ConnectWise SIEM vs Microsoft Sentinel comparison

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ConnectWise and Microsoft are both solutions in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category. ConnectWise is ranked #44 with an average rating of 6.0, while Microsoft is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.0. ConnectWise holds a 0.7% mindshare in SIEM, compared to Microsoft’s 3.6% mindshare. Additionally, 66% of ConnectWise users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 93% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.

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93% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 18, 2024

ConnectWise SIEM and Microsoft Sentinel compete in the security information and event management category. Microsoft Sentinel appears to have the upper hand due to its advanced features and overall value for money.

Features: Users of ConnectWise SIEM commend its comprehensive threat detection and incident response capabilities, customizable reports, and competitive pricing and support. Microsoft Sentinel is praised for its seamless integration with other Microsoft products, powerful automation features, and scalability and flexibility.

Room for Improvement: ConnectWise SIEM users mention the need for a more intuitive setup process, better documentation, and dashboard improvements. Microsoft Sentinel users suggest enhancements in alert management, a more straightforward pricing model, and dashboard improvements.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: ConnectWise SIEM's deployment is relatively simple, though some users encounter challenges due to limited documentation. Customer service is responsive and receives favorable reviews. Microsoft Sentinel's cloud-native deployment is seamless and quick. Users praise the comprehensive support provided by Microsoft, whose extensive resources offer an edge.

Pricing and ROI: ConnectWise SIEM offers competitive setup costs and a satisfying return on investment according to users. Microsoft Sentinel, though generally more expensive, is perceived as offering superior value due to its extensive features and integration capabilities. Despite higher initial costs, users find the ROI of Microsoft Sentinel justifies the expenditure.

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Categories and Ranking

ConnectWise SIEM

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

44th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (52nd), Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) (22nd), Managed Detection and Response (MDR) (24th)

Microsoft Sentinel

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

3rd

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

108

Ranking in other categories

Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) (3rd), Microsoft Security Suite (5th), AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platforms (5th)

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category, the mindshare of ConnectWise SIEM is 0.7%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Sentinel is 3.6%, down from 6.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Microsoft Sentinel	3.6%
ConnectWise SIEM	0.7%
Other	95.7%

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

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reviewer2711757

Cyber Security Software Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Automated alerting and reporting excel while cost and feature limitations remain

I find automation to be one of the best and most valuable features of the product. Machine learning is incorporated into the solution, though AI is a broader term that I wouldn't apply here. I haven't personally explored AI yet, but I will investigate it. Machine learning functions more as automation in my experience, as there's no training involved yet. I want to conduct R&D on another project with Wazuh to determine how to capture usage, for example, tracking user logins and time spent. This is where I need to implement machine learning. Additionally, the extraction of GeoIP adds complexity. The solution is effectively reducing incident response times in operations.

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Kallamuddin Ansari

Cyber Security Consultant at HR Software Solution

Centralized monitoring has improved threat response but cost control still needs refinement

Based on real operations used in our corporate IT environment, the key features include log correlation and incident view. Microsoft Sentinel's biggest strength is how it correlates multiple related alerts into a single incident. This significantly reduces alert noise and helps the SOC focus on real threats instead of isolated events. Another valuable feature is KQL-based threat hunting with Kusto Query Language. The flexibility of this language allows us to build custom hunting queries based on our environment's behavior. This is extremely useful for detecting low and slow threats or hidden threats that default rules may miss. Cloud-native scalability and stability is another important feature. Being cloud-native, Microsoft Sentinel scales well for medium to large corporate environments without infrastructure management. Stability has been solid in day-to-day production. SOAR automation using playbooks is a feature we highly recommend. Microsoft Sentinel's SOAR functionality helps automate repetitive SOC tasks like alert enrichment and notification. This saves analyst time and improves response consistency.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"We have found the solution has great functionality and it is easy to use."

"One valuable feature of ConnectWise Fortify is the ability to add other teams and receive notifications when customers make changes or remove multi-factor authentication in Microsoft or SAP environments."

"The integration capabilities of ConnectWise SIEM are off the shelf, making it easy to buy and use; you just unpack it and use it."

"In Azure Sentinel, we have found, they do have a store in their capability. AI and intelligence features. We found that to be very helpful for us because some other things we do need to integrate again or find another vendor for the store"

"It is able to connect to an ever-growing number of platforms and systems within the Microsoft ecosystem, such as Azure Active Directory and Microsoft 365 or Office 365, as well as to external services and systems that can be brought in and managed. We can manage on-premises infrastructure. We can manage not just the things that are running in Azure in the public cloud, but through Azure Arc and the hybrid capabilities, we can monitor on-premises servers and endpoints. We can monitor VMware infrastructure, for instance, running as part of a hybrid environment."

"The most valuable feature is the UEBA. It's very easy for a security operations analyst. It has a one-touch analysis where you can search for a particular entity, and you can get a complete overview of that entity or user."

