Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Formerly Azure Security Center

Yes, with the help of Microsft Defender for Cloud, we have saved a huge amount of that is being spent on our security requirements. Still, with the help of Microsft Defender for Cloud, we can save that amount and also get better security and threat protection in comparison to the old products.

Yes, as we have the entire Infrastructure on Azure we cant rely on third party tools. Microsoft defender for cloud has greatly helped us to save cost for more than 200-300$ as it perfectly integrated with our resources

Yes, we have saved a lot, and not just in terms of money but also in terms of time and managing efforts.

MDC has helped us in 3 specific category of tools - CSPM, CWPP and incident management platform. If not for MDC, we would have to acquire these products separately from different vendors giving us an economical and operational overhead. Not to forget, we are also utilizing it as an DevOps security tool replacing an IaC tool. If I were to make an assumption, it is nearly saving us about approximately 15000$/year.

Yes, Defender for Cloud does do this for us. We now have a vulnerability scanner for example that would otherwise be a 3rd party solution. Things like asset management and attack surface management can now be done from one tool. I do not know what exactly the licensing costs will save us .. but we incorpate 4-5 tools in a single solution now (cloud asset management, vulnerability scanner, security posture, workload protection and ci/cd protection)

This does reduce the number of third party products we would otherwise use.

Yes, its help in reduce the number of third party products to protect our infrastructure.
Our organization resources mostly hosted on Azure and Office365 so Microsoft Defender for Cloud is best for us and cover many of security needs within Azure environment. It saves us lots of time for us in searching of 3rd party products which provide the security and cover the security needs what we are looking for. By using Microsoft Defender for Cloud which well suited for us in windows environment which cover the security needs what we require.

I am not involved in this

I can't say much on it because that is as per need of the clients.

It does help in a sense, but we still have lots of other third-party products that can do some similar capabilities.

Yes. Approximately $350K is saved by using Microsoft Defender for the cloud.

Unfortunately, no, it doesn't reduce the number of products we would otherwise use in our department/facility.

Yes because this product can be used on premise and in all the main hyperscalers which allows us to standardize on a single product and not have to maintain to multiple skillsets or products.

It reduces the number of security third part apps as Microsoft Defender for Cloud can do many different functions