Microsoft Defender for Cloud vs SUSE NeuVector comparison

Microsoft and SUSE are both solutions in the Container Security category. Microsoft is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.1, while SUSE is ranked #17 with an average rating of 8.0. Microsoft holds a 7.1% mindshare in Container Security, compared to SUSE’s 2.4% mindshare. Additionally, 94% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 87% of SUSE users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 13, 2025

SUSE NeuVector and Microsoft Defender for Cloud compete in the cloud security solutions category. Microsoft Defender for Cloud holds the upper hand in feature offerings, supported by its integration and comprehensive capabilities.

Features: SUSE NeuVector provides robust container security with features like runtime vulnerability scanning, network intrusion detection, and strong container protections. Microsoft Defender for Cloud offers comprehensive security across Azure services with integrated threat protection, compliance monitoring, and seamless Azure ecosystem integration.

Room for Improvement: SUSE NeuVector can improve by expanding its feature set to cover more diverse security needs and enhancing integration capabilities with other cloud platforms. It could also benefit from refining user interface features for better usability. Microsoft Defender for Cloud might improve by offering more competitive pricing options and simplifying its user interface for better accessibility. There is also room for more comprehensive support for non-Azure environments.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: SUSE NeuVector provides a straightforward deployment process making it suitable for environments focusing on container security. It offers dedicated customer service. Microsoft Defender for Cloud benefits from seamless integration with Microsoft's ecosystem, which streamlines deployment in Azure-centric infrastructures. Its extensive support network enhances its customer service advantage.

Pricing and ROI: SUSE NeuVector is competitively priced, offering strong ROI for container-specific deployments with a focus on cost-balance. Microsoft Defender for Cloud may require a higher initial investment but offers considerable long-term value through vast integration and feature sets, suggesting favorable ROI for enterprises using the Microsoft stack.

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Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Container Security category, the mindshare of SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is 2.6%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Defender for Cloud is 7.1%, down from 7.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SUSE NeuVector is 2.4%, down from 3.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Andrew W

VP - Information Technology at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

Tells us about vulnerabilities as well as their impact and helps to focus on real issues

Looking at all the different pieces, it has got everything we need. Some of the pieces we do not even use. For example, we do not have Kubernetes Security. We are not running any K8 clusters, so it is good for us. Overall, we find the solution to be fantastic. There can be additional education components. This may not be truly fair to them because of what the product is going for, but it would be great to see additional education for compliance. It is not a criticism of the tool per se, but anything to help non-development resources understand some of the complexities of the cloud is always appreciated. Any additional educational resources are always helpful for security teams, especially those without a development background.

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Vibhor Goel

Senior Cloud Platform Engineer at Deutsche Börse

A single tool for complete visibility and addressing security gaps

Currently, issues are structured in Microsoft Defender for Cloud at severity levels of high, critical, or warning, but these severity levels are not always right. For example, Microsoft might consider a port being open as critical, but that might not be the case for our company. Similarly, it might suggest closing some management ports, but you might need them to be able to log in, so the severity levels for certain things can be improved. Even though Microsoft Defender for Cloud provides a way to temporarily disable certain alerts or notifications without affecting our security score, it would be better to have more granularized control over these recommendations. Currently, we cannot even disable certain alerts or notifications. There should be an automated mechanism to design Azure policies based on the recommendations, possibly with AI integration. Instead of an engineer having to write a policy to fix security gaps, which is very time-consuming, there should be an inbuilt capability to auto-remediate everything and have proper control in place. Additionally, enabling Defender for Cloud at the resource group level, rather than only at the subscription level, would be beneficial.

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Danie Joubert

Managing Director at ProQuanta

Good value for money; great for policy management

Our model of deployment for this solution is on-premises. For people looking into this solution and trying to use it for the first time, I'd say make your life easier by using the SUSE product as well on top of your community scale stack. That makes your integration points a lot easier and smoother. I would also say during your initial setup, make sure that your clusters are already in terms of the capabilities with the version required. I would rate this solution an eight, on a scale from one to 10, with one being the worst and 10 being the best. The reason for this rating is that what they offer is solid, but they could expand their service and add more features just to make more things integrated into an enterprise itself.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"SentinelOne is far superior to our previous solution, Accops, due to its seamless updates, effortless maintenance, and user-friendly interface and dashboard."

"The visibility SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security provides into the Cloud environment is a valuable feature."

