Azure and Microsoft 365 teams evaluating a risk platform usually end up looking at more than one category of tool: a CNAPP for cloud posture, a compliance automation platform for audit evidence, an identity governance suite, an exposure management platform, or an auditing tool for access visibility. Each does its own job well. None of them was built specifically for the combination of Azure infrastructure and Microsoft 365 in one live risk view.
Here is where five well-known names fit, and where TENET differs.
Orca Security
Orca is an agentless CNAPP — it connects to your cloud environment without deploying agents and prioritizes risk across multi-cloud infrastructure. It is a solid choice for teams that need cloud security posture management across AWS, Azure, and GCP with fast time-to-value.
What it does not do: built-in GRC workflows (risk register, policy vault, supplier risk), Microsoft 365 monitoring, or NIS2 article-level compliance mapping. TENET covers all three natively, alongside the same agentless Azure posture monitoring. See the full TENET vs. Orca Security comparison.
Drata
Drata automates compliance evidence collection across 20+ frameworks — SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and others — connecting to your existing tools to pull evidence on a schedule. For a team preparing for a SOC 2 audit, that automation saves real time.
What it does not do: continuous Azure infrastructure risk detection, anomaly detection, attack path analysis, or Microsoft 365 security monitoring. Evidence collection proves a control existed at the time it was pulled — it does not detect whether your environment is secure right now. See the full TENET vs. Drata comparison.
Saviynt
Saviynt is an identity governance and administration (IGA) platform with AI-driven access review — the platform can automate a large share of access certification decisions and cut review time meaningfully, backed by broad application connectivity for provisioning and deprovisioning at enterprise scale.
What it does not do: monitor Azure infrastructure for misconfigurations or anomalies, watch Microsoft 365 for security signals, or map findings to NIS2 or NIST CSF 2.0. Saviynt governs who has access; it does not tell you whether your Azure estate itself is exposed. For Entra ID and RBAC risk specifically, TENET vs. SailPoint covers the same category of comparison in more depth.
Tenable
Tenable's cloud exposure management unifies cloud workload protection, CSPM, CIEM, Kubernetes security, AI security posture management, data security posture management, infrastructure-as-code scanning, and just-in-time access into one platform — strong, broad coverage for teams prioritizing exposure across a large, varied environment.
What it does not do: Microsoft 365 monitoring, NIS2 article-level compliance workflows, or the GRC layer (risk register, policy vault, incident management) that European regulatory obligations increasingly require. Tenable's strength is breadth across exposure types; TENET's strength is depth across the specific Microsoft stack and the compliance frameworks tied to it.
Netwrix
Netwrix is a modular auditing platform — change tracking, data classification, privileged access management, and threat detection across Active Directory, Entra ID, Exchange, SharePoint, file servers, and more. For visibility into who changed what and when across a hybrid Microsoft environment, it is a capable, purpose-built tool.
What it does not do: Azure infrastructure risk detection, attack path analysis, or NIS2/NIST CSF compliance mapping. Netwrix tells you what changed; it does not tell you whether that change created an exploitable path to a critical resource, or which compliance article it puts at risk.
Where TENET fits
Each of these platforms is a reasonable choice if the specific problem they solve is your only problem: multi-cloud posture, audit evidence, enterprise identity certification, broad exposure prioritization, or change auditing. TENET is built for a narrower but more common situation — an organisation running Azure and Microsoft 365 that needs infrastructure risk, identity risk, M365 security, and NIS2/NIST CSF 2.0 compliance correlated in one live view, without stitching several tools together to get it.
For a closer look at the platforms most teams shortlist directly against TENET, see the comparisons against Wiz, Prisma Cloud, CoreView, SailPoint, and Vanta.