One stop shop for endpoint protection
Updated June 04, 2024

One stop shop for endpoint protection

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

We use Microsoft Defender for Endpoint as our primary AV and firewall solutions for both our Windows and Mac enviornments as well as our Windows Servers. In addition, the other primary use case the product solves for us is blocking the use of usb devices and external storage devices from being plugged into our endpoints.

Pros

  • Blocking USB and External Media
  • Vulnerability Reporting
  • Proactive Alerting

Cons

  • Lots of upfront configuration necessary
  • Tons of configuration options
  • Hard to deploy to Macs
  • Incared Vulnerability Remediation
  • More time spent doing configuration changes
  • Cheaper than compeitiors
  • Cloud Solutions
  • Scalability
The biggest factors for us revolved around the need to have a product that was compatible with both windows and mac endpoints. In addition, we wanted a tool that provided more than just traditional AV scanning and gave us more vulnerability reporting as well as security recommendations. Finally, we wanted it to be cloud based as well.
We are using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint for traditional AV scanning on all of our endpoints as well as proactive detection. In addition, we are using the USB control feature to prevent unauthorized usb storage devices from connecting to our endpoints. Finally we are using the vulnerability scanning feature to remediate security vulnerabilities on our endpoints.
We are protection 250 endpoints. It is a mix of Windows, Windows Server and MacOS
We ended up going with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint as it came with the biggest breadth of offerings compared to the other solutions we reviewed. With a lot of the other potential solutions we felt like we would of needed to augment them to get the value we would get out of defender. Some solutions could not do things such as block usbs, etc.

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

I think Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is well suited for a Microsoft Enviornment that has is committed to the WIndows\Office suite of products as it easily integrates and deploys in that type of environment. In a mixed or primarily mac environment it does not have the complete integration that one may want and is hard to deploy through a MAC mdm such as Jamf.

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Feature Ratings

Endpoint Security
7.5
Anti-Exploit Technology
6
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
7
Centralized Management
7
Infection Remediation
8
Vulnerability Management
9
Malware Detection
8

Using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

225 - The represent all business functions. Everyone from IT, HR, Finance, Compliance, EAs, etc.
3 - Most of the users that are currently supporting Defender for Endpoint are a combination of Helpdesk Employees and Security professionals. A lot of the skills they have relate to things such as automated software deployment, application troubleshooting, as well as SOC experience.
  • Anti Virus
  • EDR
  • Vulnerability Scanning
  • Using it to help with our patch management by looking at vulnerabilities
  • Integrating it with identity protection
  • Isolate devices when there are events
  • Integrate other security products with defender for endpoint such as a SIEM
  • Roll out the Cloud Apps options and configure our SaaS apps to enable file monitoringImp
  • Roll out more attach simulation training
Overall we have had a good experience with Defender and we know that it is a very powerful products and we could be doing even more with it. We are looking to spend the time to really sit down and go into each different offering within the product and configure it to get the best value for our company.

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