EntraGuard vs Competitors
An honest, feature-by-feature comparison of Entra ID and Microsoft 365 security audit solutions. See how EntraGuard compares to built-in tools, open-source frameworks, and enterprise identity platforms.
Neo4j Attack Path Analysis
The only Entra ID audit tool with a built-in Neo4j graph database for attack path detection and interactive graph exploration. Visualise paths to Global Admin, privilege escalation chains, and MFA gaps.
4 compliance frameworks
CIS M365 v3.1, NIST 800-53 Rev5, ISO 27001:2022, and SOC 2 Type II. Export per-framework PDF reports with coverage scores and per-control pass/fail detail. No other Entra tool covers all four.
Swiss sovereignty
100% self-hosted via Docker. Zero telemetry, no cloud dependency. Swiss company (Geneva) under nFADP. Your Entra ID data never leaves your infrastructure.
Feature comparison matrix
| Feature | EntraGuard | Secure Score | Maester | Ping Identity | CrowdStrike | Semperis | ADAudit+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data collection | |||||||
| Microsoft Graph API collectors | ✓ | ✓ | ● | ✗ | ● | ● | ✗ |
| Users, Groups, Roles, Apps, SPs | ✓ | ● | ✓ | ● | ● | ✓ | ● |
| Conditional Access Policies | ✓ | ● | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ● | ✗ |
| PIM roles & policies | ✓ | ● | ● | ✗ | ✗ | ● | ✗ |
| Authentication Methods & MFA | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ● | ● | ● | ● |
| LDAP on-premise AD collection | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Incremental (delta) collection | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Realtime change notifications | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ● | ✓ | ● |
| Analysis & findings | |||||||
| 40+ security finding rules | ✓ | ● | ✓ | ● | ● | ● | ✗ |
| Neo4j attack path analysis | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ● | ✗ | ✗ |
| Interactive graph explorer | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| MITRE ATT&CK mapping | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ● | ✗ |
| Security score with A-F grading | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Score diff & trend tracking | ✓ | ● | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Hybrid AD rules (cloud + on-prem) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ● | ✓ | ● |
| License-aware recommendations | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Compliance & reporting | |||||||
| CIS M365 v3.1 benchmark | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| NIST 800-53 Rev5 | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| ISO 27001:2022 | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| SOC 2 Type II | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| PDF / HTML / Markdown reports | ✓ | ✗ | ● | ● | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Per-finding PDF export | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Contextual remediation steps | ✓ | ✓ | ● | ✗ | ● | ✓ | ● |
| Operations | |||||||
| Scheduled scans (cron) | ✓ | ✗ | ● | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Notifications (Slack, Teams, webhook) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| API keys for SIEM integration | ✓ | ● | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multi-tenant (up to 10 tenants) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ● |
| Risk acceptance workflow | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ● | ● | ✗ |
| Deployment & sovereignty | |||||||
| Self-hosted (on-premise) | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Docker deployment | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Zero telemetry | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Data stays on-premise | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pricing | |||||||
| Free / open-source tier | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Transparent public pricing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ● |
Pricing comparison
| Solution | Pricing model | Typical annual cost | Free tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| EntraGuard | Fixed monthly/annual | €179 - €449/year | 14-day trial |
| Microsoft Secure Score | Included with M365 | $0 (requires M365 subscription) | Free with M365 |
| Maester | Free (open-source) | $0 | Fully free (MIT) |
| Ping Identity | Per-user, quote-based | $36 - $96/user/year | None |
| CrowdStrike Falcon Identity | Per-endpoint + platform | $15-30/endpoint/year (on top of Falcon) | None |
| Semperis DSP | Quote-based (per-forest) | $25,000 - $150,000+ | None |
| ManageEngine ADAudit Plus | Per-DC / workstation | $595+ (scales by DCs) | Free (25 workstations) |
Pricing based on publicly available information as of April 2026. Enterprise pricing varies by deployment size and negotiation.
Detailed competitor analysis
Microsoft Secure Score
Built-in M365 security posture score
Microsoft Secure Score is a free, built-in feature of the Microsoft 365 Defender portal. It provides a numerical score based on your tenant configuration, with improvement actions grouped by category (Identity, Device, Apps, Data). It is the natural starting point for any M365 security review.
