We performed a comparison between Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence and VirusTotal based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Threat Intelligence Platforms solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the insight it provides."
"The tool is managed from the cloud, because of which the maintenance is very low."
"Offers easy integration with a cloud-based infrastructure"
"You can use it to monitor third parties and ensure they are not under threat attacks. It is beneficial in the GRC model."
"It just runs in the background. I don't have to worry about, making sure it's Intelligence. So, you know, this kind of makes it very easy, have to worry about installing. It is easy to use."
"I rate the tool's stability a ten out of ten."
"The product is useful when the end user downloads malware files."
"The solution is well integrated with other Microsoft security products."
"It can scan the dark web and find if an email ID has been compromised. This is another area that we have not explored yet."
"With VirusTotal, I can check for any hash, malware, file, domain, IP URL, or malicious URL, and Kaspersky stays clean."
"The most valuable feature is the worldwide malware information database."
"The product is easy to use with coding, such as Python or Java, via its API."
"One area that can be improved is reducing false positives."
"I would like for there to be extra confirmation that there aren't viruses. Even if the virus detection software is always running there could be hidden applications that are using the computer."
"A stable licensing model is absent"
"The stability of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Technical support could be a bit better."
"It's a bit complicated to manage because you have many dependencies of servers, many dependencies in queue, and so on. Entries or different endpoints, and you make different configuration topics for each one. So that's a major problem."
"It takes time for the support team to understand the issue, and they then respond with a delay at times, which causes a lot of trouble."
"I would like to see more AI features and capabilities."
"I would like to see an improved user interface and some automation."
"VirusTotal is hard to understand because you need to know Google Docs to create queries, and it doesn't have documentation for that."
"The platform could improve in the areas of endpoints and networks."
"VirusTotal has predefined reports, but there is a lot of manual effort involved."
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Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence is ranked 2nd in Threat Intelligence Platforms with 27 reviews while VirusTotal is ranked 5th in Threat Intelligence Platforms with 4 reviews. Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence is rated 8.4, while VirusTotal is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence writes "A tool that offers endpoint protection with low maintenance costs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VirusTotal writes " Helps businesses collect threat data while keeping privacy in mind and apable of detecting, blocking, and removing viruses and malware". Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence is most compared with Microsoft Sentinel, STAXX, Cisco Threat Grid, ThreatConnect Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) and Splunk Mission Control, whereas VirusTotal is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Cuckoo Sandbox, MetaDefender, Recorded Future and ReversingLabs. See our Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence vs. VirusTotal report.
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