The vulnerability and threat reporting Microsoft doesn't give you
Native Defender and Intune portals only show you fragments of your security posture. PowerStacks BI for Defender delivers full vulnerability management, threat detection, and security analytics in Power BI, with the ability to merge Defender, Intune, and SCCM data into a single unified view.
Native reporting only tells part of the story
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Intune each have their own reporting portals. But if you have tried to build a thorough endpoint security reporting strategy using only the built-in tools, you already know the limitations.
The built-in reports are pre-canned, siloed, and designed for individual portal use, not for the kind of cross-platform visibility that security teams and leadership actually need.
Pre-canned reports with limited customization
The Defender portal gives you fixed reports. You cannot rearrange columns, add custom calculations, or build the specific views your security team needs without writing KQL queries.
No historical trending
Native Defender reporting shows you a point-in-time snapshot. There is no built-in way to track how your vulnerability exposure, threat detection rates, or secure scores change over weeks and months.
Siloed in the Defender portal
Reports live inside the Defender portal and cannot be embedded in Teams channels, SharePoint sites, or executive dashboards. Sharing means granting portal access or exporting static spreadsheets.
No cross-platform view
Defender vulnerabilities, Intune compliance status, and SCCM hardware inventory live in three separate portals. There is no native way to see a single device across all three data sources.
Limited drill-down capabilities
Built-in reports offer minimal interactivity. You cannot click through from a vulnerability summary to the affected devices to their compliance status in a single reporting experience.
Custom dashboards require KQL or coding
If you want anything beyond the default reports, you need to write KQL queries in Advanced Hunting or build custom solutions with the API, which is a significant investment of specialist time.
See your entire security posture in Power BI
BI for Defender transforms your Microsoft Defender for Endpoint data into a full star-schema data model in Power BI. Build any vulnerability or threat report you need using Power BI's native point-and-click interface. No KQL, no coding, no limitations.
Vulnerability Management
CVE tracking, exposure scores, affected device counts, and remediation progress, all in interactive dashboards that drill down to individual devices and software.
Threat Detection Dashboards
Active threats, alert severity trends, detection source analysis, response actions, and resolution timelines across your entire Defender environment.
Security Posture Trends
Track secure score changes, configuration compliance percentages, and exposure level shifts over weeks and months with automatic historical data retention.
Application Control Visibility
See unsigned application execution attempts, blocked app events, code integrity policy compliance, and application control deployment status.
Point-and-Click Report Builder
Create any report you need using Power BI's drag-and-drop interface. Filter by severity, device group, OS, or any dimension. No query language required.
Row-Level Security
Delegate security reports to different teams with Power BI row-level security. Regional security leads see only their devices, enforced at the data layer.
The cross-platform advantage
This is what no other tool on the market offers. BI for Defender, BI for Intune, and BI for SCCM all share a common device unique key. That means you can build a single Power BI report that shows a device's Defender vulnerabilities alongside its Intune compliance status and its SCCM hardware inventory.
Imagine clicking on a critical vulnerability, drilling down to the 47 devices affected, and immediately seeing which of those devices are also non-compliant in Intune or missing from your SCCM inventory, all in one report, all from the same data model.
This is the kind of cross-platform security visibility that would take months of custom API development to build from scratch. With PowerStacks, it works out of the box because the data models were designed to connect.
Unified device view
One device. Three data sources. One report.
- Defender for Endpoint
- Vulnerabilities, threat alerts, exposure score, secure configuration
- Intune
- Compliance status, app inventory, configuration profiles, update rings
- SCCM / ConfigMgr
- Hardware inventory, software metering, collection membership, deployment status
- Linked by
- Common unique device key shared across all three PowerStacks datasets
Your security data stays in your environment
Vulnerability data, threat detections, and security posture metrics are among the most sensitive information in your organization. PowerStacks never asks you to send this data to a vendor portal or third-party cloud.
Everything runs in your Power BI workspace, governed by your Microsoft 365 tenant policies, sensitivity labels, and audit logging. The data flows from the Microsoft Graph Security API directly into your Power BI dataset, the same API that Microsoft built for this purpose.
There are no agents to deploy on your endpoints. No additional portal to secure. No additional vendor to trust with your threat intelligence. Just your data, in your environment, under your control.
See what your security reporting has been missing
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