Microsoft Defender for Cloud Features
What are the features of Microsoft Defender for Cloud?
Administration
- Policy Enforcement
- Auditing
- Workflow Management
Security
- Compliance Monitoring
- Anomoly Detection
- Data Loss Prevention
- Cloud Gap Analytics
Compliance
- Governance
- Data Governance
- Sensitive Data Compliance
Activity Monitoring
- Usage Monitoring
- API Monitoring
Configuration
- Configuration Monitoring
- API / Integrations
Visibility
- Multicloud Visibility
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Orchestration
Asset Management | Lets users group and organize their endpoints to gather threat intelligence on specific technologies. | Not enough data | |
Security Workflow Automation | Reduces the need for IT and security professionals to iterate repetitive tasks associated with gathering threat information. | Not enough data | |
Deployment | The process in which users integrate their existing security systems and endpoints to the threat intelligence platform. | Not enough data | |
Sandboxing | A feature that allows security testing and information gathering to occur in a secure, resource independent environment. | Not enough data |
Information
Proactive Alerts | Prior to security incidents, the product will alert users when a new, relevant vulnerability or threat is discovered. | Not enough data | |
Malware Detection | Provides multiple techniques and information sources to alert users of malware occurrences. | Not enough data | |
Intelligence Reports | The ability for users to produce reports outlining detailed and personalized threat information | Not enough data |
Personalization
Endpoint Intelligence | Analysis for users to examine threat intelligence data specific to their endpoint devices. | Not enough data | |
Security Validation | The product has a recurring examination process to update your intelligence reports as new threats emerge. | Not enough data | |
Dynamic/Code Analysis | The ability to examine your application, website, or database's code to uncover zero-day vulnerabilities. | Not enough data |
Management
Dashboards and Reports | Access pre-built and custom reports and dashboards. This feature was mentioned in 44 Microsoft Defender for Cloud reviews. | 91% (Based on 44 reviews) | |
Workflow Management | Creates new or streamlines existing workflows to better handle IT support tickets and service. 44 reviewers of Microsoft Defender for Cloud have provided feedback on this feature. | 85% (Based on 44 reviews) | |
Administration Console | Based on 43 Microsoft Defender for Cloud reviews. Provides Administration tools/console that are easy to use and learn for routine maintenance tasks | 87% (Based on 43 reviews) |
Operations
Governance | Allows users to create, edit, and relinquish user access privileges. 43 reviewers of Microsoft Defender for Cloud have provided feedback on this feature. | 89% (Based on 43 reviews) | |
Logging and Reporting | As reported in 44 Microsoft Defender for Cloud reviews. Provides required reports to manage business. Provides adequate logging to troubleshoot and support auditing. | 87% (Based on 44 reviews) | |
API / Integrations | Application Programming Interface - Specification for how the application communicates with other software. API's typically enable integration of data, logic, objects, etc. with other software applications. This feature was mentioned in 44 Microsoft Defender for Cloud reviews. | 85% (Based on 44 reviews) |
Security Controls
Anomaly Detection | Based on 44 Microsoft Defender for Cloud reviews. Constantly monitors acivity related to user behavior and compares activity to benchmarked patterns. | 86% (Based on 44 reviews) | |
Data Loss Prevention | Based on 43 Microsoft Defender for Cloud reviews. Stores data securely either on premise or in an adjacent cloud database to prevent loss of data at rest. | 86% (Based on 43 reviews) | |
Security Auditing | Analyzes data associated with security configurations and infrastructure to provide vulnerability insights and best practices. 43 reviewers of Microsoft Defender for Cloud have provided feedback on this feature. | 89% (Based on 43 reviews) | |
Cloud Gap Analytics | Analyzes data associated with denied entries and policy enforcement, giving information of better authentication and security protocols. 43 reviewers of Microsoft Defender for Cloud have provided feedback on this feature. | 86% (Based on 43 reviews) |
Administration
Risk Scoring | Based on 22 Microsoft Defender for Cloud reviews. Provides risk scoring for suspicious activity, vulnerabilities, and other threats. | 95% (Based on 22 reviews) | |
