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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    NetWitness

    Score6.2 out of 10
    N/ANetWitness Platform is a security operations platform for detecting, investigating, and responding to threats across IT and operational technology (OT) environments. It combines network, log, endpoint, and user-behavior telemetry to help analysts reconstruct attack activity and coordinate response.N/A
    Pricing
    Microsoft SentinelNetWitness
    Editions & Modules
    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
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Microsoft SentinelNetWitness
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Microsoft SentinelNetWitness
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    Microsoft
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    99%
    Would buy again
    73 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    59 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    71 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    52 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    66 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Microsoft SentinelNetWitness
    Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
    Comparison of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) features of Microsoft Sentinel and NetWitness
    Feature
    Microsoft Sentinel
    8.5
    34 Ratings
    7% above category average
    NetWitness
    -
    Ratings
    Centralized event and log data collection9.134 Ratings00 Ratings
    Correlation8.835 Ratings00 Ratings
    Event and log normalization/management8.435 Ratings00 Ratings
    Deployment flexibility8.333 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools8.933 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom dashboards and workspaces8.435 Ratings00 Ratings
    Host and network-based intrusion detection8.030 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data integration/API management8.433 Ratings00 Ratings
    Behavioral analytics and baselining9.031 Ratings00 Ratings
    Rules-based and algorithmic detection thresholds8.733 Ratings00 Ratings
    Response orchestration and automation8.232 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting and compliance management7.35 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incident indexing/searching8.733 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Microsoft SentinelNetWitness
    Small Businesses
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    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Security QRadar SIEM
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Splunk SOAR
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
    Score8 out of 10
    Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR
    Score1.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Microsoft SentinelNetWitness
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (74 ratings)
    8.6
    (7 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.5
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.2
    (27 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Microsoft SentinelNetWitness
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    NetWitness
    If an organization has all the best breed cyber security tools are in place & want to know the holistic security posture of the organization, they need to best security program or SOC than RSA NetWitness Incident Response and Cyber defense Services is the best solution. The bottom line is not only buying the best solution but it is also about establishing an effective security program that brings together security expertise, process, and technology to improve an organization's ability to prevent detect and respond to attacks.
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    Pros
    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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    NetWitness
    • Threat prediction and network forensics are the most useful features. It's possible for me to see who received and clicked on any malware on the network, for example. This is the feature I enjoy the most.
    • In addition, the capture packet provides a wealth of information.
    • The support.
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    Cons
    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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    NetWitness
    • Lacking out of the box best practice templates etc. It relies heavily on customization.
    • Lack of up to date threat feeds.
    • Difficult to learn and use initially.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    it does the job reasonably well
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    NetWitness
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    Usability
    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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    NetWitness
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    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!
    Incentivized
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    NetWitness
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    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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    NetWitness
    ES offers the single pane of glass for investigation and monitoring needs, however, to get everything onboarded can be daunting. The identiy and assets enrichment was not as straightforward and required a lot of manual work to make them work. For it to be optimized for full benefit, there is a layer of complexity that needs to be managed along the journey post deployment as well
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    Professional Services
    Microsoft
    Did not use professional services
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    NetWitness
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    Return on Investment
    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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    NetWitness
    • The tool is great and an important part of my tool box
    • The level of administration needed is a little too high
    • Support relationships have to be customer led and prompted
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