Google Cloud Security Command Center vs Microsoft Defender for Cloud comparison

Google and Microsoft are both solutions in the Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) category. Google is ranked #21 with an average rating of 7.3, while Microsoft is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.1. Google holds a 2.3% mindshare in CSPM, compared to Microsoft’s 8.0% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Google users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 93% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 25, 2026

Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Google Cloud Security Command Center compete in cloud security management. Microsoft Defender is known for pricing and support, whereas Google Cloud Security Command Center is praised for a comprehensive feature set, dominating in advanced capabilities.

Features: Microsoft Defender for Cloud is recognized for integration with Azure, threat protection, and regulatory compliance. Google Cloud Security Command Center excels in real-time threat intelligence, anomaly detection, and extensive security analytics.

Room for Improvement: Microsoft Defender for Cloud could enhance its multi-cloud support, improve dashboard customization, and offer better third-party integrations. Google Cloud Security Command Center needs more intuitive interfaces, simplified alert management, and broader native security features beyond its core strengths.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Microsoft Defender for Cloud boasts simplified deployment in Azure and praised customer support. Google Cloud Security Command Center smoothly integrates with the Google Cloud Platform, facilitating varied environments, yet its support is less lauded than Microsoft's.

Pricing and ROI: Microsoft Defender for Cloud offers competitive pricing and effective ROI in Azure, attracting cost-conscious organizations. Google Cloud Security Command Center, while more expensive, provides valuable insights that justify the higher investment, though Microsoft is often seen as more cost-effective.

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Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) category, the mindshare of SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is 4.0%, up from 2.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Google Cloud Security Command Center is 2.3%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Defender for Cloud is 8.0%, down from 10.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security	4.0%
Microsoft Defender for Cloud	8.0%
Google Cloud Security Command Center	2.3%
Other	85.7%

Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)

Featured Reviews

Satyavijay Chavan

Information Security Engineer at DataVigilant Infotech

Enables us to prioritize and effectively address critical security issues

Evidence-based reporting helps us to prioritize and solve critical security issues. The new visualization feature demonstrates how an attacker can enter the system, highlighting the potential path that can be exploited and outlining all the steps the attacker could take. With that visibility, we can ensure the perimeter is strong and attackers cannot enter, thus reducing the risk. It has helped us prioritize issues. The visibility into how an attack could happen is valuable. For example, it highlights the system vulnerability and outlines where an attack could propagate. The visualization helps me to prioritize remediation, and if I don't know where to start, I can check to see the score that enables me to prioritize issues. I am using infrastructure-as-code scanning, and it's one of the useful features. In pre-production, it identifies embedded secrets and misconfigurations, including issues with Kubernetes or some privileged containers. This feature allows us to pass the audit and secure IaC code so that it isn't easily exploitable by attackers. We can more proactively work to identify and resolve vulnerabilities by using the dashboard and the alerting system that SentinelOne provides. It helps us with audits and compliance. We can show the compliance in percentage. We can confidently say that our company or infrastructure is very secure. It has improved our security posture by 30% to 35%. It has reduced our false positives by 30%. It has helped teams collaborate better. The security team manages SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security, and when it flags vulnerabilities, they are forwarded to DevOps for remediation. Previously, we needed to identify and report the issues, but there would be lapses in communication. Now, there is a centralized dashboard that anyone can look at and see the open issues and work on them.

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RaviUpadhyay

Security Consultant at HCLSoftware

Security posture has improved with automated insights but reporting and integrations still need work

The best feature of Google Cloud Security Command Center is that it is flexible to integrate with several third-party tools or services, and it is more customized. For example, it is already giving a misconfiguration and the vulnerability, and if somebody wants to do some in-depth analysis for patterns such as metrics, they can export the continuous log on the spot with that tool. From an integration point of view, I would say it is more customized with different tools. The asset discovery feature of Google Cloud Security Command Center enhances my security strategy because, nowadays, data sensitivity and data privacy are very important, and using some DLP utility, I can classify and set up rules to generate reports based on the classification in their asset discovery. This can also include data classification on Google storage buckets, and overall, Google Cloud Security Command Center has that information, which can be used for various analyses or alerts. It is very important for compliance assessment because every business is global and connects with different geographical locations, meaning each country has its own regulatory systems and internal compliance policies. Google Cloud Security Command Center has the feature to set up security postures based on which resources or assets inside Google Cloud can be marked as compliant or non-compliant, giving a risk score for immediate reporting to higher management or CISO, making it very helpful in terms of security, risk, and compliance.

