AWS CloudTrail vs. Microsoft Sentinel

It is necessary to enable [AWS] Cloudtrail when using AWS in a production environment, otherwise you will not have any idea what is happening within your accounts. Third party monitoring applications will all require [AWS] CloudTrail to be enabled as well. I would not recommend it solely as a monitoring tool, to get the most out of it you must send the logs elsewhere. Either to Cloudwatch logs or a third party product.

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I think that the pro is well suited for a complex environment for a big organization that has people that has a mid-size cybersecurity team in place. And it's less appropriate if you are a not so big company because the budget could be important. Barrier to adopt it right on the right way

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• API Log
• User activity tracking
• Real-time alerts

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• I appreciate that it keeps the data within our, what we call our, authorization boundary. The fact that the data remains within Microsoft's, I guess, walled garden if you will, is very helpful for certain compliance needs in particular.
• The large library of ingestion: ability to ingest is basically as easy as I can basically get it to be most of the time. There's occasionally some vendors that it's a little bit more challenging for, but given the ease of integration for a lot of things, basically it's become one of my requirements when I am looking at other tools is how easily do they integrate with Sentinel.

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• [In my experience] Cost can easily get out of control with multiple trails on full logging
• Logs can be difficult to decipher

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• I think it should include more third party integration with non microsoft products as well as with other cloud providers. These integrations should be native.
• It should improve ML and AI capabilities.
• I find its documentation a little bit difficult to understand at the start. So the words should be simple.

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The Microsoft Azure Sentinel solution is very good and even better if you use Azure. It's easy to implement and learn how to use the tool with an intuitive and simple interface. New updates are happening to always bring new news and improve the experience and usability. The solution brings reliability as it is from a very reliable manufacturer.

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Azure Sentinel is very easy to use and configure. If you are stuck somewhere, Microsoft support is excellent in assisting and solving your issue.

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I think in the end, CloudTrail has more features and you can dive deeper inside the logs so it depends on your usage and what you expect in the end to make the right choice, I would say that both tools are really useful and bring a lot of benefits to I.T. companies.

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Well before there was Microsoft Sentinel, you had other competing products like ArcSight or Splunk, et cetera. I think they have their own qualities, but the Microsoft integration story is really why we're using it.

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Did not use professional services

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• Allows us to investigate any strange api actions
• Increases security
• Audit trail of changes made in AWS

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• Log Management is a little difficult in-house as everything is situated on the cloud.
• Paying according to the throughput of the data can be costlier for some organizations.
• Excellent integration and log parsing for Microsoft products save many man-hours for the SIEM admin to focus on other things.

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