Microsoft Defender for Endpoint vs. Venn Software

I think Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is very good in the federal space that I work in because when you deal with these highly regulated environments, anything that you have outside of the Microsoft ecosystem, you have the justified documented company. There's a lot of work and a high level of effort involved in that. So what it's really good at is that it's all encompassed into Microsoft. It's built in, it works really well together. So that's why it's my recommendation whenever we deal with customers that are in my field.

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Venn is suitable if you are considering to transition to remote work. It's security features are reliable, and although live support is not 24/7, the reponse time is timely and accurate.

• I think from a scalability perspective, it’s incredible. It fits very well with our Azure stack, and we’re constantly adopting more and more different Microsoft products. But I think the key thing is ease of use. Its scalability, and it’s just that, enterprise-wise and in terms of control, we can actually centralize it as well.

• Personal Privacy Assurance
• Compliance Dashboard with comprehensive audit trail
• Shield against active malwares
• All data are encrypted
• Data leakage and loss prevention

• I feel like the vulnerability management side of things is really great. I would like maybe more custom risk scores from that. It gives us our highs and criticals. Proof of concept exploits would be great so we can really assess the risk. It already does a lot of that, though. It gives us that tag. But maybe making it more GUI-friendly, more visibly friendly, could be something I feel like they could work on. The portal, too, I find, is a little hard to navigate sometimes. There seem to be hidden webpages within webpages. One thing off the top of my head is the IPs. They have the IP pages, but you have to click through four or five different subpages to get there. So I feel like maybe redoing the navigation in the portal would be very helpful.

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• Integration
• Live Support

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

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It's good, but as I said, it does get a little confusing sometimes when you're trying to remediate, when you're trying to put all your alerts together, and trying to get everything in the same place. It's a little, I guess, what we call alert fatigue. There are a lot of alerts on it as well.

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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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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is easy on memory and resources on clients.

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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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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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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.

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Venn Software delivers better result and mcuh cheaper as compared to the traditional VDI.

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is easily scaled from small orgs to giant enterprises.

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• Another positive impact is that Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is built into the Windows OS. So naturally, it is much easier to load it out and manage it, rather than acquiring it through party ER, deploying it, and managing it separately. So that's definitely on the positive side that we observe there's a byproduct of changing Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.

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• Reduced company cost by approx. 20%
• Higher retention rate as majority of employees preferred to work remotely