Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management vs Wiz comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Defender Vulnerab...
Ranking in Vulnerability Management
22nd
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) (26th), Microsoft Security Suite (27th), Risk-Based Vulnerability Management (7th)
Wiz
Ranking in Vulnerability Management
4th
Average Rating
9.2
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
Container Security (2nd), Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) (2nd), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (2nd), Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) (2nd), Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) (2nd), Compliance Management (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2024, in the Vulnerability Management category, the mindshare of Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management is 3.4%, down from 4.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Wiz is 10.6%, down from 13.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Vulnerability Management
Unique Categories:
Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)
0.4%
Microsoft Security Suite
0.2%
Container Security
22.9%
Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP)
15.2%
 

Featured Reviews

René-SylvainBédard - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 19, 2024
The vulnerability assessment is very accurate because it runs directly into the vulnerability database
I have three years of experience with Microsoft Defender and Office 365 for eleven years. My company operates as a shop for Microsoft products, and we have always stayed with Microsoft. We intend to displace the competition when my company enters a new client environment. I have dealt with customers who were using Carbon Black and SentinelOne. My company's customers switched work from their previous products to Microsoft because the tools they were using were power-hungry solutions, which had an impact on production. Microsoft Office 365's premium licenses have many built-in services, which our customers used to use from some other products. With Microsoft products, there is no need for our company's customers to pay extra for licensing charges. The major difference between Carbon Black and Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management revolves around areas like stability and integration capabilities within the operating systems, which are strong in Microsoft, especially compared to any of its competitors. The actual depth of knowledge that the platform offers is good because Microsoft has been very rigorous in documenting every single vulnerability that exists for its platform. Microsoft has the most complete list of vulnerabilities for its platform.
MF
Mar 15, 2023
The dashboards are easy to read and visually pleasing, so you can understand everything quickly
The reporting isn't that great. They have executive summaries, but it's only a compliance report that maps all current issues to specific controls. Whether you look at one subscription or project, regardless of the size, you will get a multipage report on how the issues in that account map to that control. Our CSO isn't going to read through that. He won't filter that out or show that to his leadership and say, "Here's what we're doing." It isn't a helpful report. They're working on it, but it's a poor executive summary. All the other reports look great when you try to create them. I can pull a report of issues for a specific project, but it's a CSV file with findings, which isn't helpful. I expect a slick visual summary that looks like what they have on the dashboard. They spend a lot of time making the dashboard easy to understand, but you can't get that information into a report for our executive leadership. We want to show them the trends and what we're doing. It's critical for our team to demonstrate the tool's value. At the end of the year, we have to go to a meeting and show management the progress we made this year. I can only do that by going into open issues, putting them all in notepad, and taking a couple of screenshots. I would also like the dashboards to be customizable. They have excellent dashboards, but you can't create or customize them. At the same time, Wiz seems open to that feedback, and I think they're relatively new. They're growing fast and implementing new features quickly, so I hope this will be added soon. A third issue is that we can't provide email notifications on connector status. Everything comes into Wiz through a connector. Our AWS environment is added as a connector, and there's no way to notify anyone if an issue is detected. We could wake up the next morning and not have any data from our AWS cloud environment because there was an issue with the connector, but no one would've known about it. I think that's something that needs to be fixed. Wiz has room for improvement in terms of risk assessment. It has a severity meter with five levels: critical, high, medium, low, or informational. If I click on the highs, it sorts the issues by the control with the most total issues. They're all high, but it doesn't prioritize based on anything other than the number of issues that are impacted by that control. It's not a priority. It tells you you'll get the most bang for your buck if you fix this one. There's no risk score or anything like that. For example, if a public-facing device has a significant vulnerability, it will consider that business context and label it "critical," but that's all it does. All the severity levels have the same weight. Wiz prioritizes well in terms of sorting the issues into broad categories. However, it doesn't prioritize those. I'm looking at all the highs right now, and I don't know if one of these is more impactful to fix than the other. It helps to have an overview showing that 103 resources will be impacted if we fix this control. We can fix the control at the global level, put guardrails around it, and prevent the issue from happening in the future. You can start thinking that way, but it doesn't tell you this is more severe than other issues in the same severity category.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"One valuable feature is the Microsoft Security Scorecard."
"The product’s most valuable features are compliance, recommendations, and inventories."
"The solution is up-to-date and helps prevent zero-day attacks."
"The product's stability is very high...The scalability of the product is amazing."
"The solution helps identify threats and vulnerabilities."
"With Wiz, we get timely alerts for leaked data or any vulnerabilities already existing in our environment."
"The security baseline and vulnerability assessments is the valuable feature."
"Our most important features are those around entitlement, external exposure, vulnerabilities, and container security."
"The CSPM module has been the most effective. It was easy to deploy and covered all our accounts through APIs, requiring no agents. Wiz provides instant visibility into high-level risks that we need to address."
"The product supports out-of-the-box reporting with context about the asset and allows us to perform complex custom queries on UI."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"The automation roles are essential because we ultimately want to do less work and automate more. The dashboards are easy to read and visually pleasing. You can understand things quickly, which makes it easy for our other teams. The network and infrastructure teams don't know as much about security as we do, so it helps to have a tool that's accessible and nice to look at."
"Out of all the features, the one item that has been most valuable is the fact that Wiz puts into context all the pieces that create an issue, and applies a particular risk evaluation that helps us prioritize when we need to address a misconfiguration, vulnerability, or any issue that would put our environment into risk."
 

