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 […]

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 […]

Recreating a MS workbook in PowerBI: Part 3 – Working with tables

Overview So far in this series (if 3 posts can be considered a series), we have ingested data into PowerBI and created a basic report. We looked at some of the pitfalls that may happen when creating a table view. In this post, we will look at the tables themselves and how we can expand […]

Recreating a MS workbook in PowerBI: Part 1 – Get the data

Overview In one of my last posts, I talked about the differences between Microsoft Sentinel workbooks and PowerBI. In this post, the first of however many I decide to write, we will look at converting the Security Operations Efficiency workbook into PowerBI. Why this workbook? There are a few reasons. It has different steps in […]

Microsoft Sentinel workbooks versus PowerBI

Introduction I’m sure anyone who has using Microsoft Sentinel for any length of time has used the workbooks feature. While this is technically an Azure Monitor feature, we use them with Microsoft Sentinel as well. They are great but may not work for everyone. Another choice is Microsoft’s PowerBI reporting tool. This blog post will […]

Determining when a Microsoft Sentinel incident’s owner has changed

Introduction Update: Microsoft Sentinel now has the ability to trigger a playbook when an incident has been updated so this blog post is obsolete! If you are like me, you feel that one of the holes in Microsoft Sentinel is knowing when something changes. I am hoping that this changes soon (pun intended). In the […]

See MS Sentinel workbooks when logging into the portal

Introduction For most people using Microsoft Sentinel, you would login the Azure portal, go to the Sentinel page (and maybe select the required instance), go to workbooks, and select the workbook you want to see. That is great, but what if you are a CISO and you don’t want to have to go through all […]