What a racquet by Microsoft. Waste of millions, will never make sense. E5 is way too expensive for what it offers… 100s of features are redundan or underused. Infosec tools are complex : require expert setup, slow to setup, hard to use... Licensing is fu--ing confusing and hard to manage, its a-s… Support is slow and inconsistent, half of them are clueless - For the price I would expect much more value and simplicity… it is bad
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@1ja Take it you never worked with Microsoft. Despite our size, we are still one of their "smaller" customers unless you are ready to spend a lot more $$$ on support. Tickets take forever to get resolved and the SLA doesn't mean much to them once they get you to buy the license. Saw two best in class products leave at the same time. All the training and SME went right out the Window and the training MS offered for replacement was cr-p. The MS products where immature and lacked in depth features. At least the old vendors would work on feature requests when needed, MS takes 5X longer to get back with a half a-s solution.
@1ja No,he's right. We had zero technical need for an E5. It was bought against the advice of the product owner and SAM team I understand. The story is that it will displace loads of other products with the expa ded stack. The reality is the expanded stack is problematic and difficult to manage AND the products it should displace are under multi year contracts and typically better in class.
The only fathomable reason to take an E5 (especially on the terms we took it) is your a decisiom maker who just got offered a new carribean holiday home for your troubleand quite possibly thinkingnof a future senior role at MS. Isn't that, Zulfi.
@11w LOL, another rant blaming the tool for the fact that you actually have to learn something. Sounds more like a skills issue than a design flaw. Honestly, if you’re still here after all the “wrong people” were forced out… maybe the bar wasn’t set high enough.
Zulfi, Dave, Robert and Tao shoved this ch--d down everyone's throat. People who disagreed with it were bullied out and disappeared. Now we all are choking on the E5 ch--d.
The people at the top believe going for E5 will reduce all the spending with other suppliers, they don’t understand that defence in depth and being “best in class” requires integration of multiple suppliers which is difficult in reality but cheaper than being hacked and fines / reputation damage, it’s only a matter of time before a major wake up call