The layout for this article will be quite straightforward. I will create a table for each setting-menu and list the settings I would change. I will also provide a short explanation for why I would change the setting, as well as what the setting is by default.
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Security Monitoring - Threat Modeling and Data Sources
One of the most misunderstood aspects of security monitoring is determining what data sources to use for what purpose. In this post, we will go through the process of determining what data sources to use for what purpose, where to prioritize developing use cases and how to plan for the future.
The idea that ingesting all the data and enabling all the use cases is the best approach to security monitoring is something we have explored time and time again here on this blog. So I thought, instead of just ranting about it, let’s show you how I would go about...
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Security Monitoring Antipatterns
A little bit of a deconstruction of some antipatterns in Security Operations
Welcome back to another post - this time we are talking about antipatterns. If you don’t know what an antipattern is, we can describe it as almost the polar opposite of best practice, put into a pattern.
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Adding Graph API permissions to Managed Identities
Making a little note of this in Graph API so it's easy to find for using it
In this post, we will go over how to simply add a Graph API permission to a managed identity. You can view the permissions from the Enterprise Application blade in Entra ID, but not add any new permissions. Instead we have to use Powershell.
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5 Years On - The Microsoft Sentinel Experience
Around 5 years ago, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure Sentinel. This post aims to assess how far we along we have come - the good, the bad and the ugly.
To briefly prepare you for what you are about to read and the context in which it is written; I work for an MSSP and have been working primarily with Microsoft Sentinel and the Microsoft stack since the release of Sentinel. Some of the things I will talk about and...
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