Microsoft Sentinel vs Seceon Open Threat Management Platform comparison

Microsoft and Seceon are both solutions in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category. Microsoft is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.3, while Seceon is ranked #37 with an average rating of 8.0. Microsoft holds a 7.4% mindshare in SIEM, compared to Seceon’s 0.7% mindshare. Additionally, 93% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Seceon users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 18, 2024

Seceon Open Threat Management Platform and Microsoft Sentinel are robust security platforms competing in the cybersecurity category. Microsoft Sentinel appears to have the upper hand due to its more advanced features and integration capabilities.

Features: Seceon Open Threat Management Platform offers automated threat detection and response, advanced analytics, and comprehensive threat intelligence. Microsoft Sentinel provides integration with other Microsoft products, scalability, and AI-driven insights.

Room for Improvement: Seceon Open Threat Management Platform needs enhancements in reporting capabilities, a more extensive integration library, and UI improvements. Microsoft Sentinel requires better cost management, simplification of complex features, and streamlined onboarding processes.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Seceon Open Threat Management Platform is recognized for its straightforward deployment and responsive customer service. Microsoft Sentinel offers extensive deployment options but is more complex to set up, though it provides detailed documentation and support resources.

Pricing and ROI: Seceon Open Threat Management Platform is favored for its cost-effective setup and strong ROI due to lower upfront costs. Microsoft Sentinel, despite its higher cost, is viewed as providing significant long-term value through its advanced features and capabilities, justifying the investment.

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Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Sentinel

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

3rd

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) (1st), Microsoft Security Suite (6th), AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platforms (5th)

Seceon Open Threat Manageme...

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

37th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category, the mindshare of Microsoft Sentinel is 7.4%, down from 9.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Seceon Open Threat Management Platform is 0.7%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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KrishnanKartik

Cyber Security Consultant at Inspira Enterprise

Every rule enriched at triggering stage, easing the job of SOC analyst

It's a Big Data security analytics platform. Among the unique features is the fact that it has built-in UEBA and analytical capabilities. It allows you to use the out-of-the-box machine learning and AI capabilities, but it also allows you to bring your own AI/ML, by bringing in your own IPs and allowing the platform to accept them and run that on top of it. In addition, the SOAR component is a pay-per-use model. Compared to any other product, where customization is not available, you can fine-tune the SOAR and you'll be charged only when your playbooks are triggered. That is the beauty of the solution because the SOAR is the costliest component in the market today. Other vendors charge heavily for the SOAR, but with Sentinel it is upside-down: the SOAR is the lowest-hanging fruit. It's the least costly and it delivers more value to the customer. The SOAR engine also uniquely helps us to automate most of the incidents with automated enrichment and that cuts out the L1 analyst work. And combining M365 with Sentinel, if you want to call it integration, takes just a few clicks: "next, next finish." If it is all M365-native, it is a maximum of three or four steps and you'll be able to ingest all the logs into Sentinel. That is true even with AWS or GCP because most of the connectors are already available out-of-the-box. You just click, put in your subscription details, include your IAM, and you are finished. Within five to six steps, you can integrate AWS workloads and the logs can be ingested into Sentinel. When it comes to a third party specifically, such as log sources in a data center or on-premises, we need a log collector so that the logs can be forwarded to the Sentinel platform. And when it comes to servers or something where there is an agent for Windows or Linux, the agent can collect the logs and ship them to the Sentinel platform. I don't see any difficulties in integrating any of the log sources, even to the extent of collecting IoT log sources. Microsoft Defender for Cloud has multiple components such as Defender for Servers, Defender for PaaS, and Defender for databases. For customers in Azure, there are a lot of use cases specific to protecting workloads and PaaS and SaaS in Azure and beyond Azure, if a customer also has on-premises locations. There is EDR for Windows and Linux servers, and it even protects different kinds of containers. With Defender for Cloud, all these sources can be seamlessly integrated and you can then track the security incidents in Microsoft's XDR platform. That means you have one more workspace, under Azure, not Defender for Cloud, where you can see the security incidents. In addition, it can be integrated with Sentinel for EDR deep-dive analytics. It can also protect workloads in AWS. We have customers for whom we are protecting their AWS workloads. Even EKS, Elastic Kubernetes Service, on AWS can be integrated, as can the GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine). And with Defender for Cloud, security alert ingestion is free

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GirishHanuman

Member Data Security Council of India at Techchef Consulting India Pvt Ltd

Holistic approach that reduces costs but needs deeper feature refinement

We are using Seceon Open Threat Management Platform for an SIEM management project for one of our customers It has contributed to reducing management costs. The AI features are helping to optimize costs. It offers a holistic approach with multiple solutions blended into one platform. It's easier…

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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

"One of the most valuable features of Microsoft Sentinel is that it's cloud-based."

