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Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management pros and cons

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Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management offers compliance, recommendations, and inventory features valued by users. It provides protection against zero-day attacks and helps identify threats and vulnerabilities. Its integration with Sentinel enhances security operations with detailed CVE information. However, report customization is challenging, and gaps exist in Windows and Linux management. Setup requires expertise, and documentation needs improvement, while integration could be better. Seamless integration with other Microsoft products is a plus.

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PROS

Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management is highly scalable and provides versatile integration with Microsoft products such as Sentinel and SIEM.
The software offers valuable compliance, recommendations, and inventories features that enhance threat and vulnerability identification.
It effectively assesses vulnerabilities, offering detailed insights on CVEs, categories, and exploit statuses.
Regular advisories and recommendations help improve an organization's security posture and streamline threat management.
The ability to locate and prevent threats even when endpoints are not connected to the corporate network adds significant value.

CONS

Extracting and customizing reports from Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management is challenging.
The integration capabilities of Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management require improvement.
Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management has stability issues, being resource-intensive and slow.
Technical support for Microsoft Defender is slow and lacks responsiveness and knowledge.
The documentation provided by Microsoft is disorganized and makes steps unclear and difficult to follow.
 

Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management Pros review quotes

René-SylvainBédard - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 19, 2024
The product's stability is very high...The scalability of the product is amazing.
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Krishna R - PeerSpot reviewer
May 16, 2025
The main advantage of Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management is that it can locate and prevent most threats even when the endpoints are not connected to the corporate network, as long as the internet is available.
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reviewer2770602 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 22, 2025
Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management has streamlined our threat management processes and provided region-specific customization for our healthcare operations.
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OB
Jun 4, 2025
Overall, I would rate Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management a nine out of ten.
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TakayukiUmehara - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 3, 2025
A valuable feature is the ease of management and integration with Microsoft products.
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VT
Dec 11, 2024
The recommendations, scores, and steps to remediate actions are highly useful.
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NaySan @ Suraj Verma - PeerSpot reviewer
May 27, 2025
Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management is a good product, and I believe it deserves a positive recommendation.
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Iyaz Abbasi - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 2, 2023
The product’s most valuable features are compliance, recommendations, and inventories.
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Abdulrahman Muhammadi - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 31, 2025
Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management is versatile and assesses vulnerabilities, providing detailed information on CVEs, their categories, and exploit statuses.
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James Selby - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 20, 2023
One valuable feature is the Microsoft Security Scorecard.
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Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management Cons review quotes

René-SylvainBédard - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 19, 2024
The setup phase of the product is not that easy and needs a person to have a certain level of expertise.
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Krishna R - PeerSpot reviewer
May 16, 2025
There should be risk scoring added to Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management; specifically, they call it quantification of the risk.
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reviewer2770602 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 22, 2025
The documentation from Microsoft needs significant improvement. The documents are disorganized, with one document linking to another, making the steps unclear and difficult to follow.
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OB
Jun 4, 2025
Regarding Microsoft's technical support, I would rate it a three out of ten; they could be more responsive and knowledgeable.
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TakayukiUmehara - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 3, 2025
There is a good solution from Microsoft, however, there is a gap between Windows and Linux management.
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VT
Dec 11, 2024
The automated remediations can be more specific.
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NaySan @ Suraj Verma - PeerSpot reviewer
May 27, 2025
They may need to improve the portal refresh rate for Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management because it takes time for recommendations to disappear after mitigation; sometimes, it takes one week, when it should ideally take only one to two hours.
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Iyaz Abbasi - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 2, 2023
It is challenging to extract and customize reports from the system.
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Abdulrahman Muhammadi - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 31, 2025
The worst aspect is the refresh rate of the dashboard.
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James Selby - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 20, 2023
Integration can be improved.
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