Strengths
- ✓ Included free with any M365 subscription
- ✓ No deployment needed — available in the Defender portal
- ✓ Covers identity, device, app, and data protection categories
- ✓ Provides improvement actions with direct links to settings
- ✓ Updated automatically as Microsoft adds new checks
Gaps vs EntraGuard
- ✗ No attack path analysis or graph-based exploration
- ✗ No compliance mapping (CIS, NIST, ISO, SOC 2)
- ✗ No exportable PDF/HTML reports — browser-only dashboard
- ✗ Cannot be self-hosted — data processed in Microsoft cloud
- ✗ No LDAP on-premise AD analysis (cloud-only scope)
- ✗ No per-finding PDF export with remediation details
- ✗ No MITRE ATT&CK mapping per finding
- ✗ No scheduled audit scans or trend tracking over time
- ✗ No notification system (Slack, Teams webhook, etc.)
- ✗ No multi-tenant overview from a single pane
Maester
Open-source PowerShell Entra ID testing framework
Maester is a community-driven, open-source PowerShell framework for testing Microsoft Entra ID and M365 security configuration. It uses Pester (PowerShell testing framework) and the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK to run a library of security checks, with a focus on CIS M365 benchmarks.
Strengths
- ✓ Fully open-source (MIT license) with active community
- ✓ Strong CIS M365 benchmark coverage via Pester tests
- ✓ Runs locally — no data sent to third parties
- ✓ Extensible — write your own tests in PowerShell
- ✓ Good fit for DevSecOps pipelines (CI/CD integration)
Gaps vs EntraGuard
- ✗ Requires PowerShell and Graph SDK knowledge to operate
- ✗ No attack path analysis or graph-based exploration
- ✗ No Neo4j graph database — flat test results only
- ✗ No web UI or dashboard — command-line output or HTML report
- ✗ No LDAP on-premise Active Directory collection or hybrid rules
- ✗ No realtime monitoring (Graph change notifications)
- ✗ No NIST, ISO 27001, or SOC 2 compliance mapping
- ✗ No multi-tenant management from a single instance
- ✗ No scheduled scans (requires external cron/scheduler)
- ✗ No notification integrations (Slack, Teams, webhooks)
- ✗ No SIEM export API
Ping Identity (PingOne)
Cloud identity security and governance platform
Ping Identity offers a broad cloud-based identity platform encompassing SSO, MFA, API security, directory services, and identity governance. PingOne Protect focuses on threat detection and fraud prevention, while PingOne Governance handles access certifications and policy enforcement.
Strengths
- ✓ Comprehensive identity platform (SSO, MFA, directory, governance)
- ✓ Strong API security and gateway capabilities
- ✓ Identity threat detection with AI/ML behavioral analysis
- ✓ Access certification and governance workflows
- ✓ Large enterprise customer base with proven scale
Gaps vs EntraGuard
- ✗ Not focused on Entra ID audit — general identity platform
- ✗ No Microsoft Graph-specific security rules or collectors
- ✗ No attack path analysis via Neo4j or graph exploration
- ✗ No CIS M365, NIST, ISO 27001, or SOC 2 compliance reports
- ✗ No on-premise deployment — SaaS only
- ✗ No LDAP hybrid AD security analysis with cross-boundary rules
- ✗ Opaque pricing — requires sales engagement
- ✗ Complex platform with long implementation cycles
- ✗ No per-finding PDF export or contextual remediation
CrowdStrike Falcon Identity Threat Detection
Identity-focused threat detection & response (SaaS)
CrowdStrike Falcon Identity Threat Detection (formerly Preempt) detects identity-based threats in real time, including lateral movement, credential theft, and privilege escalation. It focuses on active threat detection rather than configuration auditing, making it complementary to an audit tool rather than a direct replacement.
Strengths
- ✓ Real-time identity threat detection (credential theft, lateral movement)
- ✓ Integration with CrowdStrike Falcon XDR platform
- ✓ Attack path visualization for Active Directory
- ✓ MITRE ATT&CK mapping for detected threats
- ✓ Large threat intelligence database backing detections
- ✓ Covers both Active Directory and Entra ID
Gaps vs EntraGuard
- ✗ Focused on threat detection, not configuration auditing
- ✗ No CIS M365, NIST, ISO 27001, or SOC 2 compliance reports
- ✗ No security scoring with A-F grading or trend tracking
- ✗ SaaS-only — telemetry and data sent to CrowdStrike cloud
- ✗ No self-hosted or on-premise deployment option
- ✗ Expensive — typically bundled with Falcon platform ($30-60/endpoint/year)
- ✗ No contextual remediation tutorials per finding
- ✗ No interactive Entra ID graph explorer
- ✗ No license-aware recommendations for unused M365 capabilities
- ✗ No per-finding PDF export
Semperis Directory Services Protector
Active Directory & Entra ID security and recovery
Semperis Directory Services Protector (DSP) provides continuous monitoring, threat detection, and automated remediation for Active Directory and Entra ID. It is particularly strong in AD disaster recovery, real-time change tracking, and detecting indicators of exposure (IoEs) and indicators of compromise (IoCs).
