Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (formerly Microsoft Defender ATP)
MDE is Microsoft's latest cybersecurity tool which takes a holistic approach to protect my organization from known and zero-day threats. I love the fact that I don't need to stitch together a diverse solution to increase my organization's security posture. I only have to use one login to manage my dashboard. MDE is compatible with all endpoints in my organization. I have macOS, iOS, Windows server, Windows 10, and Ubuntu Linux on-boarded. It is an EDR, XDR that is mapped against the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
- Compatible with macOS, iOS, Android, Windows Server, Windows 10 and Linux
- It runs natively on Windows it is not a bolted on solution. Once you have the correct license it is easy enough to light up the application to protect the endpoint
- Integrated with Microsoft Intune
- It is designed to detect and remediate adversary tactics from the MITRE knowledge base.
- Microsoft analyzes billions of signals daily to detect attacks against O365 tenants these same signals are fed into ML to further fine-tune MDE. How many other solutions out there will have access to this vast amount of data to analyze to train their ML?
- Automated detection and remediation of threats with a graphical timeline view of how the treat got into the device and was stopped
- It has its own vulnerability scanner to feed data into the dashboard so you can see daily which endpoints need to be patch first based on its value
- It comes with an advanced hunting tool using the kusto query language to search your tenant for threats
- It can keep 180 days of log data
- From one bundled license I can protect Exchange online email, Sharepoint, Microsoft Teams, One Drive, Azure identities, AD, endpoints
- Web filtering on the macOS it not available yet
- They recently made it easier to on-board macOS endpoints using Microsoft Intune by deploying it as an app. It used to take a lot of more configuration profiles to set up. For older macOS Sierra using the older extensions it will still require the multiple steps to on-board to MDE
- They need to integrate Microsoft Cloud app into the new dashboard of MDE
- Reduce the memory overhead of the mdatp agent running on Linux
- Holistic cybersecurity tool
- Compatibility with all of my OS
- It is like having my own SOC for my small organization
- You will have to move up to Microsoft 365 E5
- You can get rid of other 3rd party security tools and just use the Microsoft ecosystem
MDE is a complete solution from one vendor.
Do you think Microsoft Defender for Endpoint delivers good value for the price?
Not sure
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
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Feature Ratings
Evaluating Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (formerly Microsoft Defender ATP) and Competitors
Yes - I was using Avast Business edition to protect my macOS endpoints. I decided to go with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint to get deeper protection. I don't like the idea of having to log in to different portals to manage my endpoint protection.
- Product Features
- Product Reputation
The cross-platform solution providing protection to all of the operating systems we used at work.
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (formerly Microsoft Defender ATP) Support
Pros | Cons |
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Quick Resolution Good followup Knowledgeable team Problems get solved Kept well informed No escalation required Immediate help available Support cares about my success Quick Initial Response | None |
No. Tech support through phone or email comes with Microsoft 365 E5 license.