Course Overview
Get started with Microsoft Sentinel security operations by configuring the Microsoft Sentinel workspace, connecting Microsoft services and Windows security events to Microsoft Sentinel, configuring Microsoft Sentinel analytics rules, and responding to threats with automated responses. After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Create and configure a Microsoft Sentinel workspace
- Deploy a Microsoft Sentinel content hub solution
- Connect Windows hosts to Microsoft Sentinel
- Configure analytics rules in Microsoft Sentinel
- Configure automation in Microsoft Sentinel
Course Content
Create and manage Microsoft Sentinel workspaces
- Introduction
- Plan for the Microsoft Sentinel workspace
- Create a Microsoft Sentinel workspace
- Manage workspaces across tenants using Azure Lighthouse
- Understand Microsoft Sentinel permissions and roles
- Manage Microsoft Sentinel settings
- Configure logs
- Module assessment
- Summary and resources
Connect Microsoft services to Microsoft Sentinel
- Introduction
- Plan for Microsoft services connectors
- Connect the Microsoft 365 connector
- Connect the Microsoft Entra connector
- Connect the Microsoft Entra ID Protection connector
- Connect the Azure Activity connector
- Module assessment
- Summary and resources
Connect Windows hosts to Microsoft Sentinel
- Introduction
- Plan for Windows hosts security events connector
- Connect using the Windows Security Events via AMA Connector
- Connect using the Security Events via Legacy Agent Connector
- Collect Sysmon event logs
- Module assessment
- Summary and resources
Threat detection with Microsoft Sentinel analytics
- Introduction
- Exercise - Detect threats with Microsoft Sentinel analytics
- What is Microsoft Sentinel Analytics?
- Types of analytics rules
- Create an analytics rule from templates
- Create an analytics rule from wizard
- Manage analytics rules
- Exercise - Detect threats with Microsoft Sentinel analytics
- Summary
Automation in Microsoft Sentinel
- Introduction
- Understand automation options
- Create automation rules
- Module assessment
- Summary and resources
Configure SIEM security operations using Microsoft Sentinel
- Introduction
- Exercise - Configure SIEM operations using Microsoft Sentinel
- Exercise - Install Microsoft Sentinel Content Hub solutions and data connectors
- Exercise - Configure a data connector Data Collection Rule
- Exercise - Perform a simulated attack to validate the Analytic and Automation rules
- Exercise - Connect Microsoft Sentinel to Microsoft Defender XDR
- Summary
Who should attend
The Microsoft Security Operations Analyst collaborates with organizational stakeholders to secure information technology systems for the organization. Their goal is to reduce organizational risk by rapidly remediating active attacks in the environment, advise on improvements to threat protection practices, and referring violations of organizational policies to appropriate stakeholders. Responsibilities include threat management, monitoring, and response by using a variety of security solutions across their environment. The role primarily investigates, responds to, and hunts for threats using Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Defender XDR, and third-party security products. Since the Security Operations Analyst consumes the operational output of these tools, they are also a critical stakeholder in the configuration and deployment of these technologies.
Prerequisites
- Fundamental understanding of Microsoft Azure
- Basic understanding of Microsoft Sentinel
- Experience using Kusto Query Language (KQL) in Microsoft Sentinel