Digital Shadows vs. Microsoft Defender for Business

DS is fantastic for big and large-medium companies, it has many very featured functions and works very well. It's a little bit expensive for small and little-medium companies.

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Microsoft Defender for Business is well suited for small and medium businesses that are running on a smaller budget, with little to no IT department and require a quick and effective setup to manage and protect their endpoints. It can be deployed and managed very quickly, and the person doing it can have little to no experience as long as they follow directions.

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• We found company emails used for personal uses.
• We found internal documents in deep web.
• We found news and information about the company managers on social media not delivered by the company.

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• Already integrated with Windows
• Allows for folder and executable-specific exceptions when combined with Intune.
• Incident response and analytics are fantastic.

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• I'd like to have still more features for searching on social media.
• I'd like to have a better interface for configuration.
• It's expensive for middle and small companies, I'd like to have a reduced-features version for them.

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• Confusion between the different Defender products
• Ease of setup and configuration
• Reporting and Alerts

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Solved the problems of my customers and permitted to clearly demonstrate these problems to management.

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So far we have found no alternative that would overall offer us more than we are getting from Microsoft Defender for Business!

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It's very easy to use, also non-technical users can understand the information to use for search and results, initial configuration is less easy to configure but just a little.

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Microsoft Defender for Business is a solid tool for smaller businesses looking to manage their endpoints and devices, while staying on budget. The setup is minimal compared to the full-blown InTune and EMS suite, and the product can be included in some Small Business SKUs that they may already have.

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They are very available and competent, in addition, they used people with a good knowledge of the Italian language that helped very much, especially with the first customer.

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As I said: ease of use, scanningg of deep web and social media, results easy to understand and use.

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The other product didn't have searches on Social Media.

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Microsoft Defender for Business has better reporting and incident response. There is limited client rollout due to being integrated with Windows. Microsoft Defender for Business is much better at identifying asset risks and giving a broad security overview. Because we moved to Microsoft 365 to access the Office applications and Exchange online, Microsoft Defender for Business was essentially cost free to us. Where Microsoft Defender for Business falls short in comparison to Sophos is that it requires integration with Intune to enforce many of the physical controls that Sophos offers in their client.

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• DS gave more visibility on the company cyber exposure.
• Results of DS searches helped to solve security holes in people's behaviour.
• Company management reached more awareness about company cyber exposure.

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• Improved cybersecurity
• Learning curve
• Resource consumption

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