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MetricStream vs Microsoft Secure Score comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

MetricStream
Ranking in IT Vendor Risk Management
17th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Continuous Controls Monitoring (11th), GRC (9th), IT Governance (4th)
Microsoft Secure Score
Ranking in IT Vendor Risk Management
10th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.8
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the IT Vendor Risk Management category, the mindshare of MetricStream is 4.1%, up from 2.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Secure Score is 1.4%, down from 2.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Vendor Risk Management Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Microsoft Secure Score1.4%
MetricStream4.1%
Other94.5%
IT Vendor Risk Management
 

Featured Reviews

AP
Reasonably priced, stable, with out of the box deployment, and has good local support
They have now reworked it. The interface is mobile-friendly and it is getting a good response from our customers. It's a very good feature that the product offers. It is also available as a cloud option, which is getting a lot of interest from customers who are looking into the GRCC. It is very useful, especially in the solution platform. It has good features and good functionality, and our customers feel there is a lot of merit in that. I think that the portal is constantly improving. They do their own enhancements very often. They keep doing those enhancements from their site itself.
Karim Zaki - PeerSpot reviewer
Stable product with a valuable identity feature
The product helps us with incorporating a mix of industry standards such as ISO and company-specific benchmarks. It amalgamates best practices for various aspects, including devices, applications, identities, workloads, and configurations Microsoft Secure Score's most valuable feature is…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Key features are usability and ease of configuration. It allows us to have all the information in a single place and provide real-time indicators and information for our executives."
"The interface is mobile-friendly and it is getting a good response from our customers."
"Microsoft Secure Score's most valuable feature is identity."
 

Cons

"I would like to see out-of-the-box integration with more security, it would be helpful."
"We would like to have more dashboards and reports, such as geographical and trend reports in the next version. Also, an improvement in the mobile version would be helpful."
"They could indicate whether a recommendation aligns with different compliance standards."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"They are flexible in terms of customers' needs."
"The product pricing is reasonable."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
26%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Insurance Company
14%
Healthcare Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
12%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

What are the main differences between RSA Archer, MetricStream and IBM OpenPages?
RSA Archer, IBM OpenPages and MetricStream are the top GRC software solutions in the market today. Out of the 3, IBM OpenPages has a slightly upper hand as IBM has come up with powerful Artificial ...
What do you like most about Microsoft Secure Score?
Microsoft Secure Score's most valuable feature is identity.
What needs improvement with Microsoft Secure Score?
Microsoft Secure Score's user interface and export feature need improvement. We are not able to export the overall security score at the moment. I have to use PowerShare in the background to encoun...
 

Also Known As

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MS Secure Score
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago, ACCO Brands Corporation, AgFirst Farm Credit Bank, AIB International, Associated Banc-Corp, BAE Systems, Barclaycard, Dell Inc, DIRECTV, Energizer, Fresenius Kabi, Hasbro, Goodyear, HudsonCity Savings Bank, Infigen Energy, Kaydon, Leroy Merlin, Mountry Financial Corp., Nicholas Piramal, Pepco, Pfizer, Societe Generale, Whitney Bank
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