Microsoft Azure Sentinel Uses Data Analytics to Improve Security

Giving a wider range of fresh cyber-attack threats and information to IT security workers 24/7 is the aim of a new Microsoft Azure security tool—Microsoft Azure Sentinel—that was just released by the company in preview mode. Built to streamline the collection of IT security information across business organizations, including attacks, vulnerabilities and other issues, Microsoft Azure Sentinel is designed to dramatically help security operations teams improve detection, protection and data security for companies of all sizes using intelligent security analytics. The new tool was unveiled in a recent post by Eliav Levi, director of product management for Microsoft Azure Sentinel, on the Microsoft Azure Blog. "Azure Sentinel makes it easy to collect security data across your entire hybrid organization from devices, to users, to apps to servers on any cloud," wrote Levi. "It uses the power of artificial intelligence to ensure you are identifying real threats quickly and unleashes you from the burden of traditional Security Information and Event Management (SIEMs) by eliminating the need to spend time on setting up, maintaining and