To expose several accounts for attackers to exploit and trigger an alert upon exploitation, the recommended feature is honeytoken entity tags. Honeytoken entities act as traps for malicious actors; any authentication attempt associated with these honeytoken entities triggers an alert, making them the ideal solution for this scenario.
Playbooks in Microsoft Sentinel are designed to automate and orchestrate threat response actions, which helps minimize the need for manual intervention by security operation analysts. They are essentially workflows that can be built using Azure Logic Apps, allowing you to define a series of automated steps to take when specific alerts or incidents are triggered. Furthermore, Playbooks can be integrated with Microsoft Teams, facilitating the triaging of alerts within Teams channels. This makes Playbooks the best fit for a Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) strategy that aims to minimize manual efforts and support alerts management within Microsoft Teams.
To protect against ransomware attacks and ensure that Azure Backup can be used to restore resources, two important controls should be enabled. First, enabling soft delete for backups ensures that deleted backup data is retained for a certain period (14 days by default for Azure VMs), which allows recovery even if backups are deleted maliciously. Second, requiring PINs for critical operations adds an extra layer of security by ensuring that only authorized users can perform sensitive actions like deleting backup data or changing backup configurations. This helps prevent unauthorized access and protects data integrity.





