We performed a comparison between Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, SentinelOne, ESET and others in Anti-Malware Tools."The malware feature is most valuable."
"We can run the virus scan across our entire environment."
"The most important and the most relevant features of Defender for Endpoint are the malware and ransomware protection."
"I like the process visibility. This ability to visualize how something was executed is valuable, and the fact that Defender ATP is also linked to the threat intelligence that they have is also valuable. So, even if you have something that doesn't have a conventional signature, the fact that you get this strange execution means that you can detect things that are normally not visible."
"The patch management is very easy, as it can be done automatically or added to a schedule."
"The solution is highly scalable."
"This solution definitely increases our security posture. When you are reviewing your existing fleet or endpoints and based on the configuration that you put out of your Defender for Endpoint, you then receive a security score from Microsoft. Depending on what rules you have configured, what policies you have deployed, and what attack surface reduction rules that you have set up and deployed, it is almost gamifying information security in the sense that you are always trying to achieve a higher score. The more hardening you perform on your endpoints, the better score you receive. This generally tends to give you a better peace of mind, but also makes you secure at the same time."
"It's absolutely free to use."
"The threat hunting service is very useful for a security professional."
"The configuration needs improvement."
"On the Mac OS platform, there is no parity between Windows and Mac OS. The solution is very feature-rich and very well-integrated into Windows, and I guess baked into Windows 10 and Windows 11. Whereas, on the Mac OS platform, there is still some work there to give it a more feature-reach platform."
"I would just like them to have more consistency, and that's a comment that's across the board with Microsoft. They change things a lot."
"I would like to see improvement from a management perspective. We have had to depend on Intune for certain tasks."
"Some of the integrations that Defender should include involve the use of the web app."
"Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is not as robust, and you cannot customize it much, so that's a challenge."
"I wish they would extend the use of the Security Central portal, even for the free option of Defender. Because, as companies grow, it is labor intensive to manage the AV and detection part of it. For companies already subscribed to Office 365, I think this would be a good enhancement."
"The user interface could use some improvement."
"I would like to be able to set up any kind of protection I want in the firewall, any IP address or any number."
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Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office is ranked 32nd in Anti-Malware Tools with 1 review while Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is ranked 1st in Anti-Malware Tools with 182 reviews. Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office is rated 8.0, while Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office writes "Malware feature is valuable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint writes "Eliminates the need to look at multiple dashboards by automatically providing one XDR dashboard to show the security score of each subscription". Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office is most compared with , whereas Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is most compared with Symantec Endpoint Security, Intercept X Endpoint, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, CrowdStrike Falcon and Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks.
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