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David Birhange

Director, Cloud and Modern Workplace at Informanix Technology Group

Brings together cloud security insights through a unified view and supports agentless protection for virtual machines

Copilot and similar features are already being used, though not necessarily for Microsoft Defender for Cloud specifically. We are trying to get more experience before rolling out most of Microsoft Defender for Cloud's AI capabilities. This is definitely on our to-do list, and the priority is urgent as we seek to learn more about these capabilities. The GenAI threat protection from Microsoft Defender for Cloud has not been enabled yet. There are many unknowns with AI applications. AI agents will operate while you're not present, whether you are sleeping or awake, and it's unclear whether there would be any exfiltration of data or how data is being managed. Microsoft Purview is being used extensively, and there is significant development going on with DSPM that will be rolled out to address security concerns. Data labeling and proper demarcation for sensitivity of data before it is received are being actively pursued.

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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

"It gives me the information I need."

"SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security offers three key features: vulnerability management notifications, cloud configuration assistance, and security scanning."

"I would rate their support a ten out of ten."

"SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security's most valuable feature is its unified console."

"Atlas security graph is pretty cool. It maps out relationships between components on AWS, like load balancers and servers. This helps visualize potential attack paths and even suggests attack paths a malicious actor might take."

"The tool identifies issues quickly."

"It is very straightforward. It is not complicated. For the information that it provides, it does a pretty good job."

"I like CSPM the most. It captures a lot of alerts within a short period of time. When an alert gets triggered on the cloud, it throws an alert within half an hour, which is very reasonable. It is a plus point for us."

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"It simplifies compliance efforts."

"Most people use the threat detection dashboard."

"I would definitely recommend Google Cloud Security Command Center to others."

"The compliance reporting feature helped us maintain a baseline of compliance within the information security policies."

"Microsoft Defender for Cloud has made our environment more secure."

"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."

"Defender for Cloud is a plug-and-play solution that provides continuous posture management once enabled."

"Microsoft Defender for Cloud monitors our entire cloud environment. It enables conditional access and incorporates features like number matching and single sign-on for all our cloud apps. It is great for protecting against ransomware and various security threats."

"Microsoft Defender for Cloud has helped us manage and secure our cloud environments, and having observability to vulnerabilities is important for us so that we can take actions against any threats."

"The solution is quite good and addresses many security gaps."

"The scalability of Microsoft Defender for Cloud is very good."

"Technical support is helpful."

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Cons

"A few YouTube videos could be helpful. There isn't a lot of information out there to look at."

"They could generally give us better comprehensive rules."

"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."

"There is no break-glass account feature. They should implement this as soon as possible because we can't implement SSO without a break-glass feature."

"SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security can improve by eliminating 100 percent of the false positives."

"One potential drawback is the cost of SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security, which may be prohibitive for smaller businesses or startups, particularly those in regions with lower average incomes, such as India."

"SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security could be improved with easier integrations to the Singularity Data Lake, particularly for various vendors."

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"There is definitely room for improvement in Google Cloud Security Command Center. While the functionality is very native, compared to third-party tools that offer a variety of features for easy integrations and custom KPIs, Google Cloud Security Command Center lacks some of these functionalities, requiring complex workarounds for custom reporting, and given that customers often use hybrid environments, having a broader perspective is necessary for integration."

"Visibility can be improved along with automation."

"The AI capabilities have been heavily promoted, but I haven't seen a significant impact."

"The process of deploying Microsoft Defender for Cloud was not smooth. It was always a challenge migrating, as a lot of it involved application dependencies and what was required before being able to use Azure for those services."

"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."

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

"The documentation and implementation guides could be improved."

"The user interface of Microsoft Defender for Cloud, like many Microsoft portals, undergoes frequent changes and feature relocation."

"Microsoft Defender for Cloud could be improved by adding capabilities for NetApp files and more PaaS resources from other vendors, not just Microsoft."

"My experience with Microsoft Defender for Cloud has been largely negative due to a poor user experience."

"We would like to have better transparency as to how the security score is calculated because as it is now, it is difficult to understand."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The features included in PingSafe justify its price point."

"It's not expensive. The product is in its initial growth stages and appears more competitive compared to others. It comes in different variants, and I believe the enterprise version costs around $55 per user per year. I would rate it a five, somewhere fairly moderate."

"I wasn't sure what to expect from the pricing, but I was pleasantly surprised to find that it was a little less than I thought."

"Pricing is based on modules, which was ideal for us."

"It was reasonable pricing for me."

"PingSafe is not very expensive compared to Prisma Cloud, but it's also not that cheap. However, because of its features, it makes sense to us as a company. It's fairly priced."

"I am not involved in the pricing, but it is cost-effective."

"The pricing is fair. It is not inexpensive, and it is also not expensive. When managing a large organization, it is going to be costly, but it meets the business needs. In terms of what is out there on the market, it is fair and comparable to what I have seen, so I do not have any complaints about the cost"

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"Initially, it used to be relatively expensive, starting at around four or five hundred dollars."

"Pricing depends on your workload size, but it is very cheap. If you're talking about virtual machines, it is $5 or something for each machine, which is minimal. If you go for some agent-based solution for every virtual machine, then you need to pay the same thing or more than that. For an on-premises solution like this, we were paying around $30 to $50 based on size. With Defender, Microsoft doesn't bother about the size. You pay based on the number of machines. So, if you have 10 virtual machines, and 10 virtual machines are being monitored, you are paying based on that rather than the size of the virtual machine. Thus, you are paying for the number of units rather than paying for the size of your units."

