The more important feature is I can pull or create policies for all the cloud endpoints we have at the moment. It's like an active directory back in the cloud.
Pros
It's easy to integrate because it's Microsoft technology and they have the same button to implement.
Cons
We need to be more specific because sometimes we miss some endpoints because the product not scanning all the endpoints in the factory. And I think that is something need to improve.
Likelihood to Recommend
When you're using Azure Cloud, you are using another cloud provider
For secure our data and file from the outside thread and malware it is very important tool because it easily identify the actual app threads and virues and protect our application easily also we are able to view overall activities on their dashboard easily without facing any issue it overall saves time and effort to determine the cause of threads.
Pros
Easy to implement
Provide immediate alerts to the threads
Saves manual time to detect the cause of error
Cons
It saves our lot of time and effort
Providing a good dashboard
Nothing negative with using this
Likelihood to Recommend
Without using this platform it is very difficult to find the actual cause of error and takes longer time to analyse the issue but using this software it provides immediate response or alerts within less time that increase our work efficiency and saves lot of time and securing our application
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Verified User
Account Manager in Marketing (Computer Software company, 201-500 employees)
We are a reseller, so we sell this product for our clients to be able to protect them from their security aspects. Most of it is basically to protect their identity on their servers, since we are a reseller for the service as well, it is a requirement for us to provide that as services.
Pros
Well, it catches the bad actors that we want them to and it allows us as an MSP to be able to action and respond to the threats. So that's what the clients take our service for.
Cons
I think a lot of it's around educational. If there is some architectural or product enhancements that Microsoft or the developers can reach out to the partners that would help. Right now we find out once we are playing around with it, that there are some of the enhancements that have come in, so that would be really good and will help as a reseller that we can then communicate to our partners as well.
Likelihood to Recommend
This is more suited for companies who really care about security out on the Microsoft journey and want to make sure that nothing is missed. For the companies that are not really interested in security and looking for a checkbox, obviously this product is not for them because it's more pricey and it does things that they're not looking for. A company that is very, very focused on security and specifically leveraging Microsoft, that's where it's best suited for
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Verified User
Vice-President in Sales (Information Services company, 201-500 employees)
Microsoft Defender for Cloud provide a best option to secure our virtual machine and network it provides a layer between our application that helps us to identify app threads and protect against virus along with that using this software is simple and easy that doesn't require heavy configuration protect our data and servers from app threads.
Pros
Identifying risks of servers configuration
Safeguard virtual machines and dat
Providing immediate alert if any suspicious activity found
Cons
Best for viruses and threads
Safeguard of our virtual machines and data bases
Alert system is good
Likelihood to Recommend
The best part of this software is they provide a security against app threats which helping us to easy use of our application without the risk of getting crash or using this software is simple and easy along with that they provide a immediately response against the viruses and protect our database.
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Verified User
Project Manager in Information Technology (Computer Software company, 201-500 employees)
Microsoft Defender for Cloud is most of the useful product for regular use purpose. It's handle my organization complex problems such as data breaches like loss of sensitive information and indirectly financial as well reputational loss. It's helps in system downtime and failure issues. Microsoft Defender for Cloud provide and resolve the issues problem like cloud security posture management and cloud workload protection. It's helps lot in DevSecOps for integrating security. It's improving the my org security posture to identify and remediate vulnerability before the exploited. It's accelerating the development & reduces the security cost.
Pros
Improving the security
Cloud Workload protection
Helps in Development Security Operations
Centralized security management.
incident response.
Cons
UI need to improve!
Need to integrate other tools like API applications.
Detailed incident response with smart highlights
Performance and load time must be improve
Likelihood to Recommend
The most important part is data security. Organization is working with lot more types of the clients and customers. Ultimately If we loss the any data so it will directly impact on financial as well reputational respect. Important thing is we looking to migrate critical data with complex applications. For trust issues and financial capabilities as compared with GCP or AWS Microsoft Defender for Cloud is best choice.
It gives us visibility into endpoints, the activity, and the state of the endpoints. So when we do investigations, we get alerts, right? And so when we do investigations, we usually go to the defender tool set.
Pros
Endpoint information is really good. The lateral movement information that they provide is good. Something on there. Visibility into endpoints related to users to identity. It's also really good. I think it's probably my top three.
Cons
So our biggest frustration is no visibility into browser history, browser plugins, kind of the state of the browser. That's the missing piece from kind of start to finish when you're trying to do investigation. That's usually the first thing, right? Somebody clicks on a link and we don't have the visibility to see when they clicked on the link and what link it was without all extra work elsewhere.
Likelihood to Recommend
I think it's well suited to organizations that don't have a lot of resources from a people perspective. Small and medium-sized businesses.
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Verified User
C-Level Executive in Information Technology (Computer Networking company, 51-200 employees)
My Experience with Defender for Cloud has been very good, and it has significantly strengthened our cloud security and security methodologies. It has exceptional capabilities to protect our cloud infrastructure and assets. Its advanced threat detection features have efficiently safeguarded our assets against cyber threats. Giving us peace of mind knowing that our cloud assets are well protected. It stands out for having a comprehensive and proactive approach to cloud Security. It also strengthens the security of our company employees and users. With the help of Microsoft Defender, our security reaches new heights.
Pros
Cloud Security.
Threat protection.
Vulnerabilities scan and problems.
Cons
Ease to use.
Security goals.
Price
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft Defender is very good while we are enhancing our organization's security, and it is very useful in getting threat alerts and vulnerabilities that can harm our system and users. It is recommended to use this to improve overall security and threat protection of our users and organization. With the help of Microsoft Defender, we get fully covered and secured.
I use this on a daily basis on my work computer and love that I don't have to do anything special or extra to protect from malware. It's such a relief knowing that my information and network are protected without the hassle.
I don't think that we really use it internally, but we have customers and clients that use it and we just go and help them with security assessments or just go through and help them with the configuration or deployment of it. For the most part, just helps with the security of their Azure Microsoft 365 environment.
Pros
It's good for alerting for sure. Good for helping set up access policies. And I guess it's good for just overall cloud security posturing in general.
Cons
I guess it can be kind of confusing for some of our clients. They don't really know the full features. They don't really know how to use it or a lot of times they have it and they don't know all the features that they have available to them to use.
Likelihood to Recommend
It seems like it's pretty well suited for small to medium-sized businesses, but less so for large enterprises. Something like a Google or Amazon or something. But for under a 10,000-person company or whatever it might be.
We use Azure Security Center mainly around our use of Azure AD and the enforcement of rules/policies around our Office 365 environment. We have implemented conditional access rules on our AD and implemented other suggestions that the security center has made to us based on current settings. It's great how it shows you the warnings based on severity so you can get an idea of priority before you start making any changes. We are in the process of launching more services in Azure which I'm sure will see us back in the Security Center looking for advice again.
Pros
The UI is really clear and easy to navigate.
Sorts recommendations via Severity.
Really like the identity secure score.
Cons
Still shows an action in improvements when it's been completed.
Sometimes you end up in a new browser tab and you can't get back to the previous screen.
Likelihood to Recommend
We use Azure AD throughout our org and the Azure Security Center is an invaluable tool for helping point out where we can improve our security posture - before we started using Azure for our day-to-day operations we relied on the security centre guiding us on improvements we can make. However, as we are a hosted 365 customer - we thought most of the security features would be enabled/configured yet when we first got to the Security Center we had lots of work to do. Which was fine as it allowed us to see what was configured and what wasn't. All in all - a great tool and I don't know why someone wouldn't want to use it.
