AWS IoT Device Defender vs. Microsoft Defender for IoT

We have used AWS IoT Device Defender to safeguard our client's IoT senors placed in a manufacturing unit for implementing Industry 4.0 solutions. Its machine learning and automation capabilities have ensured that we get alerts whenever something abnormal or spike in a particular metric is detected which lets us sleep at night. Didn't find any scenario where it is less suited.

Suited in almost all situations as it has a server less option where if your end device cannot bear the load of an agent, it could be used to protect the network. The comprehensive dashboarding and its integration with Microsoft Defender 365 and Sentinel allows automated remediation and full incident investigation at a single pane. If you don't have a 24*7 SOC team this ca come handy as you can automate workbooks and scripts to run with custom triggers. I haven't faced any scenario where it is not a suitable choice.

Incentivized

• software is having an easy interface
• prevents malicious data inflow/outflow from the AWS resources
• collect data from different devices
• generating alerts in case of any threshold.
• Unique identity per device

• Easy Integration in the form of multiple deployment options including On Prem, Azure or Hybrid Cloud
• All round protection/ Real time analytics with absolutely no performance hits
• Interoperability with Microsoft SIEM/SOAR. This helps in global threat protection with automated and cross domain network security

Incentivized

• Support to more range of Application vulnerabilities
• Data Management can be richer
• Limited Computing Power at times

• The deployment when new to the system is not an easy task.
• Multiple big project information securing.
• Migrating large amount of different data.

Incentivized

Defender being native to MS was the decision maker for us.

Incentivized

• It's ML part which is already trained and on the top of that we can add our own model to define device behaviors to monitor traffic and set the upmost security.

• Positive: With the influx of IoT device organisations in general, we have seen significant demand of the product and hence a good revenue
• Negatively, sometimes, some preview features may significantly change or stop working, which causes client frustration
• Overall, keeping the distrust in preview features aside, 99% of the times, defender hits the right spot!

Incentivized