Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting empowers businesses with advanced threat detection and incident response capabilities, leveraging proactive threat hunting and expert consultation to enhance cybersecurity posture across diverse environments.
| Product | Mindshare (%) |
|---|---|
| Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting | 1.5% |
| SentinelOne Wayfinder Threat Detection and Response | 6.8% |
| CrowdStrike Falcon Complete MDR | 5.4% |
| Other | 86.3% |
| Type | Title | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Category | Managed Detection and Response (MDR) | Jun 23, 2026 | Download |
| Product | Reviews, tips, and advice from real users | Jun 23, 2026 | Download |
| Comparison | Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting vs Huntress Managed EDR | Jun 23, 2026 | Download |
| Comparison | Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting vs CrowdStrike Falcon Complete MDR | Jun 23, 2026 | Download |
| Comparison | Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting vs SentinelOne Wayfinder Threat Detection and Response | Jun 23, 2026 | Download |
| Title | Rating | Mindshare | Recommending | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Huntress Managed EDR | 4.6 | 5.1% | 100% | 60 interviewsAdd to research |
| CrowdStrike Falcon Complete MDR | 4.3 | 5.4% | 100% | 81 interviewsAdd to research |
Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting provides a comprehensive cybersecurity solution that integrates well with Microsoft tools, enabling organizations to detect, explain, and manage threats efficiently. It uses the MITRE framework for reporting, enhancing detection strategies and regulatory compliance efforts, offering increased protection against nation-state and financially motivated cyber threats. With tools like KQL query capability, direct access to security analysts via the Ask an Expert button, and automation features, it enhances threat intel updates and saves significant man-hours for security teams.
What key features set Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting apart?Industries employing Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting integrate it with Azure Sentinel and other cybersecurity tools to bolster threat response strategies. Entities benefit from advanced threat signals, enhancing protection against sophisticated cyber threats, particularly useful for sectors facing threats from nation-state and financially supported actors.
| Author info | Rating | Review Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Cybersecurity Manager at Insomea | 4.0 | I've found Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting easy to use with clear pricing and strong support, though frequent updates can be disruptive. It's stable, scalable, and effective for incident handling across hybrid environments, making it a solid choice. |
| Chief Marketing Officer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees | 5.0 | Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting offers invaluable proactive hunting and expert support. It provides peace of mind by leveraging Microsoft's vast threat intelligence to detect emerging and nation-state threats, significantly improving our detection and response capabilities. |
| Systems Architect at Metsys | 4.0 | I've used Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting for eight years, finding it easy to deploy and effective, especially with KQL queries. While powerful, it's expensive and the UI needs improvement. Support is decent, but proactive threat hunting needs refinement. |
| Associate VP (Managed Information Technology Services) at Dev Information Tech Pvt Ltd | 4.5 | I use Microsoft Defender tools within Azure Sentinel for cybersecurity, finding them comprehensive and efficient, especially in threat hunting and automation. While deployment is manageable, pricing is high and support response times could improve. |
| It Specialist at a photography company with 1-10 employees | 4.5 | We use Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting to support customers with updates and scans, benefiting from detecting suspicious items. The user interface could improve, but overall it has saved us money and time. We haven't considered other solutions. |
Right now we manage some firewalls using Microsoft products.
In regard to Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting, I have been working with this product so far.
Mainly and basically for incident handling, my clients are using Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting. This is the main purpose of using this tool and product.
I also operate as a service provider and reseller, similar to an MSSP.
What really stands out about Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting is that it's easy to use. The cost is clear, and the pricing is transparent. The onboarding of the product on the customer's environment is straightforward. We can use it in a hybrid environment, in the cloud, or on-premise environment. This is the main advantage regarding this product.
If it's configured correctly, everything will be good, resilient, and secure, which supports threat mitigation efforts depending on the configuration on the tenant and the parameters on Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting.
Threat intelligence updates have some impact on our overall security posture. They give us external eyes regarding threat actors, which is good. It's very helpful to enrich the SIEM, which is Microsoft Sentinel. It's a good feature that we can include threat intel on the product.
Microsoft now changes a lot in products, which might be a disadvantage right now.
There is a lot of change in a small period. This might not be helpful for IT administrators and users.
