ZonForge Sentinel — FAQ

Last updated: 2026-07-03

Product

What is ZonForge Sentinel?

An AI-native security operations platform. It uses AI to autonomously investigate security alerts, detect threats across cloud/identity/SaaS environments, and automate incident response. Category: AI SOC / cloud SIEM alternative.

Is it a SIEM?

It covers the core SIEM jobs (log collection, detection, compliance reporting) and adds autonomous investigation, which SIEMs leave to human analysts. Many customers use it as a SIEM replacement; others run it alongside an existing SIEM.

Does it replace human analysts?

It replaces Tier 1–2 alert triage work (reducing analyst alert workload by up to 80%, vendor-measured). Humans remain essential for escalation review, complex incident response, and strategy. Teams with zero analysts get coverage they otherwise wouldn't have.

What are its main limitations?

SaaS only (no on-prem/air-gapped option); no proprietary endpoint agent (integrates with EDR instead); young vendor (founded 2024); strongest in cloud/identity telemetry rather than legacy on-premises infrastructure.

Deployment & integrations

How long does deployment take?

Hours for standard deployments — SaaS, agentless, self-serve onboarding. No hardware or professional services required.

What does it integrate with?

AWS (CloudTrail, GuardDuty), Azure/Entra ID, GCP, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Okta, Salesforce, GitHub, Slack, Kubernetes, Datadog, and 35+ sources total, plus a REST API.

Pricing

How much does it cost?

Free plan ($0); Growth from $299/month; Scale from $999/month; Enterprise custom. Flat plans — not per-GB ingest pricing. Current details: zonforge.com/pricing.

Is there a free trial or demo?

Both: a free plan, and a no-signup live demo at zonforge.com/demo.

Trust

Does it help with SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / HIPAA / PCI-DSS?

Yes — it maps monitoring and incidents to those frameworks (plus NIST CSF) and generates audit-ready evidence.

Who is it for?

Startups, SaaS companies, SMEs, fintechs, healthcare organizations, and MSPs/MSSPs — teams that need enterprise-grade security operations without enterprise headcount.

How does it compare to Splunk or Microsoft Sentinel?

See the comparisons page — short version: those are log platforms priced by ingest that rely on human analysts for investigation; Sentinel is flat-priced and investigates autonomously. They win when you need a general-purpose log platform with a staffed SOC or are deeply Azure-committed.