Likelihood to Recommend Scenarios where it is Well-Suited Are Enterprise Environments with Microsoft Ecosystems, Organizations with Remote and Hybrid scenarios, Advanced Threat Protection Needs, and any company that needs to protect sensitive data. Scenarios where it is less appropriate are mixed Operating System Environments, Companies with Limited IT Resources, highly Specialized Security Needs, and Organizations needing extensive customizations.
Read full review Panda Systems Management is well suited for small to medium sized organizations looking for a tool to centralize asset management not only physical but also assist with rapid deployment of patches, applications, etc. It proves also to be very beneficial as permits (to and extent) to do troubleshooting without interfering or interrupting end users.
Read full review Pros It integrates perfectly with Azure Sentinel. I mean, that's great. We can have a single pane of class with other platforms, like Defender for Cloud, Defender for endpoints, and Defender for servers, which is awesome as well. The ease of deployment is because Microsoft made sure around a year ago that every single workstation with Microsoft Windows came with Defender for Endpoints embedded. Read full review Remote access. It's as good as any other on the market. It also allows for RDP connections which is a nice feature. Inventory management. We get some great insight from the reports we can run. Quick Jobs. If there's an app or service you use, there may be a quick job to install and update it remotely. Read full review Cons While it's a very good product for auditing, it has a very hard time to distinguish what is malicious and is an attack, what is not. Very rarely we get indication of a real malicious attack. We got lots of hours for off the shelf malware that it cleans up automatically. So basically we never get to look at it, which is a positive thing, but threats are detected by the third party endpoint, so it will not be enough by itself. Read full review Licensing. With the possibility of monthly splitting Integration with firewalls even outside the corporate network Read full review Likelihood to Renew Cost add-ons for Security features is nickel and diming the process to keep pace with cybercrime. Limited Education budgets require us to be more pro-active in finding cost-effective measures to protect our devices, staff and students. Defender is a strong, well-featured product that is pricing itself out of the education market
Read full review Support Rating The first time I tried to onboard my macOS endpoints to MDE I struggled for quite a bit. I had to reach out to Microsoft's MDE support team. The tech was very helpful in walking me through the steps during a screen share session
Read full review We rate and recommend Panda Systems Management not only because it is a very effective and very cost effective solution that pays itself for us (ROI) extremely fast, but also due to all reason described previously and possibly a few more I'm sure we missed here. I do have to says tech support for this solution sometimes leave a bit to be desired.
Read full review Alternatives Considered I would say not to name specific company names, because I'm a partner with one of them and that's the account that I work with. But I use some competing solutions that I would say are pretty heavy from an overhead perspective with the agent that has to be installed in the machine. It can be too restrictive for permissions where it gets in the way of an employee doing their job and the ability for Defender to be secure in that, but still allow an employee to go about their day and do what they need to do is certainly a change maker there. But yeah, from the other products perspective across the years, whether it be business or personal, some other products I can name are other endpoint protections from Vera Avast, McAfee, of course as folks remember that. And some of the other major players too that I would say a large networking company that doubles in security as well. I'll name them that way.
Read full review Panda is a bit of a greatest hits between some of these other things. I feel like GoToAssist has a stronger remote support option, but Panda is more convenient. Kaseya has a ton of features, but from an ease of use standpoint, Panda seems stronger.
Spiceworks has a fine inventory system but it lacks features. I added Azure as well since we are a 365 shop and Azure supplies a lot of the same visibility that Panda does. However it is a completely different animal, and it's way easier to hop into Panda and get what you need than get waaay more data than necessary from Azure/Azure AD/ATP.
Read full review Return on Investment It is a unified platform with lots of core features for exposure detection, antivirus and SIEM all in a single platform. The centralized management is absolutely the it. It creates a more intertwined secure environment because it integrates well with other Microsoft security apps. Automated detection and remediation saves in time and money. Visibilities of endpoints and advanced threat detection increase our security and well-being. Read full review It has facilitated us in the management of controls on the various clients, reducing the cost of human resources Thanks to the alerts, in case of intrusion, it is possible to intervene promptly Read full review ScreenShots Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Screenshots