Streamline your security operations and protect your business data from sophisticated threats with a unified security platform from Microsoft Sentinel.
Microsoft Sentinel (formerly Azure Sentinel) is a cloud-native SIEM and SOAR platform that integrates natively with Azure Logic Apps to collect, analyse, and respond to security data from across your entire environment – users, devices, applications, and infrastructure, whether on-premise or in the cloud. Rather than waiting for an alert to land in someone’s inbox, Sentinel continuously monitors for threats, correlates signals across your whole estate, and surfaces the incidents that actually need attention.
As a managed Microsoft Sentinel service, Netcentrix handles the deployment, configuration and day-to-day monitoring – so your team gets enterprise-grade threat detection without needing to run a 24/7 security operations function internally.
Traditional SIEM tools need hardware, infrastructure, and a lengthy deployment project before they do anything useful. Microsoft Sentinel works differently – it’s built entirely in the cloud, so there’s nothing to provision, nothing to maintain, and no capacity ceiling to worry about. You start ingesting data straight away and only pay for what you use.
The numbers back it up, too. A 2024 Forrester Total Economic Impact study commissioned by Microsoft found that organisations using Microsoft Sentinel achieved a 234% ROI over three years, cut false positives by up to 79%, reduced the workload for advanced investigations by 85%, and deployed new data connections 93% faster.
Microsoft Sentinel was also named a Leader in the Forrester Wave: Security Analytics Platforms, Q2 2025 – independently validating its position at the top of the SIEM market.
Microsoft Sentinel is Microsoft’s cloud-native security information and event management platform – the technology that sits at the centre of a modern security operations centre, pulling in data from across an organisation’s entire IT environment and using AI and machine learning to distinguish genuine threats from background noise.
Where traditional SIEM tools are typically deployed on-premise and require significant infrastructure and specialist resource to run, Sentinel lives entirely in Azure. That means it scales automatically as your data volumes grow, connects natively to Microsoft 365, Azure AD, Microsoft Defender and a wide range of third-party tools, and doesn’t require a hardware refresh cycle to keep it current.
For organisations that don’t have a dedicated security operations team, that last point matters as much as the technology itself – because a SIEM platform is only useful if someone is actively monitoring it, tuning it, and acting on what it finds.
Running Microsoft Sentinel effectively isn’t just a case of switching it on. Out of the box, it needs to be properly configured to your environment – the right data connectors enabled, detection rules tuned to reduce noise, automation playbooks set up to handle routine responses, and someone actively monitoring the alerts it generates around the clock. Without that, you have a powerful platform producing data that nobody’s acting on.
Netcentrix’s managed Microsoft Sentinel service covers the full lifecycle. We handle the initial deployment and workspace configuration, connect your data sources (Microsoft 365, Azure, on-premise infrastructure, and third-party tools) and build detection rules tailored to your environment rather than relying on defaults. From there, our team monitors alerts continuously, triages incidents, escalates genuine threats, and provides regular reporting so you have a clear picture of your security posture at all times.
For organisations without a dedicated security operations centre, this means enterprise-grade SIEM coverage without the headcount to match. For those with an existing security team, it frees them to focus on higher-priority work rather than alert management.
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Our team of expert specialists will work with you to identify the security needs of your business and find the perfect Microsoft Sentinel deployment and licensing for your business.
Intelligent threat detection with automatic responses.
Across all users, devices, applications and IT infrastructure, both on-premises and in multiple clouds.
Detect previously uncovered threats and minimise false positives using Microsoft’s Power BI analytics and unparalleled threat intelligence.
Investigate threats with AI and hunt suspicious activities at scale, tapping into decades of Microsoft cyber security experience.
Respond to incidents rapidly with built-in orchestration and automation of common tasks.
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Protect your business with intelligent threat protection from Microsoft Sentinel.
A cost-effective, managed SIEM service with predictable billing and flexible commitments, so you can enjoy ultimate security without the financial burden.
Connect to and collect data from all your sources including users, applications, servers and devices whether they run on-premise or in any cloud environment.
Integrate Sentinel easily with existing tools, including business applications, other security products or homegrown tools, while using your own machine learning models.
Optimise your Microsoft Sentinel solution to meet your business needs by bringing your own insights, tailored detections, machine learning models and threat intelligence.
View a prioritised list of alerts, gain correlated analysis of thousands of security events within seconds and visualise the scope of every attack.
With Microsoft Sentinel, your business has access to the features it needs to intelligently defend against cyber threats.
Collect data across all users, devices, applications and infrastructure, both on-premises and in multiple clouds.
Identify previously uncovered threats and minimise false positives using analytics and unparalleled threat intelligence from Microsoft.
Discover threats with artificial intelligence and respond rapidly to those threats with built-in orchestration and automation of common tasks.
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Explore some key Microsoft Sentinel FAQs
Yes. Microsoft Sentinel is built within the Azure platform. It provides a fully integrated experience in the Azure portal to augment your existing services, such as Azure web hosting.
Forrester Research named Azure Sentinel (Microsoft Sentinel) as a ‘Leader’ in its Forrester Wave: Security Analytics Platform providers 2020 report, ranking the solution top in strategy.
Microsoft Sentinel integrates with many enterprise tools, including best-of-breed security products, homegrown tools and other systems like ServiceNow. It provides an extensible architecture to support custom collectors through REST API and advanced queries. It also enables you to bring your own insights, tailored detections, machine learning models and threat intelligence.
Yes. Microsoft Sentinel’s centralised logging and audit trail supports a number of compliance obligations – GDPR breach detection and reporting, Cyber Essentials Plus, and ISO 27001 audits all require evidence of active security monitoring, and Sentinel provides exactly that. Custom workbooks and reports can be configured for specific regulatory frameworks, giving you a documented, auditable record of your security posture rather than a one-off snapshot. As part of our managed service, Netcentrix handles the configuration of compliance reporting so you’re not left building it yourself.
SIEM as a service means the full platform (in this case Microsoft Sentinel) is deployed, configured, monitored and managed by a specialist provider rather than run in-house. It removes the need for dedicated internal SIEM expertise, takes the operational burden of 24/7 security monitoring off your team, and gives you access to enterprise-grade threat intelligence without the headcount to match.
Microsoft Sentinel connects natively to the full Microsoft security stack (Microsoft 365, Azure AD, Microsoft Defender, and Entra ID) and supports a wide range of third-party integrations, including ServiceNow, Palo Alto, Fortinet, and others via built-in data connectors. For on-premise systems and custom sources, additional connectors can be configured as part of deployment. As part of Netcentrix’s managed service, we handle the integration setup so your data sources are connected and feeding into Sentinel correctly from day one.
The two are the most commonly evaluated SIEM platforms, and the right choice usually comes down to your existing environment. Microsoft Sentinel is cloud-native, consumption-based, and integrates natively with the Microsoft ecosystem – making it the stronger choice for organisations already running Microsoft 365 and Azure. Splunk has broader third-party connector coverage and a longer enterprise track record, but its licence-based pricing model tends to be significantly more expensive at scale. For Microsoft-first environments, Sentinel typically wins on both cost and integration depth.
When Microsoft Sentinel identifies a genuine incident, our team triages it, assesses severity, and responds according to an agreed escalation process – so the right people in your organisation are notified at the right time without your inbox being flooded with low-priority alerts. For high-severity incidents, we escalate immediately. Routine or lower-priority findings are documented and included in your regular reporting.
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