We performed a comparison between Microsoft Defender XDR and Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Microsoft Security Suite solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It has great stability."
"The product integrates security into one tool instead of having third-party security tools."
"The most valuable feature is the DLP because that's where we can have an added data protection layer and extend it not just to emails but to the documents that users are working on. We can make sure that sensitive data is tagged and flagged if unauthorized parties are using it."
"The best feature is probably the alert generation. When I do a security reset, the other session triggers instantly from the Defender console, and I can work on it. The policies are three times, but they are also ready to install it."
"In Microsoft 365 vendor products, monitoring and connectivity across all Microsoft and third-party connectors enable viewing of all activity within those environments."
"The most valuable feature is the network security."
"I like how Microsoft XDR and the other Microsoft products are integrated into a single unified security stack covering identity access management, endpoint protection, email, cloud applications, etc."
"The product is very easy to use."
"Purview delivers data protection across multi-cloud and multi-platform environments."
"We move data between clouds and also from on-premises to the cloud. There is no other mechanism to check if this data is moving according to industry standards for such things as security, bandwidth, and SSL encryption mechanism. We would not be able to see these metrics without Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager."
"We have more visibility of data and how it is being shared."
"The licensing is a nightmare and has room for improvement."
"This solution could be improved if it included features such as those offered by Malwarebytes."
"Microsoft 365 Defender does not have a unique package with emerging endpoint security technologies, such as EDR and XDR."
"The Defender agent itself is more compatible with Windows 10 and Windows 11. Other than these two lines, there are so many compatibility issues. Security is not only about Microsoft. The core technical aspects of it are quite good, but it would be good if they can better support non-Microsoft solutions in terms of putting the agents directly into VMware and other virtualization solutions. There should be more emphasis on RHEL and other operating systems that we use, other than Windows, in the server category."
"The capability to not only thwart attacks but also to adapt to evolving threats is crucial."
"There are still some components, such as vulnerability management within the vendor product, where improved integration would be beneficial."
"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."
"I personally have not seen much evidence of how Defender can enhance the story of zero trust for enterprises."
"We've had issues with data connectors for Teams."
"One area for improvement is the technical support for Purview. With all the other solutions from Microsoft we get really good technical support, but with Purview we had a compliance error and we couldn't find the solution. Purview would not point us to the correct solution, it just indicated the error. We had to troubleshoot it and find out what led to this error. We contacted technical support but it took them one week to identify the root cause of the error."
"We'd like to see the solution expanded to include firewalls and endpoints."
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Microsoft Defender XDR is ranked 1st in Microsoft Security Suite with 80 reviews while Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager is ranked 22nd in Microsoft Security Suite with 3 reviews. Microsoft Defender XDR is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager is rated 9.4. 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 Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager writes "Really good encryption mechanism prevents man-in-the-middle and other types of attacks". Microsoft Defender XDR is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Wazuh, Trend Vision One and Microsoft Sentinel, whereas Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager is most compared with Microsoft Purview Data Governance, Vanta, OneTrust DataGovernance, Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Microsoft Entra ID Protection. See our Microsoft Defender XDR vs. Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager report.
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