From the course: Implementing and Administering Microsoft Sentinel

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Sentinel feature flyover

Sentinel feature flyover

- [Instructor] I want to start with a look at core Microsoft Sentinel functionality and to just talk about what makes Sentinel such a compelling solution in the first place. Now, if I were to identify a theme in cybersecurity today, it's that organizations simply can't keep up with the massive volume of security alerts. We see increasingly sophisticated attacks that result in large volumes of alerts, creating a backlog for analysis that leads to unacceptably long resolution times. Microsoft has introduced a SaaS solution called Microsoft Sentinel, which is both a SIEM and SOAR solution. We have SIEM pronounced like the SIM card in your smartphone, which is Security Information Event Management and it's designed to provide central data collection and real-time analysis of security events and alerts generated by your apps and your devices. And then, we have SOAR functionality that goes hand in hand with SIEM. SOAR, which is Security Orchestration Automated Response, is designed to help…

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