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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IBM Security QRadar SIEM

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AIBM Security QRadar is security information and event management (SIEM) Software.N/A

    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint (formerly Microsoft Defender ATP) is a holistic, cloud delivered endpoint security solution that includes risk-based vulnerability management and assessment, attack surface reduction, behavioral based and cloud-powered next generation protection, endpoint detection and response (EDR), automatic investigation and remediation, managed hunting services, rich APIs, and unified security management.

    $2.50

    per user/per month

    Microsoft Sentinel

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Sentinel (formerly Azure Sentinel) is designed as a birds-eye view across the enterprise. It is presented as a security information and event management (SIEM) solution for proactive threat detection, investigation, and response.

    $2.46

    per GB ingested

    Pricing
    IBM Security QRadar SIEMMicrosoft Defender for EndpointMicrosoft Sentinel
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Academic
    $2.50
    per user/per month
    Standalone
    $5.20
    per user/per month
    Azure Sentinel
    $2.46
    per GB ingested
    100 GB per day
    $123.00
    per day
    200 GB per day
    $221.40
    per day
    300 GB per day
    $319.80
    per day
    400 GB per day
    $410.00
    per day
    500 GB per day
    $492.00
    per day
    More than 500 GB per day
    $492.00 + $98.40
    per day/plus each additional 100 GB increment
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IBM Security QRadar SIEMMicrosoft Defender for EndpointMicrosoft Sentinel
    Free Trial
    YesYesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    IBM Security QRadar SIEMMicrosoft Defender for EndpointMicrosoft Sentinel
    Considered Multiple Products
    IBM
    Chose IBM Security QRadar SIEM
    The QRadar licensing process is based on EPS (Events Per Second) and there are no limitations on event collection, regardless of the origin of the logs. This becomes an advantage as the price is agreed between the parties before purchase, so you have knowledge of what you can …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Security QRadar SIEM
    I found that IBM Security QRadar SIEM has better threat detection methods and the identification of cyber kill chains followed by attackers. Analysis of the data gives visibility that other SIEM solutions need to improve. Integration in IBM Security QRadar SIEM is also better …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Security QRadar SIEM
    price, to be honest IBM Security QRadar SIEM package is very good for most customers than Splunk and Sentinel
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Security QRadar SIEM
    IBM Qradar takes the best from its competitors. Reliable and stable but sometimes very expensive, the SIEM from IBM offers a wide range of scenarios in which the customers can suite and size their own infrastructures. IBM Qradar doesn't really needs to stack up againt its …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Security QRadar SIEM
    It's in the middle of this chart, Splunk from my point of view it's still the best SIEM actually and Sentinel it's very easy to use.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Security QRadar SIEM
    IBM Qradar is cheaper and also easy to use.
    For splunk you need dedicated team of experts.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Security QRadar SIEM
    Much less manual work and easier integration.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Security QRadar SIEM
    More User-friendly in creating use cases. Managing offenses. Identifying issues more easily. Everything is accessible in fingertip.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Security QRadar SIEM
    IBM is more user-friendly if we compare it with ELK stack and ArcSight. Much reliable, and have better Support. Onboarding data, creating correlation searches, and easier to integrate with 3rd party solutions as well. LogOps projects and less time-consuming products. Qradar …
    Incentivized
    Microsoft
    Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint consistently showed better user experiences during scans due to the reduced amount of resources used on each system compared to our previous endpoint protection solutions. However, the main reason we chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is …
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    It's very convenient and very well integrated with our environment.
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    Before we switched to using Endpoint, we were using McAfee and we weren't getting the most use out of that, weren't super happy with it, and so we switched, got rid of that and switched to just using all the endpoint features.
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    Defender works better for my org. This may depend on your ecosystem, however for me, Defender is a clear winner. I like Defender's ability to utilize multiple sensors and data points to detect possible breaches. I like the built-in EDR functionality. I do not need to purchase a …
    Incentivized
    Microsoft
    Chose Microsoft Sentinel
    These are all the Microsoft products. We have used Splunk. And again, I would say Microsoft Sentinel stacks up because it's a native tool that is more like an ecosystem. It's not a standalone tool. It's like if you're in the Microsoft stack, Microsoft Sentinel will stack up …
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Sentinel
    Most of our landscape, both on prem and cloude, is based in Microsoft technologies, while the unification of tools implies some risk, decreasing the vendor levels simplify integrations, and by scale, help us to reduce costs too. Yes, the tool itself is a good contender, but the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Sentinel
    Microsoft Sentinel feels on another different level from these solutions , all in the cloud . No need for troubleshooting , deployment or upgrades. Constant updates from the vendor and good support
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Sentinel
    Splunk, Google, SecOps. I look at how it stacks up based on the fact that it's the primary solution that we sell. So I think it stacks up really well. Why do we select it? Well, we selected it primarily because we're a very large Microsoft partner. The technology is very good …
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Sentinel
    Elastic seems to have a much better interface for log search and is able to filter out noise. Microsoft Sentinel also appears to generate a lot of false positives.
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Sentinel
    Prior to using Sentinel, we were using Splunk specifically Splunk Enterprise Security and Splunk Cloud, so their on-prem and their cloud-based products. We switched originally for cost reasons, specifically cost control, but I have found that the ability to create reports, the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Sentinel
    Sentinel AI makes it a better choice. Also, its flexibility and customization make it a bit more costly than other competitors.
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Sentinel
    The key advantage of using Sentinel lies in Microsoft already being a renowned name in cloud services. Hence, the Collection of data at the cloud scale across all users, devices, applications, and infrastructure, both on-premises and especially in the MS Cloud, is super easy. …
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Sentinel
    ArcSight is an on-prem solution that has a different approach than Sentinel.

