What components are necessary for creating an automated playbook in Azure Sentinel?

Creating an automated playbook in Azure Sentinel primarily involves utilizing Azure Logic Apps, which serve as the backbone for automating workflows. Logic Apps allow you to create automated workflows that can integrate with a variety of Azure services and third-party applications.

Key components involved in creating an automated playbook include Azure Logic Apps for orchestrating the workflow, Azure Functions for executing serverless code that can perform specific tasks or calculations, and sometimes custom scripts that add specialized functionality to the workflow. These enable powerful integrations and automation capabilities tailored to specific security responses.

The inclusion of Azure Functions is particularly pertinent, as they allow for serverless computing which can respond in real-time to security incidents, providing scalability and customization to the workflow. This combination of Logic Apps and Functions creates a robust foundation for automating security responses and incidents detected in Azure Sentinel environments.

In this context, options that reference components like Azure Virtual Machines or Azure Monitor, though useful in other scenarios, do not specifically pertain to the automation of playbooks in Azure Sentinel. The focus is on workflows and automation, making the components specified in the correct option the most relevant for creating effective automated playbooks.