Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management
Last updated: Oct 8, 2026
How does Fluid Attacks' solution compare to Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management's?
The following comparison table enables you to discern the performance of both providers across various attributes essential for meeting your company's cybersecurity needs. To better understand each attribute, read their descriptions in the dedicated page.
This comparison focuses on the product itself, although some attributes in this comparison draw information from the larger parent company it belongs to Microsoft.
Organization
| Attribute | Essential | Advanced | Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management |
|---|---|---|---|
| Focus | Native ASPM with in-house scanners | AI-powered PTaaS on top of native ASPM with in-house scanners | Cloud Native Application Product Platform (CNAPP) and vulnerability management |
| Extras | None | None | AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM), CIEM, CWPP and DSPM |
| Headcount | 186 | Same | 231,728 |
| Headcount distribution | Engineering 42%, IT 12%, sales 16%, marketing 2%, operations 4% and others 24% | Same | Engineering 41%, IT 12%, sales 8%, marketing 2%, operations 4% and others 33% |
| Headcount growth | +3%, +21%, +29% | Same | -3%, -3%, -8% |
| Headquarters | CO and US | Same | US |
| Countries | AR, BO, BR, CL, CO, CR, DO, EC, MX, PA, PE and US | Same | IN and US |
| Reputation | 9.27 from 388 reviews over 7 years on Clutch, G2 and Gartner | Same | 8.31 from 1,073 reviews over 8 years on Capterra, G2, Gartner, GetApp, PeerSpot and TrustRadius |
| Followers | 23K based on the following: Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X and YouTube | Same | 1M based on the following: Instagram, LinkedIn, X and YouTube |
| Research firms | None | None | Forrester, Gartner and IDC |
| Founded | 2001 | Same | 1975 |
| Funding | Bootstrapped | Same | 1M USD in 2 rounds from 2 investors |
| Acquisitions | None | None | Acquired 0 times and made 255 acquisitions |
| Revenue | 10M to 15M | Same | 10B to 332B |
| Third-Party CVEs Discovered | 289 CVEs reported to MITRE, ranked in the top 10 CVE labs worldwide | Same | 55 CVEs reported to MITRE |
| Compliance | GDPR, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 27017:2015, ISO/IEC 27018:2019, ISO/IEC 27701:2019, PCI DSS, SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3 | Same | CSA STAR, FedRAMP Authorized, GDPR, ISO 9001, ISO 22301, ISO/IEC 20000-1, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27017, ISO/IEC 27018, ISO/IEC 27701, PCI DSS, SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3 |
| Bug bounty | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Visits | 64K per month. Top 3: 18% CO, 9% US, 5% BR. Others 68% | Same | 1.1B per month. Top 3: 23% US, 7% IN, 6% JP. Others 64% |
| Authority | 33 out of 100 | Same | 100 out of 100 |
| Public vulnerability DB | Discovered and third-party | Same | Discovered and third-party |
| Content | Blog, documentation, e-books, glossary, reports, success stories, videos, webinars and white papers | Same | Blog, documentation, e-books, events, glossary, podcasts, reports, success stories, videos, webinars and white papers |
| Comprehensive documentation | 13 documentation sections, 10 in common and 3 additional | Same | 13 documentation sections, 10 in common and 3 additional |
| Community | Forum | Same | Forum |
| Sync training | 1 workshop | Same | No |
| Async training | 3 product use courses, all free | Same | Security education platform (free) |
| Distribution | Direct or with any of its 14 partners | Same | Direct or with any of its partners |
| Marketplaces | AWS | Same | Azure |
| Freemium | No | No | No |
| Free trial | 21-day free trial | PoV | 30-day free trial |
| Demo | Yes | Yes | No |
| Open demo | No | No | No |
| Pricing | Contact sales and marketplace | Contact sales | Contact sales, marketplace and public web |
| Pricing tiers | 1 plan | 1 plan | 2 plans (Defender Vulnerability Management Add-on and Defender Vulnerability Management Standalone). First transparent. |
| Minimum term | Monthly | Monthly | Annually |
| Minimum payment period | Monthly | Monthly | Annually |
| Minimum capabilities | ASPM, binary SAST, containers, CSPM, DAST, IaC, SAST, SCA and secrets | Same plus: AI SAST, API security testing, MAST, PTaaS, RE and SCR | Vulnerability management |
| Minimum scope | 10 authors | Same | 1 user |
| Pricing drivers | Authors | Same | Users |
| Free implementation | Yes | Yes | No information available |
| Free support | Yes | Yes | No |
Service
| Attribute | Essential | Advanced | Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management |
|---|---|---|---|
| PTaaS | No | Yes | No |
| Reverse engineering | No | Yes | No |
| Secure code review | No | Yes | No |
| Pivoting | No | Yes | No |
| Exploitation | No | Yes | No |
| Manual reattacks | Not applicable | Unlimited reattacks | Not applicable |
| Zero-day vulnerabilities | Scanner-based zero-day vulnerability detection | Continuous zero-day vulnerability research | Continuous zero-day vulnerability research by Microsoft |
