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Here Is Everything You Need To Know About Microsoft Azure Sentinel

When it comes to internet security, we very well know that it can be a perennial saga—a tale of increasingly sophisticated attacks, volumes of alerts, and long resolution timeframes. These threats are sometimes so potential that even state-of-the-art Security Information and Event Management--SIEM, find it difficult to catch up.

Today, companies dealing with security operations are overwhelmed with a very high volume of security alerts and spend far too much time in tasks like infrastructure set up and maintenance.This gives the opportunity for many legitimate threats going unnoticed. According to Cybersecurity Ventures, there will be 3.5 million cybersecurity job openings by 2021. This also shows that there will be a shortfall of 3.5 million jobs. This aims at providing a solution that empowers the existing security operations team that can detect the threats eliminate the distractions.

Introducing Microsoft Azure Sentinel

Noticing this loophole, as a major part of Microsoft business solutions, the company reimagined the SIEM tool. It has been redesigned as a new cloud-native solution called Microsoft Azure Sentinel.

The new Azure Sentinel brings intelligent security analytics at cloud scale for the entire enterprise. With Azure Sentinel you can collect security data across the entire hybrid organization right from the devices, to users, to apps, to servers on any cloud.

Microsoft has designed it in a way where it uses the power of Artificial Intelligence in order to ensure that you as an organization are diagnosing real threats instantaneously. This unburdens you from traditional SIEMs by eliminating the need to spend time on setting up, maintaining, and scaling infrastructure.

An additional benefit is that it is built on Azure which offers nearly limitless cloud scale and speed that addresses the security needs of your enterprise. When we look back, traditional SIEMs have also proven to be expensive to own and operate. And, they often require you to commit upfront and incur a high cost for infrastructure maintenance and data ingestion. Azure Sentinel has eradicated the need for heavy upfront costs. They have adopted the pay-as-you-go model where you pay for what you use.

Benefits of Microsoft Azure Sentinel


Easy data collection

Azure Sentinel lets to assimilate all the security data with the help of built-in connectors, native integration of Microsoft signals, and support for industry standard log formats like common event format and syslog. You can easily import your Microsoft Office 365 data for free and combine it with other security data for detailed analysis, in just a few simple clicks.

The Azure Monitor used in Azure Sentinel ingests more than 10 petabytes every day and provides a rapid query engine that can sort through millions of records in seconds.

Data Analytics with the power of Artificial Intelligence

AI is inevitable today. Security analysts face big hurdles from triaging when sifting through a myriad of alerts, and correlate alerts from different products manually or using a traditional correlation engine. This is where Azure Sentinel comes in. It makes use of state-of-the-art, scalable Machine Learning algorithms that are able to correlate millions of low-fidelity anomalies to provide high-fidelity security incidents to the analyst.

ML technologies are aimed at helping companies quickly get value from large amounts of security data that they ingest and help in connecting the dots for them.

Conclusion


Microsoft enterprises services have proved immensely beneficial for organizations over the course of time. As an example, with the existing security parameters, companies can quickly see a compromised account that was used to deploy ransomware in a cloud application. This helps reduce noise drastically. Microsoft knows and understands the most basic requirements of enterprises and designs their products accordingly.

Jane Brewer

I am Web Analyst I love to analyse the web for the betterment of businesses and providing information to my blog reader. I love to write about trending technologies, specially mobile technologies.

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