Defend a lot more than Endpoints.
August 29, 2023
Defend a lot more than Endpoints.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint performs well when using to protect endpoints (PCs, laptops, and servers) from various threats like malware, viruses, and advanced attacks. Scalability is always a challenge in any organization. With Defender for Endpoint we can define the policy and configure setting to match our business needs. Defender for Endpoint has features such as data protection and threat intelligence that bring awareness and risk reduction by analyzing events in our environment.
- Threat intelligence.
- Data Protection.
- Protection against Security Threats.
- More training and simulation for an end user.
- More advanced threat-hunting UI overhaul. A lot of the features are nested in multiple menus and side panes.
- Executive Reports and Summaries of Windows Timeline.
- Brand Reputation is critical and priceless, and Defender for Endpoint helps to empower incident response to mitigate thousands of threats.
- Millions of phishing emails are prevented, and those that are detected get detonated and analyzed.
- Billions of events occur in a business environment, and the cost of log storage and analysis is reduced with Defender for Endpoint.
- Cloud Solutions
- Scalability
- Integration with Other Systems
- Ease of Use
Having a business environment that has Windows as their primary OS for users makes a decision to use Defender for Endpoint easy. You want the user base and customers to be protected and have features well worth the subscription prices and licensing. Cost and integration are key to adding a solution like Defender for Endpoint into your business.
Reporting and analysis are good features for incident response. Digging through one’s events per device can be taxing. Being able to condense and speak on security events is important. We used these features to streamline summaries and showcase scenarios for tabletop exercises. Many of our partners have come to learn how to use Defender for Endpoint over time, and we like to explore what features we can leverage, like analytics.
The amount of endpoints varies for each organization, but typically, the medium business will have around 1,000 but under 15,000 endpoints to protect. These endpoints range from a variety of OS, but many of the numbers are windows devices. For the minority of numbers they are linux specific devices.
Integration is what makes Defender for Endpoint stand out. With Microsoft 365, Azure AD, Security Graph, Intine, there are a sleuth of services that Defender for Endpoint can work with all within the Windows ecosystem. The other products are also good but do require additional configurations to set up and validate in your environments.
Do you think Microsoft Defender for Endpoint delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint's feature set?
Yes
Did Microsoft Defender for Endpoint live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Microsoft Defender for Endpoint again?
Yes