Best for your endpoints protection
September 20, 2023

Best for your endpoints protection

Rahul Deshmukh | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

We were looking for protection of remote users endpoints due to malware and virus propagation. We were interested more towards Cloud based solution. Hence we evaluated Microsoft Defender for Endpoint for endpoint. Our decision helped in cost reduction by 10% and efforts almost zero for implementation. We have a hybrid environment which had to be protected from threats
  • Integration with MS sentinel
  • Advanced threat protection
  • Analytics and reports
  • Need integration with non MS SIEM and SOAR
  • Efficacy
  • Customisation of reports
  • Increased ROI
  • Helped reduce efforts
  • Open model helped in reduction of capital investment
  • Cloud Solutions
  • Scalability
  • Ease of Use
We have many microsoft solutions hence we were interested more in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. Service in resolving issues is quick. Apart from this, we were explained by Microsoft sales that cost savings would be around 30℅ and MTTD would be reduced by 50% than we have presently. We did PoC and we found Microsoft Defender for Endpoint useful.
Anti malware - we are able to detect all types of malware, signature and non-signature based. Dashboard - We are able to customize dashboard as per the technical requirements and for CxOs needs. It is also easy to view compliance status and act on non-complying assets. This has helped us during audits
In our environment we have all together 1000 windows servers and laptops around. We are We have planning to deploy on Android too for enabling our employees to do office work from mobile phone as well. Our future growth may add another 2000 endpoints. Thus we are looking at 4000-5000 endpoints in all to be monitored by Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is east to deploy, hence safed lot of efforts in implementation and management. When I evaluated CrowdStrike I found that not all threats are identified in it, which was a matter of concern for us. We also had issues with configuration and troubleshooting. In Trend Micro we could find many threats but ease of configuration is better in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.

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

It is well suited for remote users and when integrated with siem, it is effective in practice threat protection. If you want to protect non MS systems like Google infra, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint may not suit your requirement. We had issues with integration of non-microsoft log sources as we had many applications to be monitored

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Feature Ratings

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