Microsoft Azure cloud services offer huge advantages in terms of secure log storage, access, scalability, cost reduction, and ease of deployment, making them popular among enterprises.
Microsoft Azure logging tools such as Log360 can help manage Azure logs for all devices and applications (such as virtual machines and containers) in the Azure cloud infrastructure and help detect performance bottlenecks. Capturing VM activity logs is critical for accurately discovering security incidents. important.
What is Azure logging
Azure logging helps identify performance and operational issues in Azure resources, including applications, containers, and VMs, as well as the infrastructure that runs those Azure resources.
How to log an Azure VM
Azure Monitoring Logs is an Azure Monitor feature that helps you collect, analyze, and manage all resources in your Azure cloud environment. The Azure Monitor agent must be installed to collect performance and log data from Azure VMs and send it to Azure Monitor metrics and Azure Monitor logs.
To do this, open the Azure portal in a web browser and filter the resource list by rg-demo-vm-eastus resource group, after that, select demowebappmonitor>Monitoring>Logs>Application Insights>Trace>Run.
What is Azure Log Analytics
Azure Log Analytics is an Azure portal tool for editing and running log queries from Azure Monitor, Azure Log Analytics retrieves log data that matches user queries to identify trends, analyze patterns, and gain insights into Azure logs, Azure Log Analytics tools have Helps collect performance metrics such as CPU and memory usage, and helps securely store sensitive log data.
What is Azure Security Center? How it differs from third-party Azure log analysis
Microsoft Azure Security Center is a unified security management platform that contains a sophisticated set of tools for monitoring and managing VMs and cloud computing resources in the Azure public cloud. On the other hand, third-party Azure log analysis tools such as Log360 allow you to easily collect, centralize, and interactively analyze Azure logs. They provide clear visibility into Azure infrastructure and help identify security issues.
What are Azure Monitor metrics
Azure Monitor receives data from Azure resources, Azure tenants, Azure Active Directory, and applications. Key metrics tracked by Azure Monitor include throughput, average CPU utilization, average input/output (IO) utilization, internal server errors, incoming and Number of outgoing bytes, number of successful connections, and blocked and failed connections.
Simplified Azure logging and monitoring
Log360 is a unified SIEM solution that integrates DLP and CASB capabilities. It is designed to process, audit and monitor Azure logs to ensure the security of Azure environments and help reduce cloud degradation by identifying unused resources in the Azure cloud and the possibility of resizing. cost.
- Securing Azure log collection
- Azure storage account monitoring
- Network security group monitoring
- Azure Traffic Manager Analysis
Securing Azure log collection
With the Azure Monitor Logs API to securely collect logs from Azure environments, the solution's REST API client requests include queries run against Azure Monitor to determine what data to retrieve from the Azure workspace. When Log360 is deployed in an IT environment, the solution collects, analyzes and securely stores Azure logs to enhance network and web security, regardless of the logs coming from a large number of devices in the Azure cloud.
Azure storage account monitoring
Gain a clear understanding of what is happening in your Azure environment by correlating large amounts of Azure logs across your Azure cloud infrastructure. Log360's event correlation module effortlessly correlates critical events with other events occurring on Azure resources. It also helps Create new Azure storage accounts for all Azure storage services and make them accessible from anywhere via HTTP and HTTPS.
Network security group monitoring
Can track all user activity and changes made to network security groups, virtual networks, DNS zones, virtual machines, databases and storage accounts in Microsoft Azure cloud environments, audit activity in Azure cloud, hybrid Active Directory and on-premises Active Directory, And monitor Windows logins, file access, and more.
Azure Traffic Manager Analysis
Log360 helps load balance traffic to specific endpoints. In a single console, it displays all created, modified, and deleted endpoints based on data from Traffic Manager. Additionally, the solution allows you to manage permission changes and configuration changes based on Azure Traffic Manager.
Azure Security Analytics
As a security professional, you are often required to perform log forensic analysis, which is a mundane and time-consuming task. Log360 helps visualize Microsoft Azure logs in a unified environment and provides intuitive charts, graphs, and reports to identify the root cause of issues.
Log360 Azure monitoring tool helps analyze all applications deployed in Azure cloud environments to check performance and maximize availability, reliability, and consumption.
Log360's SIEM functionality tracks all changes and identifies malicious activity occurring on Azure AD logs, files, and folders residing in Azure. Filters and search modules help drill down into Azure AD activity logs to detect suspicious activity. and take measures against it.
- Azure cloud data security
- Virtual network security monitoring
- Azure Threat Analysis
- Azure security and compliance
Azure cloud data security
Get notified of critical changes made to AD objects, including users, computers, groups, OUs, security principals, and GPOs, critical to ensuring your Azure servers, Azure cloud applications, and Azure resources run smoothly to reduce downtime and performance bottlenecks important. Log360 helps protect sensitive data in the Azure cloud and quickly detect data exfiltration attempts.
Virtual network security monitoring
Monitor changes to your Azure AD environment and handle privilege escalation issues. For example, if a user accesses the system after hours, this may be considered anomalous behavior, which is why the risk score for a specific user increases with the corresponding severity level. Categorizing risk scores into Critical, Issue, and Concern helps prioritize incidents and enable prompt remediation as needed.
Azure Threat Analysis
Advanced threat analysis capabilities block malicious domains, IPs, and URLs from intruding your network. Configure alert profiles to receive instant alerts when malicious sources intrude your network and perform suspicious user actions in Azure AD. Activate alerts based on the severity of the incident. Categorize and prioritize so critical incidents can be handled quickly to prevent security breaches.
Azure security and compliance
Centrally collect Azure logs to gain insights into configuration changes, server attacks, and security errors. Monitor changes made to network security groups, virtual machines, and virtual networks, and respond to security threats immediately, at specific times based on your organization's needs or IT regulatory requirements. In-segment archiving and custom Azure logs.
Benefits of Choosing Azure Logging Tools
- Instant security threat detection : Accurately detect security threats by correlating Azure logs with the rest of the network, and the solution's threat analysis capabilities help identify and block malicious IPs and URLs.
- User Entity and Behavior Analysis (UEBA) : Defend against internal threats, account leaks, and data leaks, and use the UEBA module to discover abnormal user behavior.
- Proactive threat hunting : The solution's advanced threat analysis capabilities pinpoint malicious actors in Azure networks and identify their techniques and tactics to reduce the risk of data breaches.
- Automated incident management : Trigger automated incident response workflows with security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) to ensure rapid response to security threats and automatically assign tickets to security administrators.
- Integrated Compliance Management : Gain insights into security incidents, improve investigations, and quickly resolve issues with audit-ready reports that demonstrate compliance with HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, and more.
Log360 provides holistic security visibility across on-premises, cloud and hybrid networks through its intuitive and advanced security analytics and monitoring capabilities.