- Microsoft Sentinel is a security platform that unifies a cloud-native SIEM, unified data lake, graph-enabled visibility, and intelligent reasoning tools. Spanning all Microsoft Security first-party apps, Microsoft Sentinel empowers analysts to anticipate and stop cyberattacks across clouds and platforms—fast and with precision.
- Azure Sentinel was renamed Microsoft Sentinel to reflect the breadth of the product's capabilities and provide protection across multiple cloud solutions.
- Microsoft Sentinel is a security platform with built-in SIEM capabilities.
- Microsoft Defender XDR is a suite of tools that unifies prevention, detection, and response across endpoints, identities, email, and applications to deliver a consolidated view of threats, adaptive protection against cyberattacks, and streamlined incident response and remediation.
Microsoft Sentinel delivers extended visibility and foundational SecOps tools with built-in SIEM, SOAR, UEBA, and TI to detect, investigate, and respond to cyberthreats efficiently across the entire digital estate.
Both Microsoft Defender XDR and Microsoft Sentinel are fully integrated in the Microsoft Defender portal, delivering unparalleled native detection and automated response with extended visibility, flexibility, and scalability.
- Microsoft Sentinel data lake is designed to help optimize costs, simplify data management, and accelerate the adoption of AI in SecOps. Built into our industry-leading SIEM, this unified data lake has a cloud-native architecture. It is purpose-built for security—organizing diverse data types across assets, identities, activities, TI, and content for greater visibility and contextual awareness.
- No, Microsoft Sentinel is designed to ingest and analyze security data from a wide variety of sources across multicloud, multiplatform environments. Microsoft Sentinel integrates with more than 350 different solutions through connectors supported by Microsoft and third-party partners.
- Built on Sentinel data lake and SIEM, Sentinel graph brings together posture, activity, threat intelligence, identity, and device data into one view to analyze relationships and deliver rich context for action. This transforms how defenders understand risks, connect the dots, and prioritize response.
- MCP is the Model Context Protocol that makes it simple for agents to access data and coordinate actions. A Sentinel MCP server provides the intelligence layer to translate natural language into executable tasks that enable agents to act fast.