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Microsoft Defender XDR vs SentinelOne Singularity AI SIEM comparison

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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
4.7
Cortex XDR reduces costs by preventing malware, improving compliance, enhancing performance, and replacing multiple tools, outperforming alternatives.
Sentiment score
7.4
Microsoft Defender XDR enhances efficiency, reduces costs, and improves security through streamlined operations and faster threat detection.
Sentiment score
5.1
SentinelOne Singularity AI SIEM increases ROI with faster response times and improved SOC efficiency, justifying cost in high-risk settings.
They appreciate the rich telemetry data from the solution, as it provides in-depth threat identification.
Cyber Security Manager at Welab bank
Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks helps to reduce my total cost of ownership significantly.
Detection and Response Consultant at Inovasys
In Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks, most of the remediation is automated and the accuracy is quite good.
Network Security Engineer at Cyberwell Solution
We can quarantine and isolate a device within minutes.
Information Security Analyst at a educational organization with 10,001+ employees
Microsoft Defender XDR has saved me at least 50% of my time.
House security operator at Cypress Creek Renewables
It helped stop multiple intrusion points where we would have had millions in lost revenue if the attackers got in.
Network Technician at T. Baker Smith, LLC
If the data gets encrypted, it automatically rolls back.
Senior Technical Engineer at Safezone Secure Solutions Private Limited
SentinelOne Singularity AI SIEM has reduced our response time to true positive alerts by approximately forty percent through automation.
IT Security Analyst at a tech consulting company with 11-50 employees
At the moment, I feel the pricing is a little bit on the higher side, but the tool is positioned in a place where risk is very high, and we do not want to take chances, so we are prepared to pay the premium.
Group Chief Information Officer at NeST Information Technologies Pvt Ltd
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.0
Cortex XDR support is praised for responsiveness but criticized for delays, language barriers, and inconsistent satisfaction across regions.
Sentiment score
6.3
Microsoft Defender XDR's support receives mixed feedback; premium users report efficiency, while others face delays and first-line inadequacies.
Sentiment score
7.1
SentinelOne Singularity AI SIEM is praised for prompt, quality support, AI assistance, and clear communication, despite some service requests.
The technical support from Palo Alto deserves a mark of ten because they reach out within an hour whenever assistance is needed.
Head of data centers at a non-profit with 10,001+ employees
There is no back and forth, and they know what we are asking for and come up with the best resolution for a solution.
Senior Process Expert at A.P. Moller - Maersk
If any of these services are missed, it becomes a problem in terms of support tickets, follow-up, or special configuration that needs to be done in the system.
Chief of IT Architecture at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
You get stuck in low-level support for way longer than you should, instead of them escalating the issue up the chain.
Enterprise Application Engineer at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's critical to escalate SEV B issues immediately to a domestic engineer.
Infrastructure engineer at Cetera Financial Group
Once issues are escalated to the second or third layer, the support is much better.
Cyber Security Engineer at a financial services firm with 1-10 employees
SentinelOne Singularity AI SIEM has AI-based technical support available.
IT Security Analyst at a tech consulting company with 11-50 employees
Based on my experience with the technical support of SentinelOne Singularity AI SIEM, I would rate them a ten.
Vice President Cyber Security Practice Head at orbit techsol w pvt.ltd
In rating the technical support for SentinelOne, it depends on whether we are discussing EDR or SentinelOne Singularity AI SIEM.
Managing Director at iMark Consult
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.5
Cortex XDR offers impressive scalability for large enterprises, with easy deployment and management, supporting both medium and large environments.
Sentiment score
7.0
Microsoft Defender XDR offers excellent scalability and stability, seamlessly integrating with Azure and third-party systems for large deployments.
Sentiment score
5.4
SentinelOne Singularity AI SIEM is scalable and cloud-based but complex to implement, requiring careful governance for success.
You can onboard 10,000 endpoints in just hours, which demonstrates the excellent scalability of this product.
Assistant Security Architect at Cloudnomics
Activating the newly purchased licenses is instantaneous, allowing installations without adjustments since it's cloud-based.
Junior Security Analyst at ITSEC Asia
Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks can be expanded anytime by purchasing another license without any issues related to scalability.
Head of data centers at a non-profit with 10,001+ employees
My concern is about the scale of events and alerts being generated, and the product is doing a very good job of only surfacing the important items for us.
Vice President, Information Technology at a construction company with 201-500 employees
It has a very good integration system that integrates with all Azure services, all threat intelligence data models, and integrates very well with other systems such as Palo Alto.
Infosec at a government with 10,001+ employees
Microsoft Defender XDR shows tremendous scalability, much more so than on-premises solutions.
Infrastructure engineer at Cetera Financial Group
With any AI adoption, the end goal should be more governance and data security and safety.
Associate Vice President at Novac Technology Solutions
The performance depends on the configuration.
IT Security Analyst at a tech consulting company with 11-50 employees
It is scalable, and we can increase the compute size. It can scale. There are no challenges.
Vice President Cyber Security Practice Head at orbit techsol w pvt.ltd
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.0
Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is praised for stability and reliability, despite occasional minor issues and complex upgrade steps.
Sentiment score
8.2
Microsoft Defender XDR is highly stable and reliable, with minimal bugs and consistently positive user feedback on performance.
Sentiment score
7.8
SentinelOne Singularity AI SIEM stability is mixed, praised for performance but sometimes criticized for reliability and user experience.
Cortex remains fast and responsive, even with increasing data and alerts.
Final Year Student at Gitam University
The thresholds we've seen on our firewall boxes at some instances reached 80% to 85%, but even at that level of utilization, we don't observe any latency or any issues reported with respect to accessing the application.
Senior Process Expert at A.P. Moller - Maersk
Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks can be trusted completely.
Soc Analyst at Softcell Technologies Limited
The service has remained consistently online, with any issues isolated to specific components, suggesting a well-designed and modular architecture.
Senior System Engineer at a sports company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The services within our ecosystem have been reliable, meeting their SLAs.
Infrastructure engineer at Cetera Financial Group
It provides high-fidelity signals.
Information Security Analyst at a educational organization with 10,001+ employees
When it comes to stability, I would give SentinelOne Singularity AI SIEM a nine.
IT Security Consultant at Systemhaus for you GmbH
In terms of performance stability, I have never had any crashes, downtimes, or performance issues.
Cyber Security Engineer at a retailer with 201-500 employees
Even the data lake feature they have, in terms of keeping all the logs intact, those log searches are extremely fast on SentinelOne Singularity AI SIEM, even though the data is very high.
Technical Lead at CloudBolt Software
 