"The connectivity and analytics are great."

"The query language of Microsoft Sentinel is easy to understand and use."

"It is easy to implement (turn on) - does need a skilled analyst to develop queries and playbooks."

"The dashboard that allows me to view all the incidents is the most valuable feature."

"The UI-based analytics are excellent."

"Sentinel uses Azure Logic Apps for automation, which is really powerful. This allows us to easily automate responses to incidents."

"We feel safe knowing that we have a solution that we can use to react in case of an emergency."

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"It offers a holistic approach with multiple solutions blended into one platform."

"You can use different solutions in a single platform which is very easy and attractive for customers."

"We only recently started using Seceon, so we aren't taking advantage of all its features yet. We have enabled some proactive alerts about utilization and bottlenecks from high traffic."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is its artificial intelligence."

"Seceon Open Threat Management Platform notifies only genuine alerts. It offers plenty of options that are suitable for MSPs."

"The most valuable features are behaviour analytics, threat intelligence, endpoint detection, and response features."

"It is effective because it has threat intelligence from across the world and constantly checks and updates for new threats."

"The main thing is the value proposition. It is one of the most sophisticated yet affordable solutions that I've come across. It is also one of the easiest-to-manage yet comprehensive solutions for a SOC analyst. Its customizations are really good, and it has a lot of integrations. It is multi-tenant and very fast to onboard. Its stability is 100%. We've never had an outage with it. It doesn't require extensive hardware resources. Its level of support is also very good. They have a very responsive technical team."

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Cons

"Sometimes, we are observing large ingestion delays. We expect logs within 5 minutes, but it takes about 10 to 15 minutes."

"Its implementation could be simpler. It is not really simple or straightforward. It is in the middle. Sometimes, connectors are a little bit complex."

"Sentinel still has some anomalies. For example, sometimes when we write a query for log analysis with KQL, it doesn't give us the data in a proper way... Also, the fields or columns could be improved. Sometimes, it is not giving the desired results and there is a blank field."

"Sentinel can be used in two ways. With other tools like QRadar, I don't need to run queries. Using Sentinel requires users to learn KQL to run technical queries and check things. If they don't know KQL, they can't fully utilize the solution."

"Its documentation is not so simple. It is easy for somebody who is Microsoft certified or more closely attached to Microsoft solutions. It is not easy for those who are working on open-source platforms. There isn't a central point where everything is documented, and there is no specific training or certification."

"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 room for improvement in terms of integrations. We have some tools, such as our off-site Meraki firewalls, that have not fully integrated with Sentinel. We lack integration for Syslogs into Sentinel."

"If their UI was a bit more streamlined and easy to find when I need it, then that would be a great improvement."

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"For future releases, integrating incident response tools and improving communication on incident reporting could be beneficial."

"We are at the client’s end, offering services. They don’t know about security rules and benchmarks. We are working on the discovery and remediation but we don’t really have the intelligence that was available while working with other tools. Human working is also very essential for the solution. The automatic session is impossible to play since it needs to touch Redfin for further analysis. No one has breached our clients."

"Certain features, such as DLP, need to be improved as they are superficial and not in-depth."

"The product could be improved by including sandboxing capabilities in the next release."

"The management console could use some enhancements."

"The SOP they provided wasn't great. They offered training over Sherp Virtualization, and the Seceon leadership visited our location to explain everything in detail, but the documentation and training could be better. It isn't as effective as it could be. There's some room for improvement there."

"The product should improve the triggering rate."

"The dashboard has always been an issue."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Sentinel is expensive relative to other products of the class, so it often isn't affordable for small-scale businesses. However, considering the solution has more extensive capabilities than others, the price is not so high. Pricing is based on GBs of ingested daily data, either by a pay-as-you-go or subscription model."

"The pricing is based on how much you ingest, so it's pretty straightforward. There are no tiers, and you pay for what you use unlike with other types of SIEM solutions that are usually based on tiers."

"Sentinel is a pay-as-you-go solution. To use it, you need a Log Analytics workspace. This is where the logs are stored and the cost of Log Analytics is based on gigabytes... On top of that, there is the cost of Sentinel, which is about €2 per gigabyte. If a customer has an M365 E5 license, the logs that come from Microsoft Defender are free."

