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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    NAKIVO Backup & Replication

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/ANAKIVO Backup & Replication now also supports Proxmox VE, alongside VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, and AWS EC2. It offers replication, failover, cloud backup, backup copy, size reduction, screenshot verification, and site recovery.

    $2.50

    per month per workload

    Pricing
    Microsoft Defender for EndpointNAKIVO Backup & Replication
    Editions & Modules
    Academic
    $2.50
    per user/per month
    Standalone
    $5.20
    per user/per month
    Enterprise Essentials/Enterprise (Perpetual)
    Starting at $329 per CPU socket
    Indefinite use. Includes technical support during business hours. CPU sockets
    Enterprise Essentials/Enterprise
    Starting $76 per server and $25 per workstation
    Indefinite use. Includes technical support during business hours. Server Workstation
    Enterprise Plus
    Contact vendor
    Enterprise Essentials/Enterprise (Subscription)
    Starting at $3.5 per workload/month
    Billed yearly for up to 5 years. Includes 24/7 Support. Workload/Month
    Pro Essentials/Pro (Perpetual)
    Starting at $239 per CPU socket
    Indefinite use. Includes technical support during business hours. CPU Socket
    Pro Essentials/Pro (Subscription)
    Starting at $2.5 per workload/month
    Billed yearly for up to 5 years. Includes 24/7 Support. Workload/Month
    Pro Essentials/Pro
    Starting at $58 per server and $19 per workstation
    Indefinite use. Includes technical support during business hours. Server Workstation
    NAKIVO Backup for Microsoft 365
    Starting at $0.80 per user/month
    Billed yearly for up to 5 years. Includes 24/7 Support. Microsoft 365 User/Month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Microsoft Defender for EndpointNAKIVO Backup & Replication
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—A workload is a VMware vSphere VM, Microsoft Hyper-V VM, Nutanix AHV VM, a physical machine (01 server and 03 workstations), an Oracle database, or an Amazon EC2 instance.
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    Community Pulse
    Microsoft Defender for EndpointNAKIVO Backup & Replication
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    96%
    Would buy again
    157 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    129 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    146 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    129 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    155 Answers
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    128 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    130 Answers
    98%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    118 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    140 Answers
    99%
    Implementation went as expected
    126 Answers
    Features
    Microsoft Defender for EndpointNAKIVO Backup & Replication
    Endpoint Security
    Comparison of Endpoint Security features of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and NAKIVO Backup & Replication
    Feature
    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    8.7
    79 Ratings
    2% above category average
    NAKIVO Backup & Replication
    -
    Ratings
    Anti-Exploit Technology9.075 Ratings00 Ratings
    Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)9.179 Ratings00 Ratings
    Centralized Management8.679 Ratings00 Ratings
    Hybrid Deployment Support7.110 Ratings00 Ratings
    Infection Remediation9.077 Ratings00 Ratings
    Vulnerability Management8.774 Ratings00 Ratings
    Malware Detection9.278 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and NAKIVO Backup & Replication
    Feature
    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    -
    Ratings
    NAKIVO Backup & Replication
    8.4
    153 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Universal recovery00 Ratings7.4128 Ratings
    Instant recovery00 Ratings7.5131 Ratings
    Recovery verification00 Ratings7.4137 Ratings
    Business application protection00 Ratings7.3116 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations00 Ratings8.2139 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification00 Ratings7.8143 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud00 Ratings10.0110 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression00 Ratings8.9138 Ratings
    Snapshots00 Ratings7.7129 Ratings
    Flexible deployment00 Ratings9.2104 Ratings
    Management dashboard00 Ratings9.2116 Ratings
    Platform support00 Ratings9.6113 Ratings
    Retention options00 Ratings9.8111 Ratings
    Encryption00 Ratings8.2102 Ratings
    Enterprise Backup
    Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and NAKIVO Backup & Replication
    Feature
    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    -
    Ratings
    NAKIVO Backup & Replication
    8.5
    45 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Continuous data protection00 Ratings8.738 Ratings
    Replication00 Ratings9.044 Ratings
    Operational reporting and analytics00 Ratings7.844 Ratings
    Malware protection00 Ratings8.331 Ratings
    Multi-location capabilities00 Ratings8.439 Ratings
    Ransomware Recovery00 Ratings8.738 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Microsoft Defender for EndpointNAKIVO Backup & Replication
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (169 ratings)
    8.8
    (159 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.4
    (10 ratings)
    9.1
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (40 ratings)
    9.0
    (56 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    10.0
    (48 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.2
    (32 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (13 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Microsoft Defender for EndpointNAKIVO Backup & Replication
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Nakivo Inc.
