Rapid7 InsightIDR vs Sentinel comparison

Rapid7 and OpenText are both solutions in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category. Rapid7 is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.1, while OpenText is ranked #16 with an average rating of 8.2. Rapid7 holds a 2.6% mindshare in SIEM, compared to OpenText’s 3.5% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Rapid7 users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 81% of OpenText users who would recommend it.

Rapid7 InsightIDR

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95% willing to recommend

Sentinel

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81% willing to recommend

Rapid7 InsightIDR

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 18, 2024

Sentinel and Rapid7 InsightIDR are both prominent security solutions with distinct advantages. Based on user reviews, Rapid7 InsightIDR often has the upper hand due to its comprehensive feature set, despite higher costs.

Features: Sentinel's valuable features include robust threat detection, alerting capabilities, scalability, and integration with various third-party tools. Rapid7 InsightIDR is praised for its intuitive incident response workflows, user behavior analytics, and advanced analytics and response mechanisms.

Room for Improvement: For Sentinel, users mention the need for more user-friendly configuration options, enhanced reporting functionalities, and lowering complexity. Rapid7 InsightIDR feedback includes suggestions for improving data visualization, refining correlation rules, and enhancing specific functionalities for better user satisfaction.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Sentinel's deployment model is noted for its flexibility with a smooth setup process and effective customer support. Rapid7 InsightIDR also offers a user-friendly deployment and garners particular praise for its comprehensive customer service and support materials.

Pricing and ROI: Sentinel is often viewed as offering a reasonable setup cost and satisfactory ROI, with users pointing to its cost-effectiveness for the features provided. Rapid7 InsightIDR has a higher setup cost but delivers superior ROI through its extensive features and capabilities.

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Categories and Ranking

Rapid7 InsightIDR

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

9th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) (3rd), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (20th), Threat Deception Platforms (5th), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (15th)

Sentinel

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

16th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category, the mindshare of Rapid7 InsightIDR is 2.6%, down from 2.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sentinel is 3.5%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

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Prasanth Prasad

Director of Technology at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

Offers capabilities in areas like threat intelligence and vulnerability management but needs to improve support

The most valuable feature of the product for managing security events stems from the fact that the product's intelligence part is very good since it offers its own threat intelligence and vulnerability management platform. The tool also has its own cloud security posture management platform. The tool also is a dynamic application security testing platform. The aforementioned tools fall under Rapid7 InsightIDR's kitty. The intelligence and the data that Rapid7 gathers from customers across the globe enrich the quality of its detection capabilities. All other tools in the market depend on third-party solutions for intelligence. Rapid7 InsightIDr has the intelligence part natively available within the product, giving it a good edge over other vendors.

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JaideepSingh

Technology Specialist at a government with 51-200 employees

An automated solution that helped me detect threats in less than half the time it used to take

Sentinel gave us logs to tell us what's going right and wrong in your environment so we could secure the network. We also got multiple kinds of logs. By running some queries from the logs, we could find and fix the anomalies in the environment. Sentinel's threat visibility was great at telling us if we had something going on in our environment. We had to set up alerts in our environment based on the logs. If we had the right alerts set up, we got notified about threats and where security was lacking, so we could also take care of that. Sentinel's threat intelligence helped us prepare and take proactive steps for potential threats before they hit. Having preparation before a threat has helped our security operations. When I was using it, I used to keep going into my dashboards and looking for any threats on a weekly basis, or maybe two or three times a week. Based on that, we would recommend certain changes to the server and infrastructure teams to block or allow some ports. Sentinel's threat intelligence helped plan security against risks.

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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

"I have seen that Rapid7 InsightIDR provides security to the networks and endpoints in the company."

"The incident case management is the most valuable feature. Even though there's always something I find I would like to add to that feature, the ability to quickly sort through all the logs, network and endpoint data, etc., and add it to an incident case as part of the investigation, is nice. Having it automatically timeline that additional data into the original incident timeline, and correlate it to other notable events and activities on the network, results in a huge improvement in our overall confidence that we've quickly traced down the right source of an issue."

"The alerting to drive investigations and remediation has been its most valuable feature."

"Rapid7's reporting is more robust than Tenable's."

"We were able to identify criminals attempting to login from China and put a stop on their IP locations."

"Rapid7 InsightIDR integrates well with other solutions. It's also easy to configure because Rapid7 InsightIDR has a lot of instructions posted on their website that customers can follow if they need to get the source log."

"I like the tool's user analysis feature."

