SIEM & SOC
Microsoft Sentinel — Product Overview
Microsoft Sentinel is Microsoft's cloud-native security information and event management (SIEM) and security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) platform, giving security teams a single place to collect, detect, investigate, and respond to threats across an entire organization. Below is an overview of what it includes and the value it delivers.
Microsoft Sentinel
Designed for: Organizations that want to unify their security data and give their security team a single, AI-powered platform to detect and respond to threats.
What's Included
- Data collection from over 400 sources, including Microsoft services, third-party security tools, on-premises systems, and other clouds
- AI-driven threat detection that correlates activity across the environment to surface genuine threats and reduce false alarms
- User and entity behavior analytics, identifying suspicious activity based on deviations from normal behavior
- Built-in orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR), allowing common response actions to happen automatically rather than manually
- A cost-effective data lake for retaining years of security data for long-term hunting, investigation, and compliance needs
- Security Copilot built directly into Sentinel, helping analysts investigate and resolve incidents using natural language
- Deep, native integration with Microsoft Defender and the wider Microsoft security ecosystem
Why It Matters for Your Business
Most organizations' security-relevant data is scattered across dozens of different systems — firewalls, cloud platforms, applications, identity systems, and endpoints — making it difficult for a security team to see the full picture of an attack in progress.
Microsoft Sentinel brings all of that data together in one place, using AI to connect the dots between seemingly unrelated events and surface the threats that actually matter, rather than burying analysts in noise.
Built-in automation means common, repetitive response actions can happen the moment a threat is confirmed, rather than waiting on a person to manually intervene — which can be the difference in stopping an attack before it spreads.
For organizations without a large, dedicated security team, Security Copilot's natural-language investigation support can also make advanced threat investigation accessible to a broader range of staff, not just senior security specialists.
Billing Structure
Microsoft Sentinel is priced based on the volume of data ingested, stored, and analyzed, rather than a fixed per-user fee, so cost scales with how much security data an organization actually collects.
A pay-as-you-go option is available for organizations with variable or unpredictable data volumes, while commitment tiers offer a discounted, predictable daily rate for organizations with a steady, known volume of data to ingest.
Certain Microsoft security data sources, including Microsoft 365 activity logs and Microsoft Defender alerts, are included at no additional ingestion cost for licensed customers — which can meaningfully reduce the total cost for organizations already invested in the Microsoft security ecosystem.
Please Note
Because Microsoft Sentinel's cost depends on the specific mix and volume of data an organization plans to bring in, actual pricing varies significantly by organization. Our team is happy to walk through your environment and provide guidance tailored to your specific data sources and volume.
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Our team can help you identify the solution that best matches your organization's needs and guide you through setup.