Modify the MS Sentinel incident’s workbooks

This is just a short blog post about the MS Sentinel incident’s workbooks. If you go to the Incidents page in MS Sentinel, there are two workbooks that are linked. The first is the “Security efficiency workbook” in the header bar and the second is the “Incident Overview” workbook that shows up the incident’s detail […]

Mimic drilldown in a Microsoft Sentinel workbook – Part II

Overview Another Saturday, another blog post. In a completely unrelated note, I really miss Saturday morning cartoons đŸ™‚ I was watching the latest Microsoft Security Insights show (Microsoft Security Insights Show Ep. 103 – YouTube) and saw some workbooks that Jing Nghik had created. In one spot he showed a spot where a workbook could […]

Azure KQL – Working with IP Addresses

Introduction Much of the investigative work done inside of Microsoft Sentinel, as well as many other Azure products that use KQL, deals with IP Addresses. Matching, comparing, and seeing if they show up in a table are many of the actions we perform against IP Addresses. Luckily, KQL provides many different functions to work with […]

Get or Export Microsoft Sentinel Automation rules

Introduction I ran across a question where someone was asking how to extract Microsoft Sentinel automation rules. I had thought the functionality was already in the automation rules, but I was wrong. There is the functionality for analytic rules, but it is not yet there for automation rules. I had some simple PowerShell scripts that […]

Get the number of MS Sentinel rules looking at tables (approximately)

Overview EDIT: If you need to use this information in workbook, take a look at the “Log Sources & Analytics Rules Coverage” workbook. It uses a combination of ARM templates, JSON, and Regex to show which rules are enabled for a selected table. Very cool! Microsoft Sentinel can show you which MITRE tactics and techniques […]

Mimic drilldown in a Microsoft Sentinel workbook

Overview I recently saw a question about how to do a drilldown in a Microsoft Sentinel workbook. While Rod Trent wrote a post called How to Make Your Azure Sentinel Workbooks Even More Interactive with Drilldowns and Downloads – Azure Cloud & AI Domain Blog (azurecloudai.blog) about 2 years ago on this subject, it deals […]

Azure KQL: Access sub-columns using the bag_unpack plugin

Overview When accessing information using KQL, sometimes you have a column that contains sub-columns that you want to access. There are a couple of different ways to obtain this information and I will show you two ways in this blog post. The first way will be to extract each column individually. While this works and, […]

Recreating a MS workbook in PowerBI: Part 4 – PowerBI Parameters

Overview Back in the first post in this series, I mentioned that you can easily change how far back you can look to get information in your queries. This post will talk about PowerBI parameters that we will use to do this. Create a parameter Parameters are very easy to create. In left hand navigation […]