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Gurucul Next Gen SIEM vs Sentinel comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 18, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
8.9
Gurucul Next Gen SIEM increased efficiency in threat detection, reduced costs, automated workflows, and improved staff productivity and response times.
Sentiment score
7.5
Sentinel enhanced efficiency, resource allocation, productivity, and financial gains with a user-friendly interface and robust functionality.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.3
Gurucul Next Gen SIEM offers prompt, knowledgeable, and efficient customer service, resulting in high client satisfaction with effective technical support.
Sentiment score
8.0
Micro Focus technical support varies from needing multiple emails to being very good, while Microsoft's support is generally effective.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.5
Gurucul Next Gen SIEM is highly scalable, handling large data volumes efficiently, integrating with diverse environments seamlessly.
Sentiment score
7.5
Sentinel's high scalability, cost-effectiveness, and seamless cloud integration make it popular among large enterprises, educational institutions, and SMBs.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
6.4
Gurucul Next Gen SIEM is stable, reliable, handles large data efficiently, and integrates seamlessly without disrupting operations.
Sentiment score
8.5
Sentinel is highly stable and reliable, supporting 5,000 events per second, but can experience occasional region-specific outages during fixes.
 

Room For Improvement

Gurucul Next Gen SIEM faces deployment complexity, performance issues with large data, and needs better support, reporting, and integration.
Sentinel requires enhancements in scripting, integration, security, user interface, customization, vendor support, and reducing region-specific outages.
Price is always a consideration, so the price would be nice if it were lower.
 

Setup Cost

Gurucul Next Gen SIEM offers scalable subscription pricing with advanced threat detection, machine learning, and extensive integration for enterprises.
They nearly always bill it in dollars, so if it can be billed in our currency, that would be helpful and fixed in our currency.
 

Valuable Features

Gurucul Next Gen SIEM excels in threat detection, scalability, integration, customizable reports, and adapting to diverse IT environments.
Sentinel excels in log monitoring, threat detection, automation, cloud security, and offers a user-friendly interface with advanced analysis tools.
Sentinel's best features include that it's a very easy product to use.
 

Categories and Ranking

Gurucul Next Gen SIEM
Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
39th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Sentinel
Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
13th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
17
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category, the mindshare of Gurucul Next Gen SIEM is 0.2%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sentinel is 3.6%, up from 2.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
 

Featured Reviews

Ansar Monideen - PeerSpot reviewer
Provides almost all the SIEM features offered by the leaders at a low cost
Gurucul's data enrichment could be improved. As a security professional, I want to consolidate all these log sources and data to the user, entity, or resource. More advancements are required, especially in enriching security data or attack response. I would like to see more improvements there. The documentation could also be better. Every user and resource has a timeline that lists all the events so we can analyze that particular system and what is happening. We would like to have an option where we can only list the confirmed security threat-related activities for a particular user rather than all activities. This way, we can see what kind of risk is reported for this user and be able to monitor them better.
Simon Johnston - PeerSpot reviewer
Simple antivirus solution integrates well but could improve pricing and currency options
I don't really have experience working with these solutions. I promote them for our clients, but I don't work with them. I can't share my experience with these tools as I make assumptions about that. For both Adlumin and CrowdStrike, both confirm that they're scalable and enterprise-ready and all those kinds of things. We haven't had any specific problem with either of those. We just have a preference for which one we would prefer. If somebody says they want to use a different one from the one that we prefer, then we have to find reasons why they aren't. But scalability is not one of the reasons that one is better over the other. I don't really have advice for people that are looking into using Sentinel; just do your research across what is available. On a scale of one to ten, I rate Sentinel a seven.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
11%
Government
10%
Performing Arts
10%
Construction Company
7%
Computer Software Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Gurucul Next Gen SIEM?
The customization of reporting rules, reporting configuration, and alerting configuration are good.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Gurucul Next Gen SIEM?
The pricing is exceptionally good. I have personally implemented several SIEM solutions that are significantly more expensive. I won't name the companies, but one particularly well-known and expens...
What needs improvement with Gurucul Next Gen SIEM?
Gurucul's data enrichment could be improved. As a security professional, I want to consolidate all these log sources and data to the user, entity, or resource. More advancements are required, espec...
What do you like most about NetIQ Sentinel?
The solution lets us get all the logs properly and regularly monitor customer infrastructure.
What needs improvement with NetIQ Sentinel?
There are still a few vendor-specific devices for which Sentinel needs to work on integration, such as Netskope devices. Also, we often face region-wise outages during operation due to product team...
 

Also Known As

No data available
NetIQ Sentinel, Novell SIEM
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Information Not Available
Faysal Bank, GaVI, Handelsbanken, ISC Mªnster, Lambeth Council, Swisscard, The Municipality of Siena, Tukes, University of Dayton, University of the Sunshine Coast
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