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 […]
Read More 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 […]
Read More 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, […]
Read More Nov 22, 2020
Microsoft Graph Security Components & API
Microsoft Graph, the Security component was born as a way to represent the threat intelligence information in a form that is closer to the way they attackers approach their targets, as a graph of interconnected systems, with complex relationships between themselves and 3rd party entities. Inside the graph, Microsoft is using their substantial analytical power […]
Read More Nov 8, 2020
Microsoft 365 Defender for Endpoints
Formerly known as Defender ATP, Microsoft Defender for Endpoints is now a critical component of Microsoft XDR line of security controls. Defender for Endpoints is starting to go past its newly found fame as the “new kid on the block”, with a meteoric rise in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for endpoint protection. It is now becoming […]
Read More Nov 3, 2020
Using Kusto Query Language (KQL) in Azure Sentinel to calculate IIS session times
User sessions are an important aspect of identifying the behavior of web users. In many cases there is a lot of effort on ensuring that a user spends as much time visiting a website as it increase the chance of consuming the services offered by that particular website, be that advertising material, sales, etc. Onboarding […]
Read More Oct 22, 2020
Extended Microsoft MDR Service Components
Understanding the components of an extended Microsoft MDR service by Adrian Grigorof, CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CCSK , Marius Mocanu, CISSP, CISM, CEH, SCF October 22, 2020 During our engagements with customers we are always in a situation where we have to explain the differences between various flavors of MDR services and sometimes even the difference […]
Read More Oct 12, 2020
Detecting and Mitigating EDoS attacks in Azure Sentinel
Cloud computing is emerging or one would rather say has long time emerged as the panacea for on-demand scalability and elasticity of IT resources and organizations around the world are taking advantage of it at an unprecedented speed. Such scalability comes with a price and cloud resources that are not managed properly can add up […]
Read More Sep 28, 2020
Microsoft Security Stack Product Rebranding
Microsoft Security Stack Product Rebranding by Adrian Grigorof, CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CCSK , Marius Mocanu, CISSP, CISM, CEH, SCF Last update: September 28, 2020 On September 22nd, 2020, Microsoft announced a rebranding of their threat protection portfolio as well as an emphasis on its tools becoming a components of an extended detection and response (XDR) […]
Read More Sep 13, 2020
Azure Sentinel Design
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 […]
Read More Aug 16, 2020
Azure Sentinel Data Connectors
On July 21, 2020 Microsoft announced a new set of Azure Sentinel data connectors for some important security solutions providers. This is great news for our Sentinel customers, as the ability to ingest logs from a wide variety of log sources is one of top requests, along with data optimization (how can I reduce my […]
Read More Aug 3, 2020
Azure AD Identity Protection Design
Azure AD Identity Protection Design by Adrian Grigorof, CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CCSK , Marius Mocanu, CISSP, CISM, CEH, SCF, Dorian Birsan Last update: August 3rd, 2020 Azure AD Identity Protection (AAIP) is another piece of the Microsoft M365 security stack puzzle, extending the detection of threats related to identities. It provides ability to enforce policies, […]
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