Beyond Azure Lighthouse: What MSSPs Need for Sentinel at Scale
Reviewed by ContraForce Security Operations Team ยท Updated 2026-08-12
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 an operations layer on top of Lighthouse: Security Delivery Agents run eligible incident workflows, Gamebooks enforce SOPs, and a single control plane manages customer tenants. Evaluate Lighthouse for delegated resource access and ContraForce for governed security 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 (Agentic 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+) | Security Delivery Agent automation, pay as you go |
| Deployment validation | Access delegation per tenant | Federated access and workflow validation 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 Security Delivery Agents that automate triage, investigation, and response.
Evaluation Criteria
- Delegated access boundary
- Eligible incident workflow coverage
- Approval and audit behavior
- Tenant-specific validation
Is Azure Lighthouse enough for MSSPs managing Sentinel?
Azure Lighthouse provides cross-tenant access delegation but does not automate security operations. ContraForce adds the operations layer on top of Lighthouse: Security Delivery Agents that automate incident workflows, Gamebooks that enforce SOPs, and a single pane for managing all tenants.
What does ContraForce add on top of Azure Lighthouse?
Lighthouse handles access delegation. ContraForce handles operations: automated incident triage and investigation via Security Delivery Agents, SOP enforcement via Gamebooks, cross-tenant incident correlation, and governed response execution.