Top 10 Microsoft Defender for Cloud Alternatives & Competitors

Top 10 Alternatives to Microsoft Defender for Cloud Recently Reviewed By G2 Community

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OX Security
(50)4.8 out of 5
Security should be an integral part of the software development process, not an afterthought. Founded by Neatsun Ziv and Lion Arzi, two former Check Point executives, OX is the first and only Active Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) Platform, consolidating disparate application...
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Reviewers say compared to Microsoft Defender for Cloud, OX Security is:
Easier to do business with
Better at support
Easier to set up
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#1

Wiz
By Wiz
(702)4.7 out of 5
Wiz is a CNAPP that consolidates CSPM, KSPM, CWPP, vulnerability management, IaC scanning, CIEM, DSPM, and container and Kubernetes security into a single platform.
Categories in common with Microsoft Defender for Cloud:
• Cloud Detection and Response (CDR)
• Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP)
• Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
• Cloud Security Monitoring and Analytics
• Software Composition Analysis
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Reviewers say compared to Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Wiz is:
Easier to do business with
Better at support
Easier to set up
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#2

Orca Security
By Orca Security
(218)4.6 out of 5
Get workload-level visibility into AWS, Azure, and GCP without the operational costs of agents. You could buy three tools instead… but why? Orca replaces legacy vulnerability assessment tools, CSPM, and CWPP. Deploys in minutes, not months.
Categories in common with Microsoft Defender for Cloud:
• Cloud Detection and Response (CDR)
• Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP)
• Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
• Cloud Compliance
• Container Security
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Reviewers say compared to Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Orca Security is:
Easier to do business with
Easier to set up
Better at support
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#3

Cortex Cloud
By Palo Alto Networks
(90)4.1 out of 5
Cloud to SOC security to protect cloud applications, data, and AI models across multicloud and hybrid environments by leveraging unified data and full-lifecycle context for real-time detection and response.
Categories in common with Microsoft Defender for Cloud:
• Cloud Detection and Response (CDR)
• Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP)
• Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
• Software Composition Analysis
• Cloud Compliance
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#4

Lacework FortiCNAPP
By Fortinet
(381)4.4 out of 5
Lacework FortiCNAPP is a comprehensive Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) that consolidates Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), Cloud Workload Protection (CWPP), Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM), Kubernetes security, and compliance into a single solution. Using AI-based anomaly detection and behavioral analytics, FortiCNAPP continuously monitors cloud environments to identify misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, and active threats in real time. The platform supports agentless and agent-based deployment models, ensuring flexible coverage across diverse architectures. FortiCNAPP also integrates with the Fortinet Security Fabric, correlating cloud data with network and endpoint insights from FortiGuard, FortiSOAR, and more, delivering full-stack threat context, faster remediation, and unified risk management.
Categories in common with Microsoft Defender for Cloud:
• Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP)
• Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
• Cloud Security Monitoring and Analytics
• Cloud Compliance
• Container Security
Reviewers say compared to Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Lacework FortiCNAPP is:
Easier to do business with
Better at support
More expensive
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#5

Qualys VMDR
By Qualys
(166)4.4 out of 5
Discover, assess, prioritize, and patch critical vulnerabilities in real time and across your global hybrid-IT landscape — all from a single solution.
Categories in common with Microsoft Defender for Cloud:
• Cloud Compliance
• Container Security
• Cloud Workload Protection Platforms
Reviewers say compared to Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Qualys VMDR is:
Slower to reach roi
More expensive
Easier to do business with
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#6

Sysdig Secure
By Sysdig
(107)4.8 out of 5
Sysdig is driving the standard for cloud and container security. With our platform, you can find and prioritize software vulnerabilities, detect and respond to threats and anomalies, and manage cloud configurations, permissions and compliance. You get a single view of risk from source to run with no blind spots, no guesswork, and no black boxes. In fact, we created Falco, the open-source standard for cloud-native threat detection. Today we have over 700 customers and are trusted by the largest and most innovative companies around the world.
Categories in common with Microsoft Defender for Cloud:
• Cloud Detection and Response (CDR)
• Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP)
• Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
• Cloud Security Monitoring and Analytics
• Cloud Compliance
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Reviewers say compared to Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Sysdig Secure is:
Better at support
Easier to do business with
More expensive
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#7

CrowdStrike Falcon Endpoint Protection Platform
By CrowdStrike
(290)4.7 out of 5
CrowdStrike Falcon endpoint protection unifies the technologies required to successfully stop breaches: next-generation antivirus, endpoint detection and response, IT hygiene, 24/7 threat hunting and threat intelligence. They combine to provide continuous breach prevention in a single agent.
Categories in common with Microsoft Defender for Cloud:
• Threat Intelligence
Reviewers say compared to Microsoft Defender for Cloud, CrowdStrike Falcon Endpoint Protection Platform is:
Slower to reach roi
Easier to do business with
Easier to set up
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#8

Datadog
By Datadog
(545)4.3 out of 5
Datadog is a monitoring service for IT, Dev and Ops teams who write and run applications at scale, and want to turn the massive amounts of data produced by their apps, tools and services into actionable insight.
Categories in common with Microsoft Defender for Cloud:
• Container Monitoring
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#9

GitLab
By GitLab Inc.
(823)4.5 out of 5
An open source web interface and source control platform based on Git.
Categories in common with Microsoft Defender for Cloud:
• Secure Code Review
• Software Composition Analysis
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Reviewers say compared to Microsoft Defender for Cloud, GitLab is:
Easier to do business with
Better at meeting requirements
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#10

Vanta
By Vanta
(1,748)4.6 out of 5
It was clear that security and privacy had become mainstream issues, and that we all increasingly relied on cloud services to store everything from our personal photos to our communications at work. Vanta’s mission is to be the layer of trust on top of these services, and to secure the internet, increase trust in software companies, and keep consumer data safe. Today, we're a growing team in San Francisco passionate about making the internet more secure and elevating the standards for technology companies.
Categories in common with Microsoft Defender for Cloud:
• Cloud Compliance
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Reviewers say compared to Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Vanta is:
Easier to do business with
Better at support
Better at meeting requirements
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OX Security
(50)4.8 out of 5
Security should be an integral part of the software development process, not an afterthought. Founded by Neatsun Ziv and Lion Arzi, two former Check Point executives, OX is the first and only Active Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) Platform, consolidating disparate application...
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Reviewers say compared to Microsoft Defender for Cloud, OX Security is:
Easier to do business with
Better at support
Easier to set up
Visit Website