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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ABeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management, powered by PowerBroker and Avecto reduces the risk of privilege abuse by eliminating unnecessary privileges, and can elevate rights to Windows, Mac, Unix, Linux and network devices without hindering productivity.N/A

    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
    BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege ManagementMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint
    Editions & Modules
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    Academic
    $2.50
    per user/per month
    Standalone
    $5.20
    per user/per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege ManagementMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege ManagementMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint
    Considered Both Products
    BeyondTrust
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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
    BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege ManagementMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint
    Endpoint Security
    Comparison of Endpoint Security features of BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    Feature
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    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
    BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege ManagementMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    8.9
    (170 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.4
    (10 ratings)
    Usability
    9.7
    (2 ratings)
    8.7
    (41 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege ManagementMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint
    Likelihood to Recommend
    BeyondTrust
    It is an absolute must in all organizations where security is taken seriously. For organizations where there is a tendency among the users' end to abuse access privileges, this tool comes in handy. It has features that would enable the administrator to look through video logs to see what was done by a specific user. Also has the capability to terminate or lock users/ user sessions.
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    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
    BeyondTrust
    • Reporting capabilities for user activities, including complete session recordings
    • Integration with SAML for SSO and secure LDAP authentication
    • Jump point servers for central isolated access from outside the network
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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
    BeyondTrust
    • Better communication to customers on new release compatibility
    • Crowd-sourced rule logic for specific applications would be nice (I hear underway)
    • Technical support processes could be a bit improved
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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.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    BeyondTrust
    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
    BeyondTrust
    BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management is really usable thanks to the Cloud platform that provide central management, analytics, updates and policy definitions. For policies, quickstart covers around 80% of the overall configuration and we just have to define home made applications and dedicated use cases. From the user perspective, messages can be customized so it's easy to understand for user and they have an endpoint application to follow workflows approval.
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    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
    BeyondTrust
    We've had no availability issues.
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    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
    BeyondTrust
    We've had no performance issues.
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    Microsoft
    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is easy on memory and resources on clients.
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    Support Rating
    BeyondTrust
    The product performed to the level of our requirements.
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    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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    In-Person Training
    BeyondTrust
    The in person training was great. Very informative and the trainer was great. I would highly recommend this option if you're hesitant. Any questions can then be directed to support. Support is great as well, and will definitely help answer any questions. I would definitely
    recommend adding some type of training as it was very helpful for our
    staff.
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    BeyondTrust
    It was informative and very helpful. They provide a lot of courses that give you exactly what is needed to manage the product. Any questions can then be directed to support. I would definitely recommend adding some type of training as it was very helpful for our staff. The online training sufficed for us.
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    Microsoft
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    Implementation Rating
    BeyondTrust
    BeyondTrust was super helpful with implementation and it only took a few weeks to get it up and running.
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    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
    BeyondTrust
    BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management has more features than CyberArk and more detailed options for configurations. BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management is more focused on setting up access-related endpoints, which requires some fine tuning and understanding for use cases where a single endpoint has to be shared with multiple vendors. CyberArk's setup is more geared to users' accounts and then endpoint management under the user accounts.
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    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
    BeyondTrust
    It's very easy to deploy with minimal interruption.
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    Microsoft
    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is easily scaled from small orgs to giant enterprises.
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    Professional Services
    BeyondTrust
    The integration team was great.
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    Microsoft
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    Return on Investment
    BeyondTrust
    • We are able to securely monitor activity from vendors accessing our network.
    • This meets our cybersecurity objectives of securing our OT networks.
    • The benefits far outweigh the initial cost of the software.
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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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