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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Microsoft Sentinel

    Score8.7 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

    SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ASolarWinds LEM is security information and event management (SIEM) software.N/A
    Pricing
    Microsoft SentinelSolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
    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 SentinelSolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Microsoft SentinelSolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
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    Microsoft
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    SolarWinds
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    46 Answers
    88%
    Would buy again
    29 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    90%
    Delivers good value for the price
    38 Answers
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    27 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    46 Answers
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    30 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    35 Answers
    88%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    15 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    98%
    Implementation went as expected
    43 Answers
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    24 Answers
    Features
    Microsoft SentinelSolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
    Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
    Comparison of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) features of Microsoft Sentinel and SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
    Feature
    Microsoft Sentinel
    7.3
    24 Ratings
    6% below category average
    SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
    8.9
    18 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Centralized event and log data collection8.324 Ratings9.018 Ratings
    Correlation7.124 Ratings8.015 Ratings
    Event and log normalization/management6.924 Ratings8.018 Ratings
    Deployment flexibility7.522 Ratings10.018 Ratings
    Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools6.422 Ratings8.013 Ratings
    Custom dashboards and workspaces7.524 Ratings9.017 Ratings
    Host and network-based intrusion detection5.020 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Data integration/API management6.522 Ratings00 Ratings
    Behavioral analytics and baselining6.920 Ratings00 Ratings
    Rules-based and algorithmic detection thresholds7.922 Ratings00 Ratings
    Response orchestration and automation7.221 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting and compliance management9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incident indexing/searching8.622 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Small Businesses
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    Medium-sized Companies
    IBM Security QRadar SIEM
    Score9 out of 10
    IBM Security QRadar SIEM
    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
    Score8 out of 10
    Microsoft Sentinel
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Microsoft SentinelSolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (43 ratings)
    8.0
    (46 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    7.3
    (4 ratings)
    8.0
    (6 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    7.5
    (17 ratings)
    Professional Services
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Microsoft SentinelSolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    Microsoft Sentinel excels in centralized monitoring, AI-driven threat detection, and automation, but improvements in cost transparency, user experience, third-party integrations, and support for emerging technologies could make it even more effective. Addressing these areas would enhance its appeal for small-to-medium businesses, large enterprises, and organizations with complex or specialized IT environments.
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    SolarWinds
    Optimal for SolarWinds Security Event Manager needs for smaller companies - it is a very cool product but has some limitations around EPS (which gets chewed up quickly if you're doing it the right way & adding servers/storage/FW & other network devices)... Also pricing model is GREAT (not consumption-based, which is the greatest grift the SIEM industry has created).
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • 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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    SolarWinds
    • It does a great job of notifying us when accounts have been locked out. We can then find out the device on the network where the login attempt occurred.
    • Searching for incidents is now a lot faster with the implementation of the HTML 5 interface.
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • 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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    SolarWinds
    • All SolarWinds product suffer from slow response times in management portals. SolarWinds SEM is no exception. While it is much preferred over a "thick client" there is much room for improvement in speed.
    • If you use the email alert features with SolarWinds make sure to prepare you staff and team for the large amount of emails they could receive. Make sure to reduce the number of alerts so your team does not ignore the alerts.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    it does the job reasonably well
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    SolarWinds
    It is pretty likely that we will renew SEM when the time comes up. It is easy to use and maintain so there isn't much of a need to replace this product. It is also a pretty fair price for the capabilities provided by the SEM
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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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    SolarWinds
    If you are familiar with SolarWinds then you can use this product it's as easy as that. If you have never used a SolarWinds product then it will take a minute to get how they do reports and make dashboards but that being said the tool is great and can make things very easy once you get a feel for how it works and get everything setup how you like it.
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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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    SolarWinds
    The quality of support can vary depending on whom you end up speaking with. I was fortunate enough to work with a support representative who was very familiar with the product. He had even authored some of the support documentation on the website. On the flip side, I had two other experiences where I was simply directed to online training material.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    We decided to go with Microsoft Sentinel because it works really well with Microsoft tools we are already using. Microsoft Sentinel's intelligent features detect and resolve problems more quickly than Sumo Logic. It also allows us to pay for what we use and grow as we need. While Sumo Logic is good at analyzing data, Microsoft Sentinel fits our needs.
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    SolarWinds
    Fortianalzyer can only do logs from FortiGate so usefulness is limited. Elasticsearch was a lot slower than Solarwinds and the filters were a lot harder to set up and use. The connectors for SEM were far more stable.
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    Professional Services
    Microsoft
    Did not use professional services
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    SolarWinds
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • As any cybersecurity product, this has to be more with risk to avoid loss in case of a ransomware that more than relate to a productivity increase. Maybe the impact could be that instead of having people that are checking 24/7 the dashboard, you could implement Sentinel and have less people checking that or people with less expertise. So the saving will be a minor but will be a saving in the cost of your team.
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    SolarWinds
    • For the price, it produced a decent value. It did a lot of the easy stuff well. I can't give any specific data given the objective of the product was to monitor very basic events in the environment.
    • There are free options that can do a better job.
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