Microsoft Sentinel

Solution complexity and feature gaps
 

• Tools work in silos

• Gaps in features

• Regular, time-intensive updates

• Inefficient analyst experience

• High training and specialization requirements

“Splunk is cumbersome and has a huge learning curve. It requires a lot of training to get there.” 
CISO, Infrastructure

Unified SOC experience with critical built-in capabilities

Deliver a smoother SecOps experience with native XDR integrations—no additional add-ons or specialized experts required.  

• Built-in AI-powered detection and response 

• Built-in SOAR, UEBA, and TIP 

• Built-in Case Management

“Going with Microsoft Sentinel was a no-brainer to adopt a more holistic approach … rather than continue with that patchwork from different vendors.”
CIO, Retail

High alert volume and labor-intensive investigations
 

• Limited detection engineering

• Lack of automation

• False positive and alert fatigue

• Slow MTTD/MTTR

• Low visibility

• Protracted incidents

• Lengthy investigations

“Splunk is slower to adopt in terms of adding in features, event queries, event correlation, and understanding how to make sense of all of that data.”
Security Leader, Healthcare

AI-powered, high-fidelity threat detection and investigation

Find threats in the environment with enhanced AI-powered detection, correlation, and investigation capabilities—significantly reducing false positives and MTTR. 
 

• Development tools for custom detections

• Proactive threat hunting with ML-enhanced rules

• Integrated Security Copilot for analyst assistance

• Robust threat intelligence and alert enrichment

• Advanced visualization and investigation

• AI-guided investigation and response

“By ingesting logs and alerts from our security solutions into Microsoft Sentinel, we can correlate threat analysis from multiple sources. This automation saves valuable time to resolve incidents.” 
Security Director, Telecommunications and media

Expensive, hard-to-scale platform operations
 

• Unpredictable consumption costs

• Additional modules required

• On-premises infrastructure or cloud-hosted, but not cloud-native

• Labor intensive operations

“Splunk ingestion costs are always top of mind because they get very expensive very quickly.”
CISO, Manufacturing

Flexible, cloud-native architecture with lower TCO

Get predictable, cost-efficient security to help reduce TCO.

• Cloud-native scalability

• Maximum flexibility

• Efficient data management

• Simplified operations with tailored, in product recommendations

“The idea of a cloud-native SIEM like Microsoft Sentinel was attractive ... it offers us flexibility and the cost-effective product we need for our solution portfolio.” Information Security Engineer, Financial services

Complex implementation with slow time to value
 

• Insufficient migration support

• Limited interoperability with ecosystem

• Time-consuming custom integration and deployment

• Lack of pre-built templates, rules, and playbooks

“If you don't have all [Palo Alto] tools, it’s difficult to get other platforms integrated.”
Director of IT Operations, Manufacturing

Rapid onboarding with pre-built solutions

Protect across clouds, platforms, and tools by using robust migration tools, extensive content catalogue, configuration recommendations, and pre-built, curated threat detection rules.

• Supports more than 350 ready-to-use connectors

• Codeless connector framework to build and deploy no-code custom connectors

• Low-friction interoperability across clouds, tools, and platforms

• Extensive library of 480+ customizable security solutions

“Microsoft Sentinel provides wide data source integration. It can collect data from Microsoft Cloud, AWS, Google Cloud, on-prem infrastructure, and third-party security tools.” Security leader, Technology

Insufficient roadmap vision and execution
 

• Constrained research and development

• Inadequate AI expertise and functionality

• Underdeveloped features

• Limited TI and security research professionals

“One of the challenges with Splunk is the lack of vision on their roadmap since the acquisition.” 
Security Leader, Banking

Visionary roadmap with AI and machine learning

Stay ahead of emergent threats through product development that’s focused on rapidly delivering breakthrough advances for the SOC. Microsoft prioritizes security above all else—backed by long-term investments and 10,000+ world-class security experts and engineers.
 

• Industry leadership including GenAI, SIEM, XDR, Cloud Security and unified SecOps experience

• Deep integration of generative AI, ML, and automation across security capabilities

• Unparalleled threat intelligence

• Global expertise at scale

“We make use of new innovations to mitigate emergent threats as early as possible. We strongly rely on Microsoft and its security technology roadmap to help defend our company in that way, as it can develop solutions faster than we could alone.” 
Director, IT Monitoring and Security Operations Center, Manufacturing