AWS IoT Device Defender vs. Microsoft Defender for IoT

We have used AWS IoT Device Defender to safeguard our client's IoT senors placed in a manufacturing unit for implementing Industry 4.0 solutions. Its machine learning and automation capabilities have ensured that we get alerts whenever something abnormal or spike in a particular metric is detected which lets us sleep at night. Didn't find any scenario where it is less suited.

Companies that are not using Azure cloud exhaustively will struggle with maximizing the potential of Microsoft defender as multiple important features require the use of IoT Hub etc The product definitely shines though, when integrated with it's friends, i.e when used collectively within microsoft ecosystem. Paired with Intune and IoT Hub, it does a phenomenal job at providing global protection including automated threat protection and cross domain network security features

Incentivized

• software is having an easy interface
• prevents malicious data inflow/outflow from the AWS resources
• collect data from different devices
• generating alerts in case of any threshold.
• Unique identity per device

• Agentless monitoring
• Integration with Sentinel
• Multiple protocol support

Incentivized

• Support to more range of Application vulnerabilities
• Data Management can be richer
• Limited Computing Power at times

• To use it to it's full potential, multiple Azure services are required including but not limited to Intune, VM etc
• Due to a heavy focus on UI rather than Code heavy approach, it sometimes limits itself in terms of features and adds additional complexity when looking for niche network security features.
• Major features like Device inventory and alerting are still in preview mode, which of course can hamper an organisation's trust

Incentivized

Defender being native to MS was the decision maker for us.

Incentivized

• It's ML part which is already trained and on the top of that we can add our own model to define device behaviors to monitor traffic and set the upmost security.

• With this Microsoft software the protection of our project data is excellent and easy data mining solution.
• Extraction and data analytics generation is very effective.
• Data modeling and preparation of multiple data reports from various projects.

Incentivized