New features and new dashboards are among what these changes include. Because Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting is a cloud solution, it will be impacted by these changes. If the menu changes, there is a lot of change regarding this product.
This is the only problem I see; I don't see any other problems from a technical reference.
I have been working with Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting for almost 10 years.
Based on our experience, Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting is very stable overall.
In terms of scalability with Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting, we have no issue and no problem regarding this point of scalability. We can buy for the SMB or for a corporate enterprise.
The technical support from Microsoft is excellent. We work closely with the Microsoft support team. They respect the SLA and the SLO, so we don't have any issue regarding this point.
It's good; they deserve a good rating in terms of support.
Positive
My first experience regarding incident handling was at the Tunisian Computer Emergency Response Team. I have worked with Wazuh, with Sophos, with Darktrace, the NDR solution, a little bit with FortiSIEM, and the firewalls of Fortinet.
Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting is very easy to install. It is easy to deploy for clients both in the cloud, on-premise, and in hybrid environments.
Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting is better compared to other vendors in terms of price and technical aspects. Microsoft is currently a leader according to Gartner.
The pricing, the engineers behind Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting, the changes, and the support services all make the difference compared to other products.
The pricing, engineers behind Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting, changes, and support services make the difference compared to other products.
In terms of pricing, the solution is good, and the price is affordable.
There are multiple insights and recommendations that can be used by our team to help with Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting. Everything is described and commented on, which is very useful for the entire team.
We track metrics for threat detection improvement since implementing this service. We use MITRE ATT&CK mainly, and it's operational work with day-to-day activities to track all these points.
I rate Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting 8 out of 10.
As a working security partner, my main use case for Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting is that many of our customers also have Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting and really find a lot of value in getting that extra threat signal that an ordinary security partner wouldn't be able to provide because they're not Microsoft and obviously Microsoft has the largest amount of data to go through and is tracking financially backed threat actors, persistent threats, and nation-state threat actors around the planet.
The fact that they're not only searching for this, but hunting for it within our customers' accounts gives all of us some peace of mind.
Proactive threat hunting as well as the Ask an Expert feature, which is a button inside of the XDR portal that becomes available when the customer owns Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting, are the best features it offers.
If a customer or one of our analysts needs extra support or has a question about a Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting notification, they can click on that button and chat directly with a Microsoft security analyst to get more information or fill in any gaps regarding the Ask an Expert feature.
Improved detection rates are one of the specific outcomes that show the positive impact because Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting is a second set of eyes or a second team looking for emerging threats within a shared customer's environment.
For us, the proactive approach that Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting is always running is valuable, and we see those alerts pop up inside of our incident queues in Microsoft Sentinel and we respond and acknowledge them.
In many cases, Microsoft might see an alert from a zero-day that we aren't even aware of yet or the industry isn't aware of yet and we see that tagged within our incident queue, which allows us to follow up with it much sooner than had we had to search and detect for it ourselves.
Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting helps my customers detect or prevent emerging threats that are not yet published but Microsoft has visibility into.
Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting's reporting and analytics are clear and actionable, and the fact that it's tied to the MITRE framework puts it all in a common language.
Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting helps my customers comply with industry regulations or standards, though I am unsure how, but many have requirements for threat hunting and this checks that box.
Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting helps my team respond to incidents by providing a backstop, which does speed up the process and improve outcomes.
As a partner, Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting could be improved by getting earlier threat detection signals so we could proactively research on our own end and help support a campaign to raise awareness as well as proactive response.
Having an API or a special threat feed that partners could access would be extremely helpful to make collaboration even smoother regarding the needed improvements.
Since its inception in 2023, I have been using Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting.
Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting is stable.
Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting's scalability is very scalable. It's one service, one button to turn it on for the entire organization.
The customer support for Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting was fantastic.
I did not previously use a different solution; we just used our own solution.
The learning curve for getting started with Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting is very easy. It's probably the easiest Microsoft solution to deploy because all you have to do is activate it and the hunters within Microsoft start working immediately.
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting is that the pricing is pretty standard, and setup was very easy.
I think we've seen a return on investment with Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting. It's basically peace of mind.
Before choosing Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting, we did not evaluate other options as we are a Microsoft partner.