Room For Improvement

Cortex XDR requires better integration, reduced false positives, improved UI, enhanced configuration, reporting, and broader network detection support.
Microsoft Defender XDR requires better integration, simpler UI, enhanced threat intelligence, streamlined onboarding, improved documentation, and more affordable pricing.
SentinelOne Singularity AI SIEM faces reliability issues, lacking stability, proper integrations, and user-friendly functionalities, with frequent false positives.
Improving reporting and dashboard customization, along with the addition of real-time and exportable reports, would help SOC teams greatly.
Final Year Student at Gitam University
The inclusion of this feature would allow the application of DLP policies alongside antivirus policies via a single agent and console, making it more competitive as other OEMs often offer DLP solutions as part of their antivirus products.
Pre Sales Architect at network techlab
If the per GB data could be provided at a certain level free of cost or at the same cost which the customer is taking for the entire bundle, that would be better.
Cyber Security Information Security Specialist at MHM Holding GmbH
The licensing process needs improvement and clarification.
Owner at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
Improvements are needed in automated response capabilities.
Security manager at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
If you have a central location where you perform one isolation method, all other potentially affected systems that have been touched may also be isolated simultaneously.
CISO at Loeb & Loeb LLP
The adoption rate will be less compared to other products, as this can be a time-taken process because all my data needs to be offloaded and the system needs to understand my existing alerts, logs, and other things.
Associate Vice President at Novac Technology Solutions
The interface flickers frequently, and sometimes it does not load properly.
IT Security Analyst at a tech consulting company with 11-50 employees
Whenever OT security comes into the picture, the customers do not allow us to integrate their OT devices on a cloud. It should be available on-premises because the OT SIEM market, in the India market for instance, is something around a four to eight billion dollar market.
Vice President Cyber Security Practice Head at orbit techsol w pvt.ltd
 

Setup Cost

Cortex XDR's pricing is flexible and cost-effective, considering its technology, with setup costs medium and negotiable for enterprises.
Microsoft Defender XDR offers low setup costs but complex pricing, requiring careful planning to manage licensing and regional updates.
The pricing on SentinelOne is far more reasonable and cheaper than Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks.
Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I would say it is definitely not a cheap product, considering how mature it is and how scalable all Palo Alto products are together.
Senior Process Expert at A.P. Moller - Maersk
Compared to CrowdStrike, which is very costly, and SentinelOne, which is also very costly, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is a medium cost-efficient solution.
Soc Analyst at Softcell Technologies Limited
There are certainly savings when using Microsoft Defender XDR, which can range from 30%, 40%, and even up to 50%.
Director, Sales at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
I would rate the pricing as eight out of ten, indicating it is a reasonable cost for the product.
Security manager at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Microsoft purposefully obfuscates this through marketing ploys to hide costs.
Senior System Engineer at a sports company with 5,001-10,000 employees
I find SentinelOne's pricing to be reasonable and competitive.
Information Security Principal at a venture capital & private equity firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Valuable Features

Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks provides AI threat detection, seamless integration, automated responses, and scalable multi-layered protection.
Microsoft Defender XDR enhances security with cross-domain correlation, automation, integration, centralized management, and multi-tenant capabilities.
SentinelOne Singularity AI SIEM offers AI-driven threat detection, customizable workflows, and enhanced integration for improved security management.
It incorporates AI for normal behavior detection, distinguishing unusual operations.
Cyber Security Manager at Welab bank
The product provides automation responses in case of a threat attack, severity assessments, centralized manageability, and comprehensive compliance features, resulting in reduced costs.
Pre Sales Architect at network techlab
It includes machine learning to easily analyze data and detect complex threats across endpoints, networks, or clouds.
Final Year Student at Gitam University
With Microsoft threat intelligence information, it detects various types of threats, including insider attacks, malicious content, and data exfiltration.
Security manager at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
This allows us to secure our systems in advance and proactively improve security, rather than waiting for incidents to occur.
Works at Hometrack
Once we have it on the security dashboard, we can see a real-time storyline.
Information Security Analyst at a educational organization with 10,001+ employees
We finally have visibility into things that were never visible before.
IT Security Consultant at Systemhaus for you GmbH
It employs a combination of AI and ML to check for viruses or any other malicious processes, including fileless attacks.
Cyber Security Engineer at a retailer with 201-500 employees
The AI-driven threat detection capabilities improve our overall security posture.
Associate Vice President at Novac Technology Solutions
 

Categories and Ranking

Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Net...
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Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
114
Ranking in other categories
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (4th), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (6th), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (4th), Ransomware Protection (2nd), AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platforms (1st)
Microsoft Defender XDR
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
108
Ranking in other categories
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (9th), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (5th), Microsoft Security Suite (4th)
SentinelOne Singularity AI ...
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.2
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (15th), AI Observability (11th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Microsoft Defender XDR4.0%
CrowdStrike Falcon9.3%
SentinelOne Singularity Endpoint5.9%
Other80.8%
Extended Detection and Response (XDR)
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SentinelOne Singularity AI SIEM1.4%
Splunk Enterprise Security7.3%
IBM Security QRadar5.3%
Other86.0%
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
 

Featured Reviews

ABHISHEK_SINGH - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Process Expert at A.P. Moller - Maersk
Gained full visibility and streamlined threat detection through behavior-based insights and AI integration
Initially, we got to have a lot of false positives when we onboarded, but nowadays it's quite smooth. We have fine-tuned our security policies and allowed different levels of policies to get rid of those false positives. Currently, we are getting a fairly good amount of incidents that are not false positives or benign, but actionable items. The process is streamlined. In the initial days, the operations used to get involved in a lot of benign and other activities, but now the process is streamlined. We are leveraging the auto-detection and remediation plans. The operations teams are now more involved in other business roles as well, not just looking into the logs and fetching out what's happening there. They have fixed a lot of things. Initially, they didn't have IAC code drift detection, cloud posture management, or security posture management, but they have those now. They purchased different vendors and did a merger with that. They have now Prisma Cloud that gets integrated and now they are working with Cortex Cloud. Everything that was negative has now been addressed, and the product altogether looks to be in a very better and mature shape now. Currently, it's more or less detecting the workloads with AI-based best practices. Since most organizations are consuming AI agents and other things, we are looking forward to seeing what other feature enhancements Palo Alto can support in that.
MohtesanShaikh - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Development Executive at TechnoFirrm
Experience improves security management and simplifies threat protection
I have created automated investigations, and while they work, they operate rather slowly in the Microsoft portal. If I automate something, it takes considerable time; if I do it manually, I can complete it in a quarter of the time. The automation response being slow is the main concern; when an incident occurs or if I run a remediation, it takes significant time to complete the remediation. There are some limitations regarding the scalability of Microsoft Defender XDR with specific licensing. For SMB customers, there is only Microsoft Defender for Business, and if they want more features such as XDR features and automation investigation or incident response, they need to purchase Defender for Endpoint. We are currently using the EDR.
MM
Information Security Principal at a venture capital & private equity firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Consolidated security operations have improved detection speed and reduced SOC costs
There is room for improvement when it comes to the technical support quality and expertise of SentinelOne. Sometimes, the technical support team does not know how to resolve certain issues and takes time to respond, often requiring follow-up interactions within 24 hours. SentinelOne Singularity AI SIEM can be improved in terms of support capabilities. Some logs from the server side need to be ingested. Secureworks was integrating with domain controllers and other systems, but SentinelOne still has some gaps. Some vendors cannot be integrated directly. For example, we are using Cisco Umbrella for DNS security, and we have to integrate it through an Amazon S3 bucket where we dump the logs and SentinelOne reads them from that location. For some Microsoft integrations, we must enable certain storage components and pay Microsoft directly to retrieve logs. There is no direct integration, so we must access the logs through that workaround. Previously with Secureworks, we had direct integration with Microsoft. Direct integration with Microsoft is not available now. SentinelOne needs to work on many product integrations to enable direct connectivity.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Computer Software Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Construction Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Healthcare Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business46
Midsize Enterprise21
Large Enterprise53
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business46
Midsize Enterprise28
Large Enterprise41
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise3
 

Questions from the Community

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We have used the automated workflow feature of SentinelOne Singularity AI SIEM and are still working on it. We starte...
 

Also Known As

Cyvera, Cortex XDR, Palo Alto Networks Traps
Microsoft 365 Defender, Microsoft Threat Protection, MS 365 Defender
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Sample Customers

CBI Health Group, University Honda, VakifBank
Accenture, Deloitte, ExxonMobil, General Electric, IBM, Johnson & Johnson and many others.
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