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  • Microsoft Sentinel Baseline Deployment: From Zero to Operational SOC – Summer Bonus!

    Microsoft Sentinel Baseline Deployment: From Zero to Operational SOC – Summer Bonus!

    Microsoft Sentinel is powerful—but it can’t manage itself. Manual operations like onboarding data connectors, validating ingestion, monitoring workspace health, and auditing configuration changes quickly become a burden. This bonus article walks through building automation around your Sentinel foundations, so you can: Keep your workspaces healthy Ensure configuration compliance Alert on critical changes Free SOC engineers…

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  • Microsoft Sentinel Baseline Deployment: From Zero to Operational SOC – Part 3 of 3

    Microsoft Sentinel Baseline Deployment: From Zero to Operational SOC – Part 3 of 3

    Sentinel does not fail because it lacks detections. It fails because alerts overwhelm analysts, automation hides context, and governance is treated as an afterthought. In this series-finale post, we establish a production operational baseline: analytics rules, incident handling, automation boundaries, and long-term governance. This is where Sentinel becomes usable—not just enabled. There is no secret…

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  • Azure Updates – Number 133 – March 21, 2026

    Azure Updates – Number 133 – March 21, 2026

    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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