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Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Sentinel

Composite Score

7.8 /10

CX Score

8.0 /10

62 Reviews Write a Review

What is Microsoft Sentinel?

Modernize your security operations center (SOC) with Microsoft Sentinel. Uncover sophisticated threats and respond decisively with an intelligent, comprehensive security information and event management (SIEM) solution for proactive threat detection, investigation, and response. Eliminate security infrastructure setup and maintenance, and elastically scale to meet your security needs—while reducing costs as much as 48 percent compared to legacy SIEM solutions.

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Awards & Recognition

Microsoft Sentinel won the following awards in the Security Information and Event Management category

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2025 Emotional Footprint Champion

Latest Award, 2025

Product Impact

Latest Award, 2025

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2024

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024

Product Impact

2024

2023 Data Quadrant Champion

2023

0 Top Rated Capabilities

2 Top Rated Features

2023

Microsoft Sentinel Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

86 Likeliness to Recommend

1
Since last award

98 Plan to Renew

78 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1
Since last award

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+85 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Microsoft Sentinel?

4% Negative

3% Neutral

93% Positive

Pros

Security Protects
Performance Enhancing
Reliable
Enables Productivity

Feature Ratings

Average 78

Security Threat Visibility

Scalability and Network Performance

Analytics and Reporting

Incident Management and Remediation

Data Security and Retention

Orchestration Automation and Response (NG)

Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning

Big Data Analytics

Threat Intelligence

Log Collection

Correlation

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 77

Ease of Implementation

Quality of Features

Breadth of Features

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Data Integration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Business Value Created

Ease of Customization

Vendor Support

Availability and Quality of Training

Microsoft Sentinel Reviews

Tejal K.

Role: Human Resources
Industry: Technology
Involvement: Vendor Management and Renewal

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2025

Great Product & User Friendly Interface

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Sentinel from other similar products?

Below are the features that differentiates Microsoft Sentinel from other products: 1. Security Automation 2. Threat detection 3. Data integration

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Its compliance & reporting feature & Cost effectiveness

What do you dislike most about this product?

Steep leaning curve & Scalability

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

It is a powerful & flexible SIEM platform that provides advanced threat detection & seamless integration

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Enables Productivity
Inspires Innovation
Caring

Atul C.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Telecommunications
Involvement: Vendor Selection and Purchasing

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jul 2024

Easy to use, but pricey and less customization

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Sentinel from other similar products?

They have more investoment to do to improve product features in future

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Incident investigation and automation using logic apps

What do you dislike most about this product?

3rd party data ingestion could be costly as there is no native data filtering available.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

It is good product for small - medium based industry + if you already using other microsft security products like Defender for endpoint etc.

Pros

Performance Enhancing
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Enables Productivity

Cons

Vendor's Interest First
Less Generous

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Retail
Involvement: Initial Implementation

Validated Review

Anonymous Reviewer

Submitted Aug 2023

Market differentiator

Likeliness to Recommend

7 /10

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

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Awards & Recognition

2025 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024 Data Quadrant Champion

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023 Data Quadrant Champion

Microsoft Sentinel Ratings

86 Likeliness to Recommend

1 Since last award

98 Plan to Renew

78 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+85 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Microsoft Sentinel?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Security Threat Visibility Integration with security technologies for monitoring, incident analysis, and data enrichment to enable tracking and analysis of related events.

Scalability and Network Performance The product's ability to scale horizontally and vertically, while employing various methods to reduce any latency impacts from CAN activities.

Analytics and Reporting Includes historical & real-time dashboard visualizations, detailed & summary reporting and easy data extraction for data analysis.

Incident Management and Remediation Detection and incident management with preset and customizable remediation capabilities, integration into workflow systems, and optional automatic remediation.

Data Security and Retention Access controls to system data, protection of SIEM data, system access monitoring, external storage integration, and efficient data compression.

Orchestration Automation and Response (NG) Reduce alert and analyst fatigue by automating response.

Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning Profiles behaviors of your assets through machine learning (Servers, workstations, etc.)

Big Data Analytics Use of big data analytics through integration into purpose-built big data tools or native capabilities, incorporating advanced security methods.

Threat Intelligence Security threat intelligence feed integration with ability to update multiple uses and control updating behaviors.

Log Collection Collection from firewall and network logs, IDS logs, Windows server logs, web server logs, and various syslog sources.

Correlation Analyze real-time telemetry and detect attacks and other activities of interest

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Microsoft Sentinel Reviews

Tejal K.

Great Product & User Friendly Interface

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Atul C.

Easy to use, but pricey and less customization

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

Market differentiator

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Security Threat Visibility

Scalability and Network Performance

Analytics and Reporting

Incident Management and Remediation

Data Security and Retention

Orchestration Automation and Response (NG)

Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning

Big Data Analytics

Threat Intelligence

Log Collection

Correlation

Vendor Capability Ratings

Ease of Implementation

Quality of Features

Breadth of Features

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Data Integration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Business Value Created

Ease of Customization

Vendor Support

Availability and Quality of Training