Secrets Management | Provides tools for managing authentication credentials such as keys and passwords. 21 reviewers of Microsoft Defender for Cloud have provided feedback on this feature. | 92% (Based on 21 reviews) | |
Security Auditing | As reported in 23 Microsoft Defender for Cloud reviews. Analyzes data associated with security configurations and infrastructure to provide vulnerability insights and best practices. | 91% (Based on 23 reviews) | |
Configuration Management | Based on 22 Microsoft Defender for Cloud reviews. Monitors configuration rule sets and policy enforcement measures and document changes to maintain compliance. | 92% (Based on 22 reviews) | |
Policy Enforcement | Allows administrators to set policies for security and data governance. 89 reviewers of Microsoft Defender for Cloud have provided feedback on this feature. | 87% (Based on 89 reviews) | |
Auditing | Based on 90 Microsoft Defender for Cloud reviews. Analyzes data associated with web traffic and site performance to provide vulnerability insights and best practices. | 87% (Based on 90 reviews) | |
Workflow Management | Creates new or streamlines existing workflows to better handle IT support tickets and service. 89 reviewers of Microsoft Defender for Cloud have provided feedback on this feature. | 87% (Based on 89 reviews) | |
Security Automation | Streamline the flow of work processes by establishing triggers and alerts that notify and route information to the appropriate people when their action is required within the compensation process. 58 reviewers of Microsoft Defender for Cloud have provided feedback on this feature. | 85% (Based on 58 reviews) | |
Security Integration | Integrates additional security tools to automate security and incident response processes. 59 reviewers of Microsoft Defender for Cloud have provided feedback on this feature. | 81% (Based on 59 reviews) | |
Multicloud Visibility | Based on 58 Microsoft Defender for Cloud reviews. Allows users to track and control activity across cloud services and providers. | 81% (Based on 58 reviews) |
Monitoring
Continuous Image Assurance | Provides image verification features to establish container approval requirements and continuously monitor for policy violations to identify containers with known vulnerabilities, malware, and other threats. This feature was mentioned in 20 Microsoft Defender for Cloud reviews. | 91% (Based on 20 reviews) | |
Behavior Monitoring | Constantly monitors acivity related to user behavior and compares activity to benchmarked patterns and fraud indicators. 21 reviewers of Microsoft Defender for Cloud have provided feedback on this feature. | 90% (Based on 21 reviews) | |
Observability | Based on 20 Microsoft Defender for Cloud reviews. Generate insights across IT systems utilizing event metrics, logging, traces, and metadata. | 95% (Based on 20 reviews) | |
Resource utilization | Optimizes resource allocation. | Not enough data | |
Real-time monitoring | Consistently monitors processes for applications and IT infrastructure to detect anomalies in real-time. | Not enough data | |
Performance baseline | Sets up standard performance baseline to compare live container activities. | Not enough data | |
API monitoring | Traces connections between different containerized environments and detects anomalies in functionality, user accessibility, traffic flows, and tampering. | Not enough data |
Protection
Dynamic Image Scanning | As reported in 19 Microsoft Defender for Cloud reviews. Scans application and image source code for security flaws without executing it in a live environment | 90% (Based on 19 reviews) | |
Runtime Protection | As reported in 21 Microsoft Defender for Cloud reviews. Monitors container activities and detects threats across containers, networks, and cloud service providers. | 90% (Based on 21 reviews) | |
Workload Protection | As reported in 22 Microsoft Defender for Cloud reviews. Protects compute resources across a networks and cloud service providers. Serves as Firewall and prompts additional authentication for suspicious users. | 93% (Based on 22 reviews) | |
Network Segmentation | Allows administrative control over network components, mapping, and segmentation. 21 reviewers of Microsoft Defender for Cloud have provided feedback on this feature. | 94% (Based on 21 reviews) |
Security
Compliance Monitoring | As reported in 92 Microsoft Defender for Cloud reviews. Monitors data quality and sends alerts based on violations or misuse. | 89% (Based on 92 reviews) | |
Anomoly Detection | Constantly monitors acivity related to user behavior and compares activity to benchmarked patterns. 92 reviewers of Microsoft Defender for Cloud have provided feedback on this feature. | 87% (Based on 92 reviews) | |