As a partner, there can be some concern that Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting is taking away some of our business because they're providing a solution that we also provide. However, the team has been very easy to work with and understandably, we all see benefits from Microsoft sharing that threat intelligence specifically within our customer's environment.
The advice I would give to others looking into using Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting is that even if you already have a hunting solution, it's not to the same level of Microsoft. Microsoft is likely looking for different things. This is one of those cases where you would want more than one hunting solution.
I gave this product a review rating of ten out of ten.
I am a partner implementer for Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting. It depends on each customer, but most of the work involves finding threats in their environment and explaining to their hierarchy what happened in attack cases.
The ability to query with KQL is a good point of Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting. The ability to query with a specific language to investigate what happened in a specific activity or use case is a useful feature. Easy to use is what my customers say is the biggest benefit of Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting for them.
My customers say the graphical interface in the console should be improved in Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting to make the solution better for the next release, because it's not very well integrated visually. A graphical interface or user experience with more notification abilities is what my customers mention as improvements for Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting.
I have been working with Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting for approximately eight years.
It depends on customers, but deployment takes less than half of a day for Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting. It will depend on the reporting feature that customers want and what rules they want to set up; but for the core part, it's very simple.
We have not experienced stability issues as all of our customers are either in public or private sectors, and we have customers in financial, industry, and services.
We have both medium and enterprise businesses using Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting. Small businesses don't take this tool because it's very expensive for them and it's difficult to make them adopt the product. It's becoming easier every day to make people adopt cloud security operations for Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting because it's now a daily feature.
I have experience with Defender support from Microsoft. It depends on who is answering, but the main part of the support has been good for Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting. The support rating is approximately seven or eight out of ten.
Positive
The setup experience of Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting is very easy based on my experience.
It's the worst part of Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting because it's very expensive. Every customer says it's a good tool but it's quite expensive.
We tried the proactive threat hunting feature, but it was not a good experience with Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting. It created more trouble than expected with false positives and non-expected answers. We opened a support case with Microsoft and had an engineer work with our customer. They fixed it, but it was definitely not a good experience for the customer.
The integration capabilities of Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting with existing security tools are quite easy because it's by design. It's only a button that, if you pay for the feature, you will have the ability.
The value of detailed incident reports varies depending on the customers. Some say it helps in investigating, while others find it very interesting for proactive remediation.
Potential users should try Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting to form their own view and improve their security posture. It can help address the lack of internal personnel if needed.
Overall rating: 8/10
We work on the cybersecurity solutions with Microsoft tools. We work with Azure Sentinel and we work with Defender, specifically focusing on Microsoft cybersecurity tools.
For the cybersecurity team tool, we use Azure Sentinel, which includes Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and other Defenders.
I have experience with Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management and Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting.
The best feature of this solution is that it is an integrated and comprehensive solution for the entire Microsoft ecosystem.
The proactive threat hunting feature of this tool is a great thing.
There is a measurable benefit from this solution; certainly with automation, you can at least have 20-25% of the man-hours being saved.
The areas of the solution that have room for improvement in Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting include the locking mechanism, which is not tough in terms of the cost.
The price of the solution is costly, which I find significant.
My experience with deployment is that it's not hard or easy; you need to have a clear scope of work, and if it is there, it's easier.
I would rate technical support from Microsoft as a seven, on a scale from one to ten.
The time taken to resolve issues is quite longer, which is why I would provide that rating of seven out of ten.
Positive
For ROI, I wouldn't be sure; I haven't calculated it, so I can't say if my clients have seen a return on investment from this solution.
We are a partner of Microsoft, which means we have a professional relationship with them rather than being just a customer or end user.
We sell them Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting, which is a common use case for this solution among our clients.
I rate Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting as nine out of ten for the whole solution.
We use Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting to support customers by updating, scanning, and installing.
Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting is an antivirus that has provided security for our organization.
The solution helps to detect some suspicious items for us and our clients.
The solution’s user interface could be improved.
I have been using Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting for several months.
I rate Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting a nine out of ten for stability.
I rate Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting a nine out of ten for scalability.
The solution's initial setup is a little confusing.
Using Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting has saved us money and time.
I am using the latest version of Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting. Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting is deployed on-cloud in our organization.
I would recommend Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting to other users.
Overall, I rate Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting a nine out of ten.
