📋 Security Operations Cheat Sheet

SIEM, threat detection, and incident response for AZ-500.

Microsoft Sentinel

  • Data connectors: ingest logs from Azure, M365, third-party, and custom sources.
  • Analytic rules: scheduled KQL queries that create alerts/incidents.
  • Playbooks: Logic Apps triggered by incidents for automated response (SOAR).
  • Workbooks: interactive dashboards for security data visualization.

Defender for Cloud

  • CSPM: continuous assessment and secure score recommendations.
  • CWPP: workload protection for VMs, SQL, Storage, Containers, App Service.
  • Regulatory compliance: track progress against CIS, NIST, PCI-DSS benchmarks.
  • Just-in-time access: reduce attack surface by closing management ports.

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