Microsoft Defender for Cloud FAQ Detail
127 Reviews and Ratings
What is Microsoft Defender for Cloud?
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According to TrustRadius reviews, Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a security solution used to protect servers from attacks across various environments, including Azure, AWS, multi-cloud, and on-premises deployments. Reviewers describe it as a tool that provides significant cost savings by consolidating other security products and preventing expensive security breaches. Additionally, users report that it helps reduce the volume of threat alerts and minimizes false positives, leading to less 'noise' for security teams.
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what is microsoft defender for cloud and where can i find its official product documentation
Cost Savings and Tool Consolidation
4 mentions▼Reviewers state that Microsoft Defender for Cloud provides significant cost savings. This is achieved by consolidating…
Reviewers state that Microsoft Defender for Cloud provides significant cost savings. This is achieved by consolidating security stacks, which eliminates the need for multiple third-party tools, and by preventing costly security breaches.
“Yes, we have been able to reduce the number of tools we use for this type of task. We decreased by about 3 maybe 4 tools that we use to use for these areas.”
“Yep. The amount of tools eliminated, or, I mean the cost savings depending on who I've worked with has been between 20 and 50,000 a year.”
“Yes, it has. I believe we would have something around $10-15k this year.”
“Yes. We saved 25% of expenses with security breaches”
Reduced Alert Fatigue
4 mentions▼Users find that the product reduces the number of threat alerts and minimizes "noise" from false positives. One reviewe…
Users find that the product reduces the number of threat alerts and minimizes "noise" from false positives. One reviewer notes that while it reduces duplicate alerts, their primary use case of increasing visibility didn't strictly lower the overall alert count.
“Defender helps to reduce the number of threat alerts by leveraging advanced threat detection and suppression rules to minimize false positives”
“Yes for sure. We have significantly less threat alerts when compared with earlier.”
“It reduces the noice. Noice was a big complaint with other solutions. I see less duplacate alerts.”
“My recent implementations have been about increasing visibility, so I wouldn't say it necessarily reduces the amount of alerts kind of strictly, at least in my recent experience.”
Support for Diverse Environments
3 mentions▼Microsoft Defender for Cloud is used to secure a variety of IT environments. Reviewers mention using it for on-premises…
Microsoft Defender for Cloud is used to secure a variety of IT environments. Reviewers mention using it for on-premises resources, multi-cloud setups including AWS, and hybrid environments.
“A mix between Azure ARC for on-prem resources, multi-cloud environments, the whole shebang.”
“We only use on-prem resources currently.”
“Yes, we use a mix of on prem and cloud, AWS.”
Primary Use with Microsoft Azure
3 mentions▼Many reviewers use the product as part of their Azure infrastructure. Some describe their organizations as "Azure shops…
Many reviewers use the product as part of their Azure infrastructure. Some describe their organizations as "Azure shops" and highlight the cost-effectiveness of using Defender within the Azure ecosystem compared to third-party alternatives.
“It's specific to just Azure, but I think that it works and it's saving us cost because some of the third party tools are really expensive.”
“We use Azure and are fairly pleased with the performance and quality.”
“we're completely an Azure shop”
Core Security Protection
1 mention▼At its core, reviewers use Microsoft Defender for Cloud to protect their servers from attacks.
At its core, reviewers use Microsoft Defender for Cloud to protect their servers from attacks.
“Protects our servers from the attacks.”
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