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Microsoft Defender for Business vs Powerpipe

Microsoft Defender for Business

microsoft.com

Powerpipe

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FigureMicrosoft Defender for BusinessPowerpipe
Price from$0.25/moFree
Free plan—Yes
Free trialYes—
Open source——
Web—Yes
WindowsYesYes
macOSYesYes
Linux—Yes
iOSYes—
AndroidYes—
APIYes—
Self-hosted—Yes
Plans published41
Spec score · Cloud Security Posture Management Software8.5 (#3)8.5 (#4)
HeadquartersRedmond, Washington, United StatesNew Jersey, United States
PurposeMicrosoft Defender for Business is an endpoint security solution for small and medium-sized businesses with up to 300 users that helps protect devices from ransomware, malware, phishing, and other threats.Powerpipe visualizes cloud configurations, assesses security posture against benchmarks, and builds custom dashboards with code.

Plans

Microsoft Defender for Business

  • Microsoft Defender for Business$3 a month
  • Microsoft Entra Internet Access$5 a month
  • Microsoft Entra Suite$12 a month
  • Microsoft Defender for Business$3 a year

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Powerpipe

  • Open-source Powerpipe CLIFree

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Microsoft Defender for Business

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Powerpipe

Powerpipe is a free, open-source tool from Turbot for turning cloud infrastructure data into dashboards and security or compliance benchmarks. Prebuilt dashboards cover AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, and more, with views of resource quantity, cost, usage, and relationships. Benchmarks assess environments against frameworks including CIS, GDPR, NIST, PCI, and SOC 2. Users can write dashboards and benchmarks in HCL or combine existing ones, then version and share the code using Git tooling. Powerpipe serves a locally hosted web interface for filtering, grouping, pivoting, and snapshotting results. Its CLI lists and runs benchmarks and controls, and exports results in formats such as CSV, HTML, JSON, Markdown, and ASFF. It works with PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, or DuckDB without requiring Steampipe. Installation options include macOS, Linux, and Windows; the tool can also be self-hosted. Powerpipe Hub offers hundreds of dashboards, benchmarks, and examples. Listed uses include security and compliance monitoring, cost management, detections, and asset inventory.

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