Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

285 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Editions & Modules

Academic: $2.50
per user/per month
Standalone: $5.20
per user/per month

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Considered Both Products	Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Verified User Technician Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint I've used Sophos, Bitdefender, SentinelOne, and, of course, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. We chose this at the time because we were such a Microsoft shop that it just seemed to integrate well with all the other things that we had set up with Microsoft. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Previously, we've used Sophos. We've used, way back when, McAfee, Norton, Symantec, all those. And we finally settled on Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. We're a Microsoft technology stack shop. So obviously it was natural. It's built into Windows, so we're not adding … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint When building up policies, being independent is much easier compared to CrowdStrike, I would say. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Supervisor Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Say licensing and cost primarily. And from our evaluation and our use cases, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint did relatively the same thing. Incentivized Helpful? JL John Lee IT Director Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Unless you have a dedicated Security Operations Center working twenty four hours a day seven days a week that is able to constantly monitor Cylance and make the necessary changes for your users, it is not worth the trouble. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint does what it needs to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Microsoft Defender for Endpoint consistently showed better user experiences during scans due to the reduced amount of resources used on each system compared to our previous endpoint protection solutions. However, the main reason we chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Consultant Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Microsoft Defender for Endpoint offers strong integration with Microsoft 365 and Azure services, which provide a unified security experience. While McAfee Trellix is known for solid antivirus, Microsoft Defender excels in integration in the ecosystem. Incentivized Helpful? MM Michael Miller IT Engineer Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Defender is far easier to deploy and manage than Sophos and tends to work without as many issues. The threat assessment portal provides an in-depth view of the organization's security posture, whereas Sophos only shows the patching status of the PCs. We did need Intune to get … Incentivized Helpful? Danny Nagdev Founder Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint As Microsoft Defender for Endpoint easily integrated with our Office 365 setup, it was more beneficial as compared to other products Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Cylance's policy is to block everything and requires an active person to monitor and unblock legitimate processes. As updates and software continue to evolve, it is a full-time job to be a Cylance administrator. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is a set-and-forget solution that … Incentivized Helpful? Matt Cox Computer Systems Enginner II Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint cost is an important factor Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is the most cost effective solution considering our Microsoft 365 licensing status. While many 3rd party solutions are great and have been used over the years, in the non-profit world, cost is a huge driving factor of items. Coupled with … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is on par or exceeds the competitor products and provides an enterprise grade EDR solution. Based on the savings by bundling Microsoft products under the E5 license and the benefits it provides; it is an excellent choice for customers looking for … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint MDE integrates much more into our M365 ecosystem than any other MDR possibly could. Bitdefender may have provided a similar level of endpoint protection but the reporting, vulnerability reporting and other incident tracking and correlation are critical in today's business … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Crowdstrike is the more feature complete product but licensing model and cost does not work well with the small business model. ESET PROTECT is considerably more complicated from a licensing perspective but once operational is a fine product. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Board Member Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is far more robust and easy to use than NinjaOne's RMM tools. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint allows us to easily manage our endpoints, from an almost single pane of glass, whereas Ninja has multiple settings, policies, etc. that are harder to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Technician Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint We use Microsoft Defender for Endpoint along with Crowdstrike on some of our critical systems as it enhances the protection we have for our environment. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User C-Level Executive Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint It's very convenient and very well integrated with our environment. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Majorly because our suite is Microsoft, so make totally sense to have this in the company and the price. It is Microsoft is better than CrowdStrike. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrative Assistant Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Sophos. Because of the integration with Microsoft ecosystem, we selected Defender. Incentivized Helpful? PH Paolo Heuer Cybersecurity Director Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint We previously used CrowdStrike on our servers. However, the seamless integration of Microsoft Defender (MD) with XDR and the entire Microsoft ecosystem led us to choose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE). Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint We have not used anything else other than Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. Maybe we've used other antivirus software like Sophos and things like that. They're just not all encompassing and that's why we moved to use this product. Incentivized Helpful? GG Gustavo Gonzalez Cybersecurity Senior Engineer Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint I have been working with customers that they are transitioning from Sentinel One, CrowdStrike to Defender for Endpoint, right? So I think it's because they see the value in the product and also they see how much they can save in terms of the cost for companies because they … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint What we love more about this product is the way this pro gets integrated into the other family of solutions, especially Defender for Identity or the XDR solutions. We think that the market, the customers are full of unattended consults coming out from different vendors and that … Incentivized Helpful? SD Sid Desai Managing Partner Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint The technical features, usability and the support was nice as compared to the other products. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Endpoint Security

Comparison of Endpoint Security features of Product A and Product B
	Microsoft Defender for Endpoint 8.7 78 Ratings 2% above category average
Anti-Exploit Technology	8.975 Ratings
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)	9.177 Ratings
Centralized Management	8.777 Ratings
Hybrid Deployment Support	7.210 Ratings
Infection Remediation	9.075 Ratings
Vulnerability Management	8.672 Ratings
Malware Detection	9.276 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Small Businesses	ThreatLocker Score 9.2 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	BlackBerry Protect (CylancePROTECT) Score 9.1 out of 10
Enterprises	BeyondTrust Endpoint Privilege Management Score 10.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (133 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.4 (10 ratings)
Usability	8.6 (10 ratings)
Availability	9.1 (1 ratings)
Performance	9.1 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	9.0 (7 ratings)
Implementation Rating	7.3 (1 ratings)
Configurability	8.2 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	9.1 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Likelihood to Recommend	Microsoft I can definitely tell you where it’s more suited, because we haven’t come across any less appropriate scenarios. But definitely in regard to how we centrally manage our user space and our endpoints, it’s been beneficial from an API perspective and is really transferable, with strong collaboration with our Azure stack. It works very well. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Microsoft Definitely on the threat action and response. We didn't have a stress-response option before, but the dependent brand point provided it instantly. Also, it's doing UVA and machine learning, which we didn't have before. So it's definitely providing more sophisticated threat-detection capabilities than we had before. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Microsoft The only thing is sometimes, because Microsoft has so many platforms, it gets a little confusing, like am I in the security platform? Am I in Purview? Where am I at right now? Because there's so many sites that are kind of doing a lot of the same thing, and so that does get a little confusing from time to time, but outside of that, it's a pretty good product. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	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 Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	Microsoft Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is a great EDR to have that works quickly and silently in the background and it integrates well with other Microsoft services. As an IT manager, I can appreciate that I do not get bombarded by alerts for every small detail. On the flipside, the management site can use some work in being more clear and should be more streamlined so I'm not clicking through multiple pages to figure out what happened Incentivized JL John Lee IT Director Read full review
Reliability and Availability	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Performance	Microsoft Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is easy on memory and resources on clients. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	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 Incentivized Joe Aldeguer IT Director Read full review
Implementation Rating	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Microsoft Previously, we've used Sophos. We've used, way back when, McAfee, Norton, Symantec, all those. And we finally settled on Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. We're a Microsoft technology stack shop. So obviously it was natural. It's built into Windows, so we're not adding additional agents. Some of the other vendors and their agents, for a while, would compete with CPU usage. And so it actually slowed down the machines. Because Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is built into the Windows product, Microsoft is going to ensure that it does not affect the other productivity tools that a user may use. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Scalability	Microsoft Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is easily scaled from small orgs to giant enterprises. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	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. Incentivized CF Carlos Eduardo Faquinello IT Solutions Architect Read full review
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