Comparison

A CoreView alternative for Azure

CoreView is a leading M365 tenant management platform for IT teams managing licenses, configurations and admin operations. If your risk extends into Azure, compliance frameworks and security intelligence, you need both covered.

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Coverage

Security intelligence across Microsoft

M365 tenant management covers admin operations, not Azure infrastructure risk, cross-environment attack paths, or compliance against NIS2 and NIST CSF. If you run Azure and Microsoft 365, you need visibility across the full estate.

Azure infrastructure risk

Misconfigurations, exposed resources, anomaly detection, and attack path analysis across your Azure estate, a layer M365 management tools do not cover.

NIS2 & NIST CSF compliance

Compliance mapped to specific NIS2 articles and NIST CSF 2.0 controls, with automated evidence collection and gap analysis, not operational benchmarks.

Unified Azure & M365 view

Security signals from Azure infrastructure and M365 workloads correlated in one platform: identity risks, Defender alerts, and compliance posture together.

Comparison

TENET vs. CoreView

 TENETCoreView
Azure infrastructure monitoring
Live monitoring of Azure resources, configurations, and risk posture.
Automated anomaly detection
Cost spikes, config drift, and identity anomalies detected automatically.
Attack graph & blast radius
Visualise attack paths from exposed resources to critical assets.
NIS2 article-level compliance
Policies mapped to specific NIS2 articles with automated evidence.
NIST CSF 2.0 compliance
Live posture mapped across all six NIST CSF 2.0 functions.
Identity & RBAC risk detection
Over-privileged roles, dormant service principals, and MFA gaps.
Microsoft 365 monitoring
Defender alerts, Intune compliance, SharePoint and OneDrive risk signals.
AI Services governance
Monitor Azure OpenAI quota, errors, and cost anomalies.
AI assistant with live tools
Natural-language queries against live Azure and M365 data. CoreView's Corey AI covers Microsoft 365 only.
M365 license management
License tracking, optimization, and cost visibility.
M365 config backup & rollback
Backup configuration settings and restore to a known-good state.

◐ Partial support · Based on publicly available information, October 2026. CoreView capabilities may vary by plan and configuration.

Azure Infrastructure

The Azure layer CoreView lacks

CoreView monitors your M365 tenant, not your Azure subscriptions: virtual networks, storage accounts, or the misconfigurations and anomalies that create infrastructure risk. For teams running both, Azure is the larger attack surface.

TENET connects to your Azure tenant via read-only API and begins monitoring resources, detecting anomalies, mapping attack paths and assessing compliance. First findings appear in under two minutes, with no agents or scanners.

Azure Risk OverviewLIVE
6
Anomalies
3
Attack paths
14
Misconfigs
NSG: allow-all-inbound
Open to 0.0.0.0/0 on port 3389
Critical
Storage: logs-prod-01
Public blob access enabled
High
Cost anomaly: compute
340% spike vs 30-day baseline
High
Key Vault: kv-prod-secrets
No soft delete · No purge protection
Medium
NIS2 Compliance
Art. 21 — Risk management78%
Art. 10 — Incident handling91%
Art. 20 — Governance65%
Art. 23 — Reporting obligations84%
Open NSG rule
vnet-prod-001
Art. 21
Dormant privileged account
admin@corp.onmicrosoft.com
Art. 21
Defender alert unresolved
vm-web-prod-02
Art. 10
Compliance

Compliance mapped to frameworks

CoreView benchmarks M365 configurations against CIS standards, which is useful for operational hygiene. But if your organisation is subject to NIS2 or needs NIST CSF 2.0 alignment, operational benchmarks are not the same as regulatory compliance.

TENET maps every Azure and M365 finding to specific NIS2 articles and NIST CSF 2.0 controls, with evidence collected automatically. When an open NSG creates a gap, it names the article, resource and remediation steps.

