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Introduction to Microsoft Sentinel

Difficulty: Beginner
Duration: Up to 1 hour
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Description

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 Microsoft 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.

In this lab, you will create a Microsoft Sentinel workspace and connect it with log analytics workspace using Data Connectors to review and capture log incidents.

Learning Objectives

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

  • Onboard Azure VM to Log Analytics Workspace
  • Create and understand Microsoft Sentinel resource
  • Review Data Connectors and enable Syslog collection

Intended Audience

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

Prerequisites

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

  • Azure Virtual Machines
  • Log Analytics Workspace

The following content can be used to fulfill the prerequisite:

Updates

June 4th, 2024 - Resolved deployment issue

June 27th, 2023 - Updated screenshots and instructions to reflect UI

30 Nov, 2022: Rebranded the lab to Microsoft Sentinel rename.

Environment before

Environment after

Covered topics

Lab steps

Logging in to the Microsoft Azure Portal
Configuring Azure VM for Log Analytics Workspace
Reviewing Microsoft Sentinel Workspace