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Unified SecOps

AI-powered, unified SecOps

Unify your security operations (SecOps) across prevention, detection, and response with an AI-powered platform.
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End-to-end SecOps. One platform.

  • Improve your security posture across hybrid environments using built-in, natively integrated security controls.
  • View cyberthreats and disrupt them in near-real time across domains, including endpoints, identities, email and collaboration tools, cloud apps, data stores, and hybrid infrastructure.
  • Boost productivity with step-by-step guidance in natural language and automated workflows for quickly triaging, investigating, and resolving incidents.

Why adopt a unified SecOps platform?

Replace disconnected tools and fragmented analyst experiences with a streamlined platform to ease work and eliminate gaps.
 
 
Products

Secure your multiplatform, multicloud environment

Microsoft Defender XDR

Automatically disrupt cyberattacks and accelerate response with extended detection and response (XDR).
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Microsoft Sentinel

Get incident-level visibility across your digital estate with cloud-native security information and event management (SIEM).
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Microsoft Security Exposure Management

Reduce risk with unified posture management that delivers proactive cyberthreat protection—now in preview.
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Microsoft Security Copilot

Get generative AI natively embedded in the unified SecOps platform.
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Managed services

Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR

Fill coverage gaps and fix incidents faster—boost your security operations center (SOC) with managed XDR.
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Handle every cyberthreat

Prevent and respond to cyberattacks at the speed of AI. Get the full capabilities of your foundational SOC tools on one integrated platform—augmented with Microsoft Threat Intelligence and our security professionals.
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Scenarios

Comprehensive, adaptable protection

Safeguard your organization against modern risks with a streamlined SecOps platform supercharged by Microsoft AI and threat intelligence.
Ransomware protection
Real-time defense
Business email compromise
Email security
Cloud security
Multicloud security
Identity protection
Integrated ITDR
Endpoint security
Device protection
Generative AI
Greater productivity

Disrupt in-progress attacks with AI

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Industry recognition

  • Microsoft is named a Leader in the May 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Information and Event Management.4
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  • Microsoft Defender is named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Extended Detection And Response (XDR) Platforms, Q2 2024.5
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  • Microsoft Defender XDR (formerly Microsoft 365 Defender) demonstrates industry-leading protection in the 2022 MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK Evaluations.
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  • Microsoft is named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Security Analytics Platforms, Q4 2022.6
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Customer stories

What our customers are saying

  1. DOW logo
  2. Equitable Bank logo
  3. ING Bank Logo
  4. Pepsi logo
  5. Quintet Private Bank logo
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“The efficiency of our response process has seen significant growth due to the ability to navigate the many data points from each of these solutions in a single place.”
Matthew Madigan, Cybersecurity Manager, DOW Inc.
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Equitable Bank logo
“The difference we achieved in security after installing [Microsoft Defender XDR (formerly Microsoft 365 Defender)] and Microsoft Sentinel was very affirming for the team.”
Andrew Vezina, VP and Chief Information Security Officer, Equitable Bank
1,500%
 more detections the first year
47%
boost in secure server logging
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ING Bank Logo
“A single layer of detection isn’t strong enough and is prone to some level of false positive. … On the other hand, [Microsoft Defender XDR] correlates signals across endpoints, email, documents, identity, apps, and more.”
Krzysztof Kuźnik, Product Owner, ING
1000s
of events managed per second
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Pepsi Logo
“We got our environment up and running in seven hours, thanks to the data we saved with Azure Backup. And we didn’t pay a cent to the [ransomware] attackers.”
Eric McKinney, Enterprise Infrastructure Director, G&J Pepsi-Cola Bottlers
1.5
hours to isolate vulnerable devices
2000
devices and 100 apps protected
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Quintet Private Bank logo
“We receive twice fewer security incidents now, which means half as much work needing to be managed at a local level.”
Thomas Chiché, Group CISO, Quintet Private Bank
240%
more security coverage
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Resources

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Get key insights into comprehensive cyberthreat protection.
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Forrester study

The Total Economic Impact™ of Microsoft Sentinel

Learn how Microsoft Sentinel generated a 234% ROI over three years in a Forrester study.7
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Forrester study

The Total Economic Impact™ Of Microsoft SIEM And XDR

See how Microsoft SIEM and XDR reduced time to investigate cyberthreats by 65% in a Forrester study.8
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Forrester study

The Total Economic Impact™ Of Microsoft Defender XDR (formerly Microsoft 365 Defender)

Learn how a Forrester study found a 242% ROI over three years with Microsoft Defender XDR.9
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Resource library

Cybersecurity and AI news

Discover the latest trends and best practices in cyberthreat protection and AI for cybersecurity.
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More solutions

Related SIEM and XDR solutions

Find out about other solutions from Microsoft Security.
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XDR

Supercharge your SOC efficiency with XDR

Empower security teams to effectively detect and respond to cyberthreats with expanded visibility, incident-level investigation tools, and built-in automation.
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ITDR

Proactively safeguard identities

Take advantage of adaptive access, actionable threat intelligence, and automated cyberattack responses.
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Ransomware protection

Minimize ransomware risks

Expose and respond to sophisticated cyberattacks across your multicloud, multiplatform environment.
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Phishing protection

Fortify key entry points

Prevent cyberattacks with leading email and collaboration security and strong authentication.
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Internet of Things (IoT) security

Protect your IoT environment with comprehensive solutions

Safeguard your IoT environment, the fastest-growing cyberattack surface in your organization.
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Industrial and critical infrastructure security

Gain visibility and control over your industrial IoT environment

Protect a growing attack surface by increasing your visibility, improving your IoT security posture, and expediting incident response with tools optimized for your SOC.
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[1, 2, 8] The Total Economic Impact™ Of Microsoft SIEM And XDR, a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting, August 2022.

[3, 9] The Total Economic Impact™ Of Microsoft 365 Defender, a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting, April 2022.

[4] Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management, Andrew Davies, Mitchell Schneider, Rustam Malik, Eric Ahlm, 8 May 2024.

 

GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally, and MAGIC QUADRANT is a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates and are used herein with permission. All rights reserved.

 

Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

[5] The Forrester Wave™: Extended Detection And Response (XDR) Providers, Q2 2024, Rob Lefferts, May 2024.

[6] The Forrester Wave™: Security Analytics Platforms, Q4 2022, Allie Mellen with Joseph Blankenship, Caroline Provost, and Kara Hartig, December 14, 2022.

[7] The Total Economic Impact™ of Microsoft Sentinel, a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting, March 2023.

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