We performed a comparison between Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence and VirusTotal based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Threat Intelligence Platforms solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The user interface is pretty user-friendly."
"The product's anti-spam and malware-scanning features are useful. We scan email attachments, documents, and malicious codes."
"The product’s most valuable feature is the ability to provide threat detection and protection simultaneously."
"The tool can proactively detect potential incidents."
"The technical support services are excellent."
"It just runs in the background. I don't have to worry about, making sure it's Intelligence. So, you know, this kind of makes it very easy, have to worry about installing. It is easy to use."
"Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence assesses machines for vulnerabilities and gives remediations."
"They have a very transparent roadmap for the product."
"It can scan the dark web and find if an email ID has been compromised. This is another area that we have not explored yet."
"With VirusTotal, I can check for any hash, malware, file, domain, IP URL, or malicious URL, and Kaspersky stays clean."
"The most valuable feature is the worldwide malware information database."
"Microsoft itself is a major target for attacks and threats due to its size and popularity. That could be considered Microsoft's Achilles heel."
"There could be AI functionality included for features like reporting and dashboard preparation."
"It's a bit complicated to manage because you have many dependencies of servers, many dependencies in queue, and so on. Entries or different endpoints, and you make different configuration topics for each one. So that's a major problem."
"The tool's onboarding of users that use on-premise or hybrid environments needs to be improved."
"Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence is evolving and needs to fix and enhance numerous issues like stability and licensing. The continuous rebranding and licensing changes are confusing."
"The price point is something they can improve slightly for those who don't have an M 365 E5."
"It takes time for the support team to understand the issue, and they then respond with a delay at times, which causes a lot of trouble."
"Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence should integrate with different platforms."
"VirusTotal is hard to understand because you need to know Google Docs to create queries, and it doesn't have documentation for that."
"VirusTotal has predefined reports, but there is a lot of manual effort involved."
"I would like to see an improved user interface and some automation."
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Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence is ranked 3rd in Threat Intelligence Platforms with 24 reviews while VirusTotal is ranked 6th in Threat Intelligence Platforms with 3 reviews. Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence is rated 8.4, while VirusTotal is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence writes "A tool that offers endpoint protection with low maintenance costs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VirusTotal writes "A highly stable solution that can be used to manually investigate data leaks, compromised information, and malware". Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence is most compared with Microsoft Sentinel, STAXX, Cisco Threat Grid, ThreatConnect Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) and Splunk Mission Control, whereas VirusTotal is most compared with Cuckoo Sandbox, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, MetaDefender, ANY.RUN and Recorded Future. See our Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence vs. VirusTotal report.
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