"The pricing model for most plans is generally good, but the cost of the new Defender for Storage plan is high and should be revisited, as it could lead to disabling desirable security features due to cost."

"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."

"Pricing is difficult because each license has its own metrics and cost."

"The pricing and licensing of Microsoft Defender for Cloud have been good for us. We appreciate the licensing approach based on employee count rather than a big enterprise license."

"Pricing is a consideration, but we strive to keep costs low by enabling only necessary services."

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

"The licensing cost per server is $15 per month."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

14%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Retailer

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	48
Midsize Enterprise	21
Large Enterprise	54

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By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	27
Midsize Enterprise	10
Large Enterprise	49

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?

I think the pricing of SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is a bit high.

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What needs improvement with PingSafe?

We did not try to use the threat investigations feature from SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security.Drift detection w...

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What do you like most about Google Cloud Security Command Center?

The compliance reporting feature helped us maintain a baseline of compliance within the information security policies.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Google Cloud Security Command Center?

For tier-one customers, it comes for free.

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What is your primary use case for Google Cloud Security Command Center?

I am primarily working with Google Cloud Security Command Center, which is their CSPM, and also with the next-generat...

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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 is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Defender for Cloud?

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Microsoft Defender for Cloud was pretty straightforward. We...

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What needs improvement with Microsoft Defender for Cloud?

Microsoft Defender for Cloud can be improved. An additional feature that should be included in the next release is Ze...

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Overview

SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security offers a streamlined approach to cloud security with intuitive operation and strong integration capabilities for heightened threat detection and remediation efficiency.

Singularity Cloud Security stands out for its real-time detection and response, effectively minimizing detection and remediation timelines. Its automated remediation integrates smoothly with third-party tools enhancing operational efficiency. The comprehensive console ensures visibility and support for forensic investigations. Seamless platform integration and robust support for innovation are notable advantages. Areas for development include improved search functionality, affordability, better firewall capabilities for remote users, stable agents, comprehensive reporting, and efficient third-party integrations. Clarity in the interface, responsive support, and real-time alerting need enhancement, with a call for more automation and customization. Better scalability and cost-effective integration without compromising capabilities are desired.

What are SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security's standout features?

Ease of Use: Intuitive operation simplifies navigation across platforms.
Real-Time Detection: Quick identification and response to threats.
Automated Remediation: Streamlines recovery processes with integration capabilities.
Forensic Visibility: Aids in thorough threat analysis and prevention strategies.
Comprehensive Console: Offers full visibility and historical data tracking.
Platform Integration: Supports seamless operation across cloud and hybrid environments.

What benefits should users expect from SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security?

Enhanced Efficiency: Automation and third-party integration improve threat response.
Improved Detection: Reduces mean time to detect and respond to threats.
Operational Support: Comprehensive visibility and forensic tools aid operational decisions.
Cost Efficiency: Affordable integration with scaling capabilities without high overhead.

SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is deployed in industries needing robust cloud security posture management, endpoint protection, and threat hunting. Utilized frequently across AWS and Azure, it assists in monitoring, threat detection, and maintaining compliance in diverse environments while providing real-time alerts and recommendations for proactive threat management.

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Google Cloud Security Command Center streamlines security management by providing comprehensive visibility into asset security posture, empowering organizations to identify vulnerabilities and threats effectively.

Google Cloud Security Command Center offers a centralized platform for organizations to manage their security landscape, providing tools like threat detection and vulnerability scanning to protect cloud assets. Users benefit from its integration capabilities and detailed reporting, which enhance their ability to combat security challenges efficiently.

What are the key features of Google Cloud Security Command Center?

Asset Inventory: Centralizes information on all cloud assets, enabling tracking and management.
Security Posture: Provides insights into the security status and potential vulnerabilities of cloud resources.
Threat Detection: Identifies and alerts users about potential threats in real-time, facilitating prompt response.
Compliance Monitoring: Ensures resources meet regulatory requirements through continuous compliance checks.

What benefits should users consider when evaluating Google Cloud Security Command Center?

Enhanced Visibility: Offers comprehensive insights into cloud environments, enabling better asset management.
Proactive Security: Helps prevent security breaches by identifying potential vulnerabilities early on.
Cost Efficiency: Reduces the need for multiple standalone security tools, lowering overall security costs.
Integration Support: Seamlessly integrates with existing workflows, enhancing operational efficiency.

Industries such as finance and healthcare benefit significantly from Google Cloud Security Command Center, as it helps them maintain compliance with strict regulations. Its ability to provide detailed security assessments and support integration with other cloud services makes it an essential tool for protecting sensitive data and ensuring uninterrupted service to customers.

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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.

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