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Microsoft Security Exposure Management vs Trend Vision One – Cyber Risk Exposure Management (CREM) comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Security Exposure...
Ranking in Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM)
10th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.5
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Trend Vision One – Cyber Ri...
Ranking in Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM)
9th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
3.8
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

Kim Haroun - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate IT Analyst at Walton Arts Center
Automate phishing simulations and reduce third-party security costs through AI integration
I consider integrating AI into our system to be one of the most valuable features of Microsoft Security Exposure Management because, as I mentioned, humans get tired and cannot work 24/7. AI can store more knowledge than a human brain. Therefore, using and integrating AI into our system is going to help us become more secure and improve our scores faster, in my opinion.My impression of Microsoft Security Exposure Management's ability to provide unified security insights across multi-cloud, SaaS, identity, OT, IoT, and non-Microsoft tools is quite positive. I was very impressed with the keynotes and the session about the new Security Copilot and cloud agents. I feel this will change the IT perspective significantly. People will start thinking about how to use AI and integrate it to make our environment more secure and work more efficiently, allowing us to focus on more innovative tasks. You do not have to sit down all the time; you can let the agent run automatically and follow a more secure path. I believe this is going to be a really great innovation. I evaluate the impact of Microsoft Security Exposure Management on our SOC operations efficiency from pre- to post-breach protection positively. We utilize a third-party security platform named Recon, which helps us monitor external attacks. However, we also have Microsoft Defender as a secondary secure layer. We receive notifications when users access untrusted websites or download large amounts of data from untrusted apps. As soon as we receive a notification, we contact our third party, Recon. With the changes I learned, I feel we no longer need a third-party tool. We can build an agent just like Recon did, and integrate it into our system to handle all the work, which means saving tons of money for the company, making everyone happy. The critical asset management feature of Microsoft Security Exposure Management helps in tagging and prioritizing high-value assets significantly. We also use a third-party organization for managing critical vulnerabilities and utilize the HPS dashboard. They provide us with monthly patches since Microsoft has a monthly update cycle. They show us pending updates or indicate if there are updates several months behind, highlighting critical vulnerabilities we must address. However, integrating Microsoft vulnerability management with the agent will be very beneficial. We can eliminate third-party tools and utilize the agent correctly, inputting the necessary knowledge that will save us a lot of money.
reviewer2793894 - PeerSpot reviewer
Platform Engineer Ii at a outsourcing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Centralized risk scoring has prioritized real-time vulnerability remediation across our assets
Since we have Trend Micro's other solution on the endpoint, we are using the same endpoint agent with Trend Vision One – Cyber Risk Exposure Management (CREM) to discover all the vulnerabilities we have in the endpoints and the servers, and it helps discover them and also suggest the remediation action that can be performed. What stood out with Trend Vision One – Cyber Risk Exposure Management (CREM) was the vulnerability discovery as well as prioritization that it does by suggesting the top vulnerabilities to focus on, and it also shows the accounts that have been leaked in the dark web, which provides really useful visibility. The best feature of Trend Vision One – Cyber Risk Exposure Management (CREM) in my experience is its integrated capabilities, so if you are a Trend Micro customer for other sensors that you have already deployed, it makes a really good add-on without having to deploy much. This results in an easy onboarding experience. The integrated experience of Trend Vision One – Cyber Risk Exposure Management (CREM) saved a lot of time because we did not have to explicitly do any sort of deployment, and it also helped us to speed up the ROI that we were looking for from the solution. Trend Vision One – Cyber Risk Exposure Management (CREM) has helped impact our organization in a positive way by helping to detect the risk that exists within the organization and bring them out before they actually become an incident for us. Proactive risk scoring and detection is a valuable feature. We have seen with Trend Vision One – Cyber Risk Exposure Management (CREM) that vulnerability detection has become much easier than earlier because we used to follow a three-month cycle for detecting vulnerabilities and then patching things. However, here it is more real-time, which is helping us to save a lot of time. Trend Vision One – Cyber Risk Exposure Management (CREM) has helped us to focus on those vulnerabilities and patch them first rather than go all-in and focus on all the vulnerabilities to be patched. Trend Vision One – Cyber Risk Exposure Management (CREM) is scalable, and I do not see that as a challenge.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"With the new agent deal, we are set to eliminate all third-party tools once we are ready, which will save us at least $100,000 per year."
"Trend Vision One – Cyber Risk Exposure Management (CREM) is an excellent solution from Trend Micro that uses AI to predict attack paths before they become an incident in your environment."
 

Cons

"I find the pricing, setup costs, and licensing for Microsoft Security Exposure Management a bit confusing because they do not clearly communicate what licenses are needed to access all features."
"Trend Vision One – Cyber Risk Exposure Management (CREM) can improve the number of report templates that it has within the solution."
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Questions from the Community

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I find the pricing, setup costs, and licensing for Microsoft Security Exposure Management a bit confusing because they do not clearly communicate what licenses are needed to access all features. Pe...
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