With the rapid growth of cloud services, securing cloud workloads has become a critical concern for organizations. Microsoft Defender for Cloud provides a comprehensive solution for securing your cloud workloads. To ensure the best protection, it is important to identify the data sources that should be ingested for Microsoft Defender for Cloud. In this blog post, we will discuss how to identify these data sources and the role of security center partner integration.
To identify the data sources that should be ingested for Microsoft Defender for Cloud, consider the types of cloud services that your organization uses. The following are some examples of data sources that should be ingested for Microsoft Defender for Cloud:
– Azure activity logs: These logs provide information about Azure resource management operations and are essential for monitoring resource configurations and usage.
– Azure Active Directory logs: These logs provide information about user and group management activities and are important for detecting account compromises and insider threats.
– Azure Network Security Group flow logs: These logs provide information about inbound and outbound network traffic and can help you identify unauthorized network traffic.
– Azure virtual machine logs: These logs provide information about virtual machine activity and can help you identify suspicious activity on your virtual machines.
Security Center partner integration allows you to integrate third-party solutions with Microsoft Defender for Cloud. This integration enables you to ingest additional data sources that are not provided by default. For example, if you use a third-party firewall solution, you can use Security Center partner integration to ingest the firewall logs into Microsoft Defender for Cloud. This integration allows you to correlate the data from the firewall with the data from other sources to identify and remediate security risks.
In conclusion, identifying the data sources that should be ingested for Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a critical step in ensuring the best protection for your cloud workloads. By considering the types of cloud services that your organization uses, you can identify the data sources that should be ingested. Security Center partner integration also plays a vital role in ingesting additional data sources that are not provided by default, allowing you to correlate data from multiple sources to identify and remediate security risks.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a cloud-native security solution that provides advanced threat protection for cloud workloads.
Security Center Partner Integration is a feature of Microsoft Defender for Cloud that enables customers to integrate with third-party security solutions.
Security Center Partner Integration provides benefits such as broader coverage and visibility of security events, simplified management, and greater control and customization.
Data sources that can be ingested for Microsoft Defender for Cloud through Security Center Partner Integration include Azure Activity Logs, Azure Security Center alerts, and third-party security alerts.
Azure Activity Logs is a platform service that provides insight into operational activities that have occurred in Azure resources.
Azure Security Center alerts provide insight into potential security vulnerabilities and provide recommendations to remediate security issues.
The Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) integration enables customers to stream Security Center alerts to their SIEM solution.
The Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) integration enables customers to receive alerts and data for cloud services that are not managed by Microsoft.
The Network Detection and Response (NDR) integration provides advanced threat detection and response capabilities for on-premises and cloud workloads.
The Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) integration provides endpoint protection for Windows and Linux servers and workstations.
Security Center Partner Integration works by ingesting security events and data from partner solutions, enriching that data with Microsoft’s threat intelligence, and providing recommendations to remediate security issues.
Yes, Security Center Partner Integration can be used with multiple partner solutions simultaneously.
Customers can configure Security Center Partner Integration through the Security Center portal.
Customers can manage and monitor Security Center Partner Integration through the Security Center portal or through third-party tools.
The benefits of ingesting data sources for Microsoft Defender for Cloud through Security Center Partner Integration include enhanced visibility, detection, and response capabilities, increased automation and efficiency, and simplified management.
