Microsoft Sentinel
Microsoft Sentinel is a scalable, cloud-native Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) solution. It provides intelligent security analytics and threat intelligence across an enterprise, offering a single pane of glass for…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2019
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- The problem Microsoft Sentinel was created to solve that its predecessors couldn't adequately address was the overwhelming cost, complexity, and lack of scalability of traditional on-premises SIEM solutions in the era of pervasive cloud adoption. Existing tools often struggled to ingest, store, and analyze the exponential growth of data from diverse cloud and hybrid environments, leading to alert fatigue, missed threats, and slow incident response. Sentinel offered a cloud-native, infinitely scalable, and more cost-effective approach to unify security operations, particularly for organizations embracing the Microsoft cloud ecosystem, by leveraging AI/ML to sift through noise and automate responses.
- Platforms
- Microsoft Azure (Cloud Service)
Related technologies
Notable users
- Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs)
- Government Agencies
- Organizations with hybrid cloud environments
- Large Enterprises utilizing Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365