Strengths
- ✓ Deep Active Directory expertise (AD-specific IoE/IoC detection)
- ✓ Real-time AD change monitoring and auto-rollback
- ✓ AD disaster recovery capabilities (Forest Recovery)
- ✓ Hybrid AD + Entra ID coverage in a single platform
- ✓ Strong remediation with automated rollback of dangerous changes
- ✓ Available as self-hosted deployment
Gaps vs EntraGuard
- ✗ No Neo4j-based attack path analysis or interactive graph explorer
- ✗ No CIS M365, NIST, ISO 27001, or SOC 2 compliance reports
- ✗ No security scoring with A-F grading
- ✗ No license-aware recommendations for unused M365 capabilities
- ✗ No Docker-native deployment — requires Windows Server infrastructure
- ✗ Opaque enterprise pricing — requires sales engagement
- ✗ No per-finding PDF export with contextual remediation
- ✗ No score diff tracking between audit runs
- ✗ Heavy focus on AD — Entra ID coverage less deep than dedicated tools
- ✗ No zero telemetry guarantee
ManageEngine ADAudit Plus
Active Directory change auditing and compliance tool
ManageEngine ADAudit Plus is an established Active Directory auditing tool that tracks real-time changes to AD objects (users, groups, GPOs, permissions), provides compliance reports, and alerts on suspicious activity. It covers on-premise AD, Azure AD (Entra ID), and file server auditing.
Strengths
- ✓ Mature AD change auditing with detailed event tracking
- ✓ Predefined compliance reports (SOX, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, GDPR)
- ✓ User behavior analytics (UBA) for anomaly detection
- ✓ File server and Windows logon auditing
- ✓ Affordable compared to enterprise PAM/security platforms
- ✓ Self-hosted deployment option
Gaps vs EntraGuard
- ✗ Focused on AD change events, not Entra ID security posture analysis
- ✗ No Microsoft Graph API-based collection (13 object types)
- ✗ No attack path analysis or Neo4j graph exploration
- ✗ No CIS M365 v3.1, NIST 800-53, or ISO 27001 compliance mapping
- ✗ No security scoring with A-F grading or trend tracking
- ✗ No Conditional Access, PIM, or Service Principal analysis
- ✗ No license-aware recommendations for Microsoft SKUs
- ✗ No Docker deployment — requires Windows Server
- ✗ No contextual remediation tutorials per finding
- ✗ Entra ID coverage limited compared to dedicated Entra tools
- ✗ No per-finding PDF export
When to choose what
Choose EntraGuard if you need
- ✓ Attack path analysis with Neo4j graph exploration (unique)
- ✓ Compliance reports across 4 frameworks (CIS, NIST, ISO, SOC 2)
- ✓ Hybrid AD + Entra ID analysis with cross-boundary rules
- ✓ Full data sovereignty (self-hosted Docker, zero telemetry)
- ✓ License-aware recommendations for unused M365 capabilities
- ✓ Transparent pricing without per-user fees or sales calls
- ✓ Swiss jurisdiction and nFADP compliance
- ✓ Realtime monitoring with Graph change notifications
Consider alternatives if you need
- ● Free baseline score — Microsoft Secure Score is included with M365
- ● CI/CD pipeline testing — Maester integrates well with DevSecOps workflows
- ● Broad identity platform — Ping Identity for SSO, MFA, and API security
- ● Real-time threat detection — CrowdStrike for active identity threats at scale
- ● AD disaster recovery — Semperis for AD forest recovery and auto-rollback
- ● AD change event auditing — ManageEngine ADAudit Plus for granular AD event logs
- ● SaaS-managed solution — CrowdStrike or Ping if you prefer not to self-host
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