Microsoft Sentinel vs. Picus Security

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Microsoft Sentinel
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft 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
Picus Security
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
Picus Security, headquartered in San Francisco, offers Continuous Security Validation and Mitigation as the most proactive approach to ensure cyber-resilience. The Picus Platform measures the effectiveness of defenses by using emerging threat samples in production environments, providing the insight required to build the right security strategy to better manage complex operations.N/A
Pricing
Microsoft SentinelPicus Security
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 SentinelPicus Security
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Microsoft SentinelPicus Security
Top Pros
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Features
Microsoft SentinelPicus Security
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Comparison of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Sentinel
7.4
22 Ratings
6% below category average
Picus Security
-
Ratings
Centralized event and log data collection8.122 Ratings00 Ratings
Correlation7.122 Ratings00 Ratings
Event and log normalization/management7.222 Ratings00 Ratings
Deployment flexibility7.120 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools7.020 Ratings00 Ratings
Custom dashboards and workspaces7.322 Ratings00 Ratings
Host and network-based intrusion detection6.118 Ratings00 Ratings
Data integration/API management7.020 Ratings00 Ratings
Behavioral analytics and baselining6.818 Ratings00 Ratings
Rules-based and algorithmic detection thresholds7.620 Ratings00 Ratings
Response orchestration and automation7.719 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting and compliance management9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Incident indexing/searching7.820 Ratings00 Ratings
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Microsoft SentinelPicus Security
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Score 7.1 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
InsightIDR
InsightIDR
Score 9.2 out of 10
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Score 8.5 out of 10
Enterprises
InsightIDR
InsightIDR
Score 9.2 out of 10
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Score 8.5 out of 10
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User Ratings
Microsoft SentinelPicus Security
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
(41 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
7.3
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Professional Services
5.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Microsoft SentinelPicus Security
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
I'll go with where it's very suited in certain industries, including ours where the data resides or where it's being sent is incredibly important. So because the data stays within Microsoft World Garden, we are able to piggyback off of a lot of those certifications and meet certain requirements that allow us to expand where we sell our product to outside of scopes that we couldn't reach ourselves.
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Picus Security
If you want to analyze the full path focusing on the signatures it’s the best product in the market. If you want to test phishing, data exfiltration/DLP, DNS I don’t recommend Picus. Scenario based attacks also lacking. However Picus support is awesome and I like the development team. When we open a case, they’ll always return with the right answer
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Pros
Microsoft
  • It is a good tool for threat detection and analysis of the threats. We are using this tool for real time threat detection on our employee machines as well as some servers.
  • It provides various options for collecting data sources by leveraging multiple sources using data connectors. This helps us in gathering data from multiple sources such as our servers as well as our employee machines.
  • One good thing about this tool is automated incident response thereby increasing the security of servers.
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Picus Security
  • It has thousands of signatures and up-to-date attack vectors (It's the largest set in the market)
  • Attack vectors are mapped with existing vendors like Checkpoint and Mcafee, where you don't spend time finding out which cve mapped to which protection
  • Ability to focus/highlght solely new threats, it's superb for 0days and up-to-date protections. As there are always timing issue between updates and apply the updates on the products.
  • Blocked vs not blocked ratios on the dashboard with drill down menu specifiying the set of protections or signatures on the defensive measures
  • Already mapped mitre att&ck framework on the dasboard. SOC and analyst team using the Mitre framework.
  • Detection analytics enhance the analytics capabilities with pinpoint accuracy where to focus and how to prevent
  • Timeline and scheduled reports from the dashboard in flexible format
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Cons
Microsoft
  • It takes some time to learn how to use and install it properly, and it does not connect effectively with external PaaS systems such as Salesforce CRM, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, and so on.
  • Microsoft can simplify the display of the logs to make them easier to study, and the user interface occasionally delays, which can also be enhanced.
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Picus Security
  • Visualization of network and the products
  • Complex/Scenario based attacks
  • Phishing tests
  • DNS and Data exfiltration attacks
  • Automatic action through the apis for the products on the path
  • Strategical and tactical reports for Cisos
  • Automatic SOAR entegration with already builtin playbooks
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Usability
Microsoft
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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Picus Security
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Support Rating
Microsoft
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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Picus Security
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
I use most of the Sims that are out there, but RSAs, old Sim Log, logic, elastic, a lot of them. Sumo, we checked out Sumo too. We're a Microsoft shop and live almost entirely on top of a Microsoft ecosystem. We are considering other Microsoft security products to integrate with it. So it made a lot of sense to really drive as hard as we could Microsoft Sim at least for a few years to make sure it would fit us.
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Picus Security
We use other vendors Verodin, AttackIQ, SafeBreach, Cymulate etc. All of them have their advantages and disadvantages. Please take a look at TrustRadius reviews of each product. I don’t want to go head to head for each product in this
review. I select Picus because it's local startup company in our region. I like their support and engineering team. Support is marvelous. Product is giving what we expected from the product. Price is adequate. Reporting and dashboard is superb.
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Professional Services
Microsoft
Did not use professional services
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Picus Security
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • 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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Picus Security
  • With Picus we have the tangible KPIs for the security
  • Detetcion and Prevention rates for the latest attacks are significantly increased
  • We work with many security vendors. We use picus scores and share specific outputs with the company in case of decreasing score rates where the development and product team analyzes their updates or product engines to increase the rates.
  • It helps our strategic plans where to focus and invest for the following years and planning/prioritizing the security budgets to specific highlighted areas
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