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Google Chronicle vs Microsoft Sentinel
February 17, 2025 | Author: Michael Stromann
4★
Chronicle, powered by Google infrastructure, enables cost-effective use of security telemetry to improve SOC productivity and combat modern threats.
21★
Microsoft Sentinel is a scalable, cloud-native solution that provides: Security information and event management (SIEM)
See also:
Top 10 SIEM software
Top 10 SIEM software
Both Google Chronicle and Microsoft Sentinel, if we’re being completely honest, are designed to do much the same thing: they tirelessly trawl through mountains of data to catch anything that might go bump in the digital night. They both rely on cloud-based wizardry, scaling with the grace of an intergalactic space cruiser and processing enough security data to make even the most paranoid person feel secure. They also both make use of advanced algorithms—of the sort that might give a machine the unsettling impression that it's thinking—along with integrations that let you weave together a whole array of security systems, like knitting an unlikely yet effective digital sweater.
But Google Chronicle, having sprung forth from the highly reputable bowels of Google Cloud in 2019, isn’t exactly a shrinking violet. It tends to play with data differently, choosing to hang on to it for much longer than other services would, allowing you to do some remarkably deep (and often alarming) digging into historical threats. It is more the dedicated hunter, eager to unearth even the tiniest of clues across vast stretches of time. It also happens to have a rather tasty feature of processing data at an absurd speed, thanks to BigQuery—Google’s way of ensuring that nothing takes longer than a few milliseconds, unless of course, you’ve chosen to slow things down on purpose.
Meanwhile, Microsoft Sentinel, also a relative newcomer to the scene in 2019, seems to have a different kind of ambition. Born from the mighty machine that is Microsoft and embedded into the fabric of Azure, it aims to be the seamless guardian of everything within that ecosystem. If you happen to already be swimming in Azure’s vast ocean of services, then Sentinel will feel like your old friend who’s always there to help, seamlessly tying everything together. Sentinel’s knack for managing data is through the somewhat quaintly named “Data Collection Rules,” which sounds far more like an intergalactic treaty than a security feature, but hey, it gets the job done.
See also: Top 10 SIEM software
But Google Chronicle, having sprung forth from the highly reputable bowels of Google Cloud in 2019, isn’t exactly a shrinking violet. It tends to play with data differently, choosing to hang on to it for much longer than other services would, allowing you to do some remarkably deep (and often alarming) digging into historical threats. It is more the dedicated hunter, eager to unearth even the tiniest of clues across vast stretches of time. It also happens to have a rather tasty feature of processing data at an absurd speed, thanks to BigQuery—Google’s way of ensuring that nothing takes longer than a few milliseconds, unless of course, you’ve chosen to slow things down on purpose.
Meanwhile, Microsoft Sentinel, also a relative newcomer to the scene in 2019, seems to have a different kind of ambition. Born from the mighty machine that is Microsoft and embedded into the fabric of Azure, it aims to be the seamless guardian of everything within that ecosystem. If you happen to already be swimming in Azure’s vast ocean of services, then Sentinel will feel like your old friend who’s always there to help, seamlessly tying everything together. Sentinel’s knack for managing data is through the somewhat quaintly named “Data Collection Rules,” which sounds far more like an intergalactic treaty than a security feature, but hey, it gets the job done.
See also: Top 10 SIEM software
