We performed a comparison between MetaDefender 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."I like the simplicity, the way it works out of the box. It's pretty easy to run and configure. The integration of the network devices with the ICAP server was easily done."
"It has Kusto Query Language (KQL), so we can use our own queries to find anything."
"Microsoft Defender for Endpoint comes pre-installed in Microsoft Windows."
"Stable endpoint manager, antivirus, and antimalware, with fast technical support and a straightforward setup."
"The best feature is the fact that for certain mobiles you can control your corporate profiles versus your personal profiles. That is amazingly important. Apple just supported the separation of corporate and personal profiles, whereas Android has been doing that for quite some time... Because Android supports that, if an Android phone is lost or stolen, I can wipe out all the corporate-related information from that phone and not touch the personal side. I can separate the apps and I can separate the ability to cut and paste between apps."
"Defender has very little impact on the end-user and the agent works quite well with a minimal impact on the client and server."
"Offers good protection."
"Defender should be fine for home use. It has all the basic functionality you need. I can't speak to how well it works as an enterprise solution because I'm not in the space."
"The most valuable feature is that we can use the solution right out of the box without too much configuration."
"The documentation is not well written, and I often need to talk with support."
"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."
"The solution has minimal customization options, especially compared to Mandiant, so we want to see more scope for customization. A single portal for customization would also be a welcome addition."
"Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is not as robust, and you cannot customize it much, so that's a challenge."
"I personally haven't experienced any pain points, but some of my coworkers feel that it isn't secure enough."
"It would be helpful if they included XDR features, on top of the EDR functionality."
"If they integrate with the EDR then it will benefit this solution."
"There are some areas in the proactive threats that are just overwhelming the SOC, so we've had to turn those off until we can figure out how to filter out the false positives."
"The central management console should be improved because it provides limited options to configure Windows Defender."
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MetaDefender is ranked 17th in Anti-Malware Tools with 1 review while Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is ranked 1st in Anti-Malware Tools with 182 reviews. MetaDefender is rated 9.0, while Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of MetaDefender writes "Blocks malicious files , has a low false-positive rate". 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". MetaDefender is most compared with VirusTotal, CrowdStrike Falcon, Symantec Content Analysis and Forcepoint ZT CDR (Zero Trust Content Disarm & Reconstruction), 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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