Cisco XDR vs. Microsoft Sentinel

Microsoft Sentinel

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Cisco XDR	Score 6.9 out of 10	N/A	A solution to uncover sophisticated attacks and leverage machine learning to prioritize incidents across multiple security controls based on risk score and asset value. Streamlines incident response by simplifying preparation, detection, analysis, containment, eradication, and recovery, which can involve anything from adding a worknote to implementing an automated response.	N/A
Microsoft Sentinel	Score 8.6 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

Pricing

Cisco XDR

Microsoft Sentinel

Editions & Modules

Cisco XDR Essentials: Contact Sales
per user
Cisco XDR Advantage: Contact Sales
per user
Cisco XDR Premier: Contact Sales
per user

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
Cisco XDR	Microsoft Sentinel
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

There are three License tiers in which Cisco XDR is available: Essentials, Advantage, and Premier (licensed per user). Cisco XDR Essentials delivers the full XDR features and integrates across the Cisco Security portfolio, with a few exceptions. Cisco XDR Advantage builds upon the capabilities delivered in Essentials by adding Cisco-curated integrations with select third-party security tools. Cisco XDR Premier delivers the full Advantage capabilities as a Managed Service provided by Cisco security experts and includes security validation through penetration testing and select Cisco Talos Incident Response services. Data retention: A data retention period of 90 days is included by default. Customers can purchase additional retention periods of 180 or 365 days. Data ingestion: Each tier includes a data ingestion limit of 2GB per user per month. Customers can purchase additional GBs beyond the 2GB default, measured in units of GB per user per month.

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Community Pulse
	Cisco XDR	Microsoft Sentinel
Considered Both Products	Cisco XDR Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco XDR Cisco XDR is great for companies that primarily run Cisco and provides a more seamless integration than Qradar both in terms of identify risks and mitigating them. Cisco XDR also provides insight through Cisco Talos and gives the end users ability to customize their work flow … Incentivized Helpful? JG Jefferson Green Information Security Analyst Chose Cisco XDR It integrates nicely with Secure Endpoint Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco XDR External User Manager for Microsoft Teams Incentivized Helpful? FM Florentino Martinez Gragera IT speialist Chose Cisco XDR Cisco Secure Network Analytics Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco XDR Exabeam is a full blown SIEM and XDR. Cisco XDR will suit users are looking to get XDR feature without SIEM Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco XDR While both products were both easy to use and would have fit our environment, we are a very heavy Cisco shop and Cisco Cisco XDR fit better with the rest of our software portfolio. Stellar Cyber has some additional functionality in addition to Cisco XDR but the cost difference … Incentivized Helpful?	Microsoft Sentinel IS Ian Stuebe Project Manager Chose Microsoft Sentinel 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. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Sentinel Well, primarily we use different stuff like CrowdStrike. We use different sign-on features. We primarily use those different products because we support a wider ecosystem. Incentivized Helpful? RD Richard Dornhart National Security Practice Manager 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 Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Sentinel Well before there was Microsoft Sentinel, you had other competing products like ArcSight or Splunk, et cetera. I think they have their own qualities, but the Microsoft integration story is really why we're using it. Incentivized Helpful? HP Himanshu Pawar Manager Chose Microsoft Sentinel In my opinion, Microsoft Sentinel is much more reliable and Trustworthy. They are a bigger name with bigger scope of use. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Sentinel We use intune to protect endpoints and we pull logs from all the endpoints through the intune connector into the Microsoft Sentinel SIEM and that way we can run rules on those logs to find anomalies. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Sentinel Elastic is some carbon for various use cases. So because Elastic is a very, very wrong history in the market. So Sentinel is very recent for products from my understanding. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Sentinel Well, we didn't select, we selected Sentinel for our Azure stuff, our Microsoft stuff, but we do use a different SIEM for the other stuff still. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Sentinel We've used Splunk before, but it really is just pick your poison. They're all very similar. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Sentinel Based on the overall infrastructure configuration that we have and also after analysing various solutions provided by Microsoft Sentinel, we came to a conclusion that the Microsoft Sentinel is the best option for us to help us in overall threat detection on our custom servers, … Incentivized Helpful? Ajay Sehgal Project Manager 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 Helpful? EB Edward Broderick CISO Chose Microsoft Sentinel 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Sentinel The SecureWorks product is a more mature product. We prefer the SecureWorks product over Microsoft Sentinel at this point. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Sentinel As mentioned, the product was part of the purchase of several Microsoft Suites that we did earlier last year and with 200 licenses included, we can exclude those from the other SIEM and SOAR product, it just work well with the Microsoft's environment that we partially have Is … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 Helpful? Namandeep Bhatia Co Founder & Chief Technology Officer Chose Microsoft Sentinel We checked, McAfee Enterprise Security Manager (ESM). In my opinion, Microsoft Sentinel is beter wit AI capacity and good community. Incentivized Helpful? Glenn H. Miller Chief Engineer Chose Microsoft Sentinel We don't need to maintain a third-party SaaS solution or spend any time integrating it since Microsoft Sentinel is the ideal option to give a single point of attack detection and alert monitoring. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Sentinel No, this is the only one. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Sentinel Most of those have been out in the industry for a longer time, so they have a lot more user friendliness to them. So I'd say it's in the mix. It's just not as high as it should be or I would expect it to be. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Sentinel Previous to Azure Sentinel, we were using the McAfee SIM and it just wasn't keeping up with the times and that was the choice of moving to Azure Sentinel. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Sentinel We just stick with Sentinel because it works well with our Suite Office 65. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Cisco XDR