| SLA | Availability | Accuracy, availability and response | Availability |
| Minimum availability | 99.95% per year | Same | 99.9% per month |
| After-sale guarantees | No | Yes | Yes |
| Accreditations | CNA, Penetration Testing by CREST and OpenSSF Gold Badge | Same | CNA |
| Pentester certifications | Not applicable | 202 from 59 different types | Not applicable |
| Type of contract | Employee | Same | Employee |
| Endpoint control | No | Total | Not applicable |
| Channel control | No | Total | Not applicable |
| Standards | Some requirements from 67 standards, 16 in common and 51 additional | All requirements from the same standards | 45 standards, 16 in common and 29 additional |
| Detection method | Automated tools | AI, automated tools and human intelligence | Automated tools |
| Remediation | 5, 3 in common and 2 additional | Same, plus 1 | 6, 3 in common and 3 additional |
| Output | 5, 2 in common and 3 additional | Same, plus 2 | 4, 2 in common and 2 additional |
Product
| Attribute | Essential | Advanced | Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASPM | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| API | GraphQL with JSON | Same | REST with JSON |
| IDE | 5 functionalities | Same, plus 1 functionality | No |
| CLI | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| CI/CD | Breaks the build | Same | Breaks the build |
| Vulnerability sources | 18 sources | Same | No information available |
| Threat model alignment | Yes | Yes | No |
| Priority criteria | CVSS v4.0, CVSSF, EPSS, Fixing cost, KEV, Transitivity and Use | Same | CVSS and EPSS |
| Custom prioritization | Priority score | Same | No |
| Scanner origin | In-house | In-house | In-house and external (Bandit and ESLint for SAST, BinSkim for binaries, Checkov, Template Analyzer and Terrascan for IaC, Syft for SBOM, Trivy for containers and SCA) |
| SCA | 19 package managers, 12 in common and 7 additional | Same | 12 package managers, all in common |
| AI security | No | Yes | Yes |
| Reachability | 14 languages | Same | Yes. No information available |
| Reachability type | Deterministic | Same | No information available |
| SBOM | 22 package managers, 12 in common and 10 additional | Same | 12 package managers, all in common |
| Malware detection | Yes | Yes | No |
| Autofix on components | No | No | No |
| Containers | 4 distributions, 3 in common and 1 additional | Same | 19 distributions, 3 in common and 16 additional |
| Source SAST (languages) | 14, 3 in common and 11 additional | Same | 3, all in common |
| Source SAST (frameworks) | 23 | Same | No information available |
| Custom rules | No | No | No |
| IaC | 6, 4 in common and 2 additional | 2, all in common | 10, 6 in common and 4 additional |
| Binary SAST | 1 type of binary, none in common | Same, plus 2 types of binaries | 2 types of binaries, none in common |
| DAST | 7 attack surface types | Same | No |
| API security testing | No | 4 types of APIs, 1 in common and 3 additional | 1 type of API in common |
| MAST | No | Yes | No |
| IAST | No | No | No |
| CSPM | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Secrets | 228 secrets types, 22 in common and 206 additional | Same, plus verify other attack vectors and secrets exploitability | 51 secrets types, 20 in common and 31 additional |
| AI | 4 functions, 3 in common and 1 additional | Same, plus 1 function | 6 functions, 3 in common and 3 additional |
| AI SAST | No | Yes | No |
| MCP | Yes | Yes | No |
| Open-source | No | No | No |
| Deployment | SaaS (multi-tenant) | Same | SaaS (no tenancy information) |
| Regions | US | Same | AE, APAC, AU, CA, CH, CN, EU, GB, IN, JP and US |
| Status | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Incidents | 3 per year | Same | No information available |
Integrations
| Attribute | Essential | Advanced | Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCM | 6, 3 in common and 3 additional | Same | 3, all in common |
| Binary repositories | None | None | 5 |
| Ticketing | 3, none in common | Same | 1 |
| ChatOps | None | None | 1 |
| IDE | 3 | Same | None |
| CI/CD | 21, 11 in common and 10 additional | Same | 12, 11 in common and 1 additional |
| SCA | Native | Same | Native and 4 integrations |
| Container | Native | Same | Native |
| SAST | Native | Same | Native, and 2 integrations |
| DAST | Native | Same | Native |
| MAST | None | Native | None |
| IAST | None | None | None |
| Cloud | 1 in common | Same | 3, 1 in common and 2 additional |
| CSPM | Native | Same | Native |
| Secrets | Native | Same | Native and 2 integrations |
| Remediation | None | None | 1 |
| Bug bounty | None | None | None |
| Vulnerability management | None | None | 4 |
| Compliance | None | None | 1 |
The latest update to this comparison was on 2026-10-01. The primary sources of information were microsoft.com and learn.microsoft.com, which were supplemented by specialized information-gathering sites, social media, and other sources.
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