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Identity Risk

Identity risk beyond admin

CoreView manages Entra ID from an admin perspective: delegated admin roles, lifecycle management, and access reviews. That is operational identity management, not security risk detection.

TENET models Entra ID, RBAC, service principals and PIM from a risk perspective. Over-privileged roles, dormant accounts, MFA gaps and guest access are surfaced automatically, each linked to the attack paths it enables.

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Identity Risks
svc-infra-prod-01
Owner role · 90 days inactive
Critical
bg-task-runner-0041
Contributor · No MFA · External
Critical
Guest account · alex@contoso.com
SharePoint Admin · 180 days inactive
High
Managed identity · api-gateway
Unused KeyVault access · 45 days
High
BriteAI
What are the biggest compliance gaps across Azure and M365 right now?
3 NIS2 articles have open gapsArt. 21 has 8 open findings — 2 critical identity risks and an open NSG rule. Art. 10 has an unresolved Defender alert on vm-web-prod-02. Art. 20 is at 65% due to missing governance policies on 3 resource groups.
Show me the attack paths those identity risks enable
2 critical attack paths identifiedsvc-infra-prod-01 has Owner access and has been dormant for 90 days — any compromise gives full subscription control. bg-task-runner-0041 is externally accessible with no MFA and Contributor rights across 3 resource groups.
BriteAI

Ask questions in plain language

Reports tell you what happened. BriteAI tells you what to do about it. Ask about attack paths, identity exposure, compliance gaps, or anomalies in plain language and get specific answers drawn from your live Azure and M365 data.

For teams running their own SRE agents, the TENET MCP lets those agents query your environment and execute targeted fixes, with human approval for sensitive operations.

FAQs

We already use CoreView. Do we still need TENET?
CoreView and TENET solve different problems. CoreView manages your Microsoft 365 tenant: license optimization, configuration backup, delegated admin, and operational reporting. TENET monitors your Azure infrastructure and M365 environment for security risk: anomalies, attack paths, compliance gaps, and identity exposure. If you have both Azure and M365, CoreView handles the M365 admin operations and TENET handles the security and risk intelligence across both. They can coexist without overlap.
Does CoreView cover Azure infrastructure?
No. CoreView is purpose-built for Microsoft 365 tenant management: Exchange, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Intune, and Entra ID from an admin operations perspective. It does not monitor Azure infrastructure resources, virtual networks, storage accounts, or cloud security posture. If your organisation runs Azure alongside M365, the infrastructure layer is a blind spot that CoreView does not address.
Does TENET do M365 license management?
No. TENET monitors M365 for security signals: Defender alerts, Intune device compliance, SharePoint data exposure, and OneDrive sharing risks. It does not track license assignment, usage, or cost optimization. If license management is a priority, CoreView is built for that. TENET is built for security and risk intelligence across your full Microsoft estate.
How does compliance coverage compare with CoreView?

CoreView benchmarks M365 configurations against CIS standards and Microsoft best practices. TENET maps both Azure and M365 findings to NIS2 articles and NIST CSF 2.0 controls, with automated evidence collection, gap analysis, and remediation guidance tied to specific resources. If NIS2 or NIST CSF is a requirement for your organisation, TENET provides the framework-level granularity that operational benchmarks do not.

Read how TENET supports NIS2 compliance and NIST CSF 2.0.

How does pricing compare with CoreView?

CoreView uses per-user subscription pricing that scales with your Microsoft 365 seat count. You will need to contact their sales team for a quote. TENET paid plans start at $174/month per organisation billed annually ($249/month billed monthly), with a 14-day free trial and no credit card required. TENET is also available directly through the Azure Marketplace.

See the TENET plans and pricing.

Does TENET replace Microsoft Defender for Cloud?
TENET complements Defender for Cloud rather than replacing it. TENET ingests Defender signals as one of many data sources, then correlates them with identity risk, compliance posture, anomaly detection, and M365 signals, giving your team a unified view that Defender alone does not provide.
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