Microsoft Sentinel

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

Comparison of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) features of Product A and Product B
	Cisco XDR - Ratings	Microsoft Sentinel 7.3 Ratings 6% below category average
Centralized event and log data collection	00 Ratings	8.20 Ratings
Correlation	00 Ratings	7.10 Ratings
Event and log normalization/management	00 Ratings	6.90 Ratings
Deployment flexibility	00 Ratings	7.40 Ratings
Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools	00 Ratings	6.50 Ratings
Custom dashboards and workspaces	00 Ratings	7.50 Ratings
Host and network-based intrusion detection	00 Ratings	5.00 Ratings
Data integration/API management	00 Ratings	6.40 Ratings
Behavioral analytics and baselining	00 Ratings	6.80 Ratings
Rules-based and algorithmic detection thresholds	00 Ratings	7.90 Ratings
Response orchestration and automation	00 Ratings	7.30 Ratings
Reporting and compliance management	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Incident indexing/searching	00 Ratings	8.60 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Cisco XDR	Microsoft Sentinel
Small Businesses	Trend Micro Worry-Free Services Suite Score 9.5 out of 10	LevelBlue USM Anywhere Score 3.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	CrowdStrike Falcon Score 9.0 out of 10	Sumo Logic Score 9.4 out of 10
Enterprises	CrowdStrike Falcon Score 9.0 out of 10	Sumo Logic Score 9.4 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Cisco XDR	Microsoft Sentinel
Likelihood to Recommend	6.8 (0 ratings)	8.5 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	7.3 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Cisco XDR	Microsoft Sentinel
Likelihood to Recommend	It is well suited for environments that have a large mix of Cisco products and popular software packages. As a SaaS application it doesn't require much for a local footprint but at the same time won't work in an environment that requires your security tools to store data or run locally. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	We use it because when a user sees the suspicious activity on his account, Microsoft Sentinel gives alerts to the user's system and the admin system as well. When a user of one of our systems clicked a spam email, that email was trying to install a virus on our server, but Microsoft Sentinel gave an alert to the user and admin both, so that is why our team was able to fix that issue with Microsoft Sentinel very fast. However, it will not be the best option for you if your team is utilizing every feature but you are on a tight budget. IS Ian Stuebe Project Manager Read full review
Pros	Providing visibility for threat risks Detecting holes in the network that have vulnerabilites Flagging ddos events and kicking off an incident response Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	XDR can improve with more integrations XDR can be improved with more programmability for the end user XDR can be improved with more options to mitigate events Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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. Incentivized Glenn H. Miller Chief Engineer Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	it does the job reasonably well Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	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. Incentivized Flavio Pereira Analista de sistemas Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	Azure Sentinel is very easy to use and configure. If you are stuck somewhere, Microsoft support is excellent in assisting and solving your issue. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Cisco XDR is great for companies that primarily run Cisco and provides a more seamless integration than Qradar both in terms of identify risks and mitigating them. Cisco XDR also provides insight through Cisco Talos and gives the end users ability to customize their work flow to threat hunt according to their business needs. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Microsoft Sentinel excels in cloud-native scalability, Microsoft ecosystem integration, and AI-driven threat detection with UEBA and Fusion rules, offering faster deployment and lower costs (48% cheaper per Forrester) than Splunk, QRadar, Exabeam, SentinelOne, Securonix, and Wazuh. It lags in third-party integrations and syslog parsing. Organizations choose Microsoft Sentinel for its cost-effectiveness, automation, and Microsoft synergy, especially in Azure-heavy environments, though Splunk and Exabeam lead in flexibility and UEBA, respectively. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	XDR helps contain a security incident event to reduce business impact XDR provides real time visibility to alert the business on security risks XDR provides ways to mitigate threats Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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