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Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management vs. ReliaQuest GreyMatter

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricMicrosoft Defender External Attack Surface Management

by Microsoft

ReliaQuest GreyMatter

by ReliaQuest

Overall rating4.34.7
Review count1720
Ease of use8.89.0
Ease of setup9.58.7
Quality of support9.29.2
Meets requirements9.09.2
NPS47.05882485
Small Business35.3%29.4%
Mid-Market35.3%47.1%
Enterprise29.4%23.5%
Total page views206535
Total LLM citations1,1382,209

Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management

In this era of hybrid work, shadow IT creates an increasingly serious security risk. Defender EASM helps cloud security teams see unknown and unmanaged resources outside the firewall.

Pros

    ReliaQuest GreyMatter

    ReliaQuest’s agentic AI security operations platform, GreyMatter, allows security teams to detect threats at the source, contain them in under 5 minutes, and eliminate Tier 1 and Tier 2 work for faster investigation and response. GreyMatter orchestrates 6 agentic AI personas with 200+ agent skills and 400+ AI tools to exponentially scale security operations and help organizations predict what's next.

    Pros

    • Features
    • Customer Support
    • Centralized Management
    • Ease of Use
    • Easy Integrations
    • Integrations