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Microsoft Sentinel is a cloud-native Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution that provides intelligent security analytics for your entire enterprise. One powerful feature of Microsoft Sentinel is workbooks, which allow users to create interactive dashboards and visualizations. Sentinel comes with a variety of built-in workbook templates, which you can use as a starting point for customizing your own security dashboards.
To activate a Microsoft Sentinel workbook from a template, follow these steps:
Once you have created a new workbook from a template, you can customize it to meet your specific needs. Here are some general steps for customizing workbook templates:
Component | Original Template | Customized Version |
---|---|---|
KQL Query | SigninLogs | where ResultType == 0 |
SigninLogs | where ResultType != 0 |
Chart Type | Line Chart | Bar Chart |
Time Parameter | Last 24 hours | User-selectable range |
This table shows how a simple component’s properties were altered to suit specific monitoring needs.
After customizing your workbook, ensure to save your changes. Microsoft Sentinel allows you to share your workbooks with other team members.
By leveraging Microsoft Sentinel workbook templates and customizing them according to your organization’s needs, you can gain valuable insights into your security posture and streamline your security operations workflow.
Explanation: Microsoft Sentinel provides built-in workbooks for data visualization, which can be customized to suit specific needs, offering interactive dashboards to analyze and display data.
Answer: a) View them, b) Clone them, d) Customize them
Explanation: Users can view, clone, and customize workbook templates in Microsoft Sentinel. Built-in templates cannot be deleted as they are provided by Microsoft.
Explanation: In Microsoft Sentinel, when you customize a workbook, the original template remains unchanged. Users can revert to the original template or save the customization as a new workbook.
Answer: c) Clone or open an existing workbook template
Explanation: Customizing a workbook in Microsoft Sentinel typically involves cloning an existing template or opening a workbook to modify it to your specifications.
Explanation: While Microsoft Sentinel workbooks can visualize data, data collection often requires configuration such as setting up data connectors to specific sources to ensure the logs are available for visualization.
Answer: c) Built-in AI to predict future threats
Explanation: Microsoft Sentinel workbooks feature interactive data visualizations and use KQL for data analysis. Real-time collaboration on dashboards is also possible. However, predicting future threats requires more than just workbook features and would typically involve analytics rules or machine learning models.
Explanation: Access to workbooks in Microsoft Sentinel can be managed and controlled. Permissions can be granted based on user roles, so not all users may have access by default.
Answer: b) JSON
Explanation: Microsoft Sentinel workbook templates are defined using JSON (JavaScript Object Notation).
Answer: b) To allow users to input or select data filters
Explanation: Parameters in Microsoft Sentinel workbooks are used to allow users to input or select data filters, which can customize the view and analysis presented by the workbook.
Explanation: Microsoft Sentinel workbooks can integrate and visualize data from multiple data sources, not limited to a single one at a time.
Answer: c) By using Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates
Explanation: Customized workbooks in Microsoft Sentinel can be shared with team members through ARM templates that allow others to deploy the workbook in their own environments.
Explanation: Users are not required to share their customized workbook templates with Microsoft or the community. Sharing is an option for collaboration, but it is not mandatory.
Workbooks in Microsoft Sentinel are customizable visualizations of data that can be used to monitor and analyze security-related data.
A workbook template is a pre-built workbook that can be used as a starting point for creating a custom workbook.
Workbooks can visualize data from various sources, including logs, alerts, incidents, and external data sources.
You can access the built-in workbooks in Microsoft Sentinel by clicking on the “Workbooks” menu in the navigation pane and selecting “All Workbooks.”
Some of the built-in workbook templates in Microsoft Sentinel include the “Overview,” “Incidents,” “Threat Hunting,” “Adaptive Application Control,” and “Office 365” workbooks.
Yes, you can customize a built-in workbook in Microsoft Sentinel by clicking on the “Edit” button at the top of the workbook and modifying the visuals, queries, and other settings.
To create a new workbook in Microsoft Sentinel, click on the “New Workbook” button in the “Workbooks” menu and select either a blank workbook or a template to start with.
To add a query to a workbook in Microsoft Sentinel, click on the “New” button in the “Visualizations” pane, select “Query,” and then write a Kusto query to retrieve the data you want to visualize.
To share a workbook in Microsoft Sentinel, click on the “Share” button at the top of the workbook, select the audience you want to share the workbook with, and specify the permissions you want to grant.
Yes, you can export a workbook from Microsoft Sentinel by clicking on the “Export” button at the top of the workbook and selecting the format you want to export it in, such as a PDF, Excel, or Power BI file.
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