Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Review
May 05, 2025

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Review

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Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

We use it to monitor endpoint devices to make sure that they are staying secure, so it solves the problem of separate security, just keeping our end users protected.

Pros

  • Lots of many different things it does well, but most recent passwords sprays. It's identified that for us so that we can see what's going on in our environment in regards to our users and the passwords and getting hit by outside attackers.

Cons

  • It's hard to dig into the details of what the actual problem is. You have to go in several layers to get to it. It would be nice if there was an ability to have just a summary created similar to what copilot security does.
  • Overall, I think the streamlining of being able to see everything in one pane of glass for our security folks so that they can adjust and figure out what the problem is, quickly.
I think it has room for improvement, but as most things do, it needs to get some more automation involved in it so end user doesn't have to do so much work on it.
  • Other
Really the important decision factor was the fact that it ties into all the Microsoft ecosystem so that we were able to pull the data from all of our endpoints, which are Microsoft products, so it's really just a holistic product for us and that's what really sold us on it.
We're using the virus protection that it offers. We're using the identity portion of Defender Endpoint.
It's on about 2000 devices. That's our faculty staff devices. The majority of those are Windows, but definitely have Linux servers and Macs and window servers involved in that.
We have not used anything else other than Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. Maybe we've used other antivirus software like Sophos and things like that. They're just not all encompassing and that's why we moved to use this product.

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

Well suited is, I think any environment that you're looking to do cybersecurity. I'm not sure there's any that it would be ill suited for, but it's definitely better suited for a Microsoft environment versus a Google Cloud environment.

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Feature Ratings

Endpoint Security
Not Rated
Anti-Exploit Technology
Not Rated
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
Not Rated
Centralized Management
Not Rated
Infection Remediation
Not Rated
Vulnerability Management
Not Rated
Malware Detection
Not Rated

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