Looking for a Microsoft Security Copilot alternative?
Microsoft Security Copilot and OwlSOC both bring AI to security operations, but they are different shapes. Copilot is an assistant an analyst prompts for help across Microsoft's security products. OwlSOC is an AI SOC that investigates every alert on its own and hands you a sourced verdict. If you want investigation that happens without prompting, with published pricing and UK/EU data residency, here is an honest comparison.
What Microsoft Security Copilot is
Microsoft Security Copilot is a generative-AI assistant embedded across Microsoft's security products. An analyst prompts it to summarise an incident, draft a query, or get guided next steps, and it draws on Microsoft's security signal to help. It is a capable assistant, tightly integrated with the Microsoft ecosystem, and backed by Microsoft.
The model is analyst-led: Copilot helps a person work faster. Its value shows up when someone is already sitting with an incident and wants assistance. This is a genuinely useful shape, and for Microsoft-centric teams with analysts to drive it, it can be the right tool.
What OwlSOC is
OwlSOC is an AI SOC. Rather than waiting to be prompted, it investigates every alert as it fires — pulling the relevant logs, correlating across sources, mapping MITRE ATT&CK, and returning a hedged verdict with an evidence-linked timeline, typically in under two minutes, 24/7. The first-pass investigation is done by the time a human looks, not driven by one.
That is the core difference in shape: an assistant helps an analyst investigate; an AI SOC does the first-pass investigation and hands the analyst a sourced verdict and a recommended action to approve.
How the two differ
Neither is simply better; they are built around different assumptions. The honest way to choose is to be clear about what each assumes and what you actually need.
- Interaction: Copilot is prompted by an analyst; OwlSOC investigates every alert without being asked.
- Coverage: Copilot helps with the incident in front of a person; OwlSOC investigates all of them, including the 3am alert nobody is awake for.
- Scope: Copilot is Microsoft-centric; OwlSOC investigates Microsoft Sentinel and Defender and AWS Security Hub.
- Pricing: OwlSOC publishes its prices, from £495 per environment per month; evaluate Copilot on its current Microsoft licensing terms.
- Data: OwlSOC connects read-only by default, offers UK/EU data residency, and does not train models on your data.
Where Microsoft Security Copilot may be the better fit
It would be dishonest to pretend OwlSOC is the right answer for everyone. If your team is entirely inside the Microsoft ecosystem, has analysts who want an assistant to work faster within Microsoft's tools, and prefers to consolidate on Microsoft licensing, Security Copilot is a strong, deeply integrated option with Microsoft behind it.
OwlSOC is the better fit if you want the investigation done for you rather than assisted, want every alert worked without an analyst prompting it, need AWS covered alongside Microsoft, or value published pricing, a read-only default and UK/EU residency. Some teams even run both: Copilot to assist analysts, an AI SOC to clear the first-pass triage before it reaches them.
Trying OwlSOC
OwlSOC connects read-only to Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender (Endpoint and Office) and AWS Security Hub, with no agents to install, and is usually investigating live alerts within about 48 hours of access. Every verdict is hedged and every claim is sourced, so your team keeps full ownership of the decision, and containment stays human-approved.
It starts with a £495, 30-day fully-refundable pilot on one environment, so you can compare it against your current approach on your own alerts before committing.
Frequently asked
How is OwlSOC different from Microsoft Security Copilot?
Microsoft Security Copilot is an AI assistant an analyst prompts for help across Microsoft's security products. OwlSOC is an AI SOC that investigates every alert on its own and returns a hedged verdict with an evidence-linked timeline. Copilot assists a person investigating; OwlSOC does the first-pass investigation itself and hands over a sourced result.
Does OwlSOC only work with Microsoft, like Security Copilot?
No. OwlSOC connects read-only to Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender (Endpoint and Office) and to AWS Security Hub, so it investigates alerts across Microsoft and AWS. It sits on top of the tools you already run rather than being tied to a single ecosystem.
Is OwlSOC cheaper than Microsoft Security Copilot?
OwlSOC publishes its pricing — from £495 per monitored environment per month, billed monthly with no minimum term — so you can compare directly. Microsoft Security Copilot should be evaluated on its current Microsoft licensing terms. Which is better value depends on your ecosystem and whether you want investigation done for you or an assistant for your analysts.
Can I use OwlSOC and Microsoft Security Copilot together?
Yes. They are different shapes and can coexist: Copilot assists your analysts within Microsoft's tools, while OwlSOC does the first-pass investigation on every alert before it reaches them. OwlSOC connects read-only and keeps containment human-approved.
Start with a 30-day refundable pilot. £495, one environment, every alert investigated, a full report at week four. Read-only, live within 48 hours of access.