We performed a comparison between Hornetsecurity Email Spam Filter and Malware Protection and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, SentinelOne, ESET and others in Anti-Malware Tools."Makes my inbox cleaner and more secure. The infomail is now neatly out of my view and I dont see all the junk I use to see when using AppRiver or just Microsofts native spam filter. I see only the things I need to see, and spoofed messages have decreased 100% throughout the organization."
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"We like that it has a free version available."
"The endpoint detection of threats is valuable. The initial detection of things like ransomware and viruses and being able to shut down machines immediately and stop a threat is valuable. We can stop a threat at a source versus allow it to propagate it across the network."
"Microsoft Defender is always running. It is doing its job, so it is fine. I don't have any issues with the way it was implemented or how we are running it. We have been upgrading IT throughout the years, but there have been no issues."
"The fact that it's from Microsoft, you don't have many false positives, unlike products from other vendors might have."
"It's great for investigating what's happening on a machine. They show a whole bunch of machine timeline events that are related to a security incident. They have quite good details on the things related to threat and vulnerability management, such as any weakness that has been disclosed publicly, assets that are exposed, and if there is an exploit active in the wild for that vulnerability. It can provide you with all such information, which is cool."
"Defender is a part of Windows; you just need to enable it. There is no need to install anything."
"It performs well. The stability is seamless."
"What I found most valuable in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is that it's out-of-the-box, which brings more value to the customer. The technical support for the product is also one of the best parts, because it's good, in terms of the product knowledge of the technical engineers."
"If I had to pick my least favorite thing, I would say some of the tabs to control settings can get a little overwhelming. It can also be a little hard to read the font at certain times so possibly enlarging the details and text of the site a little to make it not so "fit" to the screen."
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"There are likely some technical improvements or features that could be added, however, I cannot say, off the top of my head, what they would be."
"The interface isn't necessarily intuitive to a nontechnical person. You can get stuck in the little endpoint security portal. Sometimes, if you uninstall a competitive product, the end user doesn't always know if it's running or if they're protected even though it's silently running. There could be a notification, widget, or something that's resident on the screen for at least a bit, especially if you're doing remote support. You want to talk them through it, but sometimes, we're not allowed to look at the PCs we support."
"I would like to see fewer pop messages and alerts."
"I would like to have additional features such as DNS lookup, which would help for detecting malicious sites."
"The end-user also cannot do some advanced actions on it. It's a little bit complicated for our end-user, so it needs to be simplified."
"This solution is not secure, which is why I have moved to Linux."
"I wish they would extend the use of the Security Central portal, even for the free option of Defender. Because, as companies grow, it is labor intensive to manage the AV and detection part of it. For companies already subscribed to Office 365, I think this would be a good enhancement."
"It needs to improve the cybersecurity for lateral movements. For example, when a hacker tries to enter a machine, they try to get the password by doing a lateral movement."
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Hornetsecurity Email Spam Filter and Malware Protection is ranked 43rd in Anti-Malware Tools while Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is ranked 1st in Anti-Malware Tools with 182 reviews. Hornetsecurity Email Spam Filter and Malware Protection is rated 10.0, while Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Hornetsecurity Email Spam Filter and Malware Protection writes "Has significantly secured our day to day operations and our emails internally and externally to our clients". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint writes "Eliminates the need to look at multiple dashboards by automatically providing one XDR dashboard to show the security score of each subscription". Hornetsecurity Email Spam Filter and Malware Protection is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon, WatchGuard Gateway AntiVirus, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and Bitdefender Security for AWS, whereas Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is most compared with Symantec Endpoint Security, Intercept X Endpoint, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, CrowdStrike Falcon and Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks.
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