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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    AccessPatrol by CurrentWare

    Score6 out of 10
    N/AAccessPatrol by CurrentWare provides a solution for securing company endpoints against data breaches caused by illicit data transfers and rogue USB devices. AccessPatrol can be used to block flash drives, cell phones, tablets, Bluetooth, and more. File operations alerts and permissions can be configured to alert IT administrators to suspicious file operations and proactively prevent data transfers by unauthorized users.

    $72

    per year per user

    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft 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
    AccessPatrol by CurrentWareMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint
    Editions & Modules
    10-99 Users
    $6
    per month (billed annually) per user
    100+ Users
    Volume & prepurchase discounts available. Please contact sales for info.
    Per User Per Month
    Academic
    $2.50
    per user/per month
    Standalone
    $5.20
    per user/per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AccessPatrol by CurrentWareMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsPricing is based on the volume of licenses purchased. There are additional discounts available for educational organizations, non-profits, managed services providers, and businesses that pre-purchase multiple-year plans.—
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    Community Pulse
    AccessPatrol by CurrentWareMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint
    Considered Both Products
    CurrentWare Inc.
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    Microsoft
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    96%
    Would buy again
    157 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    146 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    155 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    130 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    140 Answers
    Features
    AccessPatrol by CurrentWareMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint
    Endpoint Security
    Comparison of Endpoint Security features of AccessPatrol by CurrentWare and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    Feature
    AccessPatrol by CurrentWare
    -
    Ratings
    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    8.7
    80 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Anti-Exploit Technology00 Ratings9.176 Ratings
    Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)00 Ratings9.280 Ratings
    Centralized Management00 Ratings8.780 Ratings
    Hybrid Deployment Support00 Ratings7.110 Ratings
    Infection Remediation00 Ratings9.078 Ratings
    Vulnerability Management00 Ratings8.875 Ratings
    Malware Detection00 Ratings9.379 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    AccessPatrol by CurrentWareMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint
    Likelihood to Recommend
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.9
    (170 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.4
    (10 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.7
    (41 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AccessPatrol by CurrentWareMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint
    Likelihood to Recommend
    CurrentWare Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    I think for your average user's experience, it's perfectly fine. I think when you're dealing with more advanced people within the cybersecurity space, where they may deal with applications or tooling, other situations like that, or malicious-type files, that might be problematic for them to use.
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    Pros
    CurrentWare Inc.
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    Microsoft
    • The big thing for us is on endpoint, it kind of integrates with everything else that we already have because we use Microsoft completely. And so that helps us with being able to integrate, and send things over to Azure Sentinel as we need to as well.
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    Cons
    CurrentWare Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    • I'd say building out summaries and log reviews for analysts reviewing incidents. So, pivoting from the alerts themselves to actually getting the detail underneath. Trying to understand what caused an alert, where they went from there, et cetera, et cetera. And then trying to get into deeper log review to take that investigation further can be a pain point.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    CurrentWare Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    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
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    Usability
    CurrentWare Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    It just works. It's easy. I mean, even if you didn't have much background in it, you could figure out what you need to do to get the information that you need. The dashboards are comprehensive. The information that it aggregates on the screen, your first initial screen, is very comprehensive and telling. So, usability.
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    Reliability and Availability
    CurrentWare Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint chugs along just fine no matter what we throw at it and what systems it's running on. It doesn't take up a lot of resources either, so that's welcomed.
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    Performance
    CurrentWare Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is easy on memory and resources on clients.
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    Support Rating
    CurrentWare Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    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
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    Implementation Rating
    CurrentWare Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Deployment was handled by our team here and everything went pretty smoothly. We did have a few hiccups in our test group, but that only took a bit to get ironed out.
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    Alternatives Considered
    CurrentWare Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Falcon. I will say this: Falcon was way easier to deploy. We deployed 36,000 endpoints in about 40 hours. It took us two years to get Microsoft Defender for Endpoint deployed. So deployment was a pain. Falcon, what else we've got? Trellix or McAfee Endpoint. And that's about it.
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    Scalability
    CurrentWare Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is easily scaled from small orgs to giant enterprises.
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    Return on Investment
    CurrentWare Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    • I think the positive impact overall is that we do a lot of sitting in front of assessors- federal assessors, government assessors. And it really comes down to when the assessor has to think about another product that you're bringing in that's not Microsoft, it creates a lot of confusion, more paperwork, more explanation. But the positive impact is that they know it, everybody kind of knows Microsoft. And so when you tell them you have this endpoint for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, they're like, okay. The questions go away, and it makes the overhead a lot less during an assessment.
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    ScreenShots

    AccessPatrol by CurrentWare Screenshots

    Screenshot of AccessPatrol's web console. This password-protected console is accessible to designated operators using a desktop or laptop that is connected to the LAN that the CurrentWare console is installed on.

All users and computers with CurrentWare Clients installed can be managed from the console, including offsite/remote workers.Screenshot of AccessPatrol's device permissions window. This is the list of devices that can be blocked with AccessPatrol, including removable storage devices such as USB flash drives, optical media, and floppy disks. AccessPatrol can also block WiFi, Printers/Scanners, and other peripheral devices.

If specific USB devices need to be allowed that can be whitelisted using the Allowed List. By design AccessPatrol does not block USB-based HID devices such as keyboards and mice; blocking USBs will still allow these devices to function as normal.Screenshot of AccessPatrol's USB activity dashboards provide aggregated and granular USB activity data at a glance including file operations and blocked vs allowed devicesScreenshot of AccessPatrol's Block File Transfers window.  File transfers can be blocked based on extensions or specific file names.Product screenshotProduct screenshot

    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Screenshots

    Screenshot of blocked activitiesScreenshot of Detects & respondsScreenshot of discovers vulnerabilityScreenshot of Eliminates blind spotsScreenshot of Risk management