Extending App Assure’s Sentinel Promise through the Sentinel Advisory Service

At RSAC last year, we introduced the Microsoft Sentinel Promise with a straightforward commitment to our customers: that third-party data ingestion for Sentinel is reliable, predictable, and scalable without the need for complex custom coding and architecting. In other words, your connectors for Sentinel will just work. That promise has guided App Assure’s work ever since, enabling customers to bring data from across their various security solutions into Sentinel to drive clearer insights and stronger protection. 

Over the past year, that foundation has proven critical. As organizations move from legacy SIEM platforms to Sentinel, consistent access to high-quality third-party data remains essential, not only for detection and response, but increasingly for advanced analytics and AI-driven security experiences. With the introduction of Microsoft Sentinel data lake, customers and partners can now reason over security data cost-effectively and at greater scale. But as many teams are discovering, unlocking those outcomes requires more than simply getting data in the door. 

At App Assure, we’ve seen a clear pattern emerge. Software companies often revisit connector design and data modeling multiple times as they help our mutual customers move from ingestion to analytics, and then again as they begin building agentic AI solutions, whether through Security Copilot, MCP server integrations, or custom workflows. Each iteration brings new requirements and new questions, often upstream of where teams initially started. 

That’s why, as an extension of our Sentinel Promise, we’re excited to announce the Sentinel Advisory Service from App Assure. 

A Natural Evolution 

The Sentinel Advisory Service builds directly on the work we’ve been doing through the Sentinel Promise and our support for Sentinel data lake. Our commitment to helping customers bring third-party data into the platform remains unchanged. What this new service adds is an expert-guided approach focused on helping software companies design customer solutions and data strategies with downstream outcomes in mind. 

Rather than addressing ingestion challenges in isolation, the Sentinel Advisory Service is designed to help teams think end-to-end across the Sentinel platform: aligning connector design, data structure, and platform capabilities to support advanced scenarios such as AI agents, analytics jobs, and marketplace-ready solutions. The goal is fewer rebuild cycles, faster progress, and greater confidence as teams move from data ingestion to meaningful security outcomes. 

What Sentinel Advisory Service Offers 

The Sentinel Advisory Service is a no-cost program delivered by App Assure in close collaboration with Sentinel engineering to continually make it easier to build and maintain connectors that utilize data lake and facilitate building agentic AI solutions on top of it. 

Key areas of support include: 

• Technical workshops covering best practices for Sentinel integrations, data lake usage, and agent development 

• Advisory guidance on leveraging Sentinel platform features to support AI-driven security scenarios 

• Code samples and design reviews to unblock development and improve solution quality 

• Break/fix assistance and escalation paths to Microsoft engineers to assist with software development and provide product feedback 

Early Partner Momentum 

We’re already seeing strong momentum from software companies participating in early advisory engagements. Partners are working with App Assure to refine Sentinel integrations and explore new agentic AI scenarios built on a solid data foundation. Their work reflects a broader shift across the ecosystem: moving beyond connectivity alone, toward building differentiated, outcome-driven security solutions on Sentinel. 

Below are some of the partners we’ve already worked with and what they have to say about the experience: 

 

Srinivas Chakravarty, VP of Cloud & AI Ecosystem, Gigamon	“Through active collaboration with Microsoft Security Engineering and the App Assure team, we quickly created and published our CCF-Push connector to deliver enriched network-derived telemetry from the Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline into Sentinel data lake. In a parallel sprint, with the introduction of our initial Security Copilot Agent, security teams can apply AI to this network intelligence within Sentinel to uncover threats hidden in encrypted and lateral traffic that might otherwise go undetected.”
Mario Espinoza, Chief Product Officer, Illumio	"Illumio is proud to partner with Microsoft, proving together that cybersecurity can scale. Microsoft's product management teams collaborated closely with Illumio on several integrations, most recently Illumio Insights Agent for Security Copilot and Illumio for Microsoft Sentinel Data Lake Connector. Together, Illumio and Sentinel solutions empower customers to correlate joint security threat findings and ensure breaches don't become disasters."
Duncan Barnes, Director Global Alliances, RSA	"The partnership between RSA and Microsoft, exemplified by the RSA Advisor for Admin Threats agent, underscores the value of the Sentinel Advisory Service. It highlights how collaborative innovation drives differentiated, outcome-driven security solutions, ensuring customers can migrate with confidence and harness the full potential of agentic AI to find, prioritize, and resolve threats faster and more efficiently."
Vlad Sushitsky, Research Engineer, Semperis	“We developed a Security Copilot agent that correlates Tier-0 classifications, identity attack paths, and Indicators of Exposure for any given identity. The correlation is powered by Semperis Lightning telemetry, streamed into the Data Lake through our new data connector. What used to take analysts hours of manually pivoting across multiple tables to piece together an identity's risk profile now happens instantly in a single conversation. This gives our joint customers significantly better visibility into identity threats, faster investigations, and substantial cost savings. Developing the agent on Security Copilot was smooth and fast — thanks to great collaboration with the Microsoft team, we had it up and running in a matter of days.”
Harman Kaur, SVP Technology Strategy and AI, Tanium	"This partnership with Microsoft represents a new level of AI and security integration. Through the Microsoft Sentinel Advisory Service, Tanium integrated AI agents into Microsoft Security Copilot, including the recently launched Tanium Security Triage Agent with Identity Insights. By unifying Tanium’s real-time endpoint intelligence with identity information from the Microsoft Sentinel data lake and Entra ID, security analysts gain the speed, precision and confidence needed to stop threats before they escalate."
Ariel Negrin, Worldwide Head of Partnerships and Alliances, Upwind	"Through the Sentinel Advisory Service and the broader App Assure engineering teams, Microsoft has been side‑by‑side with us, from connector and data model design to advanced AI scenarios, helping us architect for high‑quality ingestion, graph‑aware context, and AI security use cases. That level of hands‑on guidance and roadmap alignment means our joint customers get faster time to value, fewer integration rebuilds, and a more intelligent security experience built on top of the Microsoft security stack they already trust."
Matthew Payne, Field Engineer, XBOW	"The team worked alongside us from the start, not just on ingestion, but on designing how XBOW's penetration testing data should flow into Sentinel to actually drive downstream outcomes. Their engineering guidance helped us build agents for Security Copilot and a Sentinel data connector that turns validated exploit paths into actionable security telemetry. The result is that joint customers can trigger a pentest, see real findings in Sentinel alongside their existing alerts, and investigate and remediate without leaving the Microsoft security console."
Paul Lopez, Principal Solutions Architect, Zscaler	"Organizations looking to improve visibility across internet and private access activities benefit from integrating these signals. Through collaboration with Microsoft’s App Assure team, Zscaler’s ZIA–ZPA Correlation Agent for Security Copilot leverages data from the Sentinel Data Lake to deliver a single, cohesive view, simplifying investigations and enabling faster response times."

Getting Started 

The Sentinel Advisory Service is available today for developers building on Microsoft Sentinel and Sentinel data lake. If you’re enhancing an existing connector, designing an AI-driven security solution, or planning how to translate data into action on the Sentinel platform, App Assure is here to help. 

As always, our focus remains on customer confidence, ensuring that as Sentinel evolves, the ecosystem around it can evolve just as reliably. The Sentinel Advisory Service is the next step in delivering on that promise. Reach out to us here.