Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Formerly Azure Security Center

It is very good in comparison to other products that we have used. Its price is very effective and attractive, and it also provides good security policies. threat intelligence is also good and user protection is also very much better, and it also serves new updates as and when required.

It provides great Integration with the existing resources. As we don’t have to worry about the compatibility of the product with our resources.

Microsoft Defender for Cloud supports the hybrid resource assessment which includes Non-Azure Resources, Aws resources, gcp resources. So it is flexible to asses different cloud platforms. Also its pricing is comparatively affordable then Other cloud security tools available in the market. Also provides you with better user interface which helps users to understand the tool efficiently

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.

Defender for Cloud is definitely less complex a solution and more turn-key. We found that it was easier to grab the information we needed, faster than the Palo solution. In addition, accounting loved the fact that it was less expensive. At the time of implementation, Palo's solution (like some of its other products) has very poor documentation compared to Defender for Cloud. We also found that Prisma was more difficult to integrate with our other products.

We decided to go with Office 365, instead of G-Suite (what it was at the time) because of my employees' familiarity with the Office set of apps (Word, Excel, etc). As part of O365 comes the Azure Security Center and we've used it ever since - we've not had any issues with it and it's always been able to do whatever we've needed to do for our business (configure our rules, whitelisting, conditional access, adding banners to emails from external senders). It's solid, enterprise-ready software.

ASC is more suited for organizations with limited budget and staff.

Defender for Cloud (formerly Azure Security Center) is more holistic and inclusive. Threat analytics are a small part of it now. It fosters that holistic viewpoint across virtually all endpoints within the cloud environment. For example, firewalls, VM coverage, etc. The vectors of security problems are greatly increased with Defender for Cloud over the old Threat Analytics.

Azure Security Center is an extremely capable tool to use within your own internal Azure environment. When it came to picking a tool that would allow us to best configure, manage and secure our Azure environment, it made sense to go with Azure Security Center. While this doesn't offer the best multi-cloud security compared to the likes of Prisma Cloud, Azure Security Center allowed us to focus on Azure and use other CSPM tools for those environments instead.

To me, Defender for Cloud provides a much richer toolset. It not only helps with Threat detection (Malware, SQL injection attempts, suspicious queries) but also gives me a single dashboard for vulnerability detection and security hardening which is similar to CSI benchmarks. Secure Score is a very useful way of keeping track of your progress. It makes for easy KPIs.

Prisma Cloud has some of the same features that Azure Security Center provides but the licensing costs are greater; however, Prisma offers more technical, low-level metadata showing the actual configuration of the cloud resource as well as the ability to search through all your cloud resources via their highly customizable SQL like syntax to find exactly what you're looking for. However, besides the increased cost, it's more challenging to onboard different cloud environments into Prisma whereas Azure Security Center requires little initial setup and configuration since it's a native solution