The job to be done
Reconstruct a suspicious sequence across identity, endpoints, applications, and cloud activity.
What goes in
- Authentication and audit logs
- Endpoint and network events
- Asset, identity, and business context
What should come out
- Detections and investigation timelines
- Searchable evidence and saved queries
- Cases and escalation to response workflows
Questions worth asking
- Can the required sources arrive on time, with usable identity and timestamps?
- What is the full cost of ingestion, retention, search, and supporting infrastructure?
- Can an analyst reproduce a conclusion and export the evidence?
A useful evaluation exercise
Send a known benign sign-in sequence and a synthetic suspicious sequence. Measure ingestion delay, field quality, rule behavior, and analyst effort.
Starting points for research
These documentation profiles are unassessed. Inclusion is an editorial pilot selection, not a market ranking or endorsement.
Microsoft Sentinel
Cloud SIEM; exact workload, retention, and purchased features must be fixed before scoring.
Elastic Security — SIEM
SIEM capability; deployment model and feature tier remain unselected.