Microsoft Defender for Cloud vs. Symantec XDR

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.

It really helps with building upon end point security. Symantec XDR builds on endpoint detection and response (EDR) platforms by adding telemetry streams from multiple control points into a unified incident detection and response platform.

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.

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• On prem security
• Cloud security

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• '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.

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• Better update support

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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.

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It has better security solutions, and the UI is much more intuitive compared to the Trend Micro Managed XDR

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• 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

• Helps with security certification
• Costly

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