"The SOAR playbooks are Sentinel's most valuable feature. It gives you a unified toolset for detecting, investigating, and responding to incidents. That's what clearly differentiates Sentinels from its competitors. It's cloud-native, offering end-to-end coverage with more than 120 connectors. All types of data logs can be poured into the system so analysis can happen. That end-to-end visibility gives it the advantage."

"The native integration of the Microsoft security solution has been essential because it helps reduce some false positives, especially with some of the impossible travel rules that may be configured in Microsoft 365. For some organizations, that might be benign because they're using VPNs, etc."

"It helps to implement connectors for Microsoft solutions, available out of the box and providing real-time integration, including Microsoft 365 Defender (formerly Microsoft Threat Protection) solutions, and Microsoft 365 sources, including Office 365, Azure AD, Microsoft Defender for Identity (formerly Azure ATP), and Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, and more."

"My advice to another organization considering it is that if you're using all Microsoft, you should be using Microsoft Sentinel since it's free."

"Microsoft is continuously improving this product, and we also have private access where we can see what features are being launched and provide input to them."

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Cons

"ConnectWise Fortify could work on covering more areas, like phishing messages, which have become more complicated to detect."

"The manage portion of the solution is complicated and should be simplified by having different versions to meet the needs of different size companies."

"ConnectWise SIEM is primarily focused on notifications and is limited in that aspect, while Wazuh can automate the elimination process."

"However, we are not using it for some features, mainly for cost-related reasons and our company policy."

"It could have a better API to be able to automate many things more extensively and get more extensive data and more expensive deployment possibilities. It can gain some points on the automation part and the integration part. The API is very limited, and I would like to see it extended a bit more."

"We do have in-built or out-of-the-box metrics that are shown on the dashboard, but it doesn't give the kind of metrics that we need from our environment whereby we need to check the meantime to detect and meantime to resolve an incident. I have to do it manually. I have to pull all the logs or all the alerts that are fed into Sentinel over a certain period. We do this on a monthly basis, so I go into Microsoft Sentinel and pull all the alerts or incidents we closed over a period of thirty days."

"There is a wider thing called Jupyter Notebooks, which is around the automation side of things. It would be good if there are playbooks that you can utilize without having to have the developer experience to do it in-house. Microsoft could provide more playbooks or more Jupyter Notebooks around MITRE ATT&CK Framework."

"They take too long to respond, but sometimes they are great."

"We have been working with multiple customers, and every time we onboard a customer, we are missing an essential feature that surprisingly doesn't exist in Sentinel. We searched the forums and knowledge bases but couldn't find a solution. When you onboard new customers, you need to enable the data connectors. That part is easy, but you must create rules from scratch for every associated connector. You click "next," "next," "next," and it requires five clicks for each analytical rule. Imagine we have a customer with 150 rules."

"In New Zealand, there are customers that run dual stack, running Microsoft but also competitor products, EDR software, cloud security software, and other tooling. While it's improved over the last four or five years, there's still more work that can be done to integrate better outside of the Microsoft ecosystem."

"The following would be a challenge for any product in the market, but we have some in-house apps in our environment... our apps were built with different parameters and the APIs for them are not present in Sentinel. We are working with Microsoft to build those custom APIs that we require. That is currently in progress."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is expensive."

"I don't know yet because they gave us a 30-day test window for free."

"Sentinel's price is comparable to pretty much everything out there. None of it is cheap, but we didn't think we could save money by going a different route. Sentinel was part of our Azure expenditures, so it was easier to add the expense instead of having a completely separate vendor."

"We only pay for the amount of data we bring in, which is fair."

"The current licensing is based on the logs that are being ingested on the platform. Most of the SIEM solutions utilize that pricing model, but Microsoft should give us a customization option for controlling the kind of logs that we feed into Microsoft Sentinel. That will be much better. Otherwise, the pricing is a bit higher."

"Microsoft can enhance the licensing side. I feel there is confusion sometimes... They should have a single license in which we have the opportunity to use the EDR or CASB solution."

"It is priced fairly given the value that you get from the use of the product. The biggest mistake people make with Microsoft Sentinel is not understanding the pricing model and the amount of data that they are going to be running through the tool because you are paying based on the flow. You are paying based on the amount of data that is moving through the tool. People do not plan, and therefore, they get surprised by the cost associated with using the tool. They connect everything because they want to know everything, but connecting everything is very expensive."

"From a cost perspective, Microsoft Sentinel is quite costly."

"Some of the licensing models can be a little bit difficult to understand and confusing at times, but overall it's a reasonable licensing model compared to some other SIEMs that charge you a lot per data."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Comms Service Provider

11%

Construction Company

11%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

Outsourcing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

No data available

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	44
Midsize Enterprise	23
Large Enterprise	47

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with ConnectWise Fortify?

I haven't utilized the advanced threat intelligence capabilities with ConnectWise SIEM. Advanced threat intelligence is an option, but I haven't explored this feature yet. The advanced threat intel...

