Cylance Smart Antivirus vs. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cylance Smart Antivirus
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Blackberry Cylance offers Cylance Smart Antivirus, a Windows and Mac OS compatible smart antivirus designed to provide basic protection as well as protect against new, never before seen malware.N/A
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Score 8.8 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
Cylance Smart AntivirusMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Academic
$2.50
per user/per month
Standalone
$5.20
per user/per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Cylance Smart AntivirusMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
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Endpoint Security
Comparison of Endpoint Security features of Product A and Product B
Cylance Smart Antivirus
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Ratings
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
8.6
72 Ratings
1% above category average
Anti-Exploit Technology00 Ratings8.669 Ratings
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)00 Ratings9.071 Ratings
Centralized Management00 Ratings8.671 Ratings
Hybrid Deployment Support00 Ratings7.410 Ratings
Infection Remediation00 Ratings8.869 Ratings
Vulnerability Management00 Ratings8.666 Ratings
Malware Detection00 Ratings8.970 Ratings
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User Ratings
Cylance Smart AntivirusMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(2 ratings)
8.7
(123 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.4
(8 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(7 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(6 ratings)
User Testimonials
Cylance Smart AntivirusMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint
Likelihood to Recommend
BlackBerry
Cylance Smart Antivirus is well suited for the typical office user. It can be very restrictive if you do not tune it properly and can cause many issues. When tuned and set up properly it is appropriate for 95% of use cases. The last 5% are ones that have the capabilities of bringing an organization down if it is not tuned properly.
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Microsoft
If you or your organization are using Microsoft 365 E3 licensing or higher, it's a very cost effective and smart solution to take advantage of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. While the solution is dependent on Intune enrollment for easy management, once setup, it works great. It's fairly easy to manage once you get the hang of it, although it is split between Intune and Security Admin center for insights.
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Pros
BlackBerry
  • Blocking Scripts
  • Stopping remote exploits
  • easy to install
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Microsoft
  • One, it's crazy lightweight, so compared to some of the competitors that we also have used with our security services, it's really lightweight and so I don't have a lot of overhead on the system that it's running on.
  • It does really fantastic PowerShell integration.
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Cons
BlackBerry
  • Better functionality to whitelist on the Application.
  • Easier to setup Mobile Settings
  • Easier to understand logs
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Microsoft
  • So the fact that Defender for Endpoint still works with signatures is actually, I don't know, a little difficult for us because, I mean, since Microsoft trusts those signatures, you can easily inject code. And we've done it many times. To show that you can inject code through vulnerabilities like CV 2013, 99, and 33 but still keep the signature. So because of the trust of those signatures, the malware just kind of slides into the environment without Defender knowing. That's the first part. The second part is that the behavioral analysis is not precisely its Prime. It's not Defender's best capability for endpoints. So, Defender does not identify all behaviors considered by other EDRs in the market.
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Likelihood to Renew
BlackBerry
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
BlackBerry
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
Because in terms of the usability is easy to understand, it's easy to manage, obviously you need to have specific skills to do that, but I would say that even the console and the product is walking through the flow that you are looking for on this console.
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Reliability and Availability
BlackBerry
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
BlackBerry
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is easy on memory and resources on clients.
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Support Rating
BlackBerry
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
BlackBerry
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
BlackBerry
Cylance was the first AI scanning-based AV on the market. While Webroot was competitive we found Cylance to be the better solution.
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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.
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Scalability
BlackBerry
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
BlackBerry
  • Too much time to manage.
  • Too many false positives.
  • Too much lost productivity.
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Microsoft
  • 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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ScreenShots

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