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What do you like best about Microsoft Defender for Cloud?

Microsoft Defender is a classy product from Microsoft and with the feature of Cloud, the Defender can do a lot for your infrastructure from On-Perm to Hybrid and Cloud. It has a wide dashboard from where you can see the all issues in your infra. You can see the risky users in real-time in your environment, you can see your risk score known as the secure score. You can monitor your user device risk and security recommendations from Microsoft itself. You can plan your patching according to the risk you are seeing on the dashboard.

It's implementation is very easy with your Microsoft existing environment. You will find a very quick customer support from them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Defender for Cloud?

Features are good but a few times they failed to detect the hidden pattern of Malware, zero day attack is also not recognized by them most time. Their attack analysis did not give you more details a lot of time. So, you cannot relay 100% on this tool for security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Defender for Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

Defender's cloud feature is solving a lot of our security issues in one place. First of all, its Dashboard, it will provide you with a wide range of data from where you can see what is happening in your infrastructure. You can see the current issue related to the user pcs, the risky user details. So, after getting the risky user details you can help him to secure their account. You can see the security recommendations and then you can follow that to secure your infra. You can connect it with other cloud solutions. It will help you with the security compliance, you can see your compliance score here. It will monitor your cloud-hosted application and assist you for the security need for that applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Overview

What is Microsoft Defender for Cloud?

Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a cloud native application protection platform for multicloud and hybrid environments with comprehensive security across the full lifecycle, from development to runtime.

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Azure Security Center provides security management and threat protection across your hybrid cloud workloads. It allows you to prevent, detect, and respond to security threats with increased visibility.


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Sachin T.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Robust Security for your Cloud solution"
Precise Monitoring of the security events
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5.0 out of 5
"Honest review of Microsoft Defender for cloud for beigners"
the most important thing is the security system and real time alert system for unauthorized access, easy to use and user interface is user friendly...
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4.0 out of 5
"Evaluating Microsoft Defender for cloud: Benefits and limitation"
Microsoft defender for cloud provides businesss with a unified platform to manage and enhance security across both cloud and on-premises environmen...
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Archi P.
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What do you like best about Microsoft Defender for Cloud?

Microsoft defender for cloud provides businesss with a unified platform to manage and enhance security across both cloud and on-premises environment, it offers pay-as-use model which might be beneficial for some user. It's real-time threat detection, seamless integration with Microsoft tools, and compliance management make it an ideal choice for organisations seeking an all-in-one security solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Defender for Cloud?

What I dislike about Microsoft defender for cloud is the complex pricing, which can quickly become expensive, and the overload of alerts, often leading to false positives. Additionally, the mukti-cloud support isn't as robust for non-azure platforms, the initial setups can be complicated for teams without cloud security setup experience Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Defender for Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

It provides real-time threat detection for workload and containers, helping identify vulnerabilities and attacks early. It's automated security recommendations improve protection without contant manual intervention. It also consolidates security management across cloud environment, it simplifies oversight, while the container monitoring ensures consistent security across all deployments. For me, it streamlined workload protection and reduces the complexity of security dynamic cloud environment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Security?

Microsoft provides security for endpoints , Office 365 apps , Servers etc. Their providing zero hour prevention to all of the endpoint which are configured with Microsoft endpoint security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Security?

the deployment process is very complex when configuring security for IOS device. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Security solving and how is that benefiting you?

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 provide high level security for Microsoft Application including emails , sharepoint and one drive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Defender for Cloud?

Integrated Security Management: Users found it beneficial to have a centralized platform for managing security policies and monitoring across different cloud services within the Azure environment.

Threat Intelligence: Microsoft Defender for Cloud leverages threat intelligence and machine learning to detect and respond to potential security threats, helping organizations stay ahead of evolving cyber threats. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Defender for Cloud?

Complexity in Configuration: Some users found the initial setup and configuration to be complex, especially when dealing with a large number of cloud resources. This complexity could potentially lead to challenges for users who are new to the platform.

Learning Curve: As with any comprehensive security solution, there might be a learning curve for users to fully understand and utilize all the features and functionalities offered by Microsoft Defender for Cloud.

Integration Challenges: While the solution integrates well with Azure services, users working in multi-cloud environments or using services from other cloud providers might face integration challenges or limitations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Defender for Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

Compliance Management: It assists organizations in adhering to regulatory requirements and industry standards by offering tools for policy creation, assessment, and continuous compliance monitoring. This is crucial for industries with strict compliance needs, such as healthcare, finance, and government.

Visibility and Monitoring: The solution provides comprehensive visibility into the security status of Azure resources. It helps users understand the overall security posture and monitor activities across virtual machines, databases, networks, and other cloud components. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Defender for Cloud?

The better side of defender for cloud was that it does it works perfectly fine, it was easy to integrate with my multivendor ecommerce website & application. We implemented defender cloud within couple of days. Even the customer support helped us with complete integration. We used it for couple of months and it prevented alot of spam and attacks. In short all the resources I was utilising on my profile were inside a safe security vault. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Defender for Cloud?

The only drawback of this service I found was the costing of this service. I found it a bit on the expensive side and hence we had to drop it somehow due to budget constrain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Defender for Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

MS Defender helped me take care of my cloud resources and blocking threats to access my resources. I was worried about the safety of my source code and loopholes in them during the development phase but it MS Defender came in handy during the most critical scenarios. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Defender for Cloud?

