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."I value how Threat Intelligence integrates with the different platforms in Microsoft."
"The most valuable aspects are its integration capabilities with other Microsoft products like Intune, Office 365, and Azure cloud applications."
"The product's anti-spam and malware-scanning features are useful. We scan email attachments, documents, and malicious codes."
"The technical support services are excellent."
"The product is useful when the end user downloads malware files."
"The product provides efficient email security for sending links and file attachments."
"It is very scalable. There are approximately 2,000 endpoints and up to 200 servers in our company."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the insight it provides."
"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."
"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."
"Technical support could be a bit better."
"The tool's onboarding of users that use on-premise or hybrid environments needs to be improved."
"Microsoft itself is a major target for attacks and threats due to its size and popularity. That could be considered Microsoft's Achilles heel."
"The software is expensive."
"A stable licensing model is absent"
"The product's dashboard and incident reports functionality needs enhancement."
"The price could be improved."
"Having up-to-date documentation and real-time reflections in all portals would be beneficial to keep users informed about any changes. Additionally, the frequent changes in Microsoft's UI and the movement of features between different products in the set pose difficulties."
"VirusTotal has predefined reports, but there is a lot of manual effort involved."
"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."
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Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence is ranked 3rd in Threat Intelligence Platforms with 27 reviews while VirusTotal is ranked 6th 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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