Data Loss Prevention | Stores data securely either on premise or in an adjacent cloud database to prevent loss of data at rest. This feature was mentioned in 91 Microsoft Defender for Cloud reviews. | 86% (Based on 91 reviews) | |
Cloud Gap Analytics | Analyzes data associated with denied entries and policy enforcement, giving information of better authentication and security protocols. This feature was mentioned in 91 Microsoft Defender for Cloud reviews. | 87% (Based on 91 reviews) | |
Compliance Monitoring | Based on 60 Microsoft Defender for Cloud reviews. Monitors data quality and send alerts based on violations or misuse. | 86% (Based on 60 reviews) | |
Risk Analysis | See feature definition | Based on 58 Microsoft Defender for Cloud reviews. Identifies potential network security risks, vulnerabilities, and compliance impacts. | 79% (Based on 58 reviews) |
Reporting | Creates reports outlining log activity and relevant metrics. 60 reviewers of Microsoft Defender for Cloud have provided feedback on this feature. | 84% (Based on 60 reviews) | |
False Positives | Does not falsely indicate vulnerable code when no vulnerabilitiy legitimately exists. 16 reviewers of Microsoft Defender for Cloud have provided feedback on this feature. | 84% (Based on 16 reviews) | |
Custom Compliance | Allows users to set custom code standards to meet specific compliances. This feature was mentioned in 18 Microsoft Defender for Cloud reviews. | 91% (Based on 18 reviews) | |
Agility | Detects vulnerabilities at a rate suitable to maintain security, or allows collaborators to do the same. 16 reviewers of Microsoft Defender for Cloud have provided feedback on this feature. | 94% (Based on 16 reviews) |
Compliance
Governance | Allows users to create, edit, and relinquish user access privileges. 92 reviewers of Microsoft Defender for Cloud have provided feedback on this feature. | 87% (Based on 92 reviews) | |
Data Governance | Ensures user access management, data lineage, and data encryption. 89 reviewers of Microsoft Defender for Cloud have provided feedback on this feature. | 86% (Based on 89 reviews) | |
Sensitive Data Compliance | As reported in 90 Microsoft Defender for Cloud reviews. Supports compliance with PII, GDPR, HIPPA, PCI, and other regulatory standards. | 89% (Based on 90 reviews) |
Functionality - Software Composition Analysis
Language Support | As reported in 13 Microsoft Defender for Cloud reviews. Supports a useful and wide variety of programming languages. | 95% (Based on 13 reviews) | |
Integration | Integrates seamlessly with the build environment and development tools like repositories, package managers, etc. This feature was mentioned in 13 Microsoft Defender for Cloud reviews. | 99% (Based on 13 reviews) | |
Transparency | Based on 13 Microsoft Defender for Cloud reviews. Grants comprehensive user-friendly insight into all open source components. | 97% (Based on 13 reviews) |
Effectiveness - Software Composition Analysis
Remediation Suggestions | Based on 13 Microsoft Defender for Cloud reviews. Provides relevant and helpful suggestions for vulnerability remediation upon detection. | 96% (Based on 13 reviews) | |
Continuous Monitoring | Based on 13 Microsoft Defender for Cloud reviews. Monitors open source components proactively and continuously. | 100% (Based on 13 reviews) | |
Thorough Detection | As reported in 13 Microsoft Defender for Cloud reviews. Comprehensively identifies all open source version updates, vulnerabilities, and compliance issues. | 96% (Based on 13 reviews) |
Activity Monitoring
Usage Monitoring | Tracks infrastructure resource needs and alerts administrators or automatically scales usage to minimize waste. 61 reviewers of Microsoft Defender for Cloud have provided feedback on this feature. | 85% (Based on 61 reviews) | |
Database Monitoring | Monitors performance and statistics related to memory, caches and connections. 60 reviewers of Microsoft Defender for Cloud have provided feedback on this feature. | 84% (Based on 60 reviews) | |
API Monitoring | As reported in 61 Microsoft Defender for Cloud reviews. Detects anomalies in functionality, user accessibility, traffic flows, and tampering. | 84% (Based on 61 reviews) | |
Activity Monitoring | Actively monitors status of work stations either on-premise or remote. 59 reviewers of Microsoft Defender for Cloud have provided feedback on this feature. | 86% (Based on 59 reviews) |
Documentation
Feedback | Provides thorough, actionable feedback regarding security vulnerabilities, or allows collaborators to do the same. 17 reviewers of Microsoft Defender for Cloud have provided feedback on this feature. | 92% (Based on 17 reviews) | |
