Microsoft Sentinel FAQ Detail
178 Reviews and Ratings
How does Microsoft Sentinel integrate with Defender and other Microsoft tools?
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According to TrustRadius reviews, Microsoft Sentinel integrates very effectively with Microsoft Defender and the broader Microsoft security ecosystem. Reviewers state that the products work well together, sharing security signals and alerts to provide a consolidated view of security data. The integration allows alerts and telemetry from tools like Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Entra ID, and Microsoft 365 to be sent to Sentinel for centralized correlation, investigation, and response. This creates a single platform for security operations, which reviewers use as their primary SIEM and SOAR solution. The result is higher-fidelity incidents, reduced noise, and improved visibility into threats across the environment.
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Seamless Integration with Microsoft Defender
3 mentions▼Reviewers report that Microsoft Sentinel integrates well with Microsoft Defender. Alerts and telemetry from Defender ar…
Reviewers report that Microsoft Sentinel integrates well with Microsoft Defender. Alerts and telemetry from Defender are sent to Sentinel for centralized correlation and investigation, which helps combine related signals into higher-fidelity incidents and improve visibility.
“Alerts from Microsoft Defender can be sent to Sentinel, where they can be correlated and investigated in one place.”
“We also use Defender in our environment, so Microsoft Sentinel seems to integrate pretty well with Defender.”
“Having all of the telemetry that we get from every endpoint of the environment through Defender and having that telemetry piped into Microsoft Sentinel is extremely powerful for us.”
“Effective correlation of alerts and incidents in collaboration with Microsoft Defender XDR helps combine related signals into higher‑fidelity incidents. This reduces noise and improves visibility into attack context, making investigations more efficient.”
Connectivity with the Broader Microsoft Ecosystem
4 mentions▼Beyond Defender, Sentinel connects with a wide range of Microsoft services. Reviewers mention ingesting data and correl…
Beyond Defender, Sentinel connects with a wide range of Microsoft services. Reviewers mention ingesting data and correlating logs from Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft 365, Office 365, and Azure to gain end-to-end security visibility and understand processes like authentication.
“It's mainly the data correlation. For example, in the Microsoft ecosystem, Microsoft Entra ID is a primary component of the authentication and authorization mechanism. So whenever you're using tools like Microsoft Intune, Defender for Endpoint, Entra ID is the key signal, right? So Microsoft Sentinel correlates the logs from all these devices and services very well, so I can see a very detailed attack shape to figure out what's going on.”
“Microsoft Sentinel provides visibility within Microsoft-related products, such as authentication and other backbone processes, which allows us to very well understand the items that happen within the Azure Cloud.”
“Strong integration with the Microsoft security ecosystem allows seamless connection to services such as Microsoft Defender, Microsoft 365, and Azure.”
“Microsoft Sentinel ingests data from Office 365 and Defender for Identity.”
Centralized Platform for Security Operations
2 mentions▼A key benefit of this integration is that Microsoft Sentinel acts as a single, centralized platform. It consolidates da…
A key benefit of this integration is that Microsoft Sentinel acts as a single, centralized platform. It consolidates data from multiple security tools, allowing teams to view, correlate, and understand security events in one place.
“Microsoft Sentinel along with other Microsoft security products,and they work well together by sharing security signals and alerts.”
“Microsoft Sentinel has improved our banking application security by consolidating data from multiple security tools into a single, centralized platform.”
“Microsoft Sentinel help us to look in one place, correlate, make zoom in and out and finally understand the action within our organization in such way that we can take action if needed”
Unified SIEM and SOAR Functionality
4 mentions▼Reviewers frequently describe using Microsoft Sentinel as their primary SIEM (Security Information and Event Management…
Reviewers frequently describe using Microsoft Sentinel as their primary SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) and SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response) solution, handling everything from security event processing to incident response and remediation.
“Microsoft Sentinel is our investigation product as well as our alerting and response. It's our entire SOAR and seam. It does everything, business problems, visibility, and responses to any incidents, as well as listing incidents, of course.”
“We use Microsoft Sentinel as our primary SIEM solution and also for SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response) and it has been working well.”
“Microsoft Sentinel is utilized as our SIEM for all security event processing.”
“We use Microsoft Sentinel to boost our cybersecurity. It is our primary SIEM and SOAR solution, and it's reliable for detecting, investigating, responding to, and remediating cyber threats across our multi-cloud environments.”
Improved Threat Detection and Visibility
4 mentions▼The integration provides enhanced visibility and improves threat management. Reviewers note that the combined tools wor…
The integration provides enhanced visibility and improves threat management. Reviewers note that the combined tools work toward a common goal, making it easier to investigate threats, gain visibility at scale, and use AI features for faster detection.
“So Defender, XDR, Microsoft Sentinel, and Security Copilot are working together towards a common goal.”
“With Microsoft Sentinel, investigating threats is easy and we understand threats better and know how to handle such threats in future.”
“Yes, we use Microsoft Sentinel AI features for fast threat detection, and the analytics help us understand threats and how to avoid/deal with them in the future.”
“What Microsoft Sentinel brings us is visibility, at scale, and helps us identify issues that we should focus on.”
Evolving Product Unification
1 mention▼One reviewer points to a future where the integration becomes even tighter, noting that the Microsoft Sentinel dashboar…
One reviewer points to a future where the integration becomes even tighter, noting that the Microsoft Sentinel dashboard is being deprecated and its functionality is being pulled into Microsoft Defender.
“So I know they're actually deprecating the Microsoft Sentinel dashboard and pulling everything into Defender.”
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