Overview
Product Information on Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Updated 14th October 2025
What is Microsoft Defender for Cloud?
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Pricing
Overall experience with Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Director of IT
Gov't/PS/ED 5,000 - 50,000 Employees, EducationFAVORABLE
“Solid product, still vulnerable to Microsoft outages”
Overall has worked well, however, outages related to M365 services have caused disruptions to security incident response.
IT Security & Risk Management Associate
10B - 30B USD, BankingCRITICAL
“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.
