We performed a comparison between Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence and Microsoft Sentinel based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Microsoft Security Suite solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I rate the tool's stability a ten out of ten."
"Its user-friendliness is its most valuable aspect."
"The global review and remediation of malicious code is probably the most valuable feature."
"The product provides efficient email security for sending links and file attachments."
"The product's anti-spam and malware-scanning features are useful. We scan email attachments, documents, and malicious codes."
"It is very scalable. There are approximately 2,000 endpoints and up to 200 servers in our company."
"They have a very transparent roadmap for the product."
"The product's initial setup phase was straightforward."
"The UI-based analytics are excellent."
"There are a lot of things you can explore as a user. You can even go and actively hunt for threats. You can go on the offensive rather than on the defensive."
"The automation rules and playbooks are the most useful that I've seen. A number of other places segregate the automation and playbook as separate tools, whereas Microsoft is a SIEM and SOAR tool in one."
"I like the KQL query. It simplifies getting data from the table and seeing the logs. All you need to know are the table names. It's quite easy to build use cases by using KQL."
"Sentinel also enables you to ingest data from your entire ecosystem and not just from the Microsoft ecosystem. It can receive data from third-party vendors' products such firewalls, network devices, and antivirus solutions. It's not only a Microsoft solution, it's for everything."
"One of the most valuable features is that it creates a kind of a single pane of glass for organizations that already use Microsoft software. So, when they have things like Microsoft 365, it is very easy for them to kind of plug in or enroll those endpoints into the Azure Sentinel service."
"I've worked on most of the top SIEM solutions, and Sentinel has an edge in most areas. For example, it has built-in SOAR capabilities, allowing you to run playbooks automatically. Other vendors typically offer SOAR as a separate licensed solution or module, but you get it free with Sentinel. In-depth incident integration is available out of the box."
"The analytic rule is the most valuable feature."
"It's a bit complicated to manage because you have many dependencies of servers, many dependencies in queue, and so on. Entries or different endpoints, and you make different configuration topics for each one. So that's a major problem."
"Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence should integrate with different platforms."
"The software is expensive."
"I would like to see more AI features and capabilities."
"We encounter problems connecting the product deployed on the user endpoints with the servers."
"The tool's onboarding of users that use on-premise or hybrid environments needs to be improved."
"The solution could be more stable and precise because, at times, the threats detected are not legitimate."
"It would be beneficial to enhance the pricing structure and make it more affordable."
"Add more out-of-the-box connectors with other SaaS platforms/applications."
"They only classify alerts into three categories: high, medium, and low. So, from the user's point of view, having another critical category would be awesome."
"There is room for improvement in entity behavior and the integration site."
"The data connectors for third-party tools could be improved, as some aren't available in Sentinel. They need to be available in the data connector panel."
"Microsoft Sentinel is relatively expensive, and its cost should be improved."
"There is some relatively advanced knowledge that you have to have to properly leverage Sentinel's full capabilities. I'm thinking about things like the creation of workbooks, how you do threat-hunting, and the kinds of notifications you're getting... It takes time for people to ramp up on that and develop a familiarity or expertise with it."
"I would like to see more AI used in processes."
"Sentinel still has some anomalies. For example, sometimes when we write a query for log analysis with KQL, it doesn't give us the data in a proper way... Also, the fields or columns could be improved. Sometimes, it is not giving the desired results and there is a blank field."
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Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence is ranked 16th in Microsoft Security Suite with 23 reviews while Microsoft Sentinel is ranked 6th in Microsoft Security Suite with 85 reviews. Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Sentinel is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence writes "A tool that offers endpoint protection with low maintenance costs". 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". Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence is most compared with Cisco Threat Grid, STAXX, ThreatConnect Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP), VirusTotal and Splunk Mission Control, whereas Microsoft Sentinel is most compared with AWS Security Hub, IBM Security QRadar, Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Elastic Security. See our Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence vs. Microsoft Sentinel report.
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