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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Kaseya VSA

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AKaseya Virtual System Administrator (VSA) is a cloud-based Remote Monitoring and Management software. VSA unifies the monitoring of system infrastructure and endpoints and is designed for use by IT teams and MSP’s. It offers a robust crowd-source automation scripts library, as well as antivirus and malware capabilities with real-time threat alerts.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

    Pricing
    Kaseya VSAMicrosoft 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
    Kaseya VSAMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Kaseya VSAMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint
    Considered Both Products
    Kaseya
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    Microsoft
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    81%
    Would buy again
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    96%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
    14 Answers
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    146 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    14 Answers
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    155 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    13 Answers
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    130 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
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    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    140 Answers
    Features
    Kaseya VSAMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint
    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Kaseya VSA and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    Feature
    Kaseya VSA
    7.5
    1 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    -
    Ratings
    Virtualization monitoring8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    IT Asset Discovery7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Monitoring Tasks
    Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of Kaseya VSA and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    Feature
    Kaseya VSA
    6.7
    13 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    -
    Ratings
    Remote monitoring9.013 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network device monitoring8.013 Ratings00 Ratings
    Activity Monitoring8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management Tasks
    Comparison of Management Tasks features of Kaseya VSA and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    Feature
    Kaseya VSA
    7.5
    12 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    -
    Ratings
    Patch Management8.012 Ratings00 Ratings
    Policy-based automation9.012 Ratings00 Ratings
    Remote Access
    Comparison of Remote Access features of Kaseya VSA and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    Feature
    Kaseya VSA
    6.8
    1 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
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    Attended device access8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Unattended device access8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Virtual device access9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple-display support1.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple concurrent sessions8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Endpoint Security
    Comparison of Endpoint Security features of Kaseya VSA and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    Feature
    Kaseya VSA
    -
    Ratings
    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    8.7
    79 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Anti-Exploit Technology00 Ratings9.075 Ratings
    Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)00 Ratings9.179 Ratings
    Centralized Management00 Ratings8.679 Ratings
    Hybrid Deployment Support00 Ratings7.110 Ratings
    Infection Remediation00 Ratings9.077 Ratings
    Vulnerability Management00 Ratings8.774 Ratings
    Malware Detection00 Ratings9.278 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Kaseya VSAMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (30 ratings)
    8.9
    (169 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.4
    (10 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.6
    (40 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.5
    (8 ratings)
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Kaseya VSAMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Kaseya
    If the software functioned as it was intended, it would be probably a 7 out of 10. It lacks the majority of customization that SolarWinds N-central supplies, but also supports some customization that other solutions we have tried do not. Again, if the software didn't consistently break, the ability to implement automated scripting via PowerShell and the capacity to manage 10+ endpoints at once in different windows is great.
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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.
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    Pros
    Kaseya
    • Being able to see systems that are not within the local network allows us to be able to troubleshoot and work with the end users no matter where they are or where we are as it is cloud based.
    • Several functions can be "automated" so staff do not have to keep going back and scanning for updates, push Windows updates and or push sensor updates.
    • VSA offers a variety of system information about all of the assets that have the endpoints installed on them so we can easily see the system specs without having to actually connect to them and pull up the SysInfo on each unit.
    Incentivized
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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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    Cons
    Kaseya
    • Support - Like all other competitors support is OK but the product is robust enough to reduce support requirements.
    • Customer Service - another team that is a bit poor especially when the issue involves multiple departments. Otherwise, the direct rep is very friendly and professional.
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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
    Kaseya
    Excellent product with easy learning curve
    Incentivized
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    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
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Kaseya
    I think this is a solid tool for enterprise IT, however it would be higher if Kaseya VSA addresses the areas raised around recent stability, their support team, multiple session & screen support etc. It does do it's main job and allows an easy way for IT to operate and is mostly fine.
    Incentivized
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    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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    Reliability and Availability
    Kaseya
    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
    Kaseya
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is easy on memory and resources on clients.
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    Support Rating
    Kaseya
    It was lots of back and forth email communication whenever I tried to solve my connection issues. I would send them detailed logs of the date, time, computer, and more of when I was experiencing connection issues. All I would get is an email back a few days later saying that they didn't find an issue in the service
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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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    Implementation Rating
    Kaseya
    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
    Kaseya
    There are other products that do some of what Kaseya does, but I've not personally worked with another product that does everything Kaseya does. Sure there are plenty of remote control products, but products that do as much as Kaseya are few and far between. Hard to go wrong with the sheer scope of functionality!
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Kaseya
    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
    Kaseya
    • It has increased the efficiency of operational tasks for our technicians
    • It has change the speed at which we are able to deploy updates and software patches
    • It caused us to spend additional money on more security tools due to concern from breaches
    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.
    Incentivized
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