About the reviewers

Rod Trent, a community professional, keynoter, and evangelist, is a Cyber PFE for Microsoft and Azure Sentinel SME who spends his entire work life educating customers on how to implement, use, and maintain Azure Sentinel. Rod works with the largest Azure Sentinel implementations in the world. Some may remember Rod from his pre-Microsoft life, where he owned and operated some very significant communities dedicated to IT management and security, ran technology-focused editorial teams, and managed some large and popular technology conferences. When he’s not evangelizing Azure Sentinel and digging into KQL queries, he spends time with his wife of 30 years, Megan, and his four wonderful kids, Alex, Rachel, Eric, and Elly.

Ashwin Patil currently works as Senior Program Manager for Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) and has over 10 years of experience entirely focused on security monitoring and incident response, defending enterprise networks. In his current role, he primarily works on threat hunting, detection research in KQL (Kusto query language) for Azure Sentinel, and developing Jupyter notebooks written in Python/R to do threat hunting and investigation across a variety of cloud and on-premise security event log data sources. He has a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering and is also certified with various SANS certifications, such as GCIA, GCFE, and GCIH, in the field of digital forensics and incident response (DFIR).