We performed a comparison between Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Trend Micro Apex One based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Trend Micro Apex One has a slight edge in this comparison due to its being the less expensive solution.
"The product detects and blocks threats and is more proactive than firewalls."
"The price is low and quite competitive with others."
"The solution was relatively easy to deploy."
"The setup is pretty simple."
"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."
"Fortinet has helped free up around 20 percent of our staff's time to help us out."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"This is stable and scalable."
"It's really stable. I've used a lot of stuff, a lot of products, like ESET and Kaspersky. None of them are comparable with this one. This one is much better."
"A few years ago, when I was using a different product, I was affected by a virus that destroyed everything. Since using Microsoft Defender, I have not had this kind of problem."
"The biggest benefit to Windows Defender is that it is built-in to the operating system by Microsoft."
"Defender works in the background monitoring the traffic for viruses."
"Defender for Endpoint is a robust solution that works well out-of-the-box."
"It comes included with the Windows license."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to effectively detect threats. It has the EDR feature, endpoint detection and response, and that is very good."
"I find the vulnerability management section of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint to be very useful for organizations."
"The most valuable feature is that it's normal, and not for a specific server."
"The initial setup is not that tough. It's easy."
"Some of the valuable features of Trend Micro Apex One are DLP, encryption, and patch management."
"We don't use application control but instead, we use behavior monitoring, which is a good feature. The real-time scanning, data loss prevention, and endpoint sensor we use are beneficial"
"I have opened three tickets with the technical support and they were responsive and asked me to send them my logs."
"The antivirus itself is also lightweight. It does not hamper the performance. It is not resource-hungry. It does not impact the overall performance of the device. It is just there, and it is easy to use."
"I believe that optimization is a really good feature on the front side."
"The main benefit is the threat intelligence network of Trend Micro."
"They can include the automation for the realtime updates. We have a network infrastructure with remote sites. Whenever they send updates, they are not automated. We have to go into the console and push those updates. I wish it was more automated. The update file is currently around 31 MB. It could be smaller."
"I think cloud security and SASE are areas of concern in the product where improvements are required. The tool's cloud version has to be improved in terms of the security it offers."
"The SIEM could be improved."
"It takes about two business days for initial support, which is too slow in urgent situations."
"There's room for improvement in the quick response time and technical support for integration issues, especially when dealing with multiple vendors."
"FortiEDR can be improved by providing more detailed reporting."
"Everything with Fortinet having to do with their cloud services. They need to invest more in their internal infrastructure that they are running in the cloud. One of the things I find with their cloud environment compared to others' is that they go cheap on the equipment. So it causes some performance degradation."
"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."
"A single dashboard would be a significant improvement."
"I would like to see better integration with their other security products to give better visibility from a higher level."
"Reporting could be improved. I would like to see how many security incidents occurred in the last six months, how many devices were highly exposed to security risks, and how many devices were actually compromised."
"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."
"Microsoft Defender for Endpoint does not provide much flexibility in terms of threats."
"The reporting in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint should improve. The solution has limited features."
"They can improve it on the online protection front since people nowadays are moving online and working from home."
"With the XDR dashboard, when you're doing an investigation and you're drilling down to obtain further details it tends to open many different tabs that take you away from your main tabs. You can end up having 10 tabs open for one investigation. This is another area for improvement because you can end up getting lost in the multiple tabs. Therefore, the central console can be improved so that it does not take you to several different pages for each investigation."
"Trend Micro's encryption is not up to the mark. We tried their encryption product, but we did not like it. Encryption was difficult to manage."
"Occasionally, the system may be a bit slow."
"We cover many things, but there is something called ATP, advanced threat prevention. I think they need to invest in this technology."
"We have to manually log in to the machines and give them an update command."
"There is room for improvement in the behavior filtering and control of Trend Micro."
"It would be better if it was easier to administer Apex One."
"I think the one place where we like where they lacking is in a unified style dashboard."
"The scans in Trend Micro Apex One take a very long time and it takes up my system resources. I do not receive alerts. These areas could improve."
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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is ranked 1st in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 182 reviews while Trend Vision One Endpoint Security is ranked 6th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 125 reviews. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is rated 8.0, while Trend Vision One Endpoint Security is rated 8.2. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Trend Vision One Endpoint Security writes "We can get consolidated logs of suspicious objects and malware attacks in a single console". Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is most compared with Symantec Endpoint Security, Intercept X Endpoint, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks, Trellix Endpoint Security and Fortinet FortiClient, whereas Trend Vision One Endpoint Security is most compared with Trend Micro Deep Security, Trend Vision One, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks and CrowdStrike Falcon. See our Microsoft Defender for Endpoint vs. Trend Vision One Endpoint Security report.
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