Microsoft Intune vs. Microsoft Sentinel

Microsoft Intune

Microsoft Intune

354 Reviews and Ratings

Microsoft Sentinel

Microsoft Sentinel

102 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Microsoft Intune	Score 8.4 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft Intune (formerly Microsoft Endpoint Manager), combining the capabilities of the former Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager, SCCM or ConfigMgr, is presented as a unified endpoint management option. Microsoft Intune is an endpoint management solution for mobile devices, an MDM solution that allows the user to securely manage iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS devices with a single endpoint management solution. The component Endpoint Configuration Manager (the…	$5 per user/per month
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

Microsoft Intune

Microsoft Sentinel

Editions & Modules

Microsoft 365 Business Basic: $5
per user/per month
Microsoft 365 For Individuals: $6.99
per month
Microsoft 365 Apps: $8.25
per user/per month
Microsoft 365 For Families: $9.99
per month
Microsoft 365 Business Standard: $12.50
per user/per month
Microsoft 365 Business Premium: $15
per user/per month

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

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Microsoft Intune	Microsoft Sentinel
Considered Both Products	Microsoft Intune Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Intune Microsoft Intune fits seamlessly with the other Microsoft products that are installed at our customers. Furthermore, Microsoft Intune has a lot of possibilities and can be used very flexibly. In terms of management, maintenance and rollout, it fits the wishes of our … Incentivized Helpful? MM Michael Miller IT Engineer Chose Microsoft Intune Microsoft Intune is more robust as far as fine-tuning security controls. It also allows for software installs, folder access controls, updating PCs, and other features simply not found in previous products we have used. Because it is rolled into MS 365 it's very cost … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Intune We migrated from Skybox to Microsoft Intune because we already owned Intune licensing through our existing Microsoft subscription. Overall, this has reduced costs, increased operating efficiencies, and lead to more streamlined system and process management. It was really a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Intune A few of our apps get deployed during enrollment, the important ones that are required. For other apps, PDQ makes things a bit quicker as you can hit deploy and it happens instantly. So we use a mix of the two products. If you have a lot of macOS devices, another tool to … Incentivized Helpful? Chetan M Shanghvi Senior SME Chose Microsoft Intune Ivanti Neurons for MDM, Workspace ONE Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) and Jamf Pro Incentivized Helpful? Joe Aldeguer IT Director Chose Microsoft Intune I prefer to go with what is already available from Microsoft to manage my IT infrastructure. My preference is to reduce the number of vendors I have to work with. Incentivized Helpful? PE Paul Emporellis District Network Manager Chose Microsoft Intune Symantec Ghost Solutions only covered only 2 parts, creating and imaging, of what Microsoft Endpoint Protection provided us. Price point wise it was a no brainer for us to switch to it as it covered many other things we were looking for and become an almost all in one solution Incentivized Helpful? RL Rich Lusk Owner Chose Microsoft Intune We did not evaluate or use other products like Microsoft Endpoint Manager (Microsoft Intune + SCCM). The main reason we did not evaluate or use other products is because Microsoft Endpoint Manager (Microsoft Intune + SCCM) integrates seamlessly with Microsoft 365 and Windows … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Intune Due to work put into getting SCCM up and running, moving to Endpoint Manager was the logical step, without needing to compare to other products and start that development cycle over again. Staying within the Microsoft ecosystem allows our organization to have better-defined … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Intune Not having to invest in Intune and having all the important features its competitors had the choice was very easy to make in favor of Microsoft's product. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Intune [Microsoft Endpoint Manager (Microsoft Intune + SCCM)] was already in our environment when I was hired. We haven't really evaluated the need to use another application because SCCM has been working well for us. Additionally, Microsoft SCCM is the industry-standard when it comes … Incentivized Helpful? CR Caleb Reinhardt CIO (Chief Information Officer) Chose Microsoft Intune SCCM's bread and butter has been imaging, and that still can't be beat. With cloud computing becoming more normal, however, we are seeing fewer instances where we are flat out imaging devices as they come in. However, [Microsoft] Endpoint Manager still [excels] in this area. … Incentivized Helpful? Sam Othman IT Systems & Telephony Administrator Chose Microsoft Intune Group policy, the predecessor of Microsoft Endpoint Manager was a great, easy to use tool. It is dated and stuck as an on-prem solution but still very good and served a purpose. We are still using this in conjunction with Microsoft Endpoint Manager whilst we complete our … Incentivized Helpful? DM Dmitry Malafeev Senior Systems Engineer Chose Microsoft Intune We tired other solution which less suite for our needs. Currently we mostly use MS applications and services so, MS Intune ans SCCM close match our expectation and needs. We require easy access and top reliability with support for all of our IT platforms. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Intune I haven't used any of the above-mentioned endpoint management solutions but heard about them. I hope they also provide similar functionalities as provided by Intune. Incentivized Helpful? Kurt Ferguson Lead Desktop Analyst Chose Microsoft Intune Dell Kace K1000 does a great job of system patching of Applications, Office, and Windows. It does a great job of software deployment. It even has great software for asset and inventory management. It is also a ServiceDesk platform, and if you're not using that function, it can … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Intune Most companies with Office 365 already own Intune. It also heavily integrated with Office 365. Other product users had more issues and limitations. Security features did not work with other vendors, and we spent more time dealing with issues. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Intune SCCM is probably used across the industry more so than most other Systems Management solutions, and the reasoning behind this is most likely because it is a Microsoft product, which integrates well with the Windows Server platform, and also with clients/endpoints that are on … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Intune We selected Microsoft Intune for the ease of use and its integration with the entire Office 365 ecosystem, which allows us to have an end-to-end of the collaborator. Incentivized Helpful? JJ Junie Johwa Senior Infrastructure Analyst Chose Microsoft Intune GFI Lan Guard system is not user-friendly. GFI Lan Guard does not produce laptop/computer images in one place and its asset management is not very good. System Center Configuration Manager was built for asset management and therefore able to provide robust inventory management. S… Incentivized Helpful? Adam Martin Desktop Engineer Chose Microsoft Intune Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager is kind of the only option for PC management on a large scale. There are open-source alternatives like Chocolatey, but that only works for very small scale shops. Microsoft kind of monopolizes on this front for enterprise … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Intune We use AD GPO to deploy software, WDS for OS deployment, and Spiceworks for inventory. This solution has significantly reduced feature set compared to SCCM but much easier to troubleshoot and configure. Currently, we are looking into ManageEngine Desktop Central and SmartDeploy … Incentivized Helpful? Mark Fitzgerald IT Director of Customer Care, Operations and Academic Technologies Chose Microsoft Intune We were a ZENworks shop previously. With our strong tie to Novell that made sense, but as we left Netware and its enterprise directory it made sense to leave Zenworks. At the time, I would have said that ZENworks was a more mature tool and I haven't kept up with their feature … Incentivized Helpful? EV Eduardo Viero IT Infrastructure Specialist Chose Microsoft Intune I didn't evaluate any other product when we started using SCCM. Because we were under an MS Enterprise agreement, it was easy to decide. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Intune I inherited an already existing environment system center. My previous experience was using WSUS. Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager does still use WSUS but it is a far more robust and complete solution for managing and reporting on all your PCs. Our Microsoft … 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

