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.
"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 most valuable feature is the onboarding of the workloads. You can see all that has been onboarded in your account on the dashboards."
"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 most valuable feature is the UEBA. It's very easy for a security operations analyst. It has a one-touch analysis where you can search for a particular entity, and you can get a complete overview of that entity or user."
"The initial setup is very simple and straightforward."
"The product can integrate with any device."
"The analytics has a lot of advantages because there are 300 default use cases for rules and we can modify them per our environment. We can create other rules as well. Analytics is a useful feature."
"It's pretty powerful and its performance is pretty good."
"Wazuh offers an enhanced HDR version that outperforms its competitors."
"It's very easy to integrate Wazuh with other environments, cloud applications, and on-prem applications. So, the advantage is that it's easy to implement and integrate with other solutions."
"It has efficient SCA capabilities."
"Wazuh is simple to use for PCI compliance."
"Wazuh's logging features integrate seamlessly with AWS cloud-native services. There are also Wazuh agent configurations for different use cases, like vulnerability scanning, host-based intrusion detection, and file integrity monitoring."
"Wazuh offers numerous features, such as the ability to define custom rules for detecting malicious activities and remembering behaviors."
"I like Wazuh because it is a lot like ELK, which I was already comfortable with, so I didn't have to learn from scratch."
"The product’s interface is intuitive."
"The only thing is sometimes you can have a false positive."
"Sentinel's reporting is complex and can be more user-friendly."
"For certain vendors, some of the data that Microsoft Sentinel captures is redacted due to privacy reasons."
"We do have in-built or out-of-the-box metrics that are shown on the dashboard, but it doesn't give the kind of metrics that we need from our environment whereby we need to check the meantime to detect and meantime to resolve an incident. I have to do it manually. I have to pull all the logs or all the alerts that are fed into Sentinel over a certain period. We do this on a monthly basis, so I go into Microsoft Sentinel and pull all the alerts or incidents we closed over a period of thirty days."
"The performance could be improved. If I create 15 to 20 lines for a single-use case in KQL, sometimes it takes more time to execute. If I create use cases within a certain timeline, the result will show in .01 seconds. A complex query takes more time to get results."
"We're satisfied with the comprehensiveness of the security protection. That said, we do have issues sometimes where there have been global outages and we need to raise a ticket with Microsoft."
"If their UI was a bit more streamlined and easy to find when I need it, then that would be a great improvement."
"Multi-tenancy, in my opinion, needs to be improved. I believe it can do better as a managed service provider."
"Scalability is a challenge because it is distributed architecture and it uses Elastic DB. Their Elastic DB doesn't allow open source waste application."
"I think that the next release should be more suitable for large enterprises, because currently they are not because large companies do not rely on open source solutions."
"Integration with Vyara could be better."
"Wazuh should come up with more in-built rules and integrations for the cloud."
"Alerts should be specific rather than repeatedly triggered by integrating multiple factors. This issue needs improvement to create a more efficient alert system."
"It would be better if they had a vulnerability assessment plug-in like the one AlienVault has. In the next release, I would like to have an app with an alerting mechanism."
"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."
"The computing resources are consuming and do not make sense."
Microsoft Sentinel is ranked 2nd 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, Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Google Chronicle Suite, 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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