Azure depth CNAPPs lack
Enterprise multi-cloud CNAPPs are built for large engineering organizations. For Azure-first SMB teams that means paying per credit for capabilities you will never use, and still missing M365 coverage entirely.
Microsoft 365 monitoring
Defender alerts, Intune device compliance, SharePoint data exposure, and OneDrive sharing risks, correlated with your Azure context. No multi-cloud CNAPP monitors all of it.
No agents. Ever.
TENET connects to your Azure environment via read-only API. No agents to deploy, no sidecar containers, no connectors to configure. Prisma needs its agents across your environment for runtime protection. TENET never does.
NIS2 & NIST CSF compliance
Compliance frameworks mapped to live Azure and M365 findings, with automated evidence collection and gap reports. NIS2 article-level, not generic benchmark alignment.
TENET vs. Prisma Cloud
Side-by-side feature comparison
◐ Partial support · Based on publicly available documentation, October 2026. Prisma Cloud capabilities may vary by subscription tier.
Agentless deployment
Full runtime protection in Prisma Cloud requires deploying its agents across your environment. For an SMB team without a dedicated infrastructure engineer, that is a deployment project before you have seen a single finding.
TENET is fully agentless. Connect your Azure tenant via read-only API and first findings appear in the same session. Microsoft 365 connects with one authorisation, correlating Defender, Intune, SharePoint and OneDrive with Azure data.
Threats go beyond the cloud layer
Multi-cloud CNAPPs monitor infrastructure and workloads across AWS, Azure and GCP. They do not monitor Microsoft Defender alerts, Intune device compliance, SharePoint data exposure or OneDrive sharing risks.
Phishing lands in Exchange, files leak through SharePoint and non-compliant Intune devices become entry points. TENET monitors Defender, Intune, SharePoint and OneDrive and correlates every signal with Azure data in one view.
EXPLORE M365 COVERAGEIdentity governance for Entra ID
Identity is where most Azure breaches start: an over-privileged service principal, a dormant guest account with Contributor access, an app registration with admin consent no one remembers approving. These are routine findings.
Multi-cloud CIEM uses a cloud-agnostic identity model, which is generic where Microsoft-only environments need depth. TENET models Entra ID, RBAC, service principals and PIM natively, linking risky roles and MFA gaps to attack paths.
SEE IDENTITY GOVERNANCEPricing you can see upfront
Credit-based CNAPP licensing draws credits at different rates per module, workload type and asset count. There is no public pricing, so understanding your bill means a sales proposal before you have deployed anything.
TENET publishes its price: $174/month billed annually, or $249/month billed monthly, covering your full Azure and Microsoft 365 environment with no per-resource fees. Start a free 14-day trial, no credit card required.
Ask questions in plain language
Most enterprise security platforms assume you have an analyst to interpret them. Dashboards, risk graphs, and alert queues are useful if someone has the time to work through them. Most SMB security teams do not have that person.
BriteAI is built into TENET. Ask about attack paths, identity exposure, compliance gaps or anomalies in plain language and get answers from live data. The TENET MCP lets SRE agents run fixes, with human approval for sensitive operations.
FAQs
Palo Alto is a trusted security vendor. Why look elsewhere for cloud security?
Does TENET cover code-to-cloud like enterprise CNAPPs do?
Do we need to deploy agents with TENET?
No. TENET is fully agentless. It connects to Azure and Microsoft 365 via read-only API access, with no agents, sidecar containers or connectors to deploy. Prisma Cloud also offers agentless scanning, but its runtime workload protection relies on deploying Prisma agents.
See the Microsoft cloud integration guide for the exact roles and setup steps.
How does compliance coverage compare with Prisma Cloud?
TENET maps Azure and M365 findings to NIS2 articles and NIST CSF 2.0 controls: specific articles, with evidence collected automatically from your live environment. If NIS2 is a current or upcoming requirement, that article-level granularity matters to auditors. Enterprise CNAPPs support a range of compliance benchmarks. Evaluate based on the frameworks your regulators and auditors actually require.
Read how TENET supports NIS2 compliance and NIST CSF 2.0.
How does pricing compare with Prisma Cloud?
Credit-based CNAPP licensing means costs vary significantly based on asset count, workload types, and which modules you enable, and there is no public pricing. TENET paid plans start at $174/month billed annually ($249/month billed monthly), one flat rate covering your full Azure and M365 environment. 14-day free trial, no credit card required, available on the Azure Marketplace.
See the TENET plans and pricing.
How does TENET work with Microsoft Defender for Cloud?
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