    In a basis this product is more complex to maintain and deploy. The query functionality in Sentinel is more powerful and easier to maintain. ArcSight has a much slower performance and an interface that …
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Sentinel
    Microsoft Sentinel really goes the extra mile when it comes to an SIEM that slowly improves toward a proper SOAR, this may be the best selling point of the entire solution. Highly scalable, cloud-based, and nearly perfect when dealing with Microsoft-based infrastructures, …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    92%
    Would buy again
    67 Answers
    96%
    Would buy again
    157 Answers
    99%
    Would buy again
    73 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    146 Answers
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    59 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    70 Answers
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    155 Answers
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    71 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    86%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    38 Answers
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    130 Answers
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    52 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    59 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    140 Answers
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    66 Answers
    Features
    IBM Security QRadar SIEMMicrosoft Defender for EndpointMicrosoft Sentinel
    Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
    Comparison of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) features of IBM Security QRadar SIEM and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Microsoft Sentinel
    Feature
    IBM Security QRadar SIEM
    8.5
    69 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    -
    Ratings
    Microsoft Sentinel
    8.5
    34 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Centralized event and log data collection9.927 Ratings00 Ratings9.134 Ratings
    Correlation8.669 Ratings00 Ratings8.935 Ratings
    Event and log normalization/management9.527 Ratings00 Ratings8.435 Ratings
    Deployment flexibility7.827 Ratings00 Ratings8.333 Ratings
    Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools8.965 Ratings00 Ratings8.933 Ratings
    Custom dashboards and workspaces7.569 Ratings00 Ratings8.435 Ratings
    Host and network-based intrusion detection9.725 Ratings00 Ratings8.030 Ratings
    Data integration/API management9.07 Ratings00 Ratings8.433 Ratings
    Behavioral analytics and baselining7.648 Ratings00 Ratings9.031 Ratings
    Rules-based and algorithmic detection thresholds8.049 Ratings00 Ratings8.733 Ratings
    Response orchestration and automation7.75 Ratings00 Ratings8.232 Ratings
    Reporting and compliance management7.947 Ratings00 Ratings7.35 Ratings
    Incident indexing/searching8.97 Ratings00 Ratings8.733 Ratings
    Endpoint Security
    Comparison of Endpoint Security features of IBM Security QRadar SIEM and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Microsoft Sentinel
    Feature
    IBM Security QRadar SIEM
    -
    Ratings
    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    8.7
    79 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Microsoft Sentinel
    -
    Ratings
    Anti-Exploit Technology00 Ratings9.075 Ratings00 Ratings
    Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)00 Ratings9.179 Ratings00 Ratings
    Centralized Management00 Ratings8.679 Ratings00 Ratings
    Hybrid Deployment Support00 Ratings7.110 Ratings00 Ratings
    Infection Remediation00 Ratings9.077 Ratings00 Ratings
    Vulnerability Management00 Ratings8.774 Ratings00 Ratings
    Malware Detection00 Ratings9.278 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Sumo Logic
    Score8.9 out of 10
    BlackBerry Protect (CylancePROTECT)
    Score9.1 out of 10
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    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
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    User Ratings
    IBM Security QRadar SIEMMicrosoft Defender for EndpointMicrosoft Sentinel
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (89 ratings)
    8.9
    (169 ratings)
    8.5
    (74 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.8
    (5 ratings)
    8.4
    (10 ratings)
    6.5
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.6
    (40 ratings)
    8.2
    (27 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.1
    (62 ratings)
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.1
    (58 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    -
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    Vendor pre-sale
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    IBM Security QRadar SIEMMicrosoft Defender for EndpointMicrosoft Sentinel
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IBM
    I would only recommend IBM Security QRadar SIEM in a few situations. For one, it's very easy to setup and use if all your log sources are generic from known vendors. It's also significantly cheaper than Splunk, which is nice if you're trying to save money or be more efficient. I would not recommend IBM Security QRadar SIEM for environments with a lot of custom logs and complicated detection requirements.
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    Microsoft
    If you have multiple endpoints in your environment, if you're looking to understand what your environment looks like, if you're trying to identify the health of your environment, or identify any risks or vulnerabilities in your environment pertaining to your endpoints and devices.
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    Microsoft
