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Microsoft Purview Data Governance 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
6.5
Microsoft Purview Data Governance service is rated positively, but users desire consistent, knowledgeable support and improved response times.
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
5.0
Microsoft Purview needs improvements in data lineage, integration, compliance, automation, multilingual support, real-time protection, and user experience.
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
Microsoft Purview Data Governance is highly scalable and adaptable, though cost and network challenges may require infrastructure adjustments.
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

Sentiment score
5.2
Microsoft Purview Data Governance is valued for cost-effectiveness but criticized for complex, potentially costly tiered licensing and pricing.
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
7.6
Microsoft Purview Data Governance is stable but requires careful patch management; users note occasional bugs and accessibility 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
8.3
Microsoft Purview offers seamless multi-cloud data protection, automatic classification, and strong compliance features for enhanced governance and security.
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

Microsoft Purview Data Gove...
Ranking in Microsoft Security Suite
8th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
52
Ranking in other categories
Data Governance (1st)
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 Microsoft Purview Data Governance is 5.2%, up from 3.9% 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

Peter West - PeerSpot reviewer
Data labeling gives visibility into where your confidential and critical data are
There are negatives to the compliance aspect of Purview in that you get a lot of false positives with some of the native scanning and rules in the platform. A lot of them need tweaking to get a more realistic handle on what data there is. Also, I wouldn't say that the remediation of policy violations is particularly great. It has improved, but it's not very easy to dig into things if there is a policy violation. A lot of them are false-positives. It has helped reduce the time to action on insider threats, but there are quite a lot of false positives there as well. Overall, it's a work in progress for Microsoft. I would also like to see pre-built reporting. The dashboard isn't really that intuitive. It would be good to have more intuitive dashboards that you can drill down into or even customizable dashboards.
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
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
13%
Government
9%
Insurance Company
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 Microsoft Azure Purview?
It is designed to seamlessly connect to various data sources, which is particularly beneficial for our customers who primarily use Microsoft technologies.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Azure Purview?
It is cheap or free since we have an EFI license. It is free for the EFI user.
What needs improvement with Microsoft Azure Purview?
There is definitely room for improvement as this product is quite new. In terms of the competence of the tools with the Microsoft ecosystem, the product can do better.
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

Microsoft Purview, MS Azure Purview
Azure Sentinel
 

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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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