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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    AWS CloudTrail

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AAWS CloudTrail is a service that enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of an AWS account. With CloudTrail, users can log, continuously monitor, and retain account activity related to actions across AWS infrastructure. CloudTrail provides event history of AWS account activity, including actions taken through the AWS Management Console, AWS SDKs, command line tools, and other AWS services. This event history simplifies security analysis, resource change tracking,…N/A

    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

    Score8.8 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

    Sophos Intercept X

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/ASophos Endpoint Protection (Sophos EPP) with Intercept X is an endpoint security product providing an antivirus / antimalware solution that when upgraded with Intercept X or Intercept X Advanced provides advanced threat detection and EDR capabilities.

    $28

    per year per user

    Pricing
    AWS CloudTrailMicrosoft Defender for EndpointSophos Intercept X
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Academic
    $2.50
    per user/per month
    Standalone
    $5.20
    per user/per month
    Intercept X Advanced
    $28
    per year per user
    Intercept X Advanced with XDR
    $48
    per year per user
    Sophos Managed Threat Response
    $79
    per year per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AWS CloudTrailMicrosoft Defender for EndpointSophos Intercept X
    Free Trial
    YesYesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsYou can view, filter, and download the most recent 90 days of your account activity for all management events in supported AWS services free of charge. You can set up a trail that delivers a single copy of management events in each region free of charge. Once a CloudTrail trail is set up, Amazon S3 charges apply based on your usage. You will be charged for any data events or additional copies of management events recorded in that region. In addition, you can choose CloudTrail Insights by enabling Insights events in your trails. CloudTrail Insights analyzes write management events, and you are charged based on the number of events that are analyzed in that region.—Pricing is for a 3-year commitment. Government and Education pricing available.
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    Community Pulse
    AWS CloudTrailMicrosoft Defender for EndpointSophos Intercept X
    Considered Multiple Products
    Amazon AWS
    No answer on this topic
    Microsoft
    Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    CrowdStrike Falcon is also a good solution for endpoint protection which offer EDR Soultion, threat hunting and AI driven threat protection. Sophos Intercept X combines next-gen antivirus with advanced EDR capabilities with its deep learning technology, exploit prevention, and …
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    As Microsoft Defender for Endpoint easily integrated with our Office 365 setup, it was more beneficial as compared to other products
    Incentivized
    Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    The fact it is integrated into the Microsoft 365 licensing our customers already purchase makes it an easy choice.
    Incentivized
    Sophos
    Chose Sophos Intercept X
    We found Sophos is a full suit in one, easy to deploy, manage and very effective.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
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    96%
    Would buy again
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    91%
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    155 Answers
    100%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    130 Answers
    100%
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
    140 Answers
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    Features
    AWS CloudTrailMicrosoft Defender for EndpointSophos Intercept X
    Endpoint Security
    Comparison of Endpoint Security features of AWS CloudTrail and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Sophos Intercept X
    Feature
    AWS CloudTrail
    -
    Ratings
    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    8.7
    79 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Sophos Intercept X
    8.1
    24 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Anti-Exploit Technology00 Ratings9.075 Ratings8.623 Ratings
    Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)00 Ratings9.179 Ratings8.024 Ratings
    Centralized Management00 Ratings8.679 Ratings8.024 Ratings
    Hybrid Deployment Support00 Ratings7.110 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Infection Remediation00 Ratings9.077 Ratings7.924 Ratings
    Vulnerability Management00 Ratings8.774 Ratings8.44 Ratings
    Malware Detection00 Ratings9.278 Ratings8.024 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    AWS CloudTrailMicrosoft Defender for EndpointSophos Intercept X
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    8.9
    (169 ratings)
    8.2
    (41 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.4
    (10 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (40 ratings)
    8.1
    (8 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    8.1
    (12 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AWS CloudTrailMicrosoft Defender for EndpointSophos Intercept X
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    It is necessary to enable [AWS] Cloudtrail when using AWS in a production environment, otherwise you will not have any idea what is happening within your accounts. Third party monitoring applications will all require [AWS] CloudTrail to be enabled as well. I would not recommend it solely as a monitoring tool, to get the most out of it you must send the logs elsewhere. Either to Cloudwatch logs or a third party product.
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    If you have multiple endpoints in your environment, if you're looking to understand what your environment looks like, if you're trying to identify the health of your environment, or identify any risks or vulnerabilities in your environment pertaining to your endpoints and devices.
    Incentivized
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    Sophos
    To be frank, this product is fairly expensive. So I would recommend this to companies that are mid-sized or larger to condone the cost of the purchase. It does save me a significant amount of time in my day - being able to glance at the dashboard and see if there are any outstanding issues that require my attention, as not much digging must be done to accomplish this. So for our company, with a short-staffed IT department, it's incredibly helpful to us. We also qualify for Educational pricing which brings the cost down - which helps tremendously
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • API Log
    • User activity tracking
    • Real-time alerts
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Sophos
    • Sophos Intercept X is great at preventing malware infections and rolling back their effects. I have seen this happen hundreds of times since we installed it
