Microsoft Threat Protection Products Renamed

We are yet to see the paint dry from the last product renaming round, yet here comes Microsoft’s threat protection suite with a new batch of names for us to digest. Old Azure Sentinel is now called Microsoft Sentinel, following the same trend seen with Office 365 and a bunch of other products. If you are like me and you are trying to navigate Microsoft’s new security offering, you may find this cheat sheet below useful:

Microsoft Threat Protection product rename
Threat protection products renamed in October 2021

With the new product renames, Microsoft Sentinel stack now comes with Microsoft 365 Defender and Microsoft Defender for Cloud, you can see in the diagram below the products included in each suite:

Microsoft Sentinel includes Microsoft 365 Defender and Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Microsoft Sentinel Stack

More information from Microsoft is available here:
Microsoft Sentinel
Microsoft Defender
Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Published by Jordi Vilanova, Cloudtango