We performed a comparison between Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Wazuh based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."With respect to improving our security posture, it helps us to understand where we are in terms of compliance. We can easily know when we are below the standard because of the scores it calculates."
"One of the features that I like about the solution is it is both a hybrid cloud and also multi-cloud. We never know what company we're going to buy, and therefore we are ready to go. If they have GCP or AWS, we have support for that as well. It offers a single-panel blast across multiple clouds."
"The technical support is very good."
"The most valuable feature is that it's intuitive. It's very intuitive."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the insights, meaning the remediation suggestions, as well as the incident alerts."
"Everything is built into Azure, and if we go for cross-cloud development with Azure Arc, we can use most of the features. While it's possible to deploy and convert third-party applications, it is difficult to maintain, whereas Azure deployments to the cloud are always easier. Also, Microsoft is a big company, so they always provide enough support, and we trust the Microsoft brand."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the vulnerability assessments and the glossary of compliance."
"The first valuable feature was the fact that it gave us a list of everything that users were surfing on the web. Having the list, we could make decisions about those sites."
"Wazuh offers an enhanced HDR version that outperforms its competitors."
"The tool is stable."
"The deployment is easy and they provide very good documentation."
"I like the features we use, including malware detection, inventory, detection of hidden processes, and activity logs. Inventory is probably the most important feature. It tells us when processes and packages were installed and what they are, which is helpful."
"The main thing I like about it is that it has an EDR."
"It has efficient SCA capabilities."
"The configuration assessment and Pile integrity monitoring features are decent."
"The most valuable features are the modules and metrics."
"Azure Security Center takes a long time to update, compared to the on-premises version of Microsoft Defender."
"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."
"After getting a recommendation, it takes time for the solution to refresh properly to show that the problem has been eliminated."
"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."
"There is no perfect product in the world and there are always features that can be added."
"Pricing could be improved. There are limited options based on pricing for the government."
"Microsoft Defender could be more centralized. For example, I still need to go to another console to do policy management."
"We would like to have better transparency as to how the security score is calculated because as it is now, it is difficult to understand."
"The implementation is very complex."
"The computing resources are consuming and do not make sense."
"The tool does not provide CTI to monitor darknet."
"Scalability is a challenge because it is distributed architecture and it uses Elastic DB. Their Elastic DB doesn't allow open source waste application."
"The only challenge we faced with Wazuh was the lack of direct support."
"Integration with Vyara could be better."
"Wazuh should come up with more in-built rules and integrations for the cloud."
"Its configuration process is time-consuming."
Microsoft Defender for Cloud is ranked 3rd in Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) with 46 reviews while Wazuh is ranked 2nd in Log Management with 38 reviews. Microsoft Defender for Cloud is rated 8.0, while Wazuh is rated 7.4. 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 Wazuh writes "It integrates seamlessly with AWS cloud-native services". Microsoft Defender for Cloud is most compared with AWS GuardDuty, Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, Microsoft Defender XDR, Wiz and Trend Vision One - Cloud Security, whereas Wazuh is most compared with Elastic Security, Security Onion, Splunk Enterprise Security, AlienVault OSSIM and SentinelOne Singularity Complete. See our Microsoft Defender for Cloud vs. Wazuh report.
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