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What is your primary use case for ConnectWise Fortify?

I do not have experience with ConnectWise SIEM for RMM, as I mostly work on Wazuh, and I have a team that handles ConnectWise SIEM. I'm linking with them, serving as the bridge. I am solely working...

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What advice do you have for others considering ConnectWise Fortify?

The review can be made anonymous if just my name and not the company name is used. I would assess the real-time visibility for my organization as somewhat real-time, but it's not fully real-time. T...

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Is there a common threat intelligence tool that aggregates multiple threat intelligence sources?

Yes, Azure Sentinel is a SIEM on the Cloud. Multiple data sources can be uploaded and analyzed with Azure Sentinel and its Threat Hunting functionality with AI available as templates or customized ...

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What is a better choice, Splunk or Azure Sentinel?

It would really depend on (1) which logs you need to ingest and (2) what are your use cases Splunk is easy for ingestion of anything, but the charge per GB/Day Indexed and it gets expensive as log ...

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Which is better - Azure Sentinel or AWS Security Hub?

We like that Azure Sentinel does not require as much maintenance as legacy SIEMs that are on-premises. Azure Sentinel is auto-scaling - you will not have to worry about performance impact, you will...

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Also Known As

ConnectWise Security Management, ConnectWise Fortify, Continuum Fortify, ConnectWise SIEM, ConnectWise SASE

Azure Sentinel

Overview

ConnectWise SIEM is a cybersecurity platform designed to enhance threat detection and response capabilities, integrating seamlessly into sophisticated IT infrastructures.

Developed to address complex cybersecurity challenges, ConnectWise SIEM offers robust monitoring and analytics, enabling businesses to detect threats faster and with greater accuracy. It combines security information and event management with advanced intelligence to create a comprehensive security solution that supports real-time analysis and immediate action.

What are the most important features of ConnectWise SIEM?

Advanced Threat Detection: Leverages machine learning to identify potential threats quickly.
Real-Time Alerts: Provides instant notifications to ensure swift response to incidents.
Comprehensive Reporting: Delivers detailed insights to inform decision-making.
Scalability: Adapts to the growing needs of any organization.
Seamless Integration: Connects effortlessly with existing IT tools and platforms.

What benefits or ROI should users look for in reviews?

Reduced Downtime: Minimizes disruptions with proactive threat management.
Cost Efficiency: Lowers overall security expenditure through strategic resource allocation.
Improved Compliance: Assists in meeting industry regulations with comprehensive logs and reports.
Enhanced Security Posture: Strengthens defenses with continuous monitoring and analysis.

ConnectWise SIEM is widely implemented in industries such as finance, healthcare, and retail, where data security is crucial. These sectors benefit from its capability to handle large volumes of data while maintaining regulatory compliance. Its flexibility allows customization to meet specific industry requirements, providing targeted security solutions to protect sensitive information.

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Microsoft Sentinel offers cloud-native SIEM and SOAR capabilities with AI-powered threat detection, automated responses, and integration with Microsoft products. It is designed for comprehensive threat management with flexible deployment and scalability.

Microsoft Sentinel provides centralized management of cloud-based security monitoring and incident detection. Leveraging AI capabilities, it enhances threat intelligence and automation, allowing users to streamline security operations across cloud and on-premises systems. Microsoft Sentinel efficiently aggregates logs, correlates security events from multiple sources, and integrates seamlessly with Microsoft security offerings such as Defender. While its flexible deployment options and robust automation through playbooks are advantageous, users may encounter challenges with integration outside of Microsoft products, potential log ingestion delays, and a complex query language. The platform would benefit from enhanced speed, a simplified interface, improved query performance, and stronger documentation support.

What are the most important features of Microsoft Sentinel?

Cloud-native SIEM and SOAR: Enables security event management and orchestration in a cloud environment.
AI-powered threat detection: Utilizes artificial intelligence for identifying potential security threats.
Automated response playbooks: Automates routine responses to improve efficiency.
Data ingestion from multiple sources: Integrates with diverse data inputs for comprehensive visibility.
Integration with Microsoft products: Seamless collaboration with Microsoft security tools.

What benefits and ROI should users consider?

Enhanced threat visibility: Improves detection of security threats in various environments.
Reduced manual tasks: Automates processes to lessen human workload.
Scalable deployment: Offers flexibility for growing organizational requirements.
Centralized management: Simplifies oversight and management of threat detection and response.
Improved response times: Accelerates incident handling to minimize potential damage.

In specific industries, Microsoft Sentinel is utilized for its capability to monitor cloud-based workloads and detect incidents effectively. Users in healthcare, finance, and retail adopt it for its strong AI-driven threat detection and its ability to integrate with existing Microsoft solutions, ensuring high-level security operations and compliance with industry standards.

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Sample Customers

Techvera, Syrex, Clark Integrated Technologies

Microsoft Sentinel is trusted by companies of all sizes including ABM, ASOS, Uniper, First West Credit Union, Avanade, and more.

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