    • When combined with Sophos Central, you have an easy to use dashboard where you can manage all installations from a single pane of glass.
    • It's easy to deploy on machines and stays updated.
    • Good reporting features including alerts sent to the admin if there's ever something wrong with it.
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • [In my experience] Cost can easily get out of control with multiple trails on full logging
    • Logs can be difficult to decipher
    Incentivized
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    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.
    Incentivized
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    Sophos
    • Sophos OOTB policies are very strict and they don't offer anything less strict without you creating new custom policies. I'm sure this is deliberate because the product starts you out in the safest way possible but it means that you will have lots of calls to your tech support desk when you first deploy it unless you do somewhat extensive testing beforehand.
    • Sophos Intercept X is currently broken (at least the DLP component) by having secure boot turned on in the UEFI/BIOS. If any user wants to be able to write data to a USB drive or floppy from their PC (yes we still have a couple users who need to use floppies) we have to turn off secure boot on their PC, even if the DLP policy for that user/PC combination specifies that the user and PC are allowed to write to USB/floppy. This would be a very serious problem if it weren't for the fact that we have very few users who need to write files to USB. For us it's OK but I bet it would be a deal-breaker for others.
    • I don't see a whole lot of evidence that Intercept X is any different than any other anti-virus, so maybe their admin alerts just don't clearly identify when they have identified a zero-day threat or maybe we just haven't had any zero-day threats.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Amazon AWS
    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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    Sophos
    We have gotten a great product for the price. Easy to maintain and set up on new devices. Support is great and easy to work with and understand.
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Because it's hard to find things sometimes. I can find things now because I know where they are. But you have to work with it a little while to figure out how. I'd basically say it was a security tool designed by developers. So you have to get that mindset to find things. So a new hire, a new person in the SOC would have a difficult time. I know that's sitting in here, or that screen is in here somewhere. So it's gotten better.
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    Sophos
    The usability has never been a problem. Sophos Intercept X is a program you can install and let protect your company without much intervention. Apart from a few policies, Sophos will keep you protected better than most any product on the market. Sophos Intercept X works quite well when you are looking to "tighten your grip" on user's access to websites, programs, and add-ons.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Amazon AWS
    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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    Sophos
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is easy on memory and resources on clients.
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    Sophos
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    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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    Sophos
    Most of the support reps are fantastic. There have been a few though that have had to be escalated via Account Manager when they haven't followed up but this is a rare instance, and often followed up by the Support Manager for APAC.
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    Implementation Rating
    Amazon AWS
    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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    Sophos
    Best thing was the help pushing out via group policy and was able to get instructions for that on sophos site
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    I think in the end, CloudTrail has more features and you can dive deeper inside the logs so it depends on your usage and what you expect in the end to make the right choice, I would say that both tools are really useful and bring a lot of benefits to I.T. companies.
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    Particularly, we're evaluating Symantec Endpoint Protection, the commercial version. We've looked at eSet, a couple of the others, and it's much too heavy or difficult to manage, things like that. Ease of use, ease of integration. It's already there. It's super easy to update it with the regular OS updates and everything. So we can manage it whether we're using SCCM or Intune or Dato, it's very easy to deploy updates and manage things.
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    Sophos
    Webroot Endpoint Protection is not even in the same league as Sophos Intercept-X. I have tested and compared both sides by side, run simulations and it's not even close. Plus the Sophos central management is so much better. Easier to view user activities and apply policies and remediate threats. Sophos is the clear winner between these two products.
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    Scalability
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is easily scaled from small orgs to giant enterprises.
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    Sophos
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • Allows us to investigate any strange api actions
    • Increases security
    • Audit trail of changes made in AWS
    Incentivized
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    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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    Sophos
    • Once our technical and commercial areas got certified, the ROI over the time spent, is great. Actual customers, and/or new ones with other tools, feel safe and advised, once they get in touch with us.
    • When Sophos EndPoint is being compared against Web Management Tools (competitors), we have failed to deliver, nevertheless, there is a version of Sophos Central (Cloud) which achieves this requirement at 100% and more, since is Cloud Based (on AWS).
    • We are grateful to be on Sophos "Radar" as a Platinum Partner, and "The Americas" valued partner, we have seen our business grow, thanks to this kind of technology, throughout the years.
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    ScreenShots

    AWS CloudTrail Screenshots

    Screenshot of CloudTrail Insights: Identify and respond to unusual operational activity
•Unexpected spikes in resource provisioning
•Bursts of IAM management actions
•Gaps in periodic maintenance activity
•Automatic analysis of API calls and usage patterns
•Alerts when unusual activity is detected

    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Screenshots

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

    Sophos Intercept X Screenshots

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