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Turn Sentinel noise into real detections

I help security teams kill alert fatigue, cut Microsoft Sentinel costs by 40%, and ship detections that catch real threats — backed by production-validated KQL, not theory.

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Sentinel Engineering Training

Live, hands-on sessions covering the full Sentinel lifecycle — from onboarding and data integration to KQL, workbooks, and SOAR — in your own environment, at your team’s pace.

  • Workspace onboarding & architecture
  • Data connectors & log source integration
  • KQL — fundamentals to advanced hunting
  • Workbooks & analytics dashboards
  • SOAR automation with Logic Apps
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Consultancy

Environment health checks, false-positive elimination, and cost optimization tailored to your deployment.

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On-Demand Support

KQL debugging, analytics-rule tuning, and incident help — flexible hours or a monthly retainer.

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Measurable outcomes, not slideware

Every engagement is scoped to a number your CISO actually cares about.

40%
Cost reduction
90%
Less alert noise
Faster triage
The KQL library

Detections you can paste into production today

Every query here runs against real Sentinel tables and is validated before it ships — no pseudo-code, no hallucinated operators. Pick one, copy it, deploy it.

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Four signs Sentinel is leaving threats on the table

Alert fatigue

500+ daily alerts where 90% are noise. Analysts can’t focus on what’s real.

Cost overrun

Ingestion bills climb every month with no visibility gains and no ceiling in sight.

Blind spots

Real attacks slip through while you chase false positives. Coverage has gaps.

Manual toil

Hours lost to repetitive triage that should be automated. Analysts burning out.

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The Sentinel knowledge base

Detection strategies, KQL deep dives, and cost engineering — straight from production.

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Sujit Mahakhud — Microsoft Sentinel Specialist
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Sujit Mahakhud

Microsoft Sentinel Specialist · Bhubaneswar, India

I don’t believe in one-size-fits-all Sentinel deployments. I’ve spent years helping security teams move beyond alert-driven chaos to detection engineering that actually works. Everything I publish on SecByte comes from hands-on production experience — real Sentinel, real KQL, real results.

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