Microsoft Defender for Cloud vs Sweet Security comparison

Microsoft and Sweet Security are both solutions in the Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) category. Microsoft is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.1, while Sweet Security is ranked #17 with an average rating of 9.0. Microsoft holds a 9.3% mindshare in CNAP, compared to Sweet Security’s 1.3% mindshare. Additionally, 93% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Sweet Security users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 30, 2025

Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Sweet Security are competitors in the cybersecurity landscape. Microsoft Defender for Cloud has an edge in terms of pricing and integration, while Sweet Security stands out with its robust feature set.

Features: Microsoft Defender for Cloud integrates seamlessly with Azure services and ensures efficient threat analytics. Sweet Security provides advanced features like detailed monitoring, comprehensive threat assessments, and more in-depth security tools, appealing to users seeking expansive functionality.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Microsoft Defender for Cloud offers simplified deployment within Microsoft environments and strong customer support. Sweet Security, while potentially more challenging to deploy outside its native systems, supports customers with its dedicated interaction and assistance protocols.

Pricing and ROI: Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a cost-effective choice for users within the Microsoft ecosystem, providing excellent ROI through integration. Though Sweet Security may have higher initial costs, its advanced security features promise potential long-term ROI for users focused on detailed security measures.

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Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) category, the mindshare of SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is 5.7%, up from 3.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Defender for Cloud is 9.3%, down from 11.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sweet Security is 1.3%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security	5.7%
Microsoft Defender for Cloud	9.3%
Sweet Security	1.3%
Other	83.7%

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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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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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reviewer2761083

Director of Security Operations at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees

Has reduced investigation time by correlating application and infrastructure events

Sweet Security has room for improvement in two areas. One is for robust integration with automations and playbooks. We have our internally developed platform that operates around security incident playbooks, so the connection between those two systems would be great. The option to run specific playbooks through the Sweet Security platform would help us a lot, but these must be fully customizable. We prefer not to block the business from progressing unless we are fully sure that it is an incident. Most of the actions I would take would revolve around containment or notification on a specific platform and not via email or similar communications. The second area is around the code perspective. I know it's just the start of a long journey that Sweet Security is going to go through to become a platform that also handles code, but I would expect options for a complete analysis and writing policies for infrastructure as code. The next great thing that Sweet Security can do is to turn toward IAC, how it is handled and enforced, to tackle potential breaches of policy before they really happen.

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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 is advantageous in terms of time-saving and cost reduction."

"The cloud misconfiguration is the most valuable feature."

"For Singularity, the task capability is easy to use and it has a very intuitive dashboard, which streamlines the processes."

"The visibility provided by SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security around infrastructure was very valuable."

"The most valuable feature is the ability to gain deep visibility into the workloads inside containers."

"The cooperative nature of SentinelOne has influenced our decision not to shift."

"The offensive security feature is valuable because it publicly detects the offensive and vulnerable things present in our domain or applications. It checks any applications with public access. Some of the applications give public access to certain files or are present over a particular domain. It detects and lets us know with evidence. That is quite good. It is protecting our infrastructure quite well."

"The UI is very good."

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"The most valuable feature is that it's intuitive. It's very intuitive."

"The solution is up-to-date with the latest updates and identified threats."

"It is very intuitive when it comes to policy administration, alerts and notifications, and ease of setting up roles at different hierarchies. It has also been good in terms of the network technology maps. It provides a good overview, but it also depends on the complexity of your network."

"Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a valuable tool that integrates seamlessly with Azure Policy and our Security SIEM, simplifying implementation and enhancing security posture."

"Microsoft Defender for Cloud has benefited my organization by reducing the overall cost of the Azure package and providing greater peace of mind during off-hours to prevent problems."

"The most valuable feature is the recommendations provided on how to improve security. It has made the cloud environment more secure, thanks to all the recommendations we can get."

"It alerts us to our vulnerabilities and ensures compliance by marking off a compliance tool checklist."

"It helps you to identify the gaps in your solution and remediate them. It produces a compliance checklist against known standards such as ISO 27001, HIPAA, iTrust, etc."

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"The value of having real-time visibility in our cloud environment with Sweet Security changes everything because it differentiates between identifying and reacting to something that is not really a risk and something that is truly a risk that needs to be treated."

"Before we had Sweet Security, upon any type of detection of activity, we needed to conduct lots of investigations in different platforms and logs until we could build the larger picture, but once we inserted Sweet Security, we are able to actually see each and every request being made from the application level towards the infrastructure, making it much easier and reducing the time for an analyst to understand what's really happening."

"The value we see from having real-time visibility into our cloud environment is significant, as Sweet Security serves as our eyes and ears inside AWS, telling us what we are doing wrong so we can fix it."

Cons

"If I had to pick a complaint, it would be the way the hosts are listed in the tool. You have different columns separated by endpoint name, Cloud Account, and Cloud Instances ID. I wish there was something where we could change the endpoint name and not use just the IP address. We would like to have custom names or our own names for the instances. If I had a complaint, that would be it, but so far, it meets all the needs that we have."

