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Investigating Security Events using Microsoft Sentinel

Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: Up to 1 hour and 30 minutes
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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.

While deploying new resources in the cloud, securing the assets is crucial as keeping them highly available for production usage. Whether it's a simple DDoS attack or a complicated privilege escalation attack, Microsoft Sentinel gives you the visibility to detect and respond to the attack before it's too late. Understanding how the SIEM tools work and leveraging them to their maximum be a significant differentiator for your job role and skills.

In this hands-on lab, you will understand how to identify, capture and generate incidents for security events and potential attacks using Microsoft Sentinel.

Learning Objectives

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

  • Use Data Connector to collect Windows VM Security Events
  • Create Analytics Rule to detect and create incidents based on Security Events
  • Investigate incidents in Microsoft Sentinel

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 Windows Virtual Machines
  • Azure Log Analytics
  • Microsoft Sentinel

The following content can be used to fulfill the prerequisite:

Updates

July 30th, 2025 - Updated the instructions and screenshots to reflect the latest UI

July 25th, 2024 - Resolved onboarding workspace issue

June 24th, 2024 - Updated the instructions and screenshots to reflect the latest UI

September 5th, 2023 - Resolved data connector issue

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

January, 25th, 2023 - Updated the instructions and screenshots to reflect the latest UI

November 29th, 2022: Rebranded Sentinel to reflect the new name: Microsoft Sentinel

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Azure Sentinel
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  1. Logging in to the Microsoft Azure Portal
  2. Enabling Data Connector to Capture Security Events
  3. Creating Sentinel Analytics Rule
  4. Simulating Password Brute-Force Attack on the Azure VM
  5. Investigating Sentinel Incidents Generated By Analytics Rule

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