Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Review
September 13, 2023
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Review
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
It's part of a daily tasks that I do with my IT security job at my work. So just watching, monitoring, using it to check for vulnerabilities or alerts for people that have clicked on malicious links or malicious emails or things of that nature.
- I really enjoy the level that we get with our licensing for the timeline on devices, being able to see what happened when it happened down to the millisecond to know exactly what happened when someone clicked something, did something bad, installed something bad, or whichever. And the alert monitoring is really useful for sending emails whenever there's anything that's remotely detected, even if it's a false positive.
- I'm having a hard time thinking of anything because we get all of the endpoint tools available to us with our licensing level and we use them as much as we need to. There are some that we're still kind of figuring out that we should be using more of. So I can't think of anything right now.
- Positive is it's been very good for helping us to monitor and manage anything that's happening with anyone that gets a malicious email or does something malicious or a device compromised in some way. Only negative was back on January 13th, there was a issue with a bad patch that was released for Defender that caused shortcut files on all of our machines to start to disappear.
- Other
Dropping McAfee because we weren't as happy with it and we were paying for that on top of what we were already getting with Microsoft, so we were able to save on cost.
About all of them that I can think of. We're picking up on some more of the ones that we didn't necessarily know about or some of the enhanced monitoring alerting and things that have come more available.
We have about 6,000 Windows endpoints and then approximately 700 iOS devices and I think about 20 Android devices. We're securing Windows 10. Windows 11, windows Server, iOS, and Android.
Before we switched to using Endpoint, we were using McAfee and we weren't getting the most use out of that, weren't super happy with it, and so we switched, got rid of that and switched to just using all the endpoint features.
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?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Microsoft Defender for Endpoint again?
Yes