From the course: Identity Threat Protection with Sentinel: Advanced Strategies

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Optimizing Sentinel performance for IAM

Optimizing Sentinel performance for IAM

From the course: Identity Threat Protection with Sentinel: Advanced Strategies

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Optimizing Sentinel performance for IAM

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- Enhancing the performance of your Sentinel deployment is important. Efficient and scalable security measures can directly impact the effectiveness of your IAM policies and responses. Let's start by understanding what affects performance in Sentinel. The two main factors are rule execution and data processing. Optimizing these can significantly improve Sentinel's response time and resource usage, making your security operations faster and more cost-effective. To properly gauge the performance impact of various analytic rules in Sentinel, consider three main factors. First, the execution times. This is how long it takes for a rule to run and complete its action once triggered. Then we have frequency of activations. This measures how often a rule is triggered. A high frequency might suggest the rule is overly broad or sensitive, leading to numerous false positives. Finally, complexity and outcomes. The complexity of a rule can significantly affect its performance. Rules with multiple…

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