We performed a comparison between Microsoft Sentinel and Wazuh based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Microsoft Sentinel effectively identifies threats and integrates seamlessly with other Microsoft solutions. Users say Sentinel makes it easy to find information quickly using KQL queries and praised the solution’s centralized log storage. Wazuh stands out for its effortless integration, excellent log monitoring capabilities, and ELK-based investigation. Microsoft Sentinel could benefit from simplifying documentation, enhancing collaboration with security vendors, and improving data ingestion. Users also want more robust threat intelligence and UEBA features. Wazuh needs improvements in event source coverage, threat intelligence integration, and real-time monitoring of Unix systems.
Service and Support: Some users praised Microsoft’s quick response times and expertise, while others experienced challenges and support delays. Wazuh's customer service is generally deemed satisfactory overall, and many customers noted that they could easily find answers from community forums.
Ease of Deployment: Some users said that deploying Microsoft Sentinel is straightforward, while others consider it to be moderately complex. Some users said that Wazuh’s setup is easy and fast, while others perceived it as complicated and said it required a significant amount of time.
Pricing: Microsoft Sentinel charges customers based on data usage, and it can be expensive for users who need to ingest data from non-cloud sources. Wazuh is a cost-effective option as it is open-source and completely free to acquire.
ROI: Some Sentinel users have seen cost savings, while others have not experienced any financial benefits. Wazuh's MSP program and partnerships offer opportunities to generate revenue from the platform.
Comparison Results: Our users prefer Microsoft Sentinel over Wazuh. Users appreciate its advanced threat-hunting capabilities, automation, and analysis. Microsoft Sentinel also offers seamless integrations with different software platforms and provides a single pane of glass view of security incidents.
"Azure Application Gateway makes things a lot easier. You can create dashboards, alert rules, hunting and custom queries, and functions with it."
"Sentinel improved how we investigate incidents. We can create watchlists and update them to align with the latest threat intelligence. The information Microsoft provides enables us to understand thoroughly and improve as we go along. It allows us to provide monthly reports to our clients on their security posture."
"Microsoft Sentinel provides the capability to integrate different log sources. On top of having several data connectors in place, you can also do integration with a threat intelligence platform to enhance and enrich the data that's available. You can collect as many logs and build all the use cases."
"Mainly, this is a cloud-native product. So, there are zero concerns about managing the whole infrastructure on-premises."
"The UI-based analytics are excellent."
"It is easy to implement (turn on) - does need a skilled analyst to develop queries and playbooks."
"If you know how to do KQL (kusto query language) queries, which are how you query the log data inside Sentinel, the information is pretty rich. You can get down to a good level of detail regarding event information or notifications."
"The main benefit is the ease of integration."
"I like the cloud-native infrastructure and that it's free. We didn't have to pay anything, and it has the capabilities of many premium solutions in the market. We could integrate all of our services and infrastructure in the cloud with Wazuh. From an integration point of view, Wazuh is pretty good. I had a good experience with this platform."
"Integrates with various open-source and paid products, allowing for flexibility in customization based on use cases."
"It is a stable solution."
"The tool is stable."
"Some of the strengths of Wazuh that stand out for us include its scalability when deployed on Azure, its open-source nature, which allows for customization based on our needs, and its compatibility with various security solutions like threat intelligence platforms."
"It has efficient SCA capabilities."
"Wazuh automatically scans the host for CIS benchmarks for the latest updates and vulnerabilities and gives a host score. It provides a percentage of perceived risk due to of non patches or any missing patches on that work."
"It's stable."
"While I appreciate the UI itself and the vast amount of information available on the platform, I'm finding the overall user experience to be frustrating due to frequent disconnections and the requirement to repeatedly re-authenticate."
"Sentinel's alerts and notifications are not fully optimized for mobile devices. The overall reporting and the analytics processes for the end user should also be improved. Also, the compatibility and availability of data sources and reports are not always perfect."
"The reporting could be more structured."
"They need to work with other security vendors. For example, we replaced our email gateway with Symantec, but we couldn't collect these logs with Azure Sentinel. Instead of collecting these logs with Azure Sentinel, we are collecting them on Qradar. We couldn't do it with Sentinel, which is a problem for us."
"There is room for improvement in entity behavior and the integration site."
"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."
"The product can be improved by reducing the cost to use AI machine learning."
"I believe one of the challenges I encountered was the absence of live training sessions, even with the option to pay for them."
"Some features, like alerting, are complex with Wazuh."
"Wazuh has a drawback with regard to Unix systems. The solution does not allow us to do real-time monitoring for Unix systems. If usage increases, it would be a heavy fall on the other SIEM solutions or event monitoring solutions."
"A more structured approach, perhaps with modular UI components, to facilitate easier integration and navigation within the Wazuh platform for custom integrations would be beneficial."
"Wazuh doesn't cover sources of events as well as Splunk. You can integrate Splunk with many sources of events, but it's a painful process to take care of some sources of events with Wazuh."
"Integration with Vyara could be better."
"Alerts should be specific rather than repeatedly triggered by integrating multiple factors. This issue needs improvement to create a more efficient alert system."
"While it is scalable, it can suffer from reduced latencies."
"Adding the flexibility to integrate various plug-ins or modules into its core system would enhance functionality."
Microsoft Sentinel is ranked 1st in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 85 reviews while Wazuh is ranked 3rd in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 38 reviews. Microsoft Sentinel is rated 8.2, while Wazuh is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Microsoft Sentinel writes "Gives a comprehensive and holistic view of the ecosystem and improves visibility and the ability to respond". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wazuh writes "It integrates seamlessly with AWS cloud-native services". Microsoft Sentinel is most compared with AWS Security Hub, IBM Security QRadar, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Splunk Enterprise Security and Rapid7 InsightIDR, whereas Wazuh is most compared with Elastic Security, Security Onion, Splunk Enterprise Security, AlienVault OSSIM and Fortinet FortiAnalyzer. See our Microsoft Sentinel vs. Wazuh report.
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