We compared McAfee MOVE AntiVirus and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint based on our users' reviews in several parameters.
Users find McAfee MOVE AntiVirus quick to deploy with effective threat detection yet is resource-intensive and in need of interface improvements. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint excels in customer service, ease of use, and efficiency, but users desire better system performance and threat detection. Pricing, deployment speed, and licensing are key factors in user satisfaction with both products.
Features: McAfee MOVE AntiVirus is praised for its high detection rate, ease of deployment, minimal impact on performance, and centralized management console. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint stands out for its robust security measures, efficient threat detection, seamless integration, user-friendly interface, and effective management tools.
Pricing and ROI: McAfee MOVE AntiVirus setup costs are considered minimal and straightforward, proving flexibility in licensing for efficient device management. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint offers competitive pricing with reasonable setup costs and user-friendly licensing processes. McAfee MOVE AntiVirus shows positive ROI with a strong cybersecurity defense impact. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint also proves valuable with positive user outcomes and benefits.
Room for Improvement: McAfee MOVE AntiVirus may require optimization for system performance, simpler interface, competitive pricing, and more accurate threat detection. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint could enhance system performance, user interface, and threat detection capabilities.
Deployment and customer support: Users note that McAfee MOVE AntiVirus is quick and easy to deploy, set up, and implement, requiring minimal time. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint indicates varied durations, with some users spending months on deployment and configuration. McAfee MOVE AntiVirus lacks satisfactory customer service, with slow response times and unhelpful representatives. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint excels in customer service, praised for prompt and effective assistance from knowledgeable and responsive support teams.
The summary above is based on 213 interviews we conducted recently with McAfee MOVE AntiVirus and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"he initial setup is simple."
"It protects the system from viruses and hacking."
"The solution works well for endpoint security."
"The most valuable feature is the protection we have had over the years."
"McAfee MOVE AntiVirus is easy to use."
"MOVE AntiVirus's best feature is its ease of use."
"The technical support is good. They are fast to respond and they have weekend support."
"I have found the McAfee MOVE AntiVirus scalable."
"Offers good protection."
"In terms of the installation, ease of use, and user interface, Defender has been great so far."
"The solution is highly scalable."
"Its threat intelligence feature is beneficial. This solution smoothly integrates with SIEM."
"Its simplicity is the most valuable. It also has very good integration. We like it."
"The integration of Defender, Security Center, and the Microsoft compliance score, is the feature we use most to share the results with our clients and to create a roadmap together."
"Its real-time security is the most valuable."
"It doesn't cause the slowness of the system, which is one of the reasons why I like it."
"I would like to see integration with SharePoint."
"I found that the interface is a little bit confusing. It's over-stuffed. If a new IT person comes in, it is difficult to understand how the McAfee console works."
"The interface is not so easy to use and could be improved."
"It would be very helpful if a significant reduction in overhead could be brought about."
"It uses a lot of your bandwidth and your memory."
"Scanning times could be reduced."
"McAfee MOVE AntiVirus blocks ports and applications that we need to use."
"I would like to see MOVE include zero-trust functionality."
"Microsoft Defender for Endpoint should include better automation that will make it faster to detect the latest threats happening across the world."
"Defender is free for one year. Once that year is over, we will switch to Kaspersky."
"Its user interface (UI) can be improved. Currently, in the console, you have to dig down for certain things. They've got many different layers to get to things instead of having it all on the surface. You have to go three folds lower to get to specific functionality or click a particular option. It would be good if we can manage the console through menus and instead of three clicks, we can do things in one click. They need to change the UI and work on it in terms of a better user experience."
"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."
"With the XDR dashboard, when you're doing an investigation and you're drilling down to obtain further details it tends to open many different tabs that take you away from your main tabs. You can end up having 10 tabs open for one investigation. This is another area for improvement because you can end up getting lost in the multiple tabs. Therefore, the central console can be improved so that it does not take you to several different pages for each investigation."
"Right now, there's a portal for Azure, portals for Microsoft Office, and portals for endpoints. It would be good to have only one portal and integrate everything."
"It is not very scalable from the eyes of an MSP because there is no dashboard that you can use to see all of your devices that have Windows Defender unless you have your own dashboard or an RMM tool to actually look at it. So, you might not get to know that a particular computer of a client is doing something, and it might have got a virus. That person might know that, but unless you set it up to actually send you the information, you won't get to know that. That's one of the things that is hard with Microsoft Defender. It is not made for the MSP world where you have one pane of glass to see all of your clients with Microsoft Defender on it unless your RMM tool already has that built-in and it can see the telemetry from Microsoft Defender."
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McAfee MOVE AntiVirus is ranked 13th in Anti-Malware Tools with 79 reviews while Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is ranked 1st in Anti-Malware Tools with 182 reviews. McAfee MOVE AntiVirus is rated 8.0, while Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of McAfee MOVE AntiVirus writes "Centralized system, less stress on the network and runs smoothly". 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". McAfee MOVE AntiVirus is most compared with Quick Heal Total Security, Trend Micro Deep Security, CrowdStrike Falcon, VMware NSX and Total Defense Anti-Virus, 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. See our McAfee MOVE AntiVirus vs. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint report.
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