Microsoft Defender is very useful in terms of application, network, and email security. I am using it in my company to protect our applications and email from threat and phishing attacks. Its dashboard will show us the issue in our infrastructure, so from one point, you can see the issue related to the security in your infra. You can make policies to protect your application and assets from security risks.

It has a connector feature that will give you the strength to connect it with other applications as well. The integration is easy as you only need to make connectors and the application will integrate with this.

You can reach out to the support of Microsoft for any issues, and they will resolve them ASAP. You can go for paid support as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Defender for Cloud?

In email protection, I have seen that they are facing difficulty to detect zero-day attacks and the Malware that are hidden is difficult to detect by defender. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Defender for Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

Microsoft Defender for Cloud is helping us to detect and remove malicious things from our infrastructure. In the dashboard, you can see the SAAS applications that are healthy and that need attention, your compliance score, and your data from different apps that need attention. It will show the risky users of your environment and then you can take action accordingly. It will show the active malware in your environment as many more things in terms of security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Defender for Cloud?

First of all, we are using Defender in our company for email threat protection. We have made inbound and outbound policies for email filtering and Defender is doing a fabulous job on this. It protects us against fraud emails, Phishing attacks, and any suspicious links or documents shared by our internal users to external or external to internal or internal to internal as well. It has a whitelist feature that we can use to whitelist our trusted vendors and users.

It is very easy to set up and use. Its integration with other cloud platforms like Mimecast is also very easy, you just need to make a connector and it will accept that feature. For any query, you can contact support with just a few clicks and they are very supportive of this. You can create multiple policies on this for your environment, you can protect your cloud applications from threats and a lot more features are there that benefit a lot to my environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Defender for Cloud?

Sometimes it does not accurately track the threat, I have seen it has released some suspicious emails and has not shown a security risk, but it is very low, I will say its SLA is more than 99% but yes, sometimes it fails to meet our expectations.

The support team of 1st level, if you are not going for paid subscription, then they will not provide their best engineers to handle your request. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Defender for Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is benefitting us to secure our infrastructure like Network, Applications and email security. It helps us to define policies at one place and then we can manage all policies from one central point. For application security, it shows the security risk associated with the applications. Their security feature will show you the risk associated with the application and users as well. It controls the email flow from inside to outside and inbound emails as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Defender for Cloud?

Microsoft Defender helps greatly in protecting various cloud databases and servers across azure, GCP, AWS. It helps to well managed the virus attack and act like a shield against these threats. Its extended detection and respond system lets the user's data on cloud to stay protected and safe. Moreover it allows to have free trial so that one could use for a period and make a right decisions to choose this product to secure ones data on cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Defender for Cloud?

Currently, with pay as you go service and free trial which stand out to let user decide on its efficiency and need. Microsoft defender is excellent and even workd well on large server size. So if you're using cloud services and protect it against the viruses and cyber threates it's important to get it secured through the advanced features of Microsoft defender. I personally don't find anything to dislike here. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Defender for Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps to secure data on cloud platform and hence closely monitored the outbound data and finely detect and resolve them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Defender for Cloud?

This was a gap in the market which no one say but mdca filled it perfectly. We never new this was a problem that could be solved. We have integrated this with slack with some help from salseforce and Atlassian products as well. It works very well. We manage to trach and mitigate lot's of mis use of tools. This tool is highly recommended to medium and big corporations will go as far as to say must have. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Defender for Cloud?

MDCA is new on market and not many or awere once setup it works seemlesly and integrated dashboard is amazing as well however there are no standard way of integrating each tool has its one ways of integration and challenges. Most tools don't come out of the box ready to integrate ex slack. By having powershell modules or some thing to help with integrate with only few inputs would be great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Defender for Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use most to use to detect personal data share on toold Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Defender for Cloud?

Defender for Cloud is an essential tool for organizations seeking comprehensive, cross-cloud security with the backing of Microsoft's powerful security technologies. Whether you're protecting a small infrastructure or a complex multi-cloud deployment, Defender for Cloud offers the scalability and intelligence needed to keep your environment secure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Defender for Cloud?

Complex configuration

Cost

Integration issue with non azure environments

Alert noise

Learning curve Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Defender for Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

Not any yet Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Defender for Cloud?

Defender for cloud is not MS Azure dependent. You can use it in your environment even if you have multi cloud setup & using different cloud for different kind of workloads. Multiple cloud apps visibility on single interface gives a very good visibility for SoC teams. MS Defender for cloud give you a complete protection of your cloud workload. implementation over the network is quite easy & MS have a very good support team. It haas a powerful integration capabilities and i use it on daily basis to protect my users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Defender for Cloud?

Microsoft defender for cloud is very good for the windows environment but sometimes in the non-windows environmnt have challenges in onboarding or offboarding if needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Defender for Cloud solving and how is that benefiting you?

With all monitoring and good overview capabilities, what i liked mot is Vulnerability Assessment of the conencted devices. It gives the detail of al lthe apps vulnerabilities and weaknesses that can be a risk for the connected systems and after checking the details from it's central portal, security posture can be enhanced. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.