The card for Microsoft shop
A team that runs Sentinel, Defender and Entra, and wants automation that sits inside that estate. The usual question is whether to stay with Logic Apps playbooks or buy a second automation product.
This card raises the weight on pricing and hosting to 14 and 12 and on integrations to 14, because a Microsoft estate pays for Logic Apps on top of Sentinel and has to reach the same tools. It lowers AI to 8 and migration to 8, since most of these teams are not leaving anything. The rubric does not score how well a product fits Microsoft tools, so apply this rule yourself: keep Microsoft Sentinel on the list, and keep any vendor that documents a Sentinel connection, which on the pages read means D3 Security, Cyware and ServiceNow. On these weights Sentinel is eighth, because its AI, hosting and pricing rows were flagged for a re-read on 2026-11-03. Read the card as a check on what a Microsoft-only choice gives up, not as a recommendation to leave. The date that matters is 2027-03-31, when Sentinel is supported only in the Defender portal.
The covered platforms, in this order
- 1 Cyware 7.13 Opens a band.
- 2 Splunk SOAR (Cisco) 6.52 Opens a band.
- 3 Torq 6.46 In the same band as the row above.
- 4 D3 Security 6.40 In the same band as the row above.
- 5 Tines 6.38 In the same band as the row above.
- 6 Mate Security 6.10 Opens a band.
- 7 Palo Alto Cortex XSOAR 6.06 In the same band as the row above.
- 8 Microsoft Sentinel 6.02 In the same band as the row above.
- 9 Swimlane (Turbine) 5.79 Opens a band.
- 10 Google Security Operations 5.62 In the same band as the row above.
- 11 BlinkOps 5.60 In the same band as the row above.
- 12 ServiceNow Security Operations 4.84 Opens a band.
The weights used
| Row | Weight on this card | Weight on the main card |
|---|---|---|
| Playbook authoring model | 12.0 | 14 |
| Integration count and depth documented | 14.0 | 14 |
| Case management and collaboration | 8.0 | 8 |
| Approvals and human-in-the-loop controls | 12.0 | 12 |
| Agentic or AI features that are documented | 8.0 | 12 |
| Hosting and data residency options | 12.0 | 8 |
| Pricing model and transparency | 14.0 | 8 |
| Migration tooling and import or export formats | 8.0 | 14 |
| Ownership stability | 12.0 | 10 |
Totals are computed from the same nine scores as everywhere on the site, reweighted. Totals within 0.25 are a band, not a ladder. How the scoring works.