Prioritization | Prioritizes detected vulnerabilities by potential risk, or allows collaborators to do the same. 17 reviewers of Microsoft Defender for Cloud have provided feedback on this feature. | 87% (Based on 17 reviews) | |
Remediation Suggestions | As reported in 16 Microsoft Defender for Cloud reviews. Provides suggestions for remediating vulnerable code, or allows collaborators to do the same. | 93% (Based on 16 reviews) |
Configuration
DLP Configuration | Offers data loss prevention tools to protect data from leaving the environments it is allowed to. 60 reviewers of Microsoft Defender for Cloud have provided feedback on this feature. | 85% (Based on 60 reviews) | |
Configuration Monitoring | As reported in 61 Microsoft Defender for Cloud reviews. Monitors configuration rule sets and policy enforcement measures and document changes to maintain compliance. | 88% (Based on 61 reviews) | |
Unified Policy Management | Allows users to track and control security policies across cloud services and providers. This feature was mentioned in 57 Microsoft Defender for Cloud reviews. | 86% (Based on 57 reviews) | |
Adaptive Access Control | Provides a risk-based approach to determining trust within the network. This feature was mentioned in 58 Microsoft Defender for Cloud reviews. | 86% (Based on 58 reviews) | |
API / Integrations | Based on 62 Microsoft Defender for Cloud reviews. Application Programming Interface - Specification for how the application communicates with other software. API's typically enable integration of data, logic, objects, etc. with other software applications. | 84% (Based on 62 reviews) |
Visibility
Multicloud Visibility | Provides all-encompassing display and analysis of environments, resources, traffic, and activity across networks. 61 reviewers of Microsoft Defender for Cloud have provided feedback on this feature. | 85% (Based on 61 reviews) | |
Asset Discovery | Based on 57 Microsoft Defender for Cloud reviews. Detect new assets as they enter a cloud environments and networks to add to asset inventory. | 88% (Based on 57 reviews) |
Vulnerability Management
Threat Hunting | Facilitates the proactive search for emerging threats as they target servers, endpoints, and networks. This feature was mentioned in 60 Microsoft Defender for Cloud reviews. | 86% (Based on 60 reviews) | |
Vulnerability Scanning | Based on 59 Microsoft Defender for Cloud reviews. Analyzes your existing cloud, network, and IT infrastructure to outline access points that can be easily compromised. | 89% (Based on 59 reviews) | |
Vulnerability Intelligence | As reported in 60 Microsoft Defender for Cloud reviews. Stores information related to new and common vulnerabilities and how to resolve them once incidents occur. | 87% (Based on 60 reviews) | |
Risk-Prioritization | As reported in 60 Microsoft Defender for Cloud reviews. Allows for vulnerability ranking by customized risk and threat priorities. | 87% (Based on 60 reviews) |
Alerts management
Multi-mode alerts | Alerts over email, text, phone call, or more to multiple parties. | Not enough data | |
Opimization alerts | Provides information related to unnecessary spending and unused resources. | Not enough data | |
Incident alerts | Gives alerts when incidents arise. | Not enough data |
Automation
Resolution automation | Diagnoses and resolves incidents without the need for human interaction. | Not enough data | |
Automation | Efficiently scales resource usage to optimize spend whith increased or decreased resource usage requirements. | Not enough data |
Analysis
Search | Allows users to search logs for troubleshooting and open-ended exploration of data. | Not enough data | |
Reporting | Creates reports outlining resource, underutilization, cost trends, and/or functional overlap. | Not enough data | |
Visualization | Presents information and analytics in a digestible, intuitive, and visually appealing way. | Not enough data | |
Track trends | Allows users to track log trends. | Not enough data |
Issue Resolution
Root cause identification | Directly identifies, or increases identification speed for, root causes for container issues. | Not enough data | |
Resolution guidance | Provides paths, suggestions, or other general assistance towards issue resolution. | Not enough data | |
Proactive identification | Proactively identifies trends on container systems that could lead to failures or errors. | Not enough data |
Generative AI
AI Text Summarization | Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary. | Not enough data |