"It's positively affected the communication between cloud security, application developers, and AppSec teams."

"The compliance monitoring feature of SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security gives us a report with a compliance score to ensure we meet certain regulatory standards."

"We like the platform and its response time. We also like that its console is user-friendly as well as modern and sleek."

"Singularity Cloud's ability to create custom correlation searches and reduce noise is highly valuable."

"Singularity Cloud Workload Security provides us with better security detection and more visibility. It is another resource that we can use to detect vulnerabilities in our company's systems. For example, it can help us detect new file processes that we are not familiar with, which could be used by attackers to exploit our systems. Singularity Cloud Workload Security can also help us diagnose and analyze data to determine whether it is malicious or not. Singularity Cloud Workload Security is like another pair of eyes that can help us protect our systems from cyberattacks."

"It's helped free up staff time so that they can work on other projects."

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"The solution is used for risks, vulnerabilities, and compliance."

"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."

"Microsoft Defender for Cloud is stable and reliable as advertised."

"Defender for Cloud is a plug-and-play solution that provides continuous posture management once enabled."

"The dashboard is very good. It gives our clients a lot of information and allows them to have a complete overview of the system. Everything is visible in one glance."

"The most valuable feature is the regulatory compliance aspect, where we utilize predefined initiatives like NIST."

"The tool's most valuable feature is its support for cloud-native services like Kubernetes, containers, managed storage, and databases. Protecting these without Microsoft Defender for Cloud would be extremely challenging. For threat protection specifically, I find the signature-based detection and heuristic detection features very effective."

"Microsoft Defender for Cloud has significantly enhanced our overall security posture by approximately 20 to 25 percent."

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"The initial setup is quite good, it's straightforward."

"The most valuable feature of SUSE NeuVector is its run-time security."

"The solution includes many features, not only for container and client security but also for scanning nodes, networks, and vulnerabilities."

"The UI has a lot of features."

"The features of image scanning and anti-malware are really valuable."

"The tool's deployment is simple. Also, I am impressed with its risk capabilities."

"The most valuable feature of SUSE NeuVector is the performance, deployment, and cost."

"When it comes to the price, we got a really good deal from the vendor instantly."

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Cons

"I want SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security to integrate additional third-party resources. For example, SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is compatible with Azure and AWS, but Azure AD isn't integrated with AWS. If SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security had that ability, it would enrich the data because how users interact with our AWS environment is crucial. All the identity-related features require improvement."

"The Automation tab is an add-on that doesn’t work properly. They provide a list of scripts that don’t work and I have asked support to assist but they won’t help. When running on various endpoints the script doesn’t work and if it does, it’s only a couple. There are a lot of useful scripts that would be beneficial to run forensics, event logs, and process lists running on the endpoint."

"The alerting system of the product is an area that I look at and sometimes get confused about. I feel the alerting feature needs improvement."

"The cloud-based operations might pose challenges in areas with limited or unavailable internet connectivity. Desktop features might be useful for smaller organizations with less complex security needs."

"While SentinelOne offers robust security features, its higher cost may present a challenge for budget-conscious organizations."

"I would like to see the map feature improve. It's good, but it isn't fully developed. It lets us use custom resources and policies but does not allow us to perform some actions. I would also like more custom integration and runtime security for Kubernetes."

"In version 2, a lot of rules have been deployed for Kubernetes security and CDR, which makes a lot of issues of critical severity, whereas they are not critical or of high severity. There is a mismatch of severities. They need to work on severity management."

"I believe the UI/UX updates for SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security have room for improvement."

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"If they had an easier way to display all the vulnerabilities of the machines affected and remediation steps on one screen rather than having to dive deep into each of them, that would be a lot easier."

"The product's advanced analytics and reporting features could be improved."

"When you work with it, the only problem that we're struggling with is that we have 21 different subscriptions we're trying to apply security to. It's impossible to keep everything organized."

"Support needs to be highly responsive, especially in large enterprise environments."

"Although Microsoft Defender for Cloud is based on security, I wish it went beyond providing assessments, reports, and generic steps. More detailed procedures would be helpful, especially for lower-level support staff."

"However, some Copilot features aren't available in the GCP environment. This is something we hope will be addressed in the future."

"Sometimes, it's very difficult to determine when I need Microsoft Defender for Cloud for a special resource group or certain kinds of products. That's not an issue directly with the product, though."

