Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Microsoft Defender for Cloud

65 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Microsoft Defender for Cloud	Score 8.5 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP) for Azure, on-premises, and multicloud (Amazon AWS and Google GCP) resources.	N/A

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Microsoft Defender for Cloud

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Pricing Offerings
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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	Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Considered Both Products	Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apoorv Tiwari Cloud Engineer Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud It is very good in comparison to other products that we have used. Its price is very effective and attractive, and it also provides good security policies. threat intelligence is also good and user protection is also very much better, and it also serves new updates as and when … Helpful? SL Shreyas Limaye Senior Cloud Engineer Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud It provides great Integration with the existing resources. As we don’t have to worry about the compatibility of the product with our resources. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud Microsoft Defender for Cloud supports the hybrid resource assessment which includes Non-Azure Resources, Aws resources, gcp resources. So it is flexible to asses different cloud platforms. Also its pricing is comparatively affordable then Other cloud security tools available in … Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud Defender for Cloud (previously known as Azure Security Center) is a more comprehensive and extensive security solution. Currently, threat analytics make up only a small portion of the whole picture. It encourages a comprehensive picture of the cloud environment across all of … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud Defender for Cloud is definitely less complex a solution and more turn-key. We found that it was easier to grab the information we needed, faster than the Palo solution. In addition, accounting loved the fact that it was less expensive. At the time of implementation, Palo's … Incentivized Helpful? Alex Richards Chief Information Officer & Co-Founder Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud We decided to go with Office 365, instead of G-Suite (what it was at the time) because of my employees' familiarity with the Office set of apps (Word, Excel, etc). As part of O365 comes the Azure Security Center and we've used it ever since - we've not had any issues with it … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud ASC is more suited for organizations with limited budget and staff. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud Defender for Cloud (formerly Azure Security Center) is more holistic and inclusive. Threat analytics are a small part of it now. It fosters that holistic viewpoint across virtually all endpoints within the cloud environment. For example, firewalls, VM coverage, etc. The vectors … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud Azure Security Center is an extremely capable tool to use within your own internal Azure environment. When it came to picking a tool that would allow us to best configure, manage and secure our Azure environment, it made sense to go with Azure Security Center. While this … Incentivized Helpful? AM Ali Marandi Senior Manager-Cyber Security Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud To me, Defender for Cloud provides a much richer toolset. It not only helps with Threat detection (Malware, SQL injection attempts, suspicious queries) but also gives me a single dashboard for vulnerability detection and security hardening which is similar to CSI benchmarks. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Microsoft Defender for Cloud Prisma Cloud has some of the same features that Azure Security Center provides but the licensing costs are greater; however, Prisma offers more technical, low-level metadata showing the actual configuration of the cloud resource as well as the ability to search through all your … Helpful?

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User Ratings
	Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend	8.4 (31 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend	Microsoft Microsoft Defender is very good while we are enhancing our organization's security, and it is very useful in getting threat alerts and vulnerabilities that can harm our system and users. It is recommended to use this to improve overall security and threat protection of our users and organization. With the help of Microsoft Defender, we get fully covered and secured. Apoorv Tiwari Cloud Engineer Read full review
Pros	Microsoft detect and respond to security threats in the cloud environment, reducing the risk of data breaches and unauthorized access. The product assists our organization dealing with sensitive data in achieving and maintaining compliance with data protection rules. The product provides real-time visibility into the cloud environment, offering insights into ongoing security activities. It guarantees that security teams can actively handle possible threats by delivering real-time monitoring and notifications, reducing the impact on business operations. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Microsoft 'Regulatory Compliance' is definitely an area of improvement for MDC. The complex and high number of controls within a specific framework should allow a more helpful and detailed guidelines in order to tackle them. The limitation of options in the incident management menu of MDC has proven to be a hassle while managing security alerts. For example, an analyst cannot even provide a comment about the actions taken on an incident. There is a missing functionality of connecting other EDR or XDR solutions to MDC which I think should be there for a CSPM tool. Incentivized Yash Mudaliar Associate Lead Security Admin Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Microsoft Defender for Cloud (previously known as Azure Security Center) is a more comprehensive and extensive security solution. Currently, threat analytics make up only a small portion of the whole picture. It encourages a comprehensive picture of the cloud environment across all of its endpoints. For example, firewalls, virtual machine coverage, etc. When compared to the former Threat Analytics, the attack surface of Defender for Cloud is vastly expanded. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Microsoft It creates a great insight in all assets that are available The CSPM makes sure that certain risk that might have been missed are addressed Being able to query across the data gives great insights in threats and possible vulernabilties for CVEs Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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