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SolarWinds Security Event Manager vs. Microsoft Sentinel

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricSolarWinds Security Event Manager

by SolarWinds Worldwide LLC

Microsoft Sentinel

by Microsoft

Overall rating4.04.4
Review count76298
Ease of use8.48.7
Ease of setup7.78.5
Quality of support8.48.7
Meets requirements8.88.8
NPS26.76056360.363636
Small Business9.3%27.9%
Mid-Market40.0%30.9%
Enterprise50.7%41.3%
Total page views234841
Total LLM citations32713,925

SolarWinds Security Event Manager

Security Event Manager (SEM) is a powerful, real-time Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution designed to act as a virtual Security Operations Center (SOC). It provides active monitoring and automated threat detection across multi-vendor network devices, servers, workstations, and applications. SEM is delivered as a downloadable virtual appliance for rapid deployment, and allows IT teams to centralize log data and enable real-time event correlation right out of the box. SEM goes beyond simple alerting by offering automated remediation actions.

Pros

  • Detection Efficiency
  • Ease of Use

Microsoft Sentinel

Microsoft Sentinel lets you see and stop threats before they cause harm, with SIEM reinvented for a modern world. Microsoft Sentinel is your birds-eye view across the enterprise. Put the cloud and large-scale intelligence from decades of Microsoft security experience to work. Make your threat detection and response smarter and faster with artificial intelligence (AI). Eliminate security infrastructure setup and maintenance, and elastically scale to meet your security needs—while reducing IT costs.

Pros

  • Security
  • Threat Detection
  • Easy Integrations
  • Integration Support
  • Integrations
  • Ease of Use