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Azure Bastion vs Microsoft Sentinel comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.0
Azure Bastion's customer service is highly rated for its prompt, efficient, and knowledgeable support, especially by satisfied users.
Sentiment score
7.3
Microsoft Sentinel support is generally positive, with mixed reviews on responsiveness and the necessity for premium support tiers.
 

Room For Improvement

Sentiment score
6.1
Azure Bastion faces challenges in cost, speed, browser compatibility, functionality, and support, with potential improvements using hypervisor features.
Sentiment score
5.0
Microsoft Sentinel users want better integration, more tools, improved UI, clearer documentation, reduced costs, and enhanced alert system.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.8
Azure Bastion's scalability experiences mixed reviews, with some citing limitations and others affirming extensive user support but unspecified metrics.
Sentiment score
8.1
Microsoft Sentinel offers scalable, automatic resource adjustments, multi-region support, and extensive data integration, adapting to diverse organizational needs.
 

Setup Cost

No sentiment score available
Azure Bastion provides affordable licensing for a minimum of 10 users, focusing on security with product-specific requirements.
Sentiment score
5.2
Microsoft Sentinel offers value through integration but requires careful cost management due to its complex, consumption-based pricing model.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.5
Azure Bastion, developed by Microsoft, consistently delivers stable and reliable performance, with users frequently reporting no issues.
Sentiment score
8.4
Microsoft Sentinel is highly stable and reliable, with 99.9% availability, despite some integration and log ingestion issues.
 

Valuable Features

Sentiment score
8.4
Azure Bastion secures VM connections via SSL tunneling, eliminating public IPs, with robust role-based access and scripting features.
Sentiment score
8.5
Microsoft Sentinel offers seamless integration, automation, AI capabilities, and scalable threat detection, enhancing security with cost-effectiveness and efficient monitoring.
 

Categories and Ranking

Azure Bastion
Ranking in Microsoft Security Suite
17th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
Network Monitoring Software (28th), Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) (7th)
Microsoft Sentinel
Ranking in Microsoft Security Suite
5th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
89
Ranking in other categories
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (2nd), Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Microsoft Security Suite category, the mindshare of Azure Bastion is 1.5%, up from 1.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Sentinel is 5.6%, down from 6.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Aladin Steiner - PeerSpot reviewer
Has good scalability and provides secure access to the virtual machines
The product improved the security posture of our organization. We don’t have open ports and connect them to servers using it. We can carry out two-factor authentication to protect the devices with conditional access features. It would be nice to have a feature to copy and paste the files into servers. I rate the product a nine out of ten.
Nitin Arora - PeerSpot reviewer
Gives us one place to investigate and respond to threats, and automation eliminates manual work
They can work on the EDR side of things. It is already really superb, because of the kinds of features we get with the EDR solution. It's not a standard EDR and they have recently enhanced things. But the problem is with onboarding devices. I have different OS flavors, including a large number of Linux, Windows, macOS, and some on-prem machines as well. Every time we need to onboard these kinds of machines into the EDR, we need to do it with the help of Intune, to sync up the devices, and do the configuration. I'm looking for something on the EDR side that will reduce this kind of work. They can eliminate having to do manual configuration for the machines, and check the different types of configurations for each OS. In some cases, it does not support some OSs. If they could reduce this type of work, that would be really amazing.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
19%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
8%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Computer Software Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Government
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Azure Bastion?
Azure Bastion makes it easy to provide quick virtual machine access to our customers.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Bastion?
The tool is cheaply priced. I would say that the product is free to use.
What needs improvement with Azure Bastion?
I think the tool is pretty good. It is like having a tool that just works. If there are better tools that Azure comes up with, then that is a separate thing. In the current scenario, Azure Bastion ...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
 

Also Known As

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Azure Sentinel
 

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Sample Customers

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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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