The Biden Administration’s recent Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity emphasizes the need to improve not only the detection of cloud security threats on federal government networks but also the investigation and remediation capabilities. Threats against federal information systems are a growing concern that require detailed understanding of threat actors, behavior, and methods.
An advanced cybersecurity discipline, threat intelligence focuses on identifying and responding to an attacker-based indicators of compromise across stages of the attack cycle.
Azure Sentinel is Microsoft’s cloud-native SIEM solution with the ability to import threat intelligence data from multiple sources, including paid threat feeds, open-source feeds, and threat intelligence sharing communities. Azure Sentinel also supports open-source standards to bring in feeds from Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIPs) across STIX & TAXII.
Today, we are excited to announce that Microsoft has released the next evolution of threat hunting capabilities in the Azure Sentinel Threat Intelligence Workbook.
Azure Sentinel Threat Intelligence is based on ingestion of threat indicators such as IP addresses, domains, URLs, email senders, and file hashes. By ingesting and correlating threat data across cloud workloads and throughout the attack cycle, this workbook empowers security professionals by serving as a starting point for building threat intelligence programs.
This offering provides a free text search to hunt for IPs, hash, emails and more across over 50 Microsoft telemetry components. There are advanced correlations for AI/ML, UEBA, and geospatial location of threat sources.
Learn more by watching the demo: Demo: Azure Sentinel threat intelligence workbook - YouTube
Use Cases
There are several use cases for the Azure Sentinel Threat Intelligence Workbook depending on user roles and requirements. Common use cases include threat hunting, developing alerting, identifying security weaknesses, conducting assessments with custom reporting, time filtering, subscription filtering, workspace filtering, and guides.
The workbook is organized into three sections:
- Indicators Ingestion: Evaluate indictors onboarded, threat feeds, and confidence ratings
- Threat Detection & Hunting: Free text search indicators across your cloud workloads
- Observed Threats: Analyze threats by geolocation, threat group, assets targeted and more
Benefits
- Ingest, analyze, hunt for Indicators within workloads
- Free text search to hunt for IPs, hash, email senders etc. across 50+ Microsoft telemetry components
- Advanced correlations for AI/ML, UEBA, and geospatial location of threats
- Find, fix, resolve workload weaknesses
- Query/Alert generation
Audience
- Threat Intelligence Professionals: Investigations
- SecOps: Alert/Automation building
- Assessors: Audit & assessment
- Security Decision Makers: Situational awareness
- MSSP: Consultants, Managed Service Providers
Getting Started
This content provides the capability to both ingest and correlate threat data in cloud workloads. This offering provides a free text search to hunt for IPs, hashes, emails, and more across over fifty Microsoft telemetry components. There are advanced correlations for AI/ML, UEBA, and geospatial location of threat sources.
- Onboard Azure Sentinel
- Connect Threat Intelligence Platforms
- Connect STIX/TAXII Feeds
- Access the Content
- Azure Sentinel > Threat Intelligence > Threat Intelligence Workbook
- Review the content and provide feedback through our survey
Frequently Asked Questions
- Why is Threat Intelligence needed?
- Correlate Cyber Threat Intelligence Indicators (CTI) observed in your workloads
- What types of indicators of compromise are included?
- Is multi-subscription & multi-tenant supported?
- Yes, via Workbook Parameters and Azure Lighthouse
- Is custom reporting available?
- Yes, via guide, time, workspace, & subscription parameters.
- Is 3rd Party integration supported?
- Yes, via Azure Sentinel Information Model (ASIM) integration.
- Is this available in US government regions?
- Yes, Azure Sentinel Threat Intelligence is Generally Available in Commercial/Government regions
- Can this content be exported as a report?
- Yes, via Print Workbooks and Download Artifacts features.
- Is STIX/TAXI integrated?
- Yes, the content scales via Connectors which populate in the ThreatIntelligenceIndicator data table
- What is dynamic display?
- Dozens of queries are executed and only panels with data display
- What rights are required to use this content?
- Azure Sentinel Contributor can, create and edit workbooks, analytics rules, and other Azure Sentinel resources. Azure Sentinel Reader can view data, incidents, workbooks, and other Azure Sentinel resources.
Learn More About Threat Intelligence with Microsoft Security
- General Availability of Azure Sentinel Threat Intelligence in Public and Azure Government cloud
- Understand threat intelligence in Azure Sentinel
- Microsoft Threat Intelligence | Unparalleled Threat Detection
