What is Azure Sentinel?

Azure Sentinel, one of the most sophisticated SIEM solutions, is heavily infused with Machine Learning (ML), providing an unrivaled depth of built-in, advanced ML analytics that cover the most common threats and data types associated with the SIEM. The same breadth of capabilities is now available to data experts in organizations, expanding the reach to include unique customer threats and allowing Azure Sentinel customers to create their own machine learning models.

You have a far more sophisticated synopsis of the behavior with Sentinel. This would allow more time to be spent on solving the problem and attempting to make the affected customer safer rather than finding out what’s going on.

Azure Sentinel can link to a variety of data sources across the enterprise. Users, devices, datasets, apps, and even information from different tenants and clouds are all possible data sources.

Because it is cloud-native, it relieves the security operations team of the burden of monitoring, sustaining, and ramping infrastructure, while also providing outstanding quality and speed to meet your security requirements. Most importantly, compared to other SIEM tools, it is less expensive to own and operate. You only pay for what you use, and you’re billed according to the amount of data you’ve obtained for analysis. The Azure Monitor Log Analytics workspace stores this information.

Azure Sentinel and AI

Azure Sentinel is based on the full suite of Azure services, and as previously stated, it uses artificial intelligence to enhance investigation and threat detection. It also allows you to bring your own threat intelligence, resulting in a more comprehensive user experience.

Azure Sentinel is a cloud-native SIEM and SOAR solution that analyzes event data in real-time to monitor and deter direct attacks and security breaches. In contrast to Azure Security Center, which is reactive, Azure Sentinel represents a new approach to identifying threats.

1. Assess And Pinpoint Threats In Real Time With AI

Security analysts face a lot of pressure when triaging as they wade through an ocean of alerts and properly correlate alerts from various items or using a conventional correlation engine. That’s why Azure Sentinel employs cutting-edge, scalable machine learning techniques to correspond millions of low-fidelity abnormalities and present the analyst with a handful of high-fidelity cybersecurity threats.

ML technologies will assist you in extracting value from substantial quantities of security data and filling in the blanks for you. For example, a breached account that was used to implement ransomware in a cloud application can be quickly identified.

2. Probe And Search For Suspicious Activity

A graphical and AI-based investigation will cut down on the time it takes to comprehend the extent of an attack and its consequences fully. In the same dashboard, you can see the attack and take proper actions. Security analysts must also be proactive in their search for suspicious activity.

The process by which SecOps analyze the data is frequently replicable and automated. Currently, Azure Sentinel offers two functionalities: hunting queries and Azure Notebooks, which are based on Jupyter notebooks, to help you optimize your assessment.

3. Automate Basic Functions And Threat Response

While AI helps you focus on finding problems, once you’ve solved one, you don’t want to keep running into the same issues – instead, you want to automate your response to these issues. To remedy mundane work and react appropriately quickly, Azure Sentinel has built-in mechanization and coordination with pre-defined or bespoke playbooks.

What Is Azure Sentinel’s Fusion Technology?

Fusion detections integrate low- and medium-severity notifications from Microsoft and third-party security products into high-severity incidents using machine learning. These are low-volume, high-fidelity, and high-severity occurrences by design.

Azure Sentinel already has built-in machine learning analysis, such as ‘Fusion’ ML detection systems and entity advancement, for detecting sophisticated attacks on well-known data feeds while reducing alert fatigue.

How Fusion And Azure Sentinel Work In Harmony

Azure Sentinel can immediately track multistage threats by identifying configurations of abnormal behavior patterns and malicious transactions observed at different phases of the kill-chain using Fusion technology. Azure Sentinel stimulates incidents based on these breakthroughs that would otherwise be difficult to detect. There are two or more alerts or actions in these occurrences.

This detection method, which is tailored for your environment, not only reduces false-positive rates but can also prevent intrusions with restricted or missing data.

Fusion detections aims can be summed up in two points.

Conclusion

Azure Sentinel is a cloud-native, optimized tool for detecting, investigating, and responding to threats. It allows users to spot potential problems as soon as possible. Machine learning is used to reduce threats and detect unusual behaviors.

In addition, IT teams save time and effort when it comes to maintenance. Azure Sentinel aids in the monitoring of an ecosystem spanning the cloud, on-premises, workstations, and personal devices.