Microsoft Defender for Cloud vs SUSE NeuVector comparison

Microsoft and SUSE are both solutions in the Container Security category. Microsoft is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.1, while SUSE is ranked #23 with an average rating of 8.0. Microsoft holds a 7.2% mindshare in Container Security, compared to SUSE’s 2.7% 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 Apr 6, 2025

SUSE NeuVector and Microsoft Defender for Cloud are products competing in the cybersecurity landscape. SUSE NeuVector holds the upper hand in container security and deployment flexibility, whereas Microsoft Defender for Cloud stands out with its integration capabilities with Azure services and broader network security features.

Features: SUSE NeuVector provides robust container traffic control, real-time threat detection, and runtime security. Microsoft Defender for Cloud offers integration with Microsoft services, advanced threat protection, and a comprehensive security management dashboard.

Room for Improvement: SUSE NeuVector could enhance its non-container environment features, provide broader network security capabilities, and offer more integrations with other cloud providers. Microsoft Defender for Cloud can improve detailed container analytics, offer a more flexible pricing model, and strengthen customization options for non-Azure platforms.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: SUSE NeuVector offers flexible deployment options and strong support for Kubernetes platforms with straightforward setup. Microsoft Defender for Cloud provides seamless integration within Microsoft Azure, benefiting from robust customer support and extensive documentation.

Pricing and ROI: SUSE NeuVector is competitively priced, offering good ROI for specialized container management. Microsoft Defender for Cloud, despite higher setup costs, delivers significant ROI through its wide-ranging security offerings, providing comprehensive value for broader enterprise security needs.

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Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Container Security category, the mindshare of SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is 2.1%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Defender for Cloud is 7.2%, down from 8.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SUSE NeuVector is 2.7%, 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

"Cloud Native Security is a tool that has good monitoring features."

"I would rate SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security a nine out of ten."

"Singularity Cloud Security offers autonomous response capabilities, automatically remediating threats and restoring affected files without manual intervention."

"When creating cloud infrastructure, Cloud Native Security evaluates the cloud security parameters and how they will impact the organization's risk. It lets us know whether our security parameter conforms to international industry standards. It alerts us about anything that increases our risk, so we can address those vulnerabilities and prevent attacks."

"It saves us time based on savings on manual activities."

"PingSafe can integrate all your cloud accounts and resources you create in the AWS account, We have set it up to scan the AWS transfer services, EC2, security groups, and GitHub."

"It saves time, makes your environment more secure, and improves compliance. PingSafe helps with audits, ensuring that you are following best practices for cloud security. You don't need to be an expert to use it and improve your security."

"We noted immediate benefits from using the solution."

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"It offers virus management and addresses threats such as viruses, worms, spyware, and other critical security concerns."

"The most valuable features of this solution are the vulnerability assessments and the glossary of compliance."

"Technical support is helpful."

"With respect to improving our security posture, it helps us to understand where we are in terms of compliance. We can easily know when we are below the standard because of the scores it calculates."

"The most valuable feature is the hunting feature, which integrates well into the entire Microsoft ecosystem."

"Defender for Cloud has improved our security posture."

"The main feature is the security posture assessment through the security score. I find that to be very helpful because it gives us guidance on what needs to be secured and recommendations on how to secure the workloads that have been onboarded."

"My favorite part of Microsoft Defender for Cloud is the compliance features. Defender covers a wide range of workloads, on par with competing products on the market."

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

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

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

"The UI has a lot of features."

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

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

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

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

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Cons

"PingSafe can improve by eliminating 100 percent of the false positives."

"Some of the navigation and some aspects of the portal may be a little bit confusing."

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

"We use PingSafe and also SentinelOne. If PingSafe integrated some of the endpoint security features of SentinelOne, it would be the perfect one-stop solution for everything. We wouldn't need to switch between the products. At my organization, I am responsible for endpoint security and vulnerability management. Integrating both functions into one application would be ideal because I could see all the alerts, heat maps, and reports in one console."

"For SentinelOne, improvements could be made in managing Internet dependency as cloud-based operations can pose challenges in environments with limited connectivity."

"From my personal experience, the alerting system needs to be faster. If something happens in our infrastructure, the alert appears on the dashboard, but I have to log in to the dashboard and refresh it."

"SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is an excellent CSPM tool, but its CWPP features need improvement, and there is scope for more application security posture management features."

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"The range of workloads is broad, but we'd love to add more workloads and make it a single security solution that covers all those workloads."

"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."

"Defender is occasionally unreliable. It isn't 100% efficient in terms of antivirus detection, but it isn't an issue most of the time. It's also somewhat difficult to train new security analysts to use Defender."

"The vulnerabilities are duplicated many times."

"The initial setup is not actually so complex but it feels complex because there are many add-ons. There are many options and my team needs to be aware of all of these changes happening on the backend which is a distraction."

"Azure Security Center takes a long time to update, compared to the on-premises version of Microsoft Defender."

"Features like code scanning and pipeline scanning are not included in the solution."

"For Kubernetes, I was using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). To see that whatever is getting deployed into AKS goes through the correct checks and balances in terms of affinities and other similar aspects and follows all the policies, we had to use a product called Stackrox. At a granular level, the built-in policies were good for Kubernetes, but to protect our containers from a coding point of view, we had to use a few other products. For example, from a programming point of view, we were using Checkmarx for static code analysis. For CIS compliance, there are no CIS benchmarks for AKS. So, we had to use other plugins to see that the CIS benchmarks are compliant. There are CIS benchmarks for Kubernetes on AWS and GCP, but there are no CIS benchmarks for AKS. So, Azure Security Center fell short from the regulatory compliance point of view, and we had to use one more product. We ended up with two different dashboards. We had Azure Security Center, and we had Stackrox that had its own dashboard. The operations team and the security team had to look at two dashboards, and they couldn't get an integrated piece. That's a drawback of Azure Security Center. Azure Security Center should provide APIs so that we can integrate its dashboard within other enterprise dashboards, such as the PowerBI dashboard. We couldn't get through these aspects, and we ended up giving Reader security permission to too many people, which was okay to some extent, but when we had to administer the users for the Stackrox portal and Azure Security Center, it became painful."

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"The image-scanning features need improvement."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"We are also working with IaaS VMS, but NeuVector doesn't support virtual machines."

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

"The documentation needs to improve a bit."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"PingSafe is affordable."

"I understand that SentinelOne is a market leader, but the bill we received was astronomical."

"PingSafe's primary advantage is its ability to consolidate multiple tools into a single user interface, but, beyond this convenience, it may not offer significant additional benefits to justify its price."

"The tool is cost-effective."

"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."

"SentinelOne offers excellent pricing and licensing options."

"It was reasonable pricing for me."

"While I'm slightly out of touch with pricing, I know SentinelOne is much cheaper than other products."

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"I am not involved in this area. However, I believe its price is okay because even small customers are using Azure Security Center. I don't think it is very expensive."

"This is a worldwide service and depending on the country, there will be different prices."

"This solution is more cost-effective than some competing products. My understanding is that it is based on the number of integrations that you have, so if you have fewer subscriptions then you pay less for the service."

"The cost of the license is based on the subscriptions that you have."

"The product's pricing policy is generally favorable."

"The tool is pretty expensive."

"Understanding the costs of cloud services can be complicated at first. As with a lot of things in the cloud, it can be quite hard to understand the end cost, but it becomes clearer over time. Early on, the lack of transparency is a challenge. Microsoft does not tell you the cost when they launch something. It is clever marketing, and there is room for improvement there. There should be clarity from the start."

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

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"SUSE NeuVector is an open-source solution."

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

"Licensing fees are paid yearly."

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

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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?

It is cost-effective compared to other solutions in the market.

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What needs improvement with PingSafe?

The documentation could be better. Besides improving the documentation, obtaining a professional or partner specializ...

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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?

Initially, the cost was reasonable, but additional services from Microsoft sometimes incur extra expenses that seem h...

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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 13% of the time

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Compared 11% of the time

Microsoft Defender XDR vs Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Compared 4% of the time

Orca Security vs Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Compared 3% of the time

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Compared 13% of the time

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Compared 12% of the time

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Microsoft Azure Security Center, Azure Security Center, Microsoft ASC, Azure Defender

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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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A Platform Solution Architect at a tech services company says, “The solution is feature-rich, easy to set up, and has good support.”

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