Chapter 6

Advanced KQL Cybersecurity Use Cases and Operators

After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

  • Understand and use advanced operators

  • Understand how to contribute to the KQL community

In this final chapter, we will expand on all the KQL from our security scenarios and move into some more advanced operators and use cases. Even though the queries and operators you see in this section are more advanced, we hope you have learned enough to follow along. Importantly, while these aren’t full scenarios like we previously worked through, all the queries and examples you see are still based on real-world use cases. This chapter isn’t a definitive list of every function and operator in KQL. Instead, we covered just the ones that skew ...

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