Microsoft Defender for Cloud Review
May 06, 2025
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Review
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Defender for Cloud
A lot of times you would think that for having the vendor, a lot of times what happens is that they come in for the premise of like, we have all these potential problems. So a lot of what happens is it becomes more of a proactive need, not so much of a reactive problem. What ends up happening is that a lot of them, they kind of just want to hit checkmark, like "Do we have defender?" A lot of times they just, once it's set up, they just never ask about it until an audit comes in. They have to make sure things happen. A lot of times it's really just making sure it's set up so that way they don't fail. Especially for government, as long as they don't fail a checklist, that's what happens.
Pros
- In terms of what it does very well is that if you are really involved with using Azure, it is a really good setup tool because one thing that I've noticed with a lot of partners in general is that you're going to end up having a company comes up to you and they're going to offer, you have someone to integrate them, but if you know how to really configure and utilize the vendor, in my opinion it's not as crazy expensive. You might think it is, but it does because of how well it does everything, the big thing.
Cons
- I know right now the big push is on things for copilot. Copilot is one of the big pushes in general right now. From what a lot of people have been mentioning to us, they have the ability to utilize things if they pay for copilot, but the problem is they still prefer to go to consultant to help them really set things up. In general, I think consultants suck, right? And because they suck, it would be nice to have a tool that really gets rid of that need. For that it's much more useful for them right now, at least I think somewhere around two, three years ago when they were really pushing copilot on the introduction, people were very excited about it, but right now there's still a lot of hesitation really using it, at least from what I've seen, at least on government relationships. If you're like a school district for example, there's a big common
- I would say that internally when I was working a lot at CDW, I would say it was generally on the positive side, it wasn't really doing anything crazy for us in general, but for any customer of ours, any client that wanted us to really set Defender really good use, they really liked it. A lot of times that was oftentimes why they came to us. So I would say it's pretty positive.
So I mentioned before we're kind of an interesting cloud just because we work a lot with government. So we have things like for example with GovCloud as an operation, they're going to be involved. So we do have a lot of on-prem related things and we are also cloud agnostic too, so any of them that will help us be authorized better on authorizations, we're going to be involved with it.
A lot of times it's not cutting down the amount of threats in general. A lot of times what happens is there's a lot of false positives, so you're going to see that kind of information and that comes in and it happens. That's the reality of a lot of tools in general. So you have to be able to use your good due diligence. That's why I mentioned if you're a security person who understand it, but if you're not, then you're going to see everything as a problem. Everything's critical. And with that being consideration, I mean it's really going to come down to that. So look at it that way.
I can't really give it a good estimation for it, but I would say it definitely does help with the reduction of the amount of security tools because when you would do an inventory management of your tools, there are a lot of solutions people can have. I've noticed that there's a lot of dormant solutions and what happens is that you're going to have 20 solutions do the same thing and you don't know why you're paying for it with Defender, because a lot of things, if you do need something outside of it, it happens. It just comes down to good configurations of your environments. But Defender does pretty much a lot of stuff for you.
Do you think Microsoft Defender for Cloud delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Microsoft Defender for Cloud's feature set?
Yes
Did Microsoft Defender for Cloud live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Microsoft Defender for Cloud go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Microsoft Defender for Cloud again?
Yes
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