Microsoft Intune

Microsoft Sentinel

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

Comparison of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) features of Product A and Product B
	Microsoft Intune - 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	7.30 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	6.70 Ratings
Rules-based and algorithmic detection thresholds	00 Ratings	7.80 Ratings
Response orchestration and automation	00 Ratings	7.30 Ratings
Reporting and compliance management	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Incident indexing/searching	00 Ratings	8.50 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Microsoft Intune	Microsoft Sentinel
Likelihood to Recommend	9.4 (0 ratings)	8.5 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.9 (0 ratings)	8.2 (0 ratings)
Usability	7.5 (0 ratings)	7.3 (0 ratings)
Performance	6.9 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	10.0 (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	8.9 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	7.6 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Microsoft Intune	Microsoft Sentinel
Likelihood to Recommend	Windows Autopilot makes provisioning user Windows PC laptops a breeze. A user only needs to turn on the laptop, join it to their local WiFi, login with their O365 account then sit back and let Windows Autopilot handle the app installations required for work, configure the laptop settings to meet my organization requirements. I have seen this all completed in less than 30 minutes depending on how fast the internet connection is. Where Microsoft Intune needs to improve I think is the part where it can push out software updates to 3rd party apps. Right now I have to use Automox to fill in this gap. Incentivized Joe Aldeguer IT Director 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	[Microsoft Endpoint Manager (Microsoft Intune + SCCM)] helps to speed up the deployment of patches/software throughout our environment. I can easily build a package and then deploy across all endpoints. The ability to supercede software is also quite handy. This automates the removal of old versions and replacing them with newer versions. The Intune Autopilot option is very useful if you want to deploy software to devices straight out of the box. You can configure them to download software when a user opens a new PC and turns it on for the first time. 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	Installation is very laborious and complicated. The number of things to manually configure during the installation is incredible. OS deployment is hard to configure and troubleshoot. The Microsoft article on deploying Windows 10 via System Center Configuration Manager in a test environment takes 44 minutes to read (Microsoft's estimate, not mine -- check here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/windows-10-poc-sc-config-mgr). If something goes wrong, there are multiple log locations to check on both the server and client, making troubleshooting difficult. The management console looks old, and its performance isn't great. It is often hard to find settings in the console, and it refreshes slowly. The old name for System Center Configuration Manager, SMS, comes to mind often. "Slowly Moving Software." 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	Mascom Wireless is a Microsoft shop and SCCM has proved to be helpful in keeping our Microsoft products up to date every month without fail. We also have a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement which we renewed for three years ending 2022. The remote access utility works wonders for the organisation and have saved travel bills including subsistance allowance. We have been able to fulfill security audits both internal and external. We have been able to keep a robust inventory of our computer assets and nothing falls of the cracks Incentivized JJ Junie Johwa Senior Infrastructure Analyst Read full review	it does the job reasonably well Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	Overall, Microsoft Intune is very usable. While help documentation can be lacking, once setup and configured, Intune does all the work that used to be manual. There is a lot of automation and advanced features and manufacturer integrations you don't get anywhere else. These are absolutely game changers when managing IT workloads. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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
Performance	It's a 'heavy' system, which demands a lot of resources form the datacenter perspective. So, make sure you followed the requirements to avoid frustration in the future. From the 'client' perspective, it's fine. I've never had any issue with that. Incentivized EV Eduardo Viero IT Infrastructure Specialist Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	Being a Microsoft product, support was good. Out interaction was limited to our in-house IT team which was installing the Intune app in our mobile device. The installation was smooth and we haven't faced any difficulties with the app while using it. Provides a smooth and secure access to all Office 365 apps in mobile while separating the personal and professional data. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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
Implementation Rating	Work with a "test group" of users who you have a good relationship with so that when things don't work properly they understand! Work with your partner nicely without forcing things especially timelines as you are bound to make mistakes and create oversights in the project Management can also interfere with the implementation (which can cause delays) if you make too many mistakes which takes me back to having a "test group" where you have good relations Incentivized JJ Junie Johwa Senior Infrastructure Analyst Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Microsoft Intune is more robust as far as fine-tuning security controls. It also allows for software installs, folder access controls, updating PCs, and other features simply not found in previous products we have used. Because it is rolled into MS 365 it's very cost effective. It's also a single pane of glass for managing user PCs and personal devices Incentivized MM Michael Miller IT Engineer 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	The positive impact it's had was it has been really beneficial in having an all-in-one Systems Management solution to be able to manage all endpoints across the organization. This has saved both time and costs from having to search/setup/manage other System Management applications and also have saved money from having to purchase a license for other commercial products. Another positive impact it has had was in being able to easily remote into computers/endpoints, and also being able to provide remote assistance to end-users. The negative impact has been it is not being fully utilized by most of the IT staff, as it is a more complicated platform to learn/master. This would require funding for IT staff to take training in learning the product, or require time to consult the documentation in the use of the product. As a result, this may hurt productivity in being able to have to work on other things. 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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