We performed a comparison between Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP and Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Tenable, Wiz, Check Point Software Technologies and others in Vulnerability Management."It presents a real-time database that is always updated."
"We really liked its ease of implementation against our Microsoft Azure environment."
"The solution is scalable."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to work with the APIs to integrate into our own backend systems."
"Checkpoint posture management gives you visibility across your entire cloud infrastructure, so it helps you with management, maintenance, and compliance. With visibility across all these cloud platforms, you can protect against compromised credentials or identity theft."
"Overall, it provides good security."
"The most valuable feature is the separate environment."
"It provides complete visibility of workload hosted on different cloud platforms including AWS and Azure, along with multiple tenants."
"The most valuable feature is its policy implementation."
"It's very easy to install and it includes the Intune portal from Microsoft where I can control all the devices from one place."
"Shadow IT discovery is the feature I like the most."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its monitoring."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps is to stop shadow IT."
"Defender helps us control which applications are being used and gain more security insight into remote and hybrid users based on user identity and log in location. You can also integrate Defender for Cloud Apps with Defender for Endpoint to extend its capabilities."
"The product helps us with privileged identity management to control who has access to what and for how long."
"The ability to prevent users from using certain applications is one of the most valuable features. It doesn't require any configuration for implementation from the client perspective. It just works right away and gives you the information you need."
"In general, for the product to be successful, they need to improve security, and configuration detection."
"The guidelines to implement or to link with the clouds are not complete."
"There are opportunities for improvement that can be addressed through a roadmap."
"Streamlining the user interface would greatly improve the user experience."
"Reporting should have more options."
"You do need to pay extra in order to get better support."
"I would like to see tighter integration with other compliance tools, like Chef Compliance, in addition to Inspector."
"Addressing the large amount of compliance information and benchmarks we need to observe, the tools are becoming our goto dashboards."
"Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps' initial setup was quite technical but we were prepared. The time of the implementation depends on the job and how many users are being set up."
"I would like to see them include more features in the older licenses. There are some features that are not available, such as preventing or analyzing cloud attacks."
"There are some features, such as user navigation content filtering, that are disabled by default, and it probably makes sense to enable them by default."
"We would like to get more information from the endpoint. I don't get enough detailed information right now on why something failed. There is not enough visibility."
"The interface needs to be more user-friendly."
"The technical support team has room for improvement."
"I want them to enhance in-session policy."
"I would like more customization of notifications. Currently, you either get everything or you get limited information. I would like to have something in between where we can customize the data that is included in notifications."
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Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is ranked 5th in Vulnerability Management with 60 reviews while Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps is ranked 2nd in Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) with 30 reviews. Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is rated 8.6, while Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP writes "Threat intel integration provides us visibility in case any workload is communicating with suspicious or blacklisted IPs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps writes "Integrates well and helps us in protecting sensitive information, but takes time to scan and apply the policies and cannot detect everything we need". Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP is most compared with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, AWS GuardDuty, Wiz, Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Qualys VMDR, whereas Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Cisco Umbrella, Netskope , Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks and Qualys VMDR.
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