Likelihood to Recommend 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.
Read full review It is well suited if your team is working with Microsoft tools and Azure services. but if you are using other cloud service providers and don't want to spend efforts in learning integration with third-party software then this is not a great fit for you. overall we are very satisfied with the product. If your corporation with Microsoft tools then I would recommend it.
Read full review Pros 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. Read full review Detect threats based on user activity logs. Set manual and automatic alert remediation. Implement activity policies. Detect threats based on user activity logs. Read full review Cons '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. Read full review In the event of Cloud traffic it is not easy to monitor and identify attacks. Difficult to protect unmatched Cloud devices. Read full review Support Rating I have not utilized actual support but the Sales and Product teams have been super helpful in moving our implementation forward and showing us the best practices.
Read full review Alternatives Considered 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.
Read full review Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps was chosen primarily due to its ability to work perfectly within our mostly M365 environment. Given that this was an added feature of our E5 license, we chose to dive into it and use it due to it's good visibility into user actions and the ability to tie all M365 actions together into one place. We did not see similar visibility with other tools that we vetted
Read full review Return on Investment 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 Read full review Cloud App Security saves us thousands of dollars finding and rectifying apps security issues Identity Security Posture helps the organization identity stay in shape, saving thousands of dollars on security consultations The cost of suffering a breach cannot be quantified, CAS helps minimize the chances of the attackers succeeding, with excellent historical logging for most operations Read full review ScreenShots Microsoft Defender for Cloud Screenshots