    What has really impressed me is how Microsoft Sentinel delivers centralised security monitoring across multiple data sources in our enterprise. It has reduced cost of handling large security logs by collecting and analyzing data without friction of managing traditional SIEM infrastructure. It is easy to work to integrate with Azure logs for quick data analysis.
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    Pros
    IBM
    • Enables identification and prioritization of vulnerabilities in IT infrastructure for corrective action.
    • Facilitates security incident investigation and forensic analysis.
    • Provides a real-time view of security events, enabling immediate incident response.
    • Can integrate with external threat intelligence sources to enrich data and improve threat detection.
    • Enables the generation of detailed and customized reports.
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    Microsoft
    • The big thing for us is on endpoint, it kind of integrates with everything else that we already have because we use Microsoft completely. And so that helps us with being able to integrate, and send things over to Azure Sentinel as we need to as well.
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    Microsoft
    • The visual presentation of data is terrific, so including what we had prior to Microsoft Sentinel, it presents data in a much more usable way, so that's been quite refreshing. It's not quite as complex to understand what you're looking at.
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    Cons
    IBM
    • Need to spend more time configuring the system to properly interpret and normalize different type of data collected from multiple resources.
    • While Rule creation QRadar uses that rules to detect security threats and generate alerts, but to creating and managing rules is bit complex & tedious work to complete.
    • IBM Security QRadar SIEM is excellent in handling large & complex systems that requires in-depth knowledge and extensive training to configure and maintain the system which includes upgrading, optimization of performance & issue troubleshooting.
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    Microsoft
    • I'd say building out summaries and log reviews for analysts reviewing incidents. So, pivoting from the alerts themselves to actually getting the detail underneath. Trying to understand what caused an alert, where they went from there, et cetera, et cetera. And then trying to get into deeper log review to take that investigation further can be a pain point.
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    Microsoft
    • One feature that I would like to see improved is probably the log parsing. I think one of the big things that Splunk does better than Microsoft Sentinel is that it makes it easy to bring in new log streams of arbitrary formats and parse them out into columns and tables. Microsoft Sentinel is a lot more involved, though. It takes a lot more manual work to bring in different log sources and parse them out.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    IBM
    QRadar is an established and stable product, we have been using it for many years and want to continue to focus on it. Anyone who has used the product and knows it knows how reliable it is and how it facilitates continuous monitoring of threats from outside and inside. it is an exceptional product that is very useful for us.
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    Microsoft
    Cost add-ons for Security features is nickel and diming the process to keep pace with cybercrime. Limited Education budgets require us to be more pro-active in finding cost-effective measures to protect our devices, staff and students. Defender is a strong, well-featured product that is pricing itself out of the education market
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    Microsoft
    it does the job reasonably well
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    Usability
    IBM
    As a grade I give 8 as QRadar is not easy to learn. It requires some time to master it. It also needs a team of people actively working on the product. Once you learn to use it the software works very well and it is easy to correlate and understand detected threats. It only takes time to learn how to use it well and configure it properly.
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    Microsoft
    Because it's hard to find things sometimes. I can find things now because I know where they are. But you have to work with it a little while to figure out how. I'd basically say it was a security tool designed by developers. So you have to get that mindset to find things. So a new hire, a new person in the SOC would have a difficult time. I know that's sitting in here, or that screen is in here somewhere. So it's gotten better.
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    Microsoft
    Mirosoft sentinel is easy to use once the inital setup is completed.The dashboard and centralized alerts make it simple to monitor security events and investigate incidents.Integration with other microsoft security tool is also helpful.Some advanced features and configurations can take time to understand, but overall it provides good, user-friendly security monitoring.
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    Reliability and Availability
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint chugs along just fine no matter what we throw at it and what systems it's running on. It doesn't take up a lot of resources either, so that's welcomed.
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is easy on memory and resources on clients.
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    IBM
    Customer support is Good of IBM, While Using IBM QRadar its deployment is to slow and suddenly stop working and crashed we have contacted IBM Support and Rised a Ticket within a few minute we get call back from customer support and Query Resolved by them Fast And Rapid Support of Ibm
