Sentinel Licensing Requirements (2024)

FAQs

Does Sentinel require a license? ›

Microsoft Sentinel offers several licensing and pricing models to cater to the diverse needs of organizations. Understanding these models can help you choose the most suitable option for your business.

An overview of Sentinel RMS

It serves as a comprehensive license enforcement and management system for software vendors, enabling them to protect their intellectual property and ensure the proper distribution and usage of their software products.

E3/Sentinel, a NewSpring Holdings company, is a mission-focused services and solutions company headquartered in McLean, VA.

Microsoft Sentinel is generally rated as being easier to use, set up, and administrate. Splunk generally gets better ratings for quality of support and ease of doing business. Most people trust Microsoft's products more, including its Network Management, Incident Management, and Security Intelligence.

Microsoft Sentinel isn't actually free

Unlike many Microsoft security offerings, Microsoft Sentinel is not bundled into a specific Microsoft 365 plan, even at the highest subscription levels. Instead, like most other SIEM/SOAR products, it's priced based on data consumption.

Try Microsoft Sentinel free for the first 31 days. Microsoft Sentinel can be enabled at no additional cost on an Azure Monitor Log Analytics workspace, subject to the limits stated below.

As previously mentioned, both names refer to the same product. Microsoft renamed Azure Sentinel to Microsoft Sentinel in November 2021.

Is Azure Sentinel included in E5? ›

Customers with Microsoft 365 E5 can now benefit from free Azure credits for up to 100MB per user/month of data ingestion into Microsoft Sentinel (previously known as Azure Sentinel).

Is Azure Sentinel PaaS or SaaS? Azure Sentinel SIEM can be considered as SaaS (Security-as-a-Service) based on its high scalability when meeting the security needs of various organizations.

Azure Sentinel is Microsoft's cloud-native SIEM and Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) solution. With Azure Sentinel, businesses can collect, analyze, and respond to data collection data from several sources and give organizations a full understanding of their security environment.

To see your current Microsoft Sentinel pricing tier, select Settings in Microsoft Sentinel, and then select the Pricing tab. Your current pricing tier is marked as Current tier. To set and change your Commitment tier, see Set or change pricing tier.

What is Microsoft Sentinel, and how does it work? Microsoft Sentinel is a cloud-native security information and event management (SIEM) platform that uses built-in AI to help analyze large volumes of data across an enterprise—fast.

Sentinel IDS is used globally to protect critical national infrastructure, ports and harbours, military operations and ports, private and commercial yachts, commercial vessels and waterside properties.

Azure Sentinel shines as a scalable, cloud-native SIEM solution with seamless integrations across Microsoft platforms. On the other hand, SentinelOne is renowned for its AI-driven endpoint security and autonomous response capabilities.

Try Microsoft Sentinel free for the first 31 days. Microsoft Sentinel can be enabled at no additional cost on an Azure Monitor Log Analytics workspace, subject to the limits stated below. New workspaces can ingest up to 10 GB/day of log data for the first 31-days at no cost.

Licensing requirements

To onboard servers to the standalone versions of Defender for Endpoint, server licenses are required. You can choose from: Microsoft Defender for Servers Plan 1 or Plan 2 (as part of the Defender for Cloud) offering.