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  • Saturday Heat – Bonus Walkthrough!

    Saturday Heat – Bonus Walkthrough!

    There is too much heat this week for me. I took the opportunity to try & find some distraction for you too! In this Saturday bonus article, we will build several practical security queries progressively. We will begin by reviewing raw Microsoft Entra sign-in data, add filters, summarize the results, extract values from dynamic fields,…

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  • Microsoft Sentinel Baseline Deployment: From Zero to Operational SOC

    Microsoft Sentinel Baseline Deployment: From Zero to Operational SOC

    Microsoft Sentinel can be enabled in minutes. A good Sentinel deployment takes planning. Most Sentinel pain does not come from missing detections or weak analytics. It comes from architectural shortcuts taken on day one: poorly scoped workspaces, uncontrolled access, unpredictable ingestion costs, and a lack of governance before the first alert ever fires. In this…

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  • Azure Updates – Number 94 – July 13, 2024

    Azure Updates – Number 94 – July 13, 2024

    A summary update on Azure news that includes updates released from Microsoft Azure related to Azure, Architecture, Compute, Security Copilot and Sentinel topics. Save time digging around to find recent releases and changes.

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  • Set Log Analytics Workspace Data Cap

    Set Log Analytics Workspace Data Cap

    Let’s take a look at setting data ingestion caps in an Azure Log Analytics workspace today. There are different reasons why we may want to limit the data coming into our storage account, today we look at both setting the data cap, and alerting us when that data cap is reached through Azure Monitor alerting.

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  • Azure Updates – Number 10 – May 8, 2021

    Azure Updates – Number 10 – May 8, 2021

    A summary update on Azure news that includes updates released from Microsoft Azure related to Azure, Architecture, Compute, and Sentinel topics. Save time digging around to find recent releases and changes. Released May 8th, 2021. Sentinel updates, zero trust, Azure SQL & more!

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