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SentinelOne or Microsoft Defender for a 200-user finance shop

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Hi all, new to the security side of things. I've been setting up our monitoring with Grafana/Prometheus and now looking at endpoint protection.

We're a ~200 user finance company, mostly Windows, some Mac. Need to pick between SentinelOne and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. Leaning towards Defender because we're already on Microsoft 365 E5.

But I keep hearing S1 is lighter and has better threat hunting. Is that still true? Our priority is solid protection without killing performance for the traders.

From my monitoring tests, I saw Defender add some latency. Here's a basic query I ran on a test box for CPU impact during a full scan:

```promql
avg(rate(windows_cpu_time_total{instance="test-pc", mode="user"}[5m])) by (instance)
```

Would love real-world experiences, especially around:
- Ease of management at this scale
- Integration with existing SIEM (we're looking at Sentinel)
- False positives in a controlled environment

Thanks for any insights.



   
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