We performed a comparison between ESET EDR/XDR and Microsoft Defender 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)."Impressive detection capabilities"
"We have FortiEDR installed on all our systems. This protects them from any threats."
"The price is low and quite competitive with others."
"Fortinet FortiEDR made our clients feel secure and more at ease, knowing that they had an EDR solution that would close the gap in their security posture."
"The ease of deployment and configuration is valuable. It's very easy compared to other vendors like Sophos. Sophos' configuration is complex. Fortinet is a lot easier to understand. You don't need a lot of admin knowledge to do the configuration."
"The console is easy to read. I also like the scanning part and the ability to move assets from one to the other."
"Ability to get forensics details and also memory exfiltration."
"It notifies us if there's any suspicious file on any PC. If any execution or similar kind of thing is happening, it just alerts us. It doesn't only alert. It also blocks the execution until we allow it. We check whether the execution is legitimate or not, and then approve it or keep it blocked. This gives us a little bit of control over this mechanism. Fortinet FortiEDR is also very straightforward and easy to maintain."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The comprehensiveness of Microsoft's threat detection is good."
"I like 365 Defender's advanced threat hunting. The dashboard is user-friendly with templates for site policies, etc. The most important use case is evaluating the risk links and applications."
"I have found the ability to delete unwanted threats beneficial."
"The EDR and the way it automatically responds to ransomware and other attacks are valuable features."
"The advantage of Microsoft Defender XDR has over other XDRs in the market is that it's easy to use. You can quickly differentiate between alerts, incidents, devices, software, etc. It's easier to investigate an incident, and you have so many options. You can automate investigations and use playbooks. There's also the live response session, which is something you can't find in any other XDR."
"I like that it's stable. It's been stable for a long time, and Microsoft Defender has done a good job there."
"I like Defender XDR's automation capabilities. XDR isn't automated by default, but you can automate it to respond. If an attack is performed anywhere within the organization, you can isolate that instance from the network. This is what I can figure out for it. When integrated with Sentinel, you can set up playbooks to automate all the alerts gathered on Sentinel from different Microsoft solutions. Sentinel has a wider range of capabilities than XDR."
"Microsoft Defender XDR provides strong identity protection with comprehensive insights into risky user behavior and potential indicators of compromise."
"The solution's installation from a central installation server could be improved because the engineers had a little bit of trouble getting it installed from a central location."
"The SIEM could be improved."
"It takes about two business days for initial support, which is too slow in urgent situations."
"Intelligence aspects need improvement"
"I haven't seen the use of AI in the solution."
"We've had a lot of false positives; things incorrectly flagged that require manual configuration to allow. Even worse, after we allow a legitimate program, it sometimes gets flagged again after an update. This has caused a lot of extra work for my team."
"Detections could be improved."
"We'd like to see more one-to-one product presentations for the distribution channels."
"The solution could improve how it scours each website."
"I personally have not seen much evidence of how Defender can enhance the story of zero trust for enterprises."
"The licensing is a nightmare and has room for improvement."
"Microsoft tends to provide too many features, which makes the solution prone to bugs."
"Defender XDR could provide recommendations for threat-hunting queries. Some people do not know how to write an advanced threat query, so we need to spend time training them."
"This solution could be improved if it included features such as those offered by Malwarebytes."
"From an integration standpoint, it is always improving overall. With Security Copilot coming out, as partners, we are waiting for the GDAP support so that we can actually see Security Copilot on behalf of customers if they subscribe to it."
"The management and automation of the cloud apps have room for improvement."
"We should be able to use the product on devices like Apple, Linux, etc."
ESET EDR/XDR is ranked 33rd in Extended Detection and Response (XDR) with 1 review while Microsoft Defender XDR is ranked 5th in Extended Detection and Response (XDR) with 80 reviews. ESET EDR/XDR is rated 0.0, while Microsoft Defender XDR is rated 8.4. 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 Microsoft Defender XDR writes "Includes four services and four products, which can help organizations a lot". ESET EDR/XDR is most compared with Wazuh, Bitdefender GravityZone EDR, Microsoft Entra ID and Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response, whereas Microsoft Defender XDR is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager, Wazuh and Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks.
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