Building Cloud SIEM with Sentinel

When to Use

• When establishing a centralized security operations center for multi-cloud environments
• When migrating from legacy SIEM platforms (Splunk, QRadar) to cloud-native architecture
• When building automated incident response workflows for cloud-specific threats
• When performing large-scale threat hunting across petabytes of security telemetry
• When integrating threat intelligence feeds with cloud security log analysis

Do not use for AWS-only environments where Security Hub and GuardDuty suffice, for endpoint detection requiring EDR capabilities (use Defender for Endpoint), or for compliance posture monitoring (see building-cloud-security-posture-management).

Prerequisites

• Azure subscription with Microsoft Sentinel enabled on a Log Analytics workspace
• Data connector permissions for target log sources (AWS CloudTrail, Azure Activity, GCP)
• Logic Apps or Azure Functions for automated response playbooks
• KQL (Kusto Query Language) proficiency for writing detection rules and hunting queries