Good enough, if you've already paid for a license anyway.
September 19, 2023
Good enough, if you've already paid for a license anyway.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
All Windows endpoints need some kind of antivirus to survive in the wild and while we generally use alternative software and likely always will, on low importance systems that just need something for the sake of compliance, where a license is already paid and available as part of a Microsoft 365 package, it is viable.
- Meets compliance requirements.
- In my experience, 0 Day detection and remediation.
- In my opinion, configuration is convoluted. In my experience, it pretends to be more complicated and advanced than it is.
- In my opinion, No meaningful ROI.
- Other
It comes with various MS subscriptions, so no reason not to use it if you effectively have it free. In my opinion, I would never pay money for it though.
Using it for AV, we don't use its EDR directly as we use Huntress on all devices, which handles that aspect. It does occasionally notify us of know exploits automatically, but we have other means of monitoring that anyway.
We are only protecting about 40 devices with it, some Windows server, some desktop, all low priority systems, like trial devices, endpoints for testing and so on. We only use the licenses at all because they are included with other licenses we have.
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?
No
Did implementation of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint go as expected?
No
Would you buy Microsoft Defender for Endpoint again?
No