"The solution is expensive and there is a daily usage fee."

"It is consumption-based pricing. It is an affordable solution."

"The are two native advantages for customers that use M365 Security and Sentinel. The first advantage is that the log or security-event ingestion into Sentinel is free. Cost-wise, they're saving a lot and that is a major advantage."

"Microsoft Sentinel's pricing is relatively expensive and extremely confusing."

"For us, it is not expensive at this time, but if we start to collect all logs from our on-premise SIEM solutions, it will cost more than QRadar. If we calculate its cost over the next five or ten years, it will cost more than what we paid for QRadar."

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"The pricing is very competitive. It's not expensive."

"I find Seceon OTM's pricing to be reasonable, not too high or low, just okay for the market standards. I can't disclose specific figures, we pay on a quarterly basis under a service model. I would rate it eight out of ten. As a customer, I always hope for better pricing options."

"The price is quite reasonable."

"We used the solution's trial version for two months and later purchased it."

"Seceon Open Threat Management Platform is cost-effective because it's a comprehensive platform that offers high availability."

"It has a per-asset model instead of an ingestion-based model, which gives predictable pricing. In terms of price, it is in the middle to lower range of SIEMs that it competes against. It is the most affordable solution that we have implemented so far. It was much more affordable than anything else I've implemented."

"The solution is cheap and very competitive. It offers good tuning in terms of the pricing. Other solutions like Palo Alto and IBM are more expensive."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

24%

Financial Services Firm

13%

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Questions from the Community

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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What do you like most about Seceon Open Threat Management Platform?

The algorithm used in Seceon OTM is clear and logical, categorizing events as needed. This helps us identify and respond to threats effectively.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Seceon Open Threat Management Platform?

The implementation cost is extra, but the license cost is reasonable with no hidden costs.

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What needs improvement with Seceon Open Threat Management Platform?

Certain features, such as DLP, need to be improved as they are superficial and not in-depth. Additionally, the non-core features need to increase in depth.

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Compared 22% of the time

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Compared 8% of the time

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Compared 8% of the time

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Compared 6% of the time

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Compared 5% of the time

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Compared 17% of the time

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Compared 16% of the time

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Compared 10% of the time

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Compared 8% of the time

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Also Known As

Azure Sentinel

Seceon OTM, Seceon aiSIEM, aiSIEM, Seceon Open Threat Management

Overview

Microsoft Sentinel is a scalable, cloud-native, security information event management (SIEM) and security orchestration automated response (SOAR) solution that lets you see and stop threats before they cause harm. Microsoft Sentinel delivers intelligent security analytics and threat intelligence across the enterprise, providing a single solution for alert detection, threat visibility, proactive hunting, and threat response. Eliminate security infrastructure setup and maintenance, and elastically scale to meet your security needs—while reducing IT costs. With Microsoft Sentinel, you can:

- Collect data at cloud scale—across all users, devices, applications, and infrastructure, both on-premises and in multiple clouds

- Detect previously uncovered threats and minimize false positives using analytics and unparalleled threat intelligence from Microsoft

- Investigate threats with AI and hunt suspicious activities at scale, tapping into decades of cybersecurity work at Microsoft

- Respond to incidents rapidly with built-in orchestration and automation of common tasks

To learn more about our solution, ask questions, and share feedback, join our Microsoft Security, Compliance and Identity Community.

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Seceon Open Threat Management Platform is a comprehensive cybersecurity solution that offers real-time threat detection, analysis, and response capabilities. It leverages advanced AI and machine learning algorithms to provide proactive threat hunting and automated incident response.

With its intuitive dashboard, users can gain complete visibility into their network, applications, and endpoints, enabling them to identify and mitigate potential risks effectively. The platform integrates seamlessly with existing security infrastructure, consolidating data from various sources for centralized monitoring and analysis.

Its threat intelligence feeds and behavioral analytics enable the identification of both known and unknown threats, ensuring comprehensive protection against advanced cyber attacks. Seceon Open Threat Management Platform empowers security teams with actionable insights, enabling them to prioritize and respond to threats swiftly. With its automated remediation capabilities, it minimizes the impact of attacks and reduces response time. The platform also offers customizable reporting and compliance management features, facilitating regulatory compliance and providing stakeholders with comprehensive security status updates.

Seceon Open Threat Management Platform is a robust and scalable solution that caters to the evolving cybersecurity needs of organizations across industries.

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

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