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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

    OpenText Core Endpoint Protection

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AWebroot Endpoint Protection is the OpenText company's business class multi-vector endpoint protection application, providing centralized endpoint management, deep learning intelligence, and advanced behavioral analytics.

    $150

    per year per 5 seats

    Pricing
    Microsoft Defender for EndpointOpenText Core Endpoint Protection
    Editions & Modules
    Academic
    $2.50
    per user/per month
    Standalone
    $5.20
    per user/per month
    Business Endpoint Protection
    $150.00
    per year per 5 seats
    Business Endpoint Protection
    $690.00
    per year per 25 seats
    Business Endpoint Protection
    Contact sales team
    per 50+ seats
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Microsoft Defender for EndpointOpenText Core Endpoint Protection
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details
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    Community Pulse
    Microsoft Defender for EndpointOpenText Core Endpoint Protection
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
    Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    Not a fair comparison as, I believe, Webroot has severely declined over the past few years while Microsoft Defender for Endpoint has risen from the bottom
    Incentivized
    OpenText
    Chose OpenText Core Endpoint Protection
    Less system intensive than Symantec, with a much better management setup on the backend. More robust than Microsoft Defender, though a little heavier on the resources required, but the feature comparison is night and day between the two. Defender does nicely integrate with the …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    96%
    Would buy again
    157 Answers
    92%
    Would buy again
    22 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    146 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    23 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    155 Answers
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    22 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    130 Answers
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    17 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    140 Answers
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    22 Answers
    Features
    Microsoft Defender for EndpointOpenText Core Endpoint Protection
    Endpoint Security
    Comparison of Endpoint Security features of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and OpenText Core Endpoint Protection
    Feature
    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    8.7
    79 Ratings
    2% above category average
    OpenText Core Endpoint Protection
    7.8
    24 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Anti-Exploit Technology9.075 Ratings7.222 Ratings
    Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)9.179 Ratings8.019 Ratings
    Centralized Management8.679 Ratings8.224 Ratings
    Hybrid Deployment Support7.110 Ratings6.513 Ratings
    Infection Remediation9.077 Ratings8.022 Ratings
    Vulnerability Management8.774 Ratings8.220 Ratings
    Malware Detection9.278 Ratings8.223 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Microsoft Defender for EndpointOpenText Core Endpoint Protection
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (169 ratings)
    7.8
    (29 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.4
    (10 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (40 ratings)
    8.2
    (8 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    9.5
    (8 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    7.8
    (7 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Microsoft Defender for EndpointOpenText Core Endpoint Protection
    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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    OpenText
    The software tends to do a good job of basic protection but is not the best for larger clients and is not as powerful as some others offered on the market today. The support is not the best either, have had a hard time getting assistance in the past trying to resolve issues.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    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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    OpenText
    • It is very light weight and does not tax the computers resources
    • Has a quick scan and does not take forevere when scanning
    • It's central management on the web makes it easy to use and gives tons of control for Admins
    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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    OpenText
    • There are several configuration options for both end-point and DNS protection. Would like a more simple way to understand and validate settings.
    • Support is heavily video or FAQ based although you can submit a Support Ticket. Would like more availability to an actual support engineer.
    • Overtime you can forget how to change setting - a refresher course would be nice, especially as new features are added to the solution.
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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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    OpenText
    It has proven successful so far in our environment for controlling malware/virus outbreaks.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    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
    Read full review
    OpenText
    Webroot Endpoint Protection has been great for us, as its simple, cloud-based management console allows us to quickly deploy easily monitor all of our endpoints. However, it could improve by offering more customizable reporting options for deeper insights into security events and the interface could also use some updating, as it feels a bit dated.
    Incentivized
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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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    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Microsoft
    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is easy on memory and resources on clients.
    Incentivized
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    OpenText
    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
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    OpenText
    Support has been reliable up to this point. A request can easily be generated via the console and support responding in a reasonable time. We have not had any major issues other than the basic agents not communicating with the console and the like.
    Incentivized
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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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    OpenText
    I had some difficulties with remote users. I ended up needing to open a remote tech support session and finish the process. Other than a few speed bumps, I was impressed with the engineering of the install. Because of time differences, I was done installing in two days. The cost, per license, could be less.
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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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    OpenText
    Webroot is good in a way that it is an all encompassing solution one stop shop for protecting endpoints but it needs to be managed and licensed. Some users do not need constant protection or need to have it on their machines in where the combination of Field Effect and Malwarebytes is more effective.
    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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    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    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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    OpenText
    • The DNS filtering allows for a very granular configuration of endpoints
    • The cost to benefit ratio is good. It is not a real EDR player yet, but the development looks promising
    • Its best feature is integration with our MSP software, providing actionable tickets.
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Screenshots

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