BETTER Mobile Threat Defense vs. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

BETTER MTD is a mobile agent that helps you to secure your data on mobile and saves your mobile devices from risky apps, network threats, and system threats. It provides secure web browsing and blocks malicious websites and phishing pages. For the IT team, the admin console provides real-time status of mobile devices and allows them the manage the mobile devices remotely. It data security is prime concern for your company then this is a great solution else you can let it go.

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I think it's well suited as a drop-in EDR, really an XDR, I guess if you want to go there. A platform for most organizations. I think it lacks some of the granularity in off-the-shelf rule sets that I want for defense Industrial base or financial services clients. For heavily targeted organizations, I think it requires a lot more customization than some of the competitor products off the shelf. So if you get there, it's not there day one.

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• Block website which are malicious and attempt phishing irrespective of browser or app used.
• Detects anomalous app behavior and network threats.
• Admin console provides better policy enforcement and remote control over device risks and threats.

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• 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.

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• Regular updates for advanced threats.
• Better management of user personal data.
• Early threat detection, real time status updates and Alerts according to severity levels.

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• 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.

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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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In my case, I just reach out to our IT team if I face any challenges with the BETTER MDM.

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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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BETTER MTD is a simple, affordable, and powerful mobile agent. It can be deployed easily via leading Mobile device management or enterprise mobility management solutions. The mobile agents implement advanced machine learning algorithms and cloud-based AI to detect app threats, network threats, and system threats and vulnerabilities. It does a deep scan across all system files and provides defense against phishing and malicious website attacks. The system admin console provides real-time status and remote management and policy management.

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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.

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• Better policy management and enforcement by IT team
• easy compliance and risk management
• Data security and remote control over the confidential data

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• Reduced incidents of security breaches lead to lower remediation costs and avoid potential financial losses and reputational damage.
• Reduces the need for additional third-party security solutions and training, thereby lowering overall security management costs.
• Increased efficiency and productivity of IT staff lead to better allocation of resources and cost savings.
• Reduces the risk of fines and sanctions associated with non-compliance, ensuring business continuity and protecting revenue.

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