We performed a comparison between Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Both solutions are extremely reliable. Elastic Security is very flexible and very customizable. Microsoft Sentinel is a more comprehensive solution, provides more user options, and is very easy to use. Additionally, Microsoft Sentinel is the best option for organizations that are heavily vested in a Microsoft ecosystem.
"The most valuable features of the solution are the prevention methods and the incident alerts."
"It's very customizable, which is quite helpful."
"The most valuable feature is the search function, which allows me to go directly to the target to see the specific line a customer is searching for."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The solution is compatible with the cloud-native environment and they can adapt to it faster."
"It is an extremely stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The feature that we have found the most valuable is scalability."
"ELK Logstash is easy and fast, at least for the initial setup with the out of box uses."
"In Azure Sentinel, we have found, they do have a store in their capability. AI and intelligence features. We found that to be very helpful for us because some other things we do need to integrate again or find another vendor for the store"
"We can use Sentinel's playbook to block threats. It covers all of the environment, giving us great visibility."
"The UI of Sentinel is very good and easy to use, even for beginners."
"The log analysis is excellent; it can predict what can or will happen regarding use patterns and vulnerabilities."
"It's easy to use. It's a very good product. It can easily ingest data from anywhere. It has an easily understandable language to perform actions."
"The most valuable feature is the performance because unlike legacy SIEMs that were on-premises, it does not require as much maintenance."
"The ability of all these solutions to work together natively is essential. We have an Azure subscription, including Log Analytics. This feature automatically acts as one of the security baselines and detects recommendations because it also integrates with Defender. We can pull the sysadmin logs from Azure. It's all seamless and native."
"Sentinel enables us to ingest data from our entire ecosystem. In addition to integrating our Cisco ASA Firewall logs, we get our Palo Alto proxy logs and some on-premises data coming from our hardware devices... That is very important and is one way Sentinel is playing a wider role in our environment."
"We set up a cron job to delete old logs so that we wouldn't hit a disk space issue. Such a feature should be available in the UI, where old logs can be deleted automatically. (Don’t know if this feature is already there)."
"The solution needs to be more reactive to investigations. We need to be able to detect and prevent any attacks before it can damage our infrastructure. Currently, this solution doesn't offer that."
"One thing they could add is a quick step to enable users who don't have a solid background to build a dashboard and quickly search, without difficulty."
"Elastic Security could improve the documentation. It would help if they were more simple and clean."
"The process of designing dashboards is a little cumbersome in Kibana. Unless you are an expert, you will not be able to use it. The process should be pretty straightforward. The authentication feature is what we are looking for. We would love to have a central authentication system in the open-source edition without the need for a license or an enterprise license. If they can give at least a simple authentication system within a company. In a large organization, authentication is very essential for security because logs can contain a lot of confidential data. Therefore, an authentication feature for who accesses it should be there."
"Improvements in Elastic Security could include refining and normalizing queries to make them more user-friendly, enhancing the user experience with better documentation, and addressing any latency issues."
"The tool should improve its scalability."
"If you compare this with CrowdStrike or Carbon Black, they can improve."
"The interface could be more user-friendly. It''s a small improvement that they could make if they wanted to."
"Add more out-of-the-box connectors with other SaaS platforms/applications."
"We have been working with multiple customers, and every time we onboard a customer, we are missing an essential feature that surprisingly doesn't exist in Sentinel. We searched the forums and knowledge bases but couldn't find a solution. When you onboard new customers, you need to enable the data connectors. That part is easy, but you must create rules from scratch for every associated connector. You click "next," "next," "next," and it requires five clicks for each analytical rule. Imagine we have a customer with 150 rules."
"I think the number one area of improvement for Sentinel would be the cost."
"If I see an alert and I want to drill down and get more details about the alert, it's not just one click. In other SIEM tools, you just have to click the IP address of the entity and they give you the complete picture. In Sentinel, you have to write queries or use saved queries to get details."
"They should just add more and more out-of-the-box connectors. It is quite a new product, and it has a lot of connectors, and even more would be good."
"I believe one of the challenges I encountered was the absence of live training sessions, even with the option to pay for them."
"It could have a better API to be able to automate many things more extensively and get more extensive data and more expensive deployment possibilities. It can gain some points on the automation part and the integration part. The API is very limited, and I would like to see it extended a bit more."
Elastic Security is ranked 5th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 59 reviews while Microsoft Sentinel is ranked 2nd in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 85 reviews. Elastic Security is rated 7.6, while Microsoft Sentinel is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Elastic Security writes "A stable and scalable tool that provides visibility along with the consolidation of logs to its users". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Sentinel writes "Gives a comprehensive and holistic view of the ecosystem and improves visibility and the ability to respond". Elastic Security is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, IBM Security QRadar, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and CrowdStrike Falcon, whereas Microsoft Sentinel is most compared with AWS Security Hub, IBM Security QRadar, Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Wazuh. See our Elastic Security vs. Microsoft Sentinel report.
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