**Microsoft Defender for Identity** is one of the most powerful tools for detecting on-premises Active Directory attacks — but out of the box, it's also one of the noisiest. If you've deployed MDI sensors and found yourself drowning in alerts about suspicious LDAP queries, encryp

**User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)** in **Microsoft Sentinel** provides machine learning-driven anomaly detection that goes beyond signature-based alerts. In this post, I'll walk through enabling and configuring UEBA to detect insider threats, compromised accounts, and l

Deploying **Microsoft Defender for Endpoint** on Linux servers is a solid first step, but the real security value comes from proper hardening. In this post, I'll walk through practical configurations that go beyond the default deployment to reduce your attack surface and improve

Managing security compliance across Azure environments manually doesn't scale. I've seen too many organisations rely on periodic audits and spreadsheets to track security configurations, only to discover drift during incidents or compliance reviews. Azure Policy provides the auto

In **Part 1**, we covered what **OCSF** is and why it solves critical problems for **Microsoft Sentinel** deployments. This post walks through the technical implementation: creating custom tables for OCSF event classes, configuring **Data Collection Rules (DCR)** to transform log

The **Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF)** addresses one of the most persistent challenges in security operations: inconsistent log formats across vendors. If you've spent hours writing custom parsers for every new data source in **Microsoft Sentinel**, OCSF offers a stan