Integrate Microsoft Defender for Cloud with Vulnetix. Export security alerts and recommendations from your Azure, AWS, and GCP workloads using the Azure CLI or Microsoft Graph Security API.
How Vulnetix compares: better together
Vulnetix does not replace Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Keep running it. Vulnetix sits on top of Microsoft Defender for Cloud (and every other scanner you already own) turning disconnected tool outputs into one prioritised, fixable queue.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud is strongest at its core category and also carries features in Container & Image Scanning, IaC & Cloud Configuration, SAST, SCA, Secret Scanning, just as Vulnetix spans categories.
| Capability | Vulnetix | Microsoft Defender for Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Security coverage | ||
| SAST (static code analysis) | ✓ Built-in rules + Semgrep augmentation | ~ Code SAST orchestrated through MSDO (Bandit, ESLint, BinSkim), not a native engine |
| SCA / dependencies | ✓ 40+ ecosystems, transitive graph | ~ Dependency scanning via bundled Trivy in DevOps pipelines |
| DAST (dynamic testing) | ~ Ingests DAST results; no native dynamic engine | ✗ |
| Container & image | ✓ Image CVEs, base image, Dockerfile | ✓ Agentless image + running-container + node vuln assessment via MDVM, daily rescans |
| IaC / misconfiguration | ✓ Terraform, k8s, CloudFormation | ✓ IaC misconfig scanning via Checkov, Terrascan and ARM/Bicep Template Analyzer |
| Secret scanning | ✓ 1,000+ rules, source + binary + git history | ✓ Secret scanning across code and cloud resources |
| Cloud / CSPM | ✓ Cloud-posture findings, compliance tab | ✓ Core CSPM + CWPP across Azure, AWS, GCP with benchmark-based recommendations |
| Mobile (MAST) | ~ Ingests mobile scanner output; no native mobile engine | ✗ |
| License compliance | ✓ SPDX, copyleft/AGPL/SSPL policy | ✗ |
| SBOM generation | ✓ CycloneDX 1.7 + SPDX 2.3, cosign-signable | ✗ |
| Malware / supply-chain | ✓ De-duplicated corpus + install-time firewall (25+ registries) | ✗ |
| Network / infra vuln | ~ Ingests network scanner output; no native network scanner | ✗ |
| Fuzzing | ✗ Ingests fuzzing crashes; no native fuzzer | ✗ |
| Pentest / bug bounty | ✗ Ingests pentest/bug-bounty findings; not a testing service | ✗ |
| The Vulnetix orchestration layer | ||
| Cross-scanner dedup & one queue (ASPM) | ✓ Correlates every scanner into one prioritised queue with ownership routing | ~ Cloud security graph correlates and prioritises via attack paths, scoped to Microsoft's own signals |
| Exploit-intel prioritisation | ✓ EPSS, CISA KEV, Coalition ESS, CWSS, Vulnetix LEV | ~ Exploitability insights from Defender Vulnerability Management (EPSS/KEV-aligned prioritisation) |
| Reachability analysis | ✓ Tree-sitter + CVEAffected; direct/transitive/semantic | ✗ |
| Versioned VEX + audit trail | ✓ Immutable OpenVEX/CycloneDX, cosign-signable | ✗ |
| Safe Harbour autofix | ✓ Resolves + applies the nearest safe version | ✗ |
| End-of-life policy | ✓ Flags/blocks past-EOL runtimes & packages | ✗ |
| SSVC / risk-based policy | ✓ SSVC v2 + CISA/FedRAMP/Essential-8 presets | ✗ |
✓ full · ~ partial · ✗ not covered
What Microsoft Defender for Cloud does well
- Unified CNAPP (CSPM + DevSecOps + CWPP) that is deeply native to Azure and extends agentlessly to AWS and GCP, with tight SIEM/Sentinel and continuous-export integration
- Agentless container vulnerability assessment (registry images, running containers, k8s nodes) powered by Defender Vulnerability Management with daily rescans, OS + language package coverage and exploitability insights
- Cloud security graph with attack-path queries and 'code to runtime' tracing that links runtime findings back to their source-code origin and blast radius
- DevOps security orchestrates a broad scanner set (Bandit, ESLint, BinSkim, Checkov, Terrascan, Template Analyzer, Trivy) to catch code and IaC issues before production
Where Vulnetix adds to it: Defender for Cloud is a strong Azure-centric CNAPP; Vulnetix does not replace its cloud posture or workload engines. Vulnetix ingests Defender's continuous-export findings (cloud, container, DevOps scanner output) into one vendor-neutral deduplicated queue alongside non-Microsoft scanners, and adds what Defender lacks: immutable versioned VEX + audit, explicit multi-source exploit-intel (EPSS, KEV, ESS, CWSS, LEV), EOL and SSVC policy, Safe Harbour autofix PRs, dual CycloneDX 1.7 + SPDX 2.3 SBOM generation, and the 25+ registry install-time package firewall.
No migration, no rip-and-replace. Microsoft Defender for Cloud keeps doing what it does best; Vulnetix adds the orchestration, exploit-intelligence prioritisation and remediation layer built for the way AppSec works today.
Centralise Microsoft Defender for Cloud results in Vulnetix
Upload Microsoft Defender for Cloud SARIF, JSON output to the Vulnetix platform to deduplicate findings, prioritise them with EPSS, CISA KEV and Coalition ESS exploit intelligence, and track remediation across every scanner in a single queue.
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