We performed a comparison between Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management and Microsoft Entra ID based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Microsoft Security Suite solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product's stability is very high...The scalability of the product is amazing."
"The solution is up-to-date and helps prevent zero-day attacks."
"The product’s most valuable features are compliance, recommendations, and inventories."
"The solution helps identify threats and vulnerabilities."
"One valuable feature is the Microsoft Security Scorecard."
"For some applications, it's not only working for authentication but it's also being used to apply roles for users. From the management perspective, it's much better to have this because in the past we constantly needed to go into the console of the different solutions and create or delete users or modify their roles and permissions. Now, with Azure Active Directory, we can do that from a single point. That makes our management model much easier."
"We haven't had any problems with stability. Everything works fine."
"If you want to replicate a website at the frontend in Azure, it's very easy to do it globally."
"It is very simple. The Active Directory functions are very easy for us. Its integration with anything is very easy. We can easily do third-party multifactor authentication."
"Azure Active Directory provides access to resources in a very secure manner. We can detect which user is logging in to access resources on the cloud. It gives us a comprehensive audit trace in terms of from where a user signed in and whether a sign-in is a risky sign-in or a normal sign-in. So, there is a lot of security around the access to resources, which helps us in realizing that a particular sign-in is not a normal sign-in. If a sign-in is not normal, Azure Active Directory automatically blocks it for us and sends us an email, and unless we allow that user, he or she won't be able to log in. So, the User Identity Protection feature is the most liked feature for me in Azure Active Directory."
"It's very easy to run and it's part of their ecosystem and I don't think it's going anywhere anytime soon."
"The most valuable feature is the factor identification. I find that it is natural integration, and it is just a natural step. I do not need to do anything else."
"The visibility and control for permission management are excellent."
"The technical support takes too much time to resolve tickets."
"Integration can be improved."
"It is challenging to extract and customize reports from the system."
"The general support could be improved."
"The setup phase of the product is not that easy and needs a person to have a certain level of expertise."
"Technical support could be better."
"In terms of stability, sometimes the more applications you integrate, the more it becomes a little bit unstable."
"Microsoft should work on enhancing its machine-learning algorithm to prevent unnecessary lockouts of users."
"Azure Active Directory could be made easier to use. We have large amounts of data and storage. We are looking for video files and media content for applications, we will think about options, such as cloud storage or a CDN."
"The ability to manage and authenticate against on-premises solutions would be beneficial."
"The monitoring dashboard could be a bit better."
"Be aware that it may not work perfectly globally yet. There are still glitches with the solution in Africa."
"Compared to what we can do on-prem, Azure AD lacks a feature for multiple hierarchical groups. For example, Group A is part of group B. Group B is part of group C. Then, if I put someone into group A, which is part of already B, they get access to any system that group B has access to, and that provisioning is automatically there."
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Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management is ranked 27th in Microsoft Security Suite with 5 reviews while Microsoft Entra ID is ranked 4th in Microsoft Security Suite with 190 reviews. Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management is rated 8.2, while Microsoft Entra ID is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management writes "The vulnerability assessment is very accurate because it runs directly into the vulnerability database". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Entra ID writes "Saves us time and money and features Conditional Access policies, SSPR, and MFA". Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management is most compared with Qualys VMDR, Tenable Nessus, Rapid7 InsightVM, Tenable Vulnerability Management and Microsoft Sentinel, whereas Microsoft Entra ID is most compared with Microsoft Intune, Google Cloud Identity, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Ping Identity Platform and Okta Workforce Identity. See our Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management vs. Microsoft Entra ID report.
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