We performed a comparison between ESET EDR/XDR and Wazuh 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)."The most valuable feature depends on the scenario. For compliance, I like Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Data Loss Prevention. Sentinel is the most helpful feature for security. 365 Defender helps us prioritize threats across an enterprise. It's a crucial feature for the managed services team."
"The integration between all the Defender products is the most valuable feature."
"The threat intelligence is excellent."
"The 'Incidents and Alerts' tab is a valuable feature where we can find triggered alerts."
"From the perspective of Microsoft 365 XDR, the main benefit is a single, centralized dashboard offering the holistic visibility organizations crave."
"It has been great for us. Previously, we didn't have a solution to protect us, especially from malware, whereas now, we are getting protection up front, especially from the malware attacks coming through emails or endpoints."
"Microsoft XDR's system of analysis and investigation is super convenient for our customers. It integrates with other Microsoft solutions like Defender for 365 to protect email traffic from malicious external web links and phishing."
"For me, the advanced hunting capabilities have been really great. It allowed querying the dataset with their own language, which is KQL or Kusto Query Language. That has allowed me to get much more insight into the events that have occurred. The whole power of 365 Defender is that you can get the whole story. It allows you to query an email-based activity and then correlate it with an endpoint-based activity."
"The solution is easy to use."
"It offers built-in modules for file integrity and vulnerability management."
"The log monitoring and analysis tools are great in addition to SIEM file activity monitoring."
"We use it to find any aberration in our endpoint devices. For example, if someone installs a game on their company laptop, Wazuh will detect it and inform us of the unauthorized software or unintended use of the devices provided by the company."
"Wazuh automatically scans the host for CIS benchmarks for the latest updates and vulnerabilities and gives a host score. It provides a percentage of perceived risk due to of non patches or any missing patches on that work."
"I find the PCI DSS feature the most valuable, along with the feature that monitors the compliance of Windows and the CIS benchmarks on other devices like Unix or Linux systems."
"The main thing I like about it is that it has an EDR."
"It has efficient SCA capabilities."
"Wazuh is free and easy to use. It is also adjustable, and we can use it on the cloud and on-premises."
"The cost can be high if you want to build custom license packages. Another area for improvement is the policies. In Azure, we need to implement policies in JSON format, but in 365 Defender 365, it would be helpful to use a different format so we can customize the platform."
"The support team is not competent or responsive."
"I would like more of the features in Defender for 365 to be included in the smaller licenses. Even if I buy a small license and don't need everything, security shouldn't be a question. Security is one of the main aspects of all projects from our side, so it would be nice to have more features in the smaller licenses."
"The patching capability should be there. Patching is something that you cannot do even though you see the vulnerabilities present in your environment. For patching, you have to depend on another solution."
"Automated playbooks and automated dashboards would be preferable to the way the data is currently being presented."
"The onboarding and offboarding need improvement. I work with other vendors as well, and they have an option to add a device or remove a device from the portal, whereas with Microsoft 365 Defender, we need to do that manually. However, once you do that, everything can be controlled through the portal, but getting the device onboarded and offboarded is currently manual. If we have an option to simply remove a device from the portal or get a device added from the portal, it would be more convenient. The rest of the features are similar. This is the only area where I found it different from others. I would also like to be able to simply filter with a few of the queries that are already there."
"Microsoft tends to provide too many features, which makes the solution prone to bugs."
"At times, there may be delays in the execution of certain actions and their effects."
"The solution could improve how it scours each website."
"Alerts should be specific rather than repeatedly triggered by integrating multiple factors. This issue needs improvement to create a more efficient alert system."
"Wazuh needs more security and features, particularly visualization features and a health monitor."
"The computing resources are consuming and do not make sense."
"One area where Wazuh could use some improvement is in its reporting mechanism, especially for high-level management like CSOs and CEOs."
"A lack of certain features creates limitations."
"The biggest part that's missing is threat intelligence. It isn't inbuilt, and if a sudden incident occurs, we don't get that feedback inside the SIEM tool. That's a big gap, I see. It would be better if we could get the threat intelligence feeds integrated with the SIEM tools. That would help us push value solutions to the clients in a big way."
"I think that the next release should be more suitable for large enterprises, because currently they are not because large companies do not rely on open source solutions."
"They could include flexibility and customization capabilities by modifying for customers based on partner agreements."
ESET EDR/XDR is ranked 33rd in Extended Detection and Response (XDR) with 1 review while Wazuh is ranked 3rd in Extended Detection and Response (XDR) with 38 reviews. ESET EDR/XDR is rated 0.0, while Wazuh is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of ESET EDR/XDR writes "An easy-to-use solution that could improve it’s website-scouring capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wazuh writes "It integrates seamlessly with AWS cloud-native services". ESET EDR/XDR is most compared with Bitdefender GravityZone EDR and Microsoft Entra ID, whereas Wazuh is most compared with Elastic Security, Security Onion, Splunk Enterprise Security, AlienVault OSSIM and Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks.
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