
If the customer is not even using Office365 the starting costs are harder to justify. A "net new" customer to Microsoft would need to establish an Azure presence, possibly deploy and integrate Azure Active Directory P1/P2, and fund new Log Analytics, Azure Monitor/Azure Automation, and Azure Security Center services in addition to Azure Sentinel analysis.For the "all in" Microsoft customer, all the data is already available in Azure and the specific new cost of Sentinel analysis is the only additional cost.It's hard to give a 'one size fits all' cost of using Azure Sentinel since the costs vary greatly according to an organization's current investment in Microsoft technologies. There are sometimes base costs like turning on Azure Security Center or deploying Azure Log Analytics agents that can add to the cost of running a maximum value Azure Sentinel deployment. There are going to be costs associated with piping all that data from many heterogeneous and discrete sources into Azure, storing it there, and pushing the data through Sentinel for security analysis. Observe the many data sources in Figure 1, a screenshot from a best-practice production Azure Sentinel deployment:įigure 1 - Azure Sentinel Usage report from best practices deployment detailing data types analyzed by Sentinel. A best practices Sentinel deployment includes "lighting up" a broad set of logs from computers, users, services, and devices. In fact, before making a decision on Azure Sentinel, the cloud architect needs to validate the basic affordability and cost-effectiveness of Sentinel in the target estate. Azure Sentinel data connectors exist to provide end-to-end SIEM incident prosecution across clouds (including AWS), identity systems, computing resources, and devices (including most firewall and router vendors).Įven if Azure Sentinel was the ultimate logical SIEM destination, to be viable, like any solution Azure Sentinel needs to be priced appropriately.
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To Start: Paying for Azure Sentinelįor an organization that is "all-in" with the Microsoft stack: Office365, Azure AD, and Azure or Windows infrastructure (Linux is good too) including Azure Security Center, there is the powerful synergy of having all your security-sensitive metadata in one place and benefitting from a sophisticated awareness of all the involved security entities.

Now that the product is ready to purchase and use in production, it's time to focus on real-world use cases that demonstrate the SIEM features.
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Two previous articles Azure Sentinel: New Microsoft SIEM almost free to trial and Azure Sentinel updates: New Data Connector UX, AWS live, CyberArk coming walked through the Azure Sentinel basics and evolution during it's almost 9 month preview period. Microsoft's cloud-based SIEM, Azure Sentinel, achieved general availability (GA) on.