Cons

"It is challenging to extract and customize reports from the system."
"The general support could be improved."
"The setup phase of the product is not that easy and needs a person to have a certain level of expertise."
"The technical support takes too much time to resolve tickets."
"Integration can be improved."
"Wiz's reporting capabilities could be refined a bit. They are making headway on that, but more executive-style dashboards would be nice. They just implemented a community aspect where you can share documents and feedback. This was something users had been requesting for a while. They are listening to customer feedback and making changes."
"We're looking at some of the data compliance stuff that they've got Jon offer. I know they're looking at container security, which we gonna be looking at next."
"We wish there were a way, beyond providing visibility and automated remediation, to wait on a given remediation, due to a critical aspect, such as the cost associated with a particular upgrade... We would like to see preventive controls that can be applied through Wiz to protect against vulnerabilities that we're not going to be able to remediate immediately."
"The only small pain point has been around some of the logging integrations. Some of the complexities of the script integrations aren't supported with some of the more automated infrastructure components. So, it's not as universal. For example, they have great support for cloud formation and other services, but if you're using another type of management utility or governance language for your infrastructure-as-code automation components, it becomes a little bit trickier to navigate that."
"The only thing that needs to be improved is the number of scans per day."
"The remediation workflow within the Wiz could be improved."
"The solution's container security could be improved."
"We would like to see improvements to executive-level reporting and data reporting in general, which we understand is being rolled out to the platform."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The licensing model follows a per-user per-month structure."
"The product’s pricing is medium."
"The tool is a bit costly."
"I rate the product's price a three on a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price, and ten is a high price."
"The pricing seems pretty simple. We don't have to do a lot of calculations to figure out what the components are. They do it by enabling specific features, either basics or advanced, which makes it easy to select."
"Wiz is a moderately priced solution, where it is neither cheap nor costly."
"The cost of the other solutions is comparable to Wiz."
"The pricing is fair. Some of the more advanced features and functionalities and how the tiers are split can be somewhat confusing."
"I wish the pricing was more transparent."
"The pricing is fair and comparable to their competitors. The cost seems to be going up, which is a concern. There are potential savings from consolidating tools, but we're uncertain how Wiz's pricing will change over time."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Government
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
6%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

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What do you like most about Wiz?
With Wiz, we get timely alerts for leaked data or any vulnerabilities already existing in our environment.
 

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