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Practical Notebook Use Cases in Sentinel data lake
Jupyter Notebooks are remarkably versatile tools, even within Microsoft Sentinel’s data lake where current capabilities are limited. While Microsoft frequently highlights historical threat intelligence correlation …
Modern Data Architecture with Sentinel data lake
When discussing Microsoft Sentinel data lake, the narrative centers on immediate value: cheaper ingestion, long-term storage, and historical correlation. These benefits are real, but they don’t address some …
Data Architecture for AI Era #2
In today’s big data landscape, establishing a proper data architecture is essential before you begin collecting data. As data generation continues to accelerate, making informed decisions about what to store, where …
Data Models in the Age of AI #1
In today’s cybersecurity landscape, data models are crucial - they give data the structure and context it needs to be truly usable and effective. Standardized models act as a universal language, turning raw …
Sentinel Data Lake - Tiers and Tables
Microsoft has just introduced Sentinel Data Lake (SDL) in public preview, and there’s already a flurry of excitement in the cybersecurity world. Most community blog posts so far focus on how to turn it on and when …
DCRs #3 - Event Hubs as a log relay to Sentinel
Managing logs in a SIEM environment can be challenging, especially when aiming to design a solution that is extensible, highly available, future-proof, and reasonably priced. In this third installment of the …
DCRs #2 - AgentDirectToStore
In the last post, we looked at the ‘Direct’ DCR that simplifies API-based data ingestion. Today, we’re looking at the AgentDirectToStore Data Collection Rule type, which gives you more options for where …
Powerful Capabilities of DCRs #1 - Direct type
DCRs are the modern backbone of data ingestion for Azure Sentinel, replacing legacy methods with a scalable, flexible, and consistent approach that uses a common data ingestion pipeline for all data sources. DCRs enable …
Fluent Bit #2 - Data Replay
In my previous post, I demonstrated how to set up basic aggregated logging for firewall events using Fluent Bit, effectively reducing log ingestion costs in a way similar to Sentinel’s Summary rules. In this follow-up, I …