"From a compliance standpoint, they can include some more metrics and some specific compliances such as GDPR."

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"I would say that this solution should improve monitoring and reporting. I would also like to see more integrations so that we could essentially make it a part of a developing pipeline."

"The documentation needs to improve a bit."

"SUSE NeuVector should provide more security protection rules and better container image scanning."

"Using a node port instead of a cluster IP is less ideal when implementing federation features between two clusters and could be improved."

"However, I found that the support in Egypt was not very qualified, and there was a need to upgrade to a higher support layer to solve my issues."

"SUSE NeuVector could improve by increasing its visibility into other elements of the DevSecOps pipeline. Additionally, scanning around infrastructure would be helpful."

"The tool should offer seamless integration of other security tools while in a hybrid environment."

"The image-scanning features need improvement."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I am personally not taking care of the pricing part, but when we moved from CrowdStrike to PingSafe, there were some savings. The price of CrowdStrike was quite high. Compared to that, the price of PingSafe was low. PingSafe is charging based on the subscription model. If I want to add an AWS subscription, I need to pay more. It should not be based on subscription. It should be based on the number of servers that I am scanning."

"SentinelOne offers excellent pricing and licensing options."

"Its pricing is constant. It has been constant over the previous year, so I am happy with it. However, price distribution can be better explained. That is the only area I am worried about. Otherwise, the pricing is very reasonable."

"Singularity Cloud Security by SentinelOne is cost-efficient."

"Singularity Cloud Workload Security's pricing is good."

"PingSafe is priced reasonably for our workload."

"The pricing is somewhat high compared to other market tools."

"PingSafe falls within the typical price range for cloud security platforms."

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"The pricing is very difficult because every type of Defender for Cloud has its own metrics and pricing. If you have Cloud for Key Vault, the pricing is different than it is for storage. Every type has its own pricing list and rules."

"I rate Microsoft Defender a three out of ten for affordability. The price could be a little lower."

"There is a helpful cost-reducing option that allows you to integrate production subscriptions with non-production subscriptions."

"I'm not privy to that information, but I know it's probably close to a million dollars a year."

"There are two different plans. We're using the secure basic plan, but we have used the end security plan as well. There are additional costs, but it gives us more functionalities compared to the basic plan."

"The pricing and licensing of Microsoft Defender for Cloud have been good for us. We appreciate the licensing approach based on employee count rather than a big enterprise license."

"Security Center charges $15 per resource for any workload that you onboard into it. They charge per VM or per data-base server or per application. It's not like Microsoft 365 licensing, where there are levels like E3 and E5. Security Center is pretty straightforward."

"The tool is pretty expensive."

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"Licensing fees are paid yearly."

"The price of SUSE NeuVector is low. There is an additional cost for support."

"The solution's pricing could be better. The cost of a subscription is calculated on the basis of work."

"SUSE NeuVector is an open-source solution."

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about PingSafe?

The dashboard gives me an overview of all the things happening in the product, making it one of the tool's best featu...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PingSafe?

I don't handle the price part, but it isn't more expensive than Palo Alto Prisma Cloud. It's not cheap, but it is wor...

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What needs improvement with PingSafe?

There is scope for more application security posture management features. Additionally, the runtime protection needs ...

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How is Prisma Cloud vs Azure Security Center for security?

Azure Security Center is very easy to use, integrates well, and gives very good visibility on what is happening acros...

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What do you like most about Microsoft Defender for Cloud?

The entire Defender Suite is tightly coupled, integrated, and collaborative.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Defender for Cloud?

The pricing is pretty standard.

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What do you like most about NeuVector?

The most valuable feature of SUSE NeuVector is its run-time security.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NeuVector?

SUSE NeuVector is an open-source solution. You have to pay for the support.

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What needs improvement with NeuVector?

One area for improvement is NeuVector's ability to import CVEs from different sources. Additionally, using a node por...

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Comparisons

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Compared 19% of the time

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Compared 15% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

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Compared 4% of the time

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Compared 4% of the time

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Compared 23% of the time

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Compared 12% of the time

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Compared 9% of the time

Microsoft Defender XDR vs Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Compared 5% of the time

CrowdStrike Falcon vs Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Compared 1% of the time

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Compared 16% of the time

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Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks vs SUSE NeuVector

Compared 9% of the time

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Overview

SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security protects cloud workloads, offering advanced threat detection and automated response. It integrates seamlessly with cloud environments and secures containerized applications and virtual machines against vulnerabilities.

SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is renowned for its efficiency in mitigating threats in real-time. The platform integrates effortlessly with existing cloud environments, ensuring robust cloud security management with minimal manual intervention. Securing containerized applications and virtual machines, it excels in threat intelligence and endpoint protection. However, improvements are needed in performance during high workload periods, and more integrations with third-party tools and better documentation would be beneficial. Users often find the installation process complex, support response times slow, and the dashboard's navigation unintuitive.

What are the key features of SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security?

Real-time Threat Detection: Identifies and mitigates threats as they occur.
Automated Response: Automatically responds to threats to minimize impact.
Ease of Deployment: Simple setup process with scalable options.
Machine Learning Insights: AI-driven insights enhance threat prevention.
Seamless Integration: Integrates with cloud environments for unified security management.

What are the primary benefits or ROI to expect from SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security?

Enhanced Threat Mitigation: Improved security against real-time threats.
Reduced Manual Intervention: Automated processes save time and resources.
Scalability: Easily adapts to growing security requirements.
Centralized Management: Manage security across platforms from a single console.
Advanced Threat Intelligence: Provides in-depth analysis and protection.

In specific industries, SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is implemented to safeguard critical data and infrastructure. Organizations in finance, healthcare, and technology depend on its real-time threat detection and automated response to protect sensitive information. Its ability to secure containerized applications and virtual machines is particularly valuable in dynamic environments where rapid scaling is necessary.

SentinelOne

Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a comprehensive security solution that provides advanced threat protection for cloud workloads. It offers real-time visibility into the security posture of cloud environments, enabling organizations to quickly identify and respond to potential threats. With its advanced machine learning capabilities, Microsoft Defender for Cloud can detect and block sophisticated attacks, including zero-day exploits and fileless malware.

The solution also provides automated remediation capabilities, allowing security teams to quickly and easily respond to security incidents. With Microsoft Defender for Cloud, organizations can ensure the security and compliance of their cloud workloads, while reducing the burden on their security teams.

Microsoft

SUSE NeuVector is a full lifecycle container security solution that helps your organization secure its container infrastructures, manage Kubernetes security risks, and block threats. The NeuVector continuous container security and compliance platform simplifies data protection from pipeline to production, enforces compliance, and provides complete visibility and automated controls for protection against known and unknown threats. In addition, NeuVector is the only Kubernetes-native container security solution that offers a comprehensive risk profile of known vulnerabilities and also delivers immediate protection from all vulnerabilities.

SUSE NeuVector Features

SUSE NueVector has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

Container incident detection and prevention
Network security
Runtime security
Supply chain security
Container firewall
Host and platform security
Cloud-native automation and integration
Resource monitoring
Visualization and reporting
High availability
Security
Vulnerability management
Compliance and auditing
Alerting
Logging and Response

SUSE NeuVector Benefits

There are many benefits to implementing NeuVector. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

Deep packet inspection (DPI): NeuVector applies DPI to identify attacks, detect sensitive data, or verify application access to further reduce the attack surface. Only network layer analysis enables security to detect and verify the allowed protocols, helping security teams enforce business policy.

Real-time protection: NeuVector provides inspection, segmentation, and protection of all traffic into and out of a container. This includes container to container traffic, and ingress from external sources to containers, as well as egress from containers to external applications and the internet. The solution aims to protect your applications from internal application level attacks such as DDoS and DNS.

Capture packets for debugging and threat investigation: WIth NeuVector, you can view summary connection data and drill down into actual packet details for each container, as they scale up and down. When a threat is detected, NeuVector is able to automatically capture and display the packet info, making it easy for you to investigate.

Automated security policies: The NeuVector solution allows you to automate the creation of security policies to protect application workloads in production. The solution also enables you to automate and maintain run-time security policies using Kubernetes custom resource definitions (CRDs), and gives you the option to declare an application security policy at any stage in the pipeline.

Compliance: NeuVector offers detection capabilities and security policy enforcement that prevent PHI and PII exposure, exceed requirements, and simplify reporting for PCI-DSS, GDPR, HIPAA, and more. The solution helps you track critical vulnerabilities and compliance violations so you can quickly identify any that require immediate patching or followup alerts. It also makes it possible for you to manage vulnerability and compliance scan results, with no required integration to external workflow tools.

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