"It improved my organization by building a security alerting program."

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"We can do advanced hunting queries and modify SQL queries to get desired results based on the rules triggering over the console."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is that it provides a central locking system for many event sources."

"The stability is phenomenal and we never had any issues with downtime or even had to restart."

"The tool is simple to use."

"The most valuable feature is the flexible log for identifying security threats inside an application. Sentinel is very good at this."

"The solution lets us get all the logs properly and regularly monitor customer infrastructure."

"It makes everything easier by automating some tasks and growing with our needs."

"Sentinel gave us logs to tell us what's going right and wrong in your environment so we could secure the network."

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Cons

"Needs a better ability to customize the check within the console."

"Customised alert recipients need to be added to allow better first-line action and quicker response. Configurable honeypots would be a welcome addition."

"Currently, it lacks the functionalities provided by Rapid7's User Behavior Analytics (UBA)."

"The integration capabilities of the solution have certain shortcomings where improvements are required."

"The reporting is the weakest aspect. There needs to be multi-level grouping for events (for example, group by user and destination). Right now, we can do a group by user and a separate table or group by destination. But I'd be more interested in where a person was logging into instead of who was logging in or where he was logging in."

"Inability to get access to compliance reports within the solution."

"It takes time for the product's support team to resolve issues, making it an area of concern where improvements are required."

"Cloud risk assessment is one area where I think they need a lot of improvement."

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"There is a need for more flexibility in customization, especially when working with different vendors and platforms."

"You need a lot of Unix scripting knowledge in order to manage the tool, which is one of the main issues that we faced."

"This product's connection to certain types of cloud systems could be improved. We can do Microsoft, Google, and Amazon, but there are a lot of other things happening in the cloud that we do not connect well enough to. This product could be improved with better connection to cloud-based solutions."

"Creating a drag-and-drop dashboard or workbook in Sentinel is a little more complex compared to other tools like LogRhythm and IBM QRadar."

"There are still a few vendor-specific devices for which Sentinel needs to work on integration, such as Netskope devices."

"The dashboard and customer view should be improved"

"It is an ancient product."

"I rate Sentinel a six out of ten for scalability."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Rapid7 InsightIDR charges us based on the endpoints we connect to."

"The solution has a mid-range price point in the market"

"The pricing and licensing are competitive."

"The pricing is good, and it is not very expensive."

"I rate Rapid7 InsightIDR's price a four on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive."

"It is more reasonably priced than other vendors."

"It is on a yearly basis. For our own company, for about 250 users, it was 16,000 euros a year."

"Accurately predict your licensing counts as this is a subscription based product."

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"Sentinel is a subscription-based solution."

"We receive a pricing discount because of our ongoing partnership with Micro Focus."

"The solution’s pricing is aligned with its competitors."

"We inquired about getting support from the vendor, Micro Focus, but the cost was very high."

"Sentinel's slightly on the expensive side."

"Sentinel is moderately priced."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

10%

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Questions from the Community

What SOC product do you recommend?

For tools I’d recommend: -SIEM- LogRhythm -SOAR- Palo Alto XSOAR Doing commercial w/o both (or at least an XDR) is asking to miss details that are critical, and ending up a statistic. Also, rememb...

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What do you like most about Rapid7 InsightIDR?

During simulations or demonstrations, the tool generates alerts, providing details such as the specific application, its origin, and potential threats. For instance, it can identify if an applicati...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Rapid7 InsightIDR?

The product pricing is very cheap.

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What do you like most about NetIQ Sentinel?

The solution lets us get all the logs properly and regularly monitor customer infrastructure.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NetIQ Sentinel?

Sentinel is moderately priced.

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What needs improvement with NetIQ Sentinel?

There are still a few vendor-specific devices for which Sentinel needs to work on integration, such as Netskope devices. Also, we often face region-wise outages during operation due to product team...

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InsightIDR

NetIQ Sentinel, Novell SIEM

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OpenText

Overview

Parsing hundreds of trivial alerts. Managing a mountain of data. Manually forwarding info from your endpoints. Forget that. InsightIDR instantly arms you with the insight you need to make better decisions across the incident detection and response lifecycle, faster.

Sentinel is a full-featured Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution that simplifies the deployment, management and day-to-day use of SIEM, readily adapts to dynamic enterprise environments and delivers the true "actionable intelligence" security professionals need to quickly understand their threat posture and prioritize response.

Sample Customers

Liberty Wines, Pioneer Telephone, Visier

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