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    Microsoft
    The first time I tried to onboard my macOS endpoints to MDE I struggled for quite a bit. I had to reach out to Microsoft's MDE support team. The tech was very helpful in walking me through the steps during a screen share session
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    Microsoft
    Microsoft support is one of the highest rated on the market. It has global and multilingual support. Calls can be made over the phone and the solution is virtually instantaneous with the help of Microsoft engineers. It's great!
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    In-Person Training
    IBM
    The training was very useful and the people who taught us were very knowledgeable. Although the software may initially seem difficult to learn they made things much easier for us.
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    IBM
    The training was very useful and the people who taught us were very knowledgeable. Although the software may initially seem difficult to learn they made things much easier for us.
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    Microsoft
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    Microsoft
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    Implementation Rating
    IBM
    Initial patience is required to learn how to use the product, and it takes a dedicated team to use it. One person is not enough, and it's not enough to just set it up and check it once in a while. It has to be used daily and kept under control to be used effectively
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    Microsoft
    Deployment was handled by our team here and everything went pretty smoothly. We did have a few hiccups in our test group, but that only took a bit to get ironed out.
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    Microsoft
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    Alternatives Considered
    IBM
    IBM Qradar takes the best from its competitors. Reliable and stable but sometimes very expensive, the SIEM from IBM offers a wide range of scenarios in which the customers can suite and size their own infrastructures. IBM Qradar doesn't really needs to stack up againt its competitors because it already sets an example in the SIEM world.
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    Microsoft
    Particularly, we're evaluating Symantec Endpoint Protection, the commercial version. We've looked at eSet, a couple of the others, and it's much too heavy or difficult to manage, things like that. Ease of use, ease of integration. It's already there. It's super easy to update it with the regular OS updates and everything. So we can manage it whether we're using SCCM or Intune or Dato, it's very easy to deploy updates and manage things.
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    Microsoft
    Compared to platforms such as Splunk, LogRhythm, and Devo, Microsoft Sentinel’s cloud‑native, consumption‑based pricing model and reduced infrastructure overhead tend to offer better overall cost efficiency. This is especially true for organizations already invested in the Microsoft ecosystem, where Sentinel can deliver strong capabilities with a lower total cost of ownership.
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    Scalability
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is easily scaled from small orgs to giant enterprises.
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    Microsoft
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    Professional Services
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Did not use professional services
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    Return on Investment
    IBM
    • Offense investigation was really helped in tackling the incidents. It was accurate and brief
    • The automation with IBM resilient (SOAR) was a milestone in elimination of user mistakes
    • The X-Force threat intelligence supported us in getting the work done without any 3rd party enterprise OSINT database
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    Microsoft
    • I think the positive impact overall is that we do a lot of sitting in front of assessors- federal assessors, government assessors. And it really comes down to when the assessor has to think about another product that you're bringing in that's not Microsoft, it creates a lot of confusion, more paperwork, more explanation. But the positive impact is that they know it, everybody kind of knows Microsoft. And so when you tell them you have this endpoint for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, they're like, okay. The questions go away, and it makes the overhead a lot less during an assessment.
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    Microsoft
    • It's probably neutral. We see value, but it's, again, tick that kind of expense stuff. We're getting more insight and value into what is going on in that cloud workspace, but just noting the cost. So it's probably neutral. I'm not directly responsible, so the full kind of return on investment kind of cycle, that's someone else's problem. I'm like the end user. It's my team that will look at the data and look at the output of Microsoft Sentinel. So the ROI, someone else can worry about that.
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    ScreenShots

    IBM Security QRadar SIEM Screenshots

    Screenshot of QRadar SIEM Cloud native- Threat intelligence preview

    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Screenshots

    Screenshot of blocked activitiesScreenshot of Detects & respondsScreenshot of discovers vulnerabilityScreenshot of Eliminates blind spotsScreenshot of Risk management

    Microsoft Sentinel Screenshots

    Product screenshotProduct screenshotScreenshot of Microsoft Sentinel Capabilities