We performed a comparison between Microsoft Defender XDR and Symantec XDR based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Wazuh and others in Extended Detection and Response (XDR)."From the perspective of Microsoft 365 XDR, the main benefit is a single, centralized dashboard offering the holistic visibility organizations crave."
"The attack simulation is excellent; initially, this feature wasn't very robust, but Microsoft improved what we could achieve with it. We can now customize our practice phishing emails and include our company logo, for example. Attack simulation also helps integrate with third-party solutions where applicable and provides an overview of our security architecture through testing. The summary includes areas for improvement in our protection and what steps we need to take to get there."
"The visibility into threats is also very impressive because Microsoft helps you predict things and provides analytics to help you really improve your security. And all of this technology works across the domain, so it is pretty helpful in terms of threat analytics."
"The incident threat response and its ability to facilitate effective remediation against threats are the standout features."
"The summarization of emails is a valuable feature."
"The integration between all the Defender products is the most valuable feature."
"The integration, visibility, vulnerability management, and device identification are valuable."
"It has great stability."
"You can advise the solution and protect your environment."
"The message trace feature for investigating mail flow issues should add more detailed information to the summary report... if they could extend the summary report a little bit, make it more descriptive, ordinary administrators could understand what happened and that the emails failed at this or that point. That way they would know the location to go to try to correct it and to prevent it from occurring again."
"A simple dashboard without having to use MS Sentinel would be a welcome improvement."
"When discussing the secure score, which includes overviews and recommended actions, some of these recommended actions are not applicable to us, particularly those related to Microsoft Internet Explorer, which we do not use in any of our environments."
"The dashboard should be easier to use. There is also improvement needed in the reporting when it comes to exporting or scheduling reports."
"The abundance of sub-dashboards and sub-areas within the main dashboard can be confusing, even if it all technically makes sense."
"The support from Microsoft could improve. There are times I have to wait for a response from a qualified specialist."
"Advanced attacks could use an improvement."
"The web filtering solution needs to be improved because currently, it is very simple."
"The solution should have better reporting."
Microsoft Defender XDR is ranked 5th in Extended Detection and Response (XDR) with 78 reviews while Symantec XDR is ranked 26th in Extended Detection and Response (XDR) with 1 review. Microsoft Defender XDR is rated 8.4, while Symantec XDR is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Defender XDR writes "Includes four services and four products, which can help organizations a lot". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec XDR writes "A scalable and stable solution with straightforward deployment". Microsoft Defender XDR is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager, Wazuh and Trend Vision One, whereas Symantec XDR is most compared with Wazuh.
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