Sentinel to Defender Portal Transition

Organizations leveraging Microsoft Sentinel through the Azure Portal need to move to the unified Microsoft Defender Portal before July 2026, yet many teams face uncertainty about configuration changes, user experience differences, and operational impacts during the transition. NuHarbor’s Sentinel to Defender Portal Transition Service delivers a structured, guided engagement to help you confidently adopt the Defender Portal while maintaining continuity, visibility, and security operations maturity.

Our experts streamline every step of the transition by assessing your current Sentinel deployment, aligning new workflows to Defender Portal capabilities, and ensuring that your SecOps team is prepared for the shift. We focus on preserving your existing value in Sentinel while enhancing your team’s ability to manage incidents, hunting, analytics, and automations from the centralized Defender experience. NuHarbor delivers: Readiness & transition planning workshop: We map your current Sentinel usage, portal dependencies, and operational requirements to establish a clear migration path. Guided enablement of Microsoft Defender Portal capabilities: We walk your team through the Defender interface, Sentinel integration points, and configuration considerations to ensure feature parity and improved efficiency. Best practice alignment for SOC workflows: We help you adapt incident response, analytics, automation, and investigation workflows to optimize performance in the unified Defender environment. Knowledge transfer and operator enablement: Your team gains the confidence and skillset to operate Sentinel effectively within the Defender Portal, reducing confusion, risk, and transition delays.

Whether you’re running Sentinel at scale or just beginning your cloud native security journey, our approach provides fast time to value and ensures a smooth, low risk transition. With NuHarbor as your partner, you gain experienced practitioners who specialize in Microsoft security modernization.

Timeframe and pricing are determined post-consultation.