"The recommended actions aren't always specific, so it might suggest recommendations that don't apply to the particular infrastructure code I'm reviewing."

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

"In terms of ease of use, initially, it is a bit confusing to navigate around, but once you get used to it, it becomes easier."

"There is one concern related to SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security platform. They claim it as an AI-based integration that will provide runtime protection."

"There is a bit of a learning curve for new users."

"There should be more documentation about the product."

"We wanted it to provide us with something like Claroty Hub in AWS for lateral movement. For example, if an EC2 instance or a virtual machine is compromised in a public subnet based on a particular vulnerability, such as Log4j, we want it to not be able to reach some of our databases. This kind of feature is not supported in SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security."

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"From my own perspective, they just need a product that is tailored to micro-segmentation so I can configure rules for multiple systems at once and manage it."

"Integration into other third-party products, particularly those from tier three vendors like ManageEngine and Hexcode, has proven difficult."

"Microsoft does a fairly good job, but many products are developed from an engineer's perspective rather than the end user perspective, making the intuitive flow of the interface sometimes less than optimal."

"I would like to see more connectors and plugins with other platforms."

"Support needs to be highly responsive, especially in large enterprise environments."

"The solution's portal is very easy to use, but there's one key component that is missing when it comes to managing policies. For example, if I've onboarded my server and I need to specify antivirus policies, there's no option to do that on the portal. I will have to go to Intune to deploy them. That is one main aspect that is missing and it's worrisome."

"After getting a recommendation, it takes time for the solution to refresh properly to show that the problem has been eliminated."

"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."

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"The option to run specific playbooks through Sweet Security platform would help us a lot, but these must be fully customizable."

"There was something a year ago that caused a production issue in my company, but they fixed it within an hour."

"One area for improvement could be the alerts, as we have an issue with the alert time, the time it takes for the system to send the alert, but besides that, there is nothing special."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"PingSafe is priced reasonably for our workload."

"It was reasonable pricing for me."

"The cost for PingSafe is average when compared to other CSPM tools."

"It's not cheap, but it is worth the price."

"PingSafe falls somewhere in the middle price range, neither particularly cheap nor expensive."

"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"

"Singularity Cloud Workload Security's licensing and price were cheaper than the other solutions we looked at."

"We have an enterprise license. It is affordable. I'm not sure, but I think we pay 150,000 rupees per month."

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"Microsoft's licensing and pricing are sometimes complicated. If someone is new to Microsoft's licensing, they might have difficulty with it."

"Azure Defender is a bit pricey. The price could be lower."

"Defender's basic version is free, which is good. Many of our teams are evaluating the paid version against third-party products."

"We only use the free tier, so we haven't faced any pricing, setup costs, or licensing challenges."

"The licensing is straightforward but can become expensive if you cover everything. You must balance the cost against the importance of what needs covering."

"I am not involved much with the pricing but the bundle offering is good."

"Microsoft Defender for Cloud is pricey, especially for Kubernetes clusters."

"While we pay for any additional features, the pricing seems competitive, though I am not involved in the specific cost details."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

14%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Wellness & Fitness Company

14%

Healthcare Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Non Profit

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	48
Midsize Enterprise	22
Large Enterprise	54

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

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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?

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What needs improvement with PingSafe?

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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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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Sweet Security?

I'm not really into the specifics of the pricing, but as far as I know, it is cost-effective.

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What needs improvement with Sweet Security?

Sweet Security has room for improvement in two areas. One is for robust integration with automations and playbooks. W...

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What is your primary use case for Sweet Security?

We are cloud native and are using Sweet Security for call runtime protection. It is much bigger than just runtime pro...

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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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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

Sweet Security offers a robust cybersecurity solution designed to safeguard sensitive data with advanced monitoring features, enhancing organization-wide security protocols.

The comprehensive features of Sweet Security include real-time threat intelligence, automated incident response, and seamless integration with existing IT infrastructures. Engineered for flexibility and scalability, it effectively adapts to evolving cybersecurity landscapes, delivering actionable insights for proactive security management.

What are the key features of Sweet Security?

Real-Time Threat Intelligence: Continuously monitors network traffic for potential threats.
Automated Incident Response: Rapidly responds to security incidents to minimize impact.
Seamless Integration: Easily integrates with existing systems without disruption.
Advanced Analytics: Provides detailed analysis to predict and preempt security breaches.

What benefits can users expect?

Enhanced Security: Strengthens overall data protection and reduces vulnerability.
Cost Efficiency: Reduces expenses with automated processes and efficient resource use.
Improved Compliance: Helps meet regulatory requirements through comprehensive monitoring.
Increased Trust: Builds user confidence by ensuring high standards of data security.

Sweet Security is implemented across industries such as finance and healthcare to guard sensitive information and comply with stringent regulations. Its adaptability allows customization to meet specific industry standards, addressing unique security challenges while maintaining high levels of protection.

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Microsoft Defender for Cloud is trusted by companies such as ASOS, Vatenfall, SWC Technology Partners, and more.

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