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“Defender for Cloud Offers Compliance Improvements But Visual Analytics Fall Short”
“Decent if you have E5 but don't rely on it solely”
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Microsoft enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Microsoft is dedicated to advancing human and organizational achievement. Microsoft Security helps protect people and data against cyberthreats to give peace of mind.
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1. Broad Cloud Coverage: Defender for Cloud supports multiple cloud environments and has automated enrollment into said environments. This is significantly more than other cloud vendor specific CSPM tools provide. 2. Strong Compliance Support: The security score that is a feature of Defender is here and gives you quick and actionable items that can be done to improve your security posture. 3. Microsoft Stack Value: I found that if you are using just the base level of Defender for Cloud as an Azure customer, you will find tremendous value at a low cost, and there is an easy path forward for expanding into workload protection and some of the more advanced offerings from the platform.
What I like most about it is because microsoft is such a large company, they get lots of good threat intel to utilize in alerts and detections. Their footprint in many environments is large so they also have a good spread of detections across many areas.
It helps us to track the secure score of the cloud. We can get real time threat detection information about virtual machines in the org. MDC supports almost all the CSPs including major CSPs like GCP, AWS and Azure.
1. Cost/Licensing Concerns: When enabling some of the more advanced modules (workload protection, etc.) it can be confusing about the actual cost of what you are enabling. This is not an issue that is unique to Defender for Cloud, however, as other CSPM tools suffer from the same licensing problems. 2. Reporting Limitations: Dashboards, alerting/reporting and other such tools suffer from being rather rigid and overall limited in what data they provide. This can be frustrating if you are looking for an overall security posture across multiple environments. 3. Complexity: If you aren't familiar with Azure and/or compliance standards, navigating through the portal and setting up the proper permissions for Defender for Cloud can be an intimidating task, especially given the clunkiness of the portal.
Managing settings is rather difficult, sometimes you need to go to the security.microsoft.com dashboard, sometimes you need to go to intune, sometimes you need to go to azure to make changes. They need a more cohesive single pane of glass.
If policies are not configured properly then alerts will be more specifically false positives. If more resources are hosted then cost will increase hence included the resources appropriately.
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- CLOUD APPLICATION SECURITY ENGINEERGov't/PS/EdEducationReview Source
Defender for Cloud Offers Compliance Improvements But Visual Analytics Fall Short
Overall, my experience with Microsoft Defender for Cloud has been positive. It's been very effective in delivering a unified view of my security posture across multiple clouds (AWS/GCP/Azure). However, the cost was surprisingly high and the analytics could leave much to be desired from a visual standpoint. Despite this, it helped us improve compliance and streamline an overabundance of tooling that we had. - IT Security & Risk Management Associate10B+ USDBankingReview Source
Decent if you have E5 but don't rely on it solely
Like many MS tools, they have too many UI's that you need to navigate to for accessing data. You get an alert and then have to click multiple times to get any actionable details, if you want to explore more pieces you have to load up another dashboard. Loads of false positives so alert fatigue is a thing. - It Security Engineer10B+ USDIT ServicesReview Source
Real-Time Threat Detection Enhances Visibility of Virtual Machines in the Organization
Microsoft Defender for Cloud is best tool which gives good understanding of security posture of our cloud environment and workloads. It continuously assess resources and gives recommendations. The recommendations are very good and as per the compliance. It is very good saas solution for cloud security - Cybersecurity Engineer10B+ USDIT ServicesReview Source
Centralized Cloud Security Enhances Detection Despite Some Generic Recommendations
The overall experience of this product is very good, as it provides a centralized approach to securing cloud workloads by continuously analyzing configurations, identifying risks and providing appropriate recommendations for improvements. - MANAGER, IT SECURITY AND RISK MANAGEMENT50M-1B USDReal EstateReview Source
Integrating MS Defender for Cloud Enhances Threat Visibility and Multi-Cloud Security
Since we have migrated to Azure, MS defender for cloud has become a core part of our security compliance strategy across hybrid and multi cloud environment. We get great visibility, continuous threat protection, and actionable recommendations that work well with defender cloud and MS Entra.