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Automating Threat Response using Sentinel Playbooks

Difficulty: Advanced
Duration: Up to 1 hour and 30 minutes
Students: 400
Rating: 4.6/5

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Description

Azure Sentinel (Microsoft Sentinel) is a cloud-based SIEM (security information event management) solution that offers advanced intelligence tools across the organizations to secure the cloud and on-premises resources. The core offering of the Azure Sentinel revolves around collecting data at scale while detecting the threat in real-time using artificial intelligence to hunt the suspicious activities, ultimately performing actions to either remediate based on the preconfigured actions or provide a response plan to the security teams in an organization.

Playbooks in the Sentinel offers automated remediation and proactive action tools to handle many incidents on autopilot. The playbook uses the Azure Logic App designer to build the workflow for automated response actions. The playbooks can run manually or be triggered automatically for specific analytic rules to resolve known issues without involving the security team in manually investigating every incident. Microsoft also offers templates for various industry-wide used actions to get you up and running without creating the playbooks from scratch.

In this hands-on lab, you will understand how to configure automated responses to security incidents in Sentinel using Playbooks.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this intermediate-level lab, you will be able to:

  • Use Data Connector rules to collect Windows VM Security Events
  • Create Playbook for automated response to Sentinel incidents
  • Create Analytics Rule to trigger Playbook for remediation upon active alert detection

Intended Audience

  • Candidates for Azure Security Engineer (AZ-500)
  • Cloud Architects
  • Data Engineers
  • DevOps Engineers
  • Software Engineers

Prerequisites

Familiarity with the following will be beneficial but is not required:

  • Azure Storage Account
  • Azure Logic App
  • Azure Log Analytics
  • Azure Sentinel

The following content can be used to fulfill the prerequisite:

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Covered topics

Development
Microsoft Azure
Development for Azure
Azure Sentinel
Azure Logic Apps
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Lab steps

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  1. Logging in to the Microsoft Azure Portal
  2. Preparing Azure Sentinel for Incident Response
  3. Creating Sentinel Playbook to Trigger Alert
  4. Simulating Password Brute-Force Attack on the Azure VM
  5. Creating Analytics Rule that Trigger Playbook for Automated Incident Response
  6. Investigating Automated Trigger Playbook Runs

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