Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Score8.5 out of 10

111 Reviews and Ratings

What is Microsoft Defender for Cloud?

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.

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#1 most frequent

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

25.7%

289 installations of 1,125

“Saves infrastructure cost.”
— Project Manager, Capgemini (1001-5000 employees)

#2 most frequent

Finance and Insurance

15.1%

170 installations of 1,125

#3 most frequent

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11.6%

130 installations of 1,125

Helia Pimenta

sales in Sales at Comsoftweb, lda (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

MD helps us to prevent attaacks to our containers, storage, clients databases.

Pros

helps security teams investigate attacks
helps malicious events
helsp improve cloud security

Cons

helsp to manage security
security tips
mitigate threats

Return on Investment

Initial training and investiment costs
reduce risk of security
cost savins

Alternatives Considered

Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud

Other Software Used

Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud, Trend Micro Cloud One - Application Security

Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

For business problems, one great example is using the threat explorer from that product, where we are able to track messages and trace them, and use the technology that Microsoft Defender for Cloud offers to look at the messages, retract, flag the messages, and then utilize that technology to send them to Microsoft for review with their AI technology. That's been a great thing for us. It's been working out well. And then what is the scope of your case? The scope is all users' day-to-day. So we're always tracking with Microsoft Defender for Cloud; we're monitoring emails and looking at threats and how they're affecting us for our anti-Spam policy.

Pros

It's really well laid out, with an easy-to-use, accessible UI.
With Microsoft Defender for Cloud, it has everything you need with the Safelink attachment, the Safelink emails for URL, the way it scans those URLs and attachments within the product, and you're seeing the results. And that adds an extra layer of security for the user, so you feel comfortable knowing the product monitors those. That's something I really like about that product.

Cons

I feel like they should be a little bit better in their phishing campaign. The product has the ability to do a phishing campaign, but it could improve in that sector. And I feel like if they could get somewhere close to being with KnowBe4, a dedicated product for phishing campaigns, that Microsoft could do that, and then bring some features from that, it'll be great.

Return on Investment

It's always been positive. We had many scenarios where we needed the product to retract high-level confidential emails that had gone out, and it did a great job, at least for the internal part of that. And it's always been great for the business. It's always saving business money.

Usability

Verified User

C-Level Executive in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

All our cloud and pressure to meet a high standard of protection for all the workload that we have put on the cloud. One of the key components that is helping us take this kind of protection one step further is Microsoft Defender for Cloud.

Pros

I thought that the capability to downgrade the different types of resources that we have is so valuable for us because in the cloud, everything could change, everything could happen. And the way you use these kinds of resources varies in different ways. For us, it's so important to identify that the level of protection for those kinds of resources is different. Different for databases, different for server, different for block storage.

Cons

I think one of the opportunities we have identified is around the use-based model and the cost model, because we usually need to address consumption guarantees, since in the cloud these cost models around data ingestion can arise. So on our first year, I thought that we learned a lot of the trending situations around how to tune it, how to understand how the consumption policies. And I think that's one of the biggest challenges that we learned from the field year.

Return on Investment

Wow, great question. I thought that for us, the return on security investment was so imperative because we needed to guarantee that all the data exposure we had allowed us to see the attack software in a different manner and deterred cloud switching so well for us in this control objective to protect.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

CrowdStrike Falcon and Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR

Verified User

C-Level Executive in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We're utilizing Microsoft Defender for Cloud to be able to control granular access to sanctioned or unsanctioned websites and to look for malicious content whilst surfing the internet.

Pros

In terms of what it does well, it gives us quick and easy to understand visibility around the risk rating for websites when a user is trying to access it. We can use that data to make a decision whether that is permitted or rejected for users across the business.

Cons

The example I would give is how it categorizes AI sites. So at the moment, we have a policy in place that allows us to identify and control access to gen AI sites. But if we then dig deeper, there's about another six or seven categories beneath that that we then need to go further down and control. If Microsoft could bring that together into a single category for AI sites, we could control it better.

Return on Investment

Positive return on investment on the basis that it's part of or included within the E5 license that we've got for the business. So it wasn't an additional cost. So there's a return on the investment there for the wider Microsoft piece.
In terms of the impact on the business, there is a positive impact in terms of the ability to control without having additional software installed on the devices.

Usability

Other Software Used

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Verified User

Director in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We've been doing a lot of migration work over the last years, especially, but overall, as a company, migrating anything on our scale takes a long, long time. So I think some of. It's been beneficial in streamlining our visibility and also in effecting change at the user level, so essentially, the target would be to do so quickly. And that has been probably, from my very limited viewpoint, because as I said, just started using it, probably the best ROI or bank for our partner. I think just getting folks familiarized and trained quickly enough is an issue. That's something that we're trying to figure out how to scale out better within the org.

Pros

I think effecting change aligned with our leadership goals across a larger number of environments, more quickly than we could before, is probably the biggest pro I currently see. Although, as I said, I'm only one of many users.

Cons

I think getting folks adequately trained on it has been a bit more of a challenge than I originally expected. But again, my view of it is very narrow compared to others in the org.

Return on Investment

I think efficiency has been a big ROI point for us. So gaining efficiency and visibility is big because we have people across so many different countries and many different locations, and it's just a big thing for us.

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