We compared Trend Micro Deep Security and Cisco Secure Workload based on our users' reviews in six categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: Trend Micro Deep Security is praised for its extensive security features, virtual patching, stability, and scalability. However, it is criticized for its complexity, outdated design, high cost, and the need for better integration and technical support. On the other hand, Cisco Secure Workload is known for being user-friendly, with a well-designed UI and GUI, and provides a complete solution. It also receives praise for its stability and helpful technical support. However, it is criticized for its integration, complexity, and controversial changes in data storage.
"The product provides multiple-device integration."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that we don't have to do packet captures on the network."
"The most valuable feature is micro-segmentation, which is the most important with respect to visibility."
"The product offers great visibility into the network so we can enforce security measures."
"A complete and powerful micro-segmentation solution."
"Instead of proving that all the access control lists are in place and all the EPGs are correct, we can just point the auditor to a dashboard and point out that there aren't any escaped conversations. It saves an enormous, enormous amount of time."
"Generally speaking, Cisco support is considered one of the best in the networking products and stack."
"The solution offers 100% telemetry coverage. The telemetry you collect is not sampled, it's not intermittent. It's complete. You see everything in it, including full visibility of all activities on your endpoints and in your network."
"Automated virtual patching is a good feature."
"The initial setup was straightforward and we didn't have any problem with it."
"It serves its purpose and works well."
"One of the most valuable features is that it's a firewall-based solution. We just open the required reports to the server—to server communication—and that's how we use Deep Security."
"We use the solution to detect malicious threats, secure the endpoints, and disable the UFT."
"The performance is good."
"The most valuable feature is the virtual patching."
"The integration and configuration of this product in our AWS environment was good. We haven't had any problems at all."
"The multi-tenancy, redundancy, backup and restore functionalities, as well as the monitoring aspects of the solution, need improvement. The solution offers virtually no enterprise-grade possibility for monitoring."
"The emailed notifications are either hard to find or they are not available. Search capabilities can be improved."
"The product must be integrated with the cloud."
"It is not so easy to use and configure. It needs a bunch of further resources to work, which is mainly the biggest downside of it. The deployment is huge."
"There was a controversy when Cisco reduced the amount of data they kept, and the solution became quite cost-intensive, which made its adoption challenging….Although they have modified it now, I preferred the previous version, and I wish all the functionality were back under the same product."
"The interface is really helpful for technical people, but it is not user-friendly."
"It is highly scalable, but there is a limitation that it is only available on Cisco devices."
"They should scale down the hardware a bit. The initial hardware investment is two million dollars so it's a price point problem. The issue with the price comes from the fact that you have to have it with enormous storage and enormous computes."
"When implementing this solution, sometimes we have challenges with SQL migration."
"A minor issue in Trend Micro Deep Security is that once the tool is upgraded, it shows some machines as offline or not reported while showing a recent update as outdated. The tool has some server connection issues."
"The support for email protection can be improved."
"Trend Micro Deep Security security and scalability could be improved."
"We'd like to see extended capacity in the on-premises versions."
"Post-implementation is time-consuming. You have to do monitoring, and that takes time. After you set up everything, it's not a full-fledged implementation. You have to keep on monitoring and configuring."
"I've not worked with CrowdStrike Falcon, but one of our customers also had CrowdStrike Falcon on some of the devices. I was only supporting Trend Micro. They had a ransomware attack, but Trend Micro didn't detect that particular ransomware attack, whereas CrowdStrike did."
"Another issue is if I want to suggest this solution to a customer, we won't get the pricing immediately, which is a major problem."
Cisco Secure Workload is ranked 9th in Cloud and Data Center Security with 13 reviews while Trend Micro Deep Security is ranked 6th in Cloud and Data Center Security with 81 reviews. Cisco Secure Workload is rated 8.4, while Trend Micro Deep Security is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Workload writes "A solution that provides good technical support but its high cost makes it challenging for users to adopt it". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Trend Micro Deep Security writes "High availability, effective VPM, and responsive support". Cisco Secure Workload is most compared with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, Illumio, VMware NSX, Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks and Microsoft Defender for Cloud, whereas Trend Micro Deep Security is most compared with Trend Vision One Endpoint Security, CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Symantec Endpoint Security and Trellix Endpoint Security. See our Cisco Secure Workload vs. Trend Micro Deep Security report.
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