Microsoft Defender for Cloud vs. Netskope Public Cloud Security

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.

Netskope public cloud security solution is best suited for all sizes of organizations as it's a SaaS-based solution with its tenants ( data plain) available in each region. Multi-cloud infrastructure can be integrated using rest API to identify and protect the data and detect any malware in the infra as well.

Incentivized

• 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

• Data scan and protecting
• Compliance
• Posture check

Incentivized

• '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

• Management plain in India region
• Cost friendly
• Support of more cloud vendor

Incentivized

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

Since most government customer in India has this regulatory to comply that data should not go out of the country if they are going to cloud and this space, Netskope has three tenants here in India to comply and provide the low latency. Netskope public cloud security gives granular control in DLP policy creation.

Incentivized

• 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

• Audit security configuration
• Stop data exfiltration
• Data loss prevention
• Threat protection

Incentivized