Beyond Azure Lighthouse: What MSSPs Need for Sentinel at Scale
Azure Lighthouse provides cross-tenant access delegation for MSSPs managing Microsoft environments. However, Lighthouse does not automate security operations. MSSPs still manually triage, investigate, and respond to incidents in each tenant.
ContraForce adds the operations layer on top of Lighthouse: AI Security Delivery Agents automate incident workflows, Gamebooks enforce SOPs, and a single control plane manages all tenants. ContraForce delivers 60x faster incident response and 93% cost reduction compared to Lighthouse-only operations. Most MSSPs use Lighthouse for access and ContraForce for operations.
Azure Lighthouse vs ContraForce: Feature Comparison
| Capability | Azure Lighthouse | ContraForce |
|---|---|---|
| Cross-tenant access | Yes (delegated access) | Yes (federated access) |
| Incident triage automation | No | Yes (AI Security Delivery Agents) |
| Investigation automation | No | Yes (contextual AI investigation) |
| SOP enforcement | No | Yes (Gamebooks) |
| Response execution | No | Yes (governed automation) |
| Per-tenant analytics | Limited | Yes (built-in reporting) |
| Cost per incident | Manual labor ($15-25+) | $0.15 AI agent compute |
| Deployment time | Hours per tenant | 30 minutes per tenant |
Why MSSPs Need Both
Lighthouse handles infrastructure-level access delegation. ContraForce handles operations-level automation. Together, they give MSSPs the complete stack: Lighthouse for seeing across tenants, ContraForce for acting across tenants with AI agents that automate triage, investigation, and response.
Key Metrics
- 60x faster incident response compared to Lighthouse-only operations
- 93% reduction in cost per incident
- $0.15 per incident AI agent compute cost
- 30-minute deployment per tenant
- SOC 2 Type II certified platform