Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

193 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint	Score 8.3 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (formerly Microsoft Defender ATP) is a holistic, cloud delivered endpoint security solution that includes risk-based vulnerability management and assessment, attack surface reduction, behavioral based and cloud-powered next generation protection, endpoint detection and response (EDR), automatic investigation and remediation, managed hunting services, rich APIs, and unified security management.	$2.50 per user/per month

Pricing

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Editions & Modules

Academic: $2.50
per user/per month
Standalone: $5.20
per user/per month

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Considered Both Products	Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Bhuwan Chandra Business Development Manager Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint CrowdStrike Falcon EDR is one the Best solution available in Market ,However, I think they are lack in Threat visibility and Vulnerability assessment& Management for application versions & configurations . Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Contributor Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Microsoft Defender for Endpoint stacks up well against it competitors. It detects malicious files faster than other tools like CrowdStrike. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint As we are using 90% of Windows devices and laptops in our organisation we figured out that Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is a better solution for us as compared to above solutions mentioned. It is very easy and convenient to use this solution with Windows devices. The … Incentivized Helpful? DN DANNY NAGDEV Founder Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint I feel that Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is much better in protecting our Windows based devices as it is developed by Microsoft itself. However, it comes with a little price hike. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Analyst Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint At the time, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint was a comparable selection with SentinelOne, but won on one important consideration for Educational Use, cost. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint was including in our Microsoft Enterprise agreement meaning that there was no additional … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Competitive Pricing Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint We liked the cost of the Microsoft Defender for Endpoint version and the ease of deployment so decided to use that instead of kaspersky. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint In my opinion, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is inferior to the competition. Combined with Huntress it is good (they are designed to integrate), but in my opinion, no need to use the paid version of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint when combining with Huntress, so not really … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint We ended up going with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint as it came with the biggest breadth of offerings compared to the other solutions we reviewed. With a lot of the other potential solutions we felt like we would of needed to augment them to get the value we would get out of … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Partner Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint 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 … Incentivized Helpful? JN Jamil Niazi CIO Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Because this product is easier to use and has a lot of development and Microsoft's behind it. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User C-Level Executive Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint We evaluated several other reports XDR, CrowdStrike, Sentinel One and Cybereason. And at the end on now we purchase the Cybereason mostly for a matter of cost because it's cheaper and we are a relatively small company. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint I have worked with CrowdStrike and Carbon Black. Because of the performance in Linux environments. Incentivized Helpful? TN Tim Nance CSO Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint It has more functionality overall and then again, reporting is much better. The ability to prioritize and define our own criticalities, so I think that's a lot better. Incentivized Helpful? Conrad Nyamache Computer Technician Specialist Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Tenable Security Center was a fantastic exposure detection tool but there was always a lag and servers would hang alot when being scanned causing resource traffic. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on the other hand does not use up most resources soo there is usually noo lag … Incentivized Helpful? KL Kevin Lee Network Security Analyst Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Bitdefender was a great platform, but didn't provide as much network insight that Microsoft Defender for Endpoint does. It did not work well as an Endpoint Detection and Response platform. Tenable Security Center was great for vulnerability scanning of the devices on our … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint We have reviewed/used ESET and find Defender much better for Endpoints. We have also used McAfee on Servers and have since migrated to Defender on Servers. Incentivized Helpful? VK VIJAY KANAL NATIONAL PRODUCT MANAGER Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Microsoft comes as a bundle suite and for other solutions the purchasing needs to be done separately. Helpful? Yash Mudaliar Associate Lead Security Admin Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint I found CrowdStrike to be confusing and complex when it comes to managing assets and incidents around endpoints. While it provides quality intelligence, it lacks a more admin-friendly way of presenting that information. Hence, as I have mentioned in the previous points as well, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User General Manager Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint in an overall protection sentinelone is providing better protection for us, but as it comes with subscription's limitation, we have to be really careful in managing the licenses, the MS Defender for endpoint is providing us a decent protection which we are not complaining … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Consultant Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Trend Micro's Apex One offers a comprehensive endpoint security solution, including advanced threat protection and vulnerability management. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Trend Micro also provides the similar capabilities but with some advanced features like Comprehensive Protection, Deep Security Integration etc., Helpful? Verified User Consultant Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint In my organization we already have E5 license so no need to procured additional license for EDR functionality. Incentivized Helpful? Martin Venter Senior Engineer Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint For me personally, I can not really compare the two against each other, as they are both really good. For us as a business specializing in MS products, it is a logical choice to have followed. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint It excels in detecting unusual behavior on endpoints, offering valuable insights into potential attack paths, and it operates with remarkable speed and responsiveness. Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro System resources Pro Real time Pro Email attachments
Top Cons	Minus Server side Minus Feature sets Minus Full capabilities

Features

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Endpoint Security

Comparison of Endpoint Security features of Product A and Product B
	Microsoft Defender for Endpoint 8.2 55 Ratings 3% below category average
Anti-Exploit Technology	8.052 Ratings
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)	8.554 Ratings
Centralized Management	7.954 Ratings
Hybrid Deployment Support	7.810 Ratings
Infection Remediation	8.253 Ratings
Vulnerability Management	8.351 Ratings
Malware Detection	8.554 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Likelihood to Recommend	8.2 (85 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	7.8 (8 ratings)
Support Rating	9.0 (5 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Likelihood to Recommend	Microsoft 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. Incentivized CF Carlos Eduardo Faquinello IT Solutions Architect Read full review
Pros	Microsoft 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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Microsoft 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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Microsoft 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 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Microsoft 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 Incentivized Joe Aldeguer IT Director Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Microsoft 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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Microsoft 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. Incentivized Conrad Nyamache Computer Technician Specialist Read full review
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