Microsoft 365 Defender saves time and headaches.
September 22, 2023

Microsoft 365 Defender saves time and headaches.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft 365 Defender

Our main use of Microsoft 365 Defender is to help protect our large user base of varying knowledge levels. Mostly helping our exchange servers protect all our users / clients with email. It proactively helps protect our organization and users for various threats by filtering and automatically and seamlessly from malicious messages and actors trying to infiltrate or gain information or access to users accounts.

Pros

  • Filtering Messages
  • Detecting Spam
  • Detecting Phishing

Cons

  • Steep learning curve
  • Not always intuitive
  • Redundancy in some areas
  • Help mitigate attacks
  • Proactively filter messages
  • Save our users time by reducing junk in their inboxes
Learning how to implement and getting started with and how to integrate this tool box into our existing network. Going over the documentation to determine the scope or what this amazing box of tools can do and how to set it up correctly so it can save us time with the automatic monitoring.
Yes! It has took some time to get set up correctly and often times to maintain. But overall has decreased the teams time doing to responding to "busy work."
Yes! It's easy to relatively easy to setup and helps our team stay informed and on top of various malicious messages and attacks. It's data sets are easy to interpret which helps us identify and pivot our attention on specific instances or if it may be a larger scope of an issue.
Not at the moment, but we have discussed and talked about doing such things. One step at a time, and we try to understand and learn how to use Microsoft 365 Defender correctly and efficiently before we implement various other tools and software to try and keep our small team from not being overwhelmed.
We use Microsoft products and have a large group of users. It works easily with our system. There is a great deal of knowledge base out there, often a little overwhelming. But we feel it's the best tool for our network to use parallel to the rest of our back-end.

Do you think Microsoft Defender XDR delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Microsoft Defender XDR's feature set?

Yes

Did Microsoft Defender XDR live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Microsoft Defender XDR go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Microsoft Defender XDR again?

Yes

If you have a large organization with various users with many different skill levels. This is often a great line of defense to help address and mitigate users from accidentally opening and giving malicious actors the information they seek. Due to large scope and learning or all the various tools, I think this works best for a large organization as oppose to a small or individual use.

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