What started as a single blog is now becoming a yearly trend. More and more KQL related repositories are created, not only with a focus on security but also Intune, Entra and Azure Monitor related queries. Dive in and discover how these new additions can help you tackle challenges or give you new ideas for the new year. Happy New Year to all of you! KQL Sources Link Description kqlsearch.com KQL Search Engine Kusto Insights Newsletter Kusto Insights newsletter The Definitive Guide to KQL Using Kusto Query Language for Operations, Defending, and Threat Hunting Kusto Query Internals Hunting TTPs with Azure Sentinel Microsoft Sentinel Analytics Rules Exchange Microsoft Sentinel Analytics Rules GitHub Repositories KQL Community Repositories Link Description Stars Azure Sentinel Repository - Azure Cloud-native SIEM for intelligent security analytics for your entire enterprise Sentinel-Queries - reprise99 Collection of KQL queries Falcon Friday - FalconForceTeam Hunting queries and detections Threat-Hunting-and-Detection - Cyb3r-Monk Repository for threat hunting and detection queries, etc.

As the holiday season approaches and our schedules hopefully begin to open up, many of us find ourselves with a bit more time on our hands. This time could be perfectly spent delving into some hunting activities. And if you’re into hunting threats and sifting through vast amounts of data, the KQL External Data operator might be the holiday gift for you! This powerful capability enables you to seamlessly incorporate external data into your KQL queries, such as GitHub IOC lists or MISP Feeds.

The unified audit log is a centralized repository for M365 user and admin activities. The activities originate from different applications, such as Exchange, Teams, SharePoint, Azure, OneDrive and Defender XDR. In this blog, we compare four different ways to acquire and investigate the unified audit logs (UAL): Purview Audit Search Defender For Cloud Apps CloudAppEvents Logs Sentinel OfficeActivity Logs Invictus Incident Response Microsoft Extractor Suite There is another approach to acquire the UAL logs, which is not included in this blog.

The DeviceTvmInfoGathering table in Defender XDR is one of the understudied tables of Defender For Endpoint. With only the small amount of four listings from Alex Verboon on kqlsearch.com before researching this table. This blog explores the uncovered potential of this table, because this will help you a lot to get quick insights into the configuration Defender For Endpoint on your devices! DeviceTvmInfoGathering listings kqlsearch.com While the table serves little detection value, it is extremely useful to get insights into the Defender For Endpoint configuration of your devices.

Microsoft has announced a new Sentinel feature: Summary Rules. Those rules are aimed at aggregating large sets of data in the background for a smoother security operations experience across all log tiers. This blog discusses the use cases for this new feature, such as reporting, aggregating large datasets and combining them with analytics rules.

The CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog helps organizations prioritize vulnerabilities, as an end user you want to be notified when a new vulnerability is added. This blog describes four different solutions in Microsoft Sentinel to automate the notification process, leaving you with the important task of analyzing this new threat. The four automation solutions presented in this blog are: Email notifications Teams channel notifications Sentinel incidents Sentinel Analytics Rule Both the Logic App and the Analytics Rule are available on GitHub.