Jan 27, 2020
Azure Sentinel & Log Analytics Tables
Azure Sentinel is using Azure Log Analytics as the backend for the log storage and querying capabilities through Kusto Query Language (KQL). A wealth of information is available from various log sources and they are stored in Log Analytics “tables”. There are many tables created by default, though not always populated with data and many […]
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 19, 2019
Mapping of On-Premises Security Controls vs Major Cloud Providers
A mapping at the very high level of on-premises security controls to native cloud services that can be used to replicate their specific role. As the cloud services tend to be more granular and overlapping in functionality, the mapping is at best approximate but it may bring some extra awareness on the options available in […]
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 26, 2019
SIEM: Traditional vs. Cloud
This article reflects the TASK Jun 26, 2019 Presentation: Big changes in SIEMs: A comparison of cloud-born and traditional options Ask any cybersecurity professional to quickly tell what SIEM stands for any most will slightly hesitate before coming up with “Security Information and Events Management”, a rather long name that is just the final result […]
Read More May 30, 2019
Azure Sentinel & Jupyter Notebooks
Before going into additional details about what a Jupyter Notebook is, I would like first to have a visual comparison of the analytical functionality offered by Azure Kusto Query Language queries vs. Jupyter Notebook with Python/msticpy/Kqlmagic. If your analytical requirements are limited to those typical to SIEM platforms that allow query of data, extraction of […]
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