Microsoft Defender for Cloud vs. Wiz

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Score 8.5 out of 10
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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
Wiz
Score 8.3 out of 10
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Wiz is a Tel Aviv based, cloud risk visibility solution for enterprise security. It provides a 360° view of security risks across clouds, containers and workloads.N/A
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Microsoft Defender for CloudWiz
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Microsoft Defender for CloudWiz
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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User Ratings
Microsoft Defender for CloudWiz
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
(30 ratings)
8.1
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
Microsoft Defender for CloudWiz
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.
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Wiz.io
Siloed security tools and scanners even the best of the best simply can not provide the perspective that today’s security professionals need. Securing resources in the cloud requires a fundamentally new approach. Wiz gives security teams the insights they need to mitigate risks and unlock innovation across their business. I am sure this product will reach heights
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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.
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Wiz.io
  • Cloud configuration gap.
  • Vulnerability management.
  • Compliance status.
  • Inventory management.
  • AWS CIS Framework.
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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.
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Wiz.io
  • Cross platform use
  • Pricing
  • Understanding to common users via documentations
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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.
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Wiz.io
Tenable.io and Qualys are good just for vulnerability management. Wiz has very good capability to show all issues on single console and also it has provision to show them in different dashboards in different category. It shows cloud configuration gap, AWS cis benchmark gap and vulnerability management along with good reporting service.
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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
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Wiz.io
  • High impact on users
  • Helped end users believe more in us
  • Became an easier way to run security checks
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ScreenShots

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Screenshots

Screenshot of Remediation of critical issues in codeScreenshot of Cloud security benchmark mapped to industry FramworksScreenshot of Prioritization of critical risks with contextual threat analysisScreenshot of Workload protectionScreenshot of Unified DevOps VisibilityScreenshot of Visualizations to improve security posture proactively