May 3, 2020
Microsoft Cloud App Security Design
Microsoft Cloud App Security (MCAS) has been rated as the number 1 leader CASB product in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant in 2019. As part of Microsoft’s cloud security stack, it provides full integration with other M365 security products, such as ATP, Security Center, Defender ATP and Azure Sentinel. It provides deep visibility and control of SaaS-related […]
Read More Jan 19, 2020
AWS CloudWatch to Azure Sentinel
While talking about Azure Sentinel with cybersecurity professionals we do get the occasional regretful comment on how Sentinel sounds like a great product but their organization has invested significantly in AWS services so implicitly, Sentinel is out-of-scope of potential security controls for their infrastructure. AWS offers the CloudWatch service that is able to collect performance […]
Read More Jul 17, 2019
Azure Security Center Components and Relations with Other Services
One of the most common questions that we are receiving about Azure Sentinel is about its functionality compared with Azure Security Center. The diagram below is an attempt to describe the various components of Azure Security Center, its relation with other Azure services, including Azure Sentinel as well as the interaction with non-Azure services and […]
Read More Jun 19, 2019
Azure Cloud Security Stack vs. NIST Cybersecurity Framework
In May 2019, Managed Sentinel released a diagram presenting a mapping of Azure Security services vs on-premises security controls. The cybersecurity community expressed an interest in having the same security controls mapped against the NIST Cybersecurity Framework functions: Identify, Detect, Protect, Respond and Recover. The diagram below provides a high-level view of how various Azure […]
Read More May 28, 2019
On-Premises vs. Azure Cloud Security Stack
In February 2019, Managed Sentinel released a diagram presenting a mapping of on-premises security controls vs. services offered by major cloud services providers. The following diagram follows a similar pattern, focused just on Azure security technologies and including additional information such as free vs. billable Azure services, availability of the 3rd party tools within Azure Marketplace and […]
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