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Find out what your peers are saying about Palo Alto Networks, Wiz, Microsoft and others in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP)."The UI is very good."
"The offensive security where they do a fix is valuable. They go to a misconfiguration and provide detailed alerts on what could be there. They also provide a remediation feature where if we give the permission, they can also go and fix the issue."
"The solution is a good alerting tool."
"PingSafe has a dashboard that can detect the criticality of a particular problem, whether it falls under critical, medium, or low vulnerability."
"Our previous product took a lot of man hours to manage. Once we got Singularity Cloud Workload Security, it freed up our time to work on other tasks."
"The management console is highly intuitive to comprehend and operate."
"Cloud Native Security's most valuable features include cloud misconfiguration detection and remediation, compliance monitoring, a robust authentication security engine, and cloud threat detection and response capabilities."
"The real-time detection and response capabilities overall are great."
"Good compliance policies."
"It's quite a good product. It helps to understand the infections and issues you are facing."
"It isn't a highly complex solution. It's something that a lot of analysts can use. Defender gives you a broad overview of what's happening in your environment, and it's a great solution if you're a Microsoft shop."
"It helps you to identify the gaps in your solution and remediate them. It produces a compliance checklist against known standards such as ISO 27001, HIPAA, iTrust, etc."
"The main feature is the security posture assessment through the security score. I find that to be very helpful because it gives us guidance on what needs to be secured and recommendations on how to secure the workloads that have been onboarded."
"The solution is very easy to deploy."
"The most valuable feature is that it's intuitive. It's very intuitive."
"The solution's robust security posture is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the advanced firewall and malware prevention."
"There's room for improvement in the graphic explorer."
"We wanted it to provide us with something like Claroty Hub in AWS for lateral movement. For example, if an EC2 instance or a virtual machine is compromised in a public subnet based on a particular vulnerability, such as Log4j, we want it to not be able to reach some of our databases. This kind of feature is not supported in PingSafe."
"They can work on policies based on different compliance standards."
"PingSafe takes four to five hours to detect and highlight an issue, and that time should be reduced."
"We'd like to have better notifications. We'd like them to happen faster."
"After closing an alert in Cloud Native Security, it still shows as unresolved."
"One of the issues with the product stems from the fact that it clubs different resources under one ticket."
"PingSafe's current documentation could be improved to better assist customers during the cluster onboarding process."
"After getting a recommendation, it takes time for the solution to refresh properly to show that the problem has been eliminated."
"Most of the time, when we log into the support, we don't get a chance to interact with Microsoft employees directly, except having it go to outsource employees of Microsoft. The initial interaction has not been that great because outsourced companies cannot provide the kind of quality or technical expertise that we look for. We have a technical manager from Microsoft, but they are kind of average unless we make noise and ask them to escalate. We then can get the right people and the right solution, but it definitely takes time."
"The documentation and implementation guides could be improved."
"Another thing is that Defender for Cloud uses more resources than CrowdStrike, which my current company uses. Defender for Cloud has two or three processes running simultaneously that consume memory and processor time. I had the chance to compare that with CrowdStrike a few days ago, which was significantly less. It would be nice if Defender were a little lighter. It's a relatively large installation that consumes more resources than competitors do."
"Microsoft Defender could be more centralized. For example, I still need to go to another console to do policy management."
"The most significant areas for improvement are in the security of our identity and endpoints and the posture of the cloud environment. Better protection for our cloud users and cloud apps is always welcome."
"Azure Security Center takes a long time to update, compared to the on-premises version of Microsoft Defender."
"From my own perspective, they just need a product that is tailored to micro-segmentation so I can configure rules for multiple systems at once and manage it."
"One of the areas that this solution can be improved is in Behavioural monitoring."
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Microsoft Defender for Cloud is ranked 3rd in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) with 46 reviews while Symantec Storage Protection is ranked 34th in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP). Microsoft Defender for Cloud is rated 8.0, while Symantec Storage Protection is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Defender for Cloud writes "Provides multi-cloud capability, is plug-and-play, and improves our security posture". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Storage Protection writes "Good technical support, secures our services and mobile devices against malware". Microsoft Defender for Cloud is most compared with AWS GuardDuty, Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Microsoft Defender XDR, Wiz and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, whereas Symantec Storage Protection is most compared with .
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