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IBM Cloud Pak for Security vs Microsoft Sentinel comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Cloud Pak for Security
Average Rating
0.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Cloud and Data Center Security (27th)
Microsoft Sentinel
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
97
Ranking in other categories
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (3rd), Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) (1st), Microsoft Security Suite (6th), AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platforms (5th)
 

Mindshare comparison

IBM Cloud Pak for Security and Microsoft Sentinel aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. IBM Cloud Pak for Security is designed for Cloud and Data Center Security and holds a mindshare of 0.1%, down 0.2% compared to last year.
Microsoft Sentinel, on the other hand, focuses on Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), holds 6.8% mindshare, down 8.7% since last year.
Cloud and Data Center Security
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer1907040 - PeerSpot reviewer
Great user-friendly interface; provides many functionalities and many free applications
The interface is good and very user-friendly, it's easy for our customers to use. Cloud Pak provides a lot of functionalities and many free applications available from the online shop which can be deployed to your system. It allows for an increase in functionalities even if you've bought the smallest installation.
Ivan Angelov - PeerSpot reviewer
Threat detection and response capabilities enhance investigation processes
My security team has been using Microsoft Sentinel for around two years. We also have Bastion and SolarWinds as part of our monitoring tools. We use a three-way tool, alongside Microsoft Sentinel, in our environment The most valuable features for us include threat collection, threat detection,…

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

Pros

"The interface is good and very user-friendly."
"Microsoft Sentinel's ability to correlate data from multiple sources has enhanced my threat detection capabilities beyond what simple data lake solutions offer."
"Sentinel is a SIEM and SOAR tool, so its automation is the best feature; we can reduce human interaction, freeing up our human resources."
"Microsoft Sentinel comes preloaded with templates for teaching and analytics rules."
"It is always correlating to IOCs for normal attacks, using Azure-related resources. For example, if any illegitimate IP starts unusual activity on our Azure firewall, then it automatically generates an alarm for us."
"The data connectors that Microsoft Sentinel provides are easy to integrate when we work with a Microsoft agent."
"The best functionality that you can get from Azure Sentinel is the SOAR capability. So, you can estimate any type of activity, such as when an alert was triggered or an incident was found."
"The main benefit is the ease of integration."
"Investigations are something really remarkable. We can drill down right to the raw logs by running different queries and getting those on the console itself."
 

Cons

"Lacks sufficient technical support."
"As of now, there have been only benefits. However, I am curious about potential AI integration and whether it will be affordable for us because all the compliance costs are rising with all the new features."
"However, we are not using it for some features, mainly for cost-related reasons and our company policy."
"The interface could be more user-friendly. It''s a small improvement that they could make if they wanted to."
"Azure Sentinel will be directly competing with tools such as Splunk or Qradar. These are very established kinds of a product that have been around for the last seven, eight years or more."
"Its documentation is not so simple. It is easy for somebody who is Microsoft certified or more closely attached to Microsoft solutions. It is not easy for those who are working on open-source platforms. There isn't a central point where everything is documented, and there is no specific training or certification."
"The reporting could be more structured."
"Currently, the watchlist feature is being utilized, and although there have been improvements, it is still not fully optimized."
"Sentinel should be improved with more connectors. At the moment, it only covers a few vendors. If I remember correctly, only 100 products are supported natively in Sentinel, although you can connect them with syslog. But Microsoft should increase the number of native connectors to get logs into Sentinel."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"From a cost perspective, Microsoft Sentinel is quite costly."
"I don't know yet because they gave us a 30-day test window for free."
"The are two native advantages for customers that use M365 Security and Sentinel. The first advantage is that the log or security-event ingestion into Sentinel is free. Cost-wise, they're saving a lot and that is a major advantage."
"The price is reasonable because Sentinel includes features like user behavior analytics and SOAR that are typically sold separately. Overall, a standalone on-prem solution would require some high-end servers, and there's a different cost. It is a cloud-based solution, so there are backend cloud computing costs, but they are negligible."
"I have worked with a lot of SIEMs. We are using Sentinel three to four times more than other SIEMs that we have used. Azure Sentinel's only limitation is its price point. Sentinel costs a lot if your ingestion goes up to a certain point."
"Sentinel is costly."
"We only pay for the amount of data we bring in, which is fair."
"The product is costly compared to Splunk."
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Computer Software Company
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Financial Services Firm
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Manufacturing Company
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Government
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Is there a common threat intelligence tool that aggregates multiple threat intelligence sources?
Yes, Azure Sentinel is a SIEM on the Cloud. Multiple data sources can be uploaded and analyzed with Azure Sentinel and its Threat Hunting functionality with AI available as templates or customized ...
What is a better choice, Splunk or Azure Sentinel?
It would really depend on (1) which logs you need to ingest and (2) what are your use cases Splunk is easy for ingestion of anything, but the charge per GB/Day Indexed and it gets expensive as log ...
Which is better - Azure Sentinel or AWS Security Hub?
We like that Azure Sentinel does not require as much maintenance as legacy SIEMs that are on-premises. Azure Sentinel is auto-scaling - you will not have to worry about performance impact, you will...
 

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