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Microsoft Sentinel provides several roles that delineate what actions a user can perform in the platform. These roles are based on Azure role-based access control (RBAC), which allows fine-grained access management. Below are the key roles associated with Microsoft Sentinel:
This role allows the user to perform most Microsoft Sentinel management tasks, such as creating and managing incidents, workbooks, notebooks, and playbooks. However, Sentinel Contributors cannot manage access to Microsoft Sentinel resources.
A user with the Sentinel Reader role can view all Microsoft Sentinel data, including alerts, incidents, and dashboards, but cannot make changes.
A Sentinel Responder can take action on incidents. This includes changing the status of incidents, adding comments, and managing tags. They do not have permissions to modify analytics rules or other configurations.
This role allows the user to create and manage automation rules and playbooks within Microsoft Sentinel, which are vital in setting up automatic responses to threats.
To assign roles to a user or a group, you must have sufficient permissions yourself, usually as an Azure subscription owner or user access administrator. Here is how you can configure roles within Microsoft Sentinel:
Consider a scenario where you have a security team with various members, each requiring different access levels:
By understanding and leveraging Microsoft Sentinel roles effectively, organizations can ensure that their security operations team works efficiently and within the defined scope of their responsibilities, greatly enhancing the organization’s security posture.
Explanation: The “Security Administrator” role is related to Azure AD security, but to configure Microsoft Sentinel, you would typically need to have the “Contributor” or a specific “Sentinel Contributor” role at the subscription or resource group level where Sentinel is deployed.
Explanation: The “Sentinel Contributor” role has permissions that allow users to manage all Microsoft Sentinel related resources, including viewing and investigating alerts.
Explanation: The Sentinel Contributor role is required to manage data connectors as it allows the management of Microsoft Sentinel resources.
Explanation: The “Sentinel Responder” role has permissions to perform actions on incidents, including dismissing them.
Explanation: The “Sentinel Reader” role is sufficient for a user to run queries and view the results in Microsoft Sentinel workbooks without making any changes to the configuration.
Explanation: While the “Security Reader” can view security data and alerts, they cannot manage incidents in Microsoft Sentinel. An appropriate Sentinel role such as “Sentinel Contributor” or “Sentinel Responder” is required to manage incidents.
Explanation: A user with the “Sentinel Contributor” role has adequate permissions to delete incidents in Microsoft Sentinel. The “Sentinel Responder” role does not have permission to delete incidents.
Explanation: The “Global Reader” role in Azure AD has read-only privileges. To create and manage playbooks in Microsoft Sentinel, the user needs to have a role that allows writing permissions, such as the “Sentinel Contributor”.
Explanation: The “Sentinel Contributor” role would allow a user to view and manage threat intelligence indicators in Microsoft Sentinel.
Explanation: The “Sentinel Responder” role has the permissions required to bookmark events and add comments to incidents in the response to them within Microsoft Sentinel.
Explanation: The “Sentinel Automation Contributor” role allows users to create and modify automations and playbooks in addition to reading data, which means they can modify some resources within the context of automation in Microsoft Sentinel.
Explanation: The “Sentinel Reader” role includes permissions to view Microsoft Sentinel data and incidents, but it does not allow creating and managing workbooks, modifying incident properties, or executing playbook actions.
How can you access and manage roles in Microsoft Sentinel?
How do you create a custom role in Microsoft Sentinel?
What is the purpose of the “Reader” role in Microsoft Sentinel?
What is the “Security Administrator” role in Microsoft Sentinel?
What is the “Data Connector Contributor” role in Microsoft Sentinel?
What is the difference between a built-in role and a custom role in Microsoft Sentinel?
How do you remove a role assignment in Microsoft Sentinel?
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