on-premises security controls that everybody, more or less, knows what they do and the various services advertised by major […]

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Mapping of On-Premises Security Controls Versus Services Offered by Major Cloud Providers
Jul 7, 2021

Threat Detection and Response in EPIC Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Environments

In this blog, we look at using Azure Sentinel and Microsoft XDR technologies to provide effective threat detection and response for EPIC Electronic Medical Record (EMR) environments. CISOs responsible for securing EMR systems have traditionally had a challenging task applying operational monitoring and security controls to these systems for a variety of reasons. Contractual requirements […]

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Threat Detection and Response in EPIC Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Environments
Jun 29, 2021

Defender TVM: Configuration Benchmark Management

By Caleb Freitas Vulnerability and Benchmark configuration management programs provide significant corrective and preventative controls that reduce exposure against real-world threats. While most organizations use third-party solutions such as Tenable Nessus or Qualys for vulnerability management, those solutions come with additional agent installations, licensing, and management overhead. With Microsoft Defender, licensing for vulnerability management is […]

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Defender TVM: Configuration Benchmark Management
Jun 28, 2021

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – One Page Diagram

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (MDO) is becoming a critical component of the Defender family as more and more attack vectors rely on bypassing email security controls to reach the endpoint. Initially known as Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection, Defender for Office advanced significantly and, due to the sustained effort from Microsoft engineers, has become […]

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – One Page Diagram
Mar 28, 2021

Monitoring the publication of new Azure Sentinel alert rule templates

Anyone familiar with Azure Sentinel knows that one can open the portal one day and find 20 new additional data connectors and 50 new alert rule templates along with additional goodies such as hunting queries, parsers, workbooks and sometimes whole new major add-ons such as UEBA. Unless one meticulously checks the rules on regular basis […]

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Monitoring the publication of new Azure Sentinel alert rule templates
Mar 26, 2021

Azure Sentinel Design Update

Azure Sentinel born-in-the-cloud SIEM was released in preview mode in February 2019 and in full general availability in September 2019, however, it has since advanced in bounds and leaps, doubling the number of data connectors, improving visualizations, incident management and building a rich ecosystem of options for SOAR and data enrichment. Combined with a tight […]

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Azure Sentinel Design Update
Mar 15, 2021

Log Ingestion Lag in Cloud-Based SIEMs

Lag in log ingestion is a topic that comes up now and then in our Azure Sentinel design discussions with our customers. We even had concerns around the speed of light being a constrain for certain critical log sources. These would be valid for security controls designed to protect strategic infrastructure but one has to […]

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Log Ingestion Lag in Cloud-Based SIEMs
Feb 20, 2021

Using KQL to Ingest External Data In Azure Sentinel

One of the most sought-after features of a modern SIEM is the ability to read data from various Internet-based sources and use it to enrich the analysis of the raw logs. Such resources could come in various “packages” – they could be freely downloadable files or they may require authentication tokens/paid subscriptions, some are CSV, […]

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Using KQL to Ingest External Data In Azure Sentinel
Feb 12, 2021

Microsoft Security Stack Coverage

Contact us for full walk-through of this diagram and a review of Microsoft Graph Security integration with the overall Microsoft security stack.

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Microsoft Security Stack Coverage
Feb 8, 2021

Azure Security Center Design

This post is a second iteration on Azure Security Center (ASC), part of our effort to provide one-page diagrams for Microsoft’s M365/Defender (aka XDR) components. In our first post on ASC, we mentioned how one of the most common questions that we are receiving about Azure Sentinel is about its functionality compared with Azure Security […]

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Azure Security Center Design
Feb 2, 2021

Microsoft Security Products vs. Other Cloud Security Products

In recent years, Microsoft has emerged as a market leader for a wide range of security areas, with a high focus on the hybrid infrastructure. In the diagram below, we are attempting to map each of the Microsoft security products to products to other vendors that have a significant market presence. Some of them are […]

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Microsoft Security Products vs. Other Cloud Security Products
Nov 29, 2020

Using KQL to Estimate Log Ingestion Volume In Azure Sentinel

Azure Sentinel pricing model is driven by the amount of data ingested for security analytics that is stored in the related Log Analytics workspace. Given the costs of the cloud resources, it is important to be able to estimate future logs space consumption and consider any budget-related implications. Basing the analysis on the past data, […]

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Using KQL to Estimate Log Ingestion Volume In Azure Sentinel
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