What is Sentinel Starter Kit?
The Sentinel Starter Kit is a structured framework for Microsoft Sentinel, designed to provide a solid foundation based upon Microsoft best practices for your Sentinel SIEM. It ingests data from standardised sources, generating a valuable view of your environment. This enables enhanced visibility, control, and automated responses through customised Workbooks (dashboards) and Playbooks (automation).
Over several months, Azured’s security experts work to tune and refine your instance of Microsoft Sentinel, categorising and prioritising incidents whilst building upon your automated responses.
On completion of the Sentinel Starter Kit, the organisation will have the flexibility to expand its Microsoft Sentinel service to include new data sources, enhanced visibility and automated remediation of threats. The Sentinel Starter Kit delivers a usable Sentinel SIEM, ready to grow in the direction of your choosing.
Want seamless Sentinel adoption?
Where do I start?
- Deploy Microsoft Sentinel using Microsoft best practices tailored to E8, CIS, or MITRE security frameworks
- Use native and customised connectors, workbooks and playbooks for a scalable solution
- Ingest and analyse all your security data to make Microsoft Sentinel your central hub for threat detection, investigation and response.
Where do I go?
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Continuously optimise Microsoft Sentinel for improved detection, response and automation
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Strengthen your security by proactively tuning analytics, data ingestion and incident management
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Achieve cost-effectiveness with a balanced approach to ingestion, automation and compute resources.
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How can I get there?
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Collaborate with your team to provide ongoing security insights, best practices and strategic guidance
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Regularly analyse incidents to pinpoint threats, fine-tune detection rules and improve response workflows
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Customise the solution for efficiency, ensuring top performance without unnecessary costs.
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How does the Sentinel Starter Kit work?
1. Sentinel Implementation
2. Sentinel Configuration
3. Sentinel Tuning
Is the Sentinel Starter Kit right for my business?
The Sentinel Starter Kit is an ideal first step into Sentinel adoption, best suited for organisations which:
Want enhanced visibility and security using Sentinel
Want support only when they need it (to understand an incident or problem)
Do not want a SOC, but want management of control of their Sentinel instance
Have a strategic investment within Microsoft technologies
Want regular check-ins to walk through the integrity of their environment
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Looking for a Microsoft Sentinel managed service?
Alexein is a 24×7 Microsoft Sentinel managed service. It runs as a fully outsourced Security Operations Centre (SOC). Alexein is built natively on Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender XDR, Microsoft Entra ID, and Microsoft Purview. It monitors your environment around the clock. It triages alerts within minutes. It contains threats using pre-approved, controlled actions. Alexein does not replace your Microsoft security investment – it operationalises it. Alexein identifies the threat, analyses it, contains it where safe, and reports the business impact clearly.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Microsoft Sentinel?
Microsoft Sentinel is a cloud-native SIEM solution that delivers scalable, cost-efficient security across multicloud and multiplatform environments. It combines AI, automation, and threat intelligence to support threat detection, investigation, response, and proactive hunting. Click here to learn more on the Microsoft site.
What is the difference between the Sentinel Starter Kit and a managed Sentinel service?
The Sentinel Starter Kit is a fixed-term implementation service, while a managed Sentinel service such as Alexein (by Azured), offers ongoing, around-the-clock monitoring. The Starter Kit configures, tunes, and hands over a working Sentinel environment over several months so an organisation can manage it internally. A managed service like Alexein, by comparison, continuously monitors that environment, triages alerts, and contains threats on an ongoing basis as a fully outsourced SOC.
What does Azured’s managed Sentinel service include?
Alexein by Azured is a 24×7 managed Sentinel service that operates as a fully outsourced Security Operations Centre. It continuously monitors an organisation’s environment, triages alerts within minutes, and contains threats using pre-approved, controlled actions. Built natively on Microsoft Sentinel, Defender XDR, Entra ID, and Purview, Alexein operationalises an organisation’s existing Microsoft security investment rather than replacing it – identifying, analysing, and containing threats while clearly reporting business impact.