    NAKIVO Backup & Replication is well suited for a variety of scenarios. Firstly, it is ideal for businesses with virtualized environments, such as VMware or Hyper-V, as it offers seamless backup and recovery solutions tailored to these platforms. Secondly, organizations with a mix of virtual, physical, and cloud environments can benefit from NAKIVO's ability to provide unified data protection across these platforms. Additionally, businesses requiring fast and reliable disaster recovery capabilities will find NAKIVO Backup & Replication valuable, thanks to its site recovery and orchestration features.However, there are scenarios where NAKIVO may be less appropriate. For organizations with exclusively physical infrastructure and no virtualized environments, the full range of NAKIVO's features may not be utilized to its fullest potential. Similarly, companies with limited data storage requirements may not fully benefit from NAKIVO's deduplication and compression capabilities.
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    Pros
    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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    Nakivo Inc.
    • Can be installed natively on nas appliances leveraging the use of underutilized appliances. No need to install the software on Windows or Linux Servers.
    • Backup natively Vmware Virtual Machines and File Shares (you need to buy the right license modules).
    • Destination storage for backups (or of the backup copies) can be Microsoft shares, Amazon S3, Wasabi, Backblaze and remotely to other sites using their transporter vm.
    • To not overload the system with overlapping jobs, they can be chained one after the other.
    • Rapid add/remove/reorder priority of vm to backup and their backup archive. Jobs can be easily changed or chained.
    • Quick support service
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Nakivo Inc.
    • Backups have the option of "screenshot verification". Screenshot verification doesn't always work for us when our vmtools is out of date. If we are on an older version of VMware and that version of vmtools is up to date, NAKIVO still thinks it is out of date.
    Incentivized
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    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
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    Nakivo Inc.
    It is a product that contains most of the features of its big competitors but at an affordable price for small businesses. In addition, the support is very good even if they only have support in English. Another important factor is its compatibility with NAS devices, which greatly simplifies deployment. The implementation is simple and in a matter of minutes you can define the first copy Jobs
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    Usability
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Nakivo Inc.
    NAKIVO Backup & Replication is very easy to set up. I did it by myself, and it went perfectly. Online documents are very well written, and also the tech support asked to help me set it up. I want to do it by myself and the setup process is very easy to do. The connection to your VM and servers is very easy to do.
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    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
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    Nakivo Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Microsoft
    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is easy on memory and resources on clients.
    Incentivized
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    Nakivo Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    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
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    Nakivo Inc.
    The support is fast and perfect. If u have any questions, you can contact the support team via mail or chat and you always get a fast answer. You can also find a lot of help in the FAQ in the help center to resolve your problems. Anytime I had to contact the support, they helped me and solved my problem.
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    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
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    Nakivo Inc.
    It is very easy to do in all the formats in which it is implemented, whether as an appliance, in a windows machine, or an implementation in NAS. I only use the appliance one, but I have tried all of them in trial mode to know which one interested me more.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Nakivo Inc.
    NAKIVO Backup & Replication stands out as a more cost-effective and robust solution compared to Veeam ONE. With competitive pricing and a comprehensive feature set including incremental backups, global deduplication, LAN-free data transfer, and built-in WAN acceleration, NAKIVO offers efficient data protection and optimized storage usage. Its user-friendly interface and streamlined setup process make it appealing for organizations with limited IT resources. Additionally, NAKIVO's support for VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Nutanix AHV further enhances its versatility. When evaluating data protection solutions, NAKIVO's affordability, robustness, and ease of use make it an attractive choice for businesses seeking a comprehensive and cost-effective backup solution.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Nakivo Inc.
    The pricing for VM backups is good value for money as it does not limit how many VM's per socket. This works well for smaller sites with simple backup requirements. Physical machine backup pricing would more attractive with a sliding scale based on the number of physical machines.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Microsoft
    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is easily scaled from small orgs to giant enterprises.
    Incentivized
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    Nakivo Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Professional Services
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Nakivo Inc.
    I contacted a few times Nakivo representatives, once for technical doubt and the other ones for commercial ones. Both support services are fast and reliable.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Nakivo Inc.
    • One of our contributors has permanently deleted worksheets from our file server. From Nakivo, we were able to recover all the data in less than 10 minutes.
    • An authentication server was encrypted by ransomware, through NAKIVO Backup & Replication, we recover the entire server within 1 hour.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Screenshots

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