Data Transformers to the Rescue

ETL vs Log Forwarding - Why your security future depends on it! We are now officially in a new era of security engineering. This era is characterized by big data analytics encompassing AI, machine learning, and data warehousing. In our previous posts, we discussed the need for security operations to have greater visibility into log … Continue reading Data Transformers to the Rescue →

Automate your SOC – All in One

Solution Series for the SOC Automation Series Welcome to the SOCAUTOMATORS series on automating your security operations center. This series of blog posts will help you understand the value of assigning scores to your incidents and serves as an introduction to the Microsoft Sentinel Triage Assistant solution. 88 percent of organizations receive up to 500 … Continue reading Automate your SOC – All in One →

Automate your SOC – Welcome to the VIP Room

Watchlist Module Welcome back to the SOCAutomator series. Did you miss us? Today we’re going to dig into how the STAT module works with Microsoft Sentinel watchlists. But first, let’s define what a watchlist is. Analysts often need the ability to correlate security events and insights with other non-security data sources, such as lists of … Continue reading Automate your SOC – Welcome to the VIP Room →

Azure Security Data Lake

Harnessing The Power of Big Data Analytics and AI - Security's Future Welcome to the SOCAUTOMATORS series on building a Security Data Lake. This series of blog posts and accompanying videos will help you design your data lake and provide guidance on technically implementing the solution in Azure. Many organizations need to harness the power … Continue reading Azure Security Data Lake →

Automate your SOC – Known Badness

Threat Intelligence Module This post builds upon your initial installation and provides a deeper understanding of each of the modules (log apps) that make up MSTAT. See the links below for earlier posts to build your knowledge on the capabilities of each module. You can also find all related posts by searching this blog. The … Continue reading Automate your SOC – Known Badness →

Automate your SOC – Rise of the machine (risk)

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint We’re back with another edition of Automate your SOC with Microsoft STAT. Today we’re going to discuss the Microsoft Defender for Endpoint module (MDEModule). This module can retrieve a few pieces of information that can enrich your incident. The module can return the risk level and exposure level from MDE from … Continue reading Automate your SOC – Rise of the machine (risk) →

Automate your SOC – Is there anything else going on?

Microsoft Sentinel Related Alerts This post builds upon your initial installation and provides a deeper understanding of each of the modules (log apps) that make up MSTAT. See the links below for earlier posts. You can also find all related posts by searching this blog. The Related Alerts module takes the incident entity data and … Continue reading Automate your SOC – Is there anything else going on? →

Automate your SOC – Oh, that user again?

Adding user risk to your STAT playbook Now that you’ve got your first playbook set up, let’s talk about what each module does. We’re going to start with the Azure AD Risks module. This module retrieves several pieces of information to help enrich your incident. The risk level for the users in the incident as … Continue reading Automate your SOC – Oh, that user again? →

Automate your SOC – Risky Business

Giving your incidents a risk score So, you’ve installed STAT using the deployment ARM template? Yes, ok let’s go. If not, see our tutorial on getting it installed here. Let’s start by navigating to your Logic Apps blade in the Azure portal. Here you will see that STAT installed fifteen logic apps. We will go … Continue reading Automate your SOC – Risky Business →

Automate your SOC – Noise is the enemy of speed

As you can imagine, Microsoft has a massive security footprint. We’ve published previously that we get more than 20 billion cybersecurity events per day. That is an incredible number and you can imagine how difficult it must be to sort through all that data to find real threats. You may not have that many events, … Continue reading Automate your SOC – Noise is the enemy of speed →