Microsoft Sentinel integration (Preview)

Note

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps (previously known as Microsoft Cloud App Security) is now part of Microsoft 365 Defender. The Microsoft 365 Defender portal allows security admins to perform their security tasks in one location. This will simplify workflows, and add the functionality of the other Microsoft 365 Defender services. Microsoft 365 Defender will be the home for monitoring and managing security across your Microsoft identities, data, devices, apps, and infrastructure. For more information about these changes, see Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps in Microsoft 365 Defender.

You can integrate Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps with Microsoft Sentinel (a scalable, cloud-native SIEM and SOAR) to enable centralized monitoring of alerts and discovery data. Integrating with Microsoft Sentinel allows you to better protect your cloud applications while maintaining your usual security workflow, automating security procedures, and correlating between cloud-based and on-premises events.

Benefits of using Microsoft Sentinel include:

• Longer data retention provided by Log Analytics.
• Out-of-the-box visualizations.
• Use tools such as Microsoft Power BI or Microsoft Sentinel workbooks to create your own discovery data visualizations that fit your organizational needs.

Additional integration solutions include:

• Generic SIEMs - Integrate Defender for Cloud Apps with your generic SIEM server. For information in integrating with a Generic SIEM, see Generic SIEM integration.
• Microsoft security graph API - An intermediary service (or broker) that provides a single programmatic interface to connect multiple security providers. For more information, see Security solution integrations using the Microsoft Graph Security API.

How to integrate

Integrating with your SIEM is accomplished in two steps:

1. Set it up in Defender for Cloud Apps.
2. Set it up in Microsoft Sentinel.

Note

The option to add Microsoft Sentinel is not available if you have previously performed the integration.

Prerequisites

To integrate with Microsoft Sentinel:

• You must have a valid Microsoft Sentinel license
• You must be a Global Administrator or a Security Administrator in your tenant.

Integrating with Microsoft Sentinel

1. In the Defender for Cloud Apps portal, under the Settings cog, select Security extensions.

2. On the SIEM agents tab, select add (+), and then choose Microsoft Sentinel.

   

3. In the wizard, select the data types you want to forward to Microsoft Sentinel. You can configure the integration, as follows:

   1. Alerts: Alerts are automatically turned on once Microsoft Sentinel is enabled.
   2. Discovery logs: Use the slider to enable and disable them, by default, everything is selected, and then use the Apply to drop-down to filter which discovery logs are sent to Microsoft Sentinel.

   

4. Select Next, and continue to Microsoft Sentinel to finalize the integration. For information on configuring Microsoft Sentinel, see the Microsoft Sentinel data connector for Defender for Cloud Apps.

   

Note

New discovery logs will usually appear in Microsoft Sentinel within 15 minutes of configuring them in the Defender for Cloud Apps portal. However, it may take longer depending on system environment conditions. For more information, see Handle ingestion delay in analytics rules.

Alerts and discovery logs in Microsoft Sentinel

Once the integration is completed, you can view Defender for Cloud Apps alerts and discovery logs in Microsoft Sentinel.

In Microsoft Sentinel, under Logs, under Security Insights, you can find the logs for the Defender for Cloud Apps data types, as follows:

Data type	Table
Discovery logs	McasShadowItReporting
Alerts	SecurityAlert

The following table describes each field in the McasShadowItReporting schema:

Field	Type	Description	Examples
TenantId	String	Workspace ID	b459b4u5-912x-46d5-9cb1-p43069212nb4
SourceSystem	String	Source system – static value	Azure
TimeGenerated [UTC]	DateTime	Date of discovery data	2019-07-23T11:00:35.858Z
StreamName	String	Name of the specific stream	Marketing Department
TotalEvents	Integer	Total number of events per session	122
BlockedEvents	Integer	Number of blocked events	0
UploadedBytes	Integer	Amount of uploaded data	1,514,874
TotalBytes	Integer	Total amount of data	4,067,785
DownloadedBytes	Integer	Amount of downloaded data	2,552,911
IpAddress	String	Source IP address	127.0.0.0
UserName	String	User name	Raegan@contoso.com
EnrichedUserName	String	Enriched user name with Azure AD username	Raegan@contoso.com
AppName	String	Name of cloud app	Microsoft OneDrive for Business
AppId	Integer	Cloud app identifier	15600
AppCategory	String	Category of cloud app	Cloud storage
AppTags	String array	Built-in and custom tags defined for the app	["sanctioned"]
AppScore	Integer	The risk score of the app in a scale 0-10, 10 being a score for a non-risky app	10
Type	String	Type of logs – static value	McasShadowItReporting

Use Power BI with Defender for Cloud Apps data in Microsoft Sentinel

Once the integration is completed, you can also use the Defender for Cloud Apps data stored in Microsoft Sentinel in other tools.

This section describes how you can use Microsoft Power BI to easily shape and combine data to build reports and dashboards that meet the needs of your organization.

You can get started quickly by using the following steps:

1. In Power BI, import queries from Microsoft Sentinel for Defender for Cloud Apps data. For more information, see Import Azure Monitor log data into Power BI.

2. Install the Defender for Cloud Apps Shadow IT Discovery app and connect it to your discovery log data to view the built-in Shadow IT Discovery dashboard.

   Note

   Currently, the app is not published on Microsoft AppSource. Therefore, you may need to contact your Power BI admin for permissions to install the app.

   

3. Optionally, build custom dashboards in Power BI Desktop and tweak it to fit the visual analytics and reporting requirements of your organization.

Connect the Defender for Cloud Apps app

1. In Power BI, select Apps, and then select on the Shadow IT Discovery app.

2. On the Get started with your new app page, select Connect.

   

3. On the workspace ID page, enter your Microsoft Sentinel workspace ID as displayed in your log analytics overview page, and then select Next.

   

4. On the authentication page, specify the authentication method and privacy level, and then select Sign in.

   

5. After connecting your data, go to the workspace Datasets tab and select Refresh. This will update the report with your own data.

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