Security is one of the prime focuses for today’s organisations.
Since quite some time, Microsoft has been making significant investments in security. They have increased surveillance in locating as well as fixing the product defects and have also built up a Threat Intelligence Center.
Microsoft is, in fact, investing millions to develop solutions and security products for their platform.
Well, going to the cloud certainly does not ensure freedom from security concerns.
With the growth in popularity, various ways to steal information as well as resources from users has also come into vogue. So, organisations using cloud services also need to adopt appropriate security measures.
What is Microsoft Azure Sentinel?
Microsoft has come up with Azure Sentinel lately.
Though most people consider it as a SIEM or Security Information and Event Management tool, it is far from being just that.
It is an extremely intelligent security analytics commonly used by organisations.
Azure Sentinel uses Artificial Intelligence for analysis of security threats around application, data, servers or devices that are running on-premises. It is a valued addition to the hybrid cloud landscape. It is a cloud security tool that analyses, collects, as well as makes automatic responses using Microsoft Azure resources. It uses machine learning for valued insights as well as providing the context for smarter decision making.
Microsoft Azure Sentinel Functionality
Azure Sentinel chiefly allows you to handle the following tasks:
Collect: It allows to gather data across applications, devices, users and infrastructure both on-premises as well as on cloud.
Detect: It can recognise threats as well as bring down false positives by making use of threat intelligence and analytics.
Investigate: Since it uses Artificial Intelligence, it can easily identify threats and suspicious activities.
Respond: With the aid of built-in automation process and responses, it can react to incidents.
Why Use Azure Sentinel?
Azure Sentinel includes the following features making it one of the best fits for your business:
Built-In Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence allows to detect threats easily with machine learning features.
Artificial Intelligence allows to collect, detect, analyse as well as respond to threats.
Cloud SIEM: A cloud-based technology with fascinating scaling capabilities, you can rest assured that it will not just protect Azure, but other cloud services as well. It analyses data easily from Office 365 or cloud app security too.
Automated Responses: Automatic detection followed by appropriate response to threat is yet another feature of Azure Sentinel that will help to keep your business safe and secure. This feature wins large scale acclamation.
Pricing
For Azure Sentinel, you are billed depending on the data volume. It comes with a predictable and flexible pricing option. You can pay for this service through the following two ways:
- Pay-As-You-Go
- Capacity Reservation
Using Pay-As-You-Go, as suggested by the name, you are billed depending on the volume of data you use up.
Using Capacity Reservation, you pay a fixed amount depending on the selected tier.
Security need not be a painstaking task anymore.
You can easily put together large-scale intelligence with cloud today. Just make threat protection faster and smarter using artificial intelligence with Azure Sentinel!
