We performed a comparison between Trellix Endpoint Security 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.
Features: Trellix Endpoint Security is highly valued for its easy administration options and reliability. Trend Micro Apex One stands out for its centralized reporting, efficient policy implementation, and a diverse array of features including DLP, encryption, and patch management. Reviews suggest that Trellix could reduce resource consumption and improve user-friendliness. Trend Micro Apex One users say the platform should improve its compatibility with different operating systems and address performance issues. Users also say the reporting, forensic analysis, and ransomware features could use some work.
Service and Support: Some users have found the support for Trellix Endpoint Security helpful and reliable, while others have encountered ineffective assistance and communication problems. Trend Micro support generally earned positive reviews, but some said that support could be more proactive and respond faster.
Ease of Deployment: The setup process for Trellix Endpoint Security varies in difficulty, depending on the user's experience with McAfee and general technical expertise. Most users thought Trend Micro Apex One was easy to set up, but a few said that it’s more complex than competing solutions.
Pricing: Some find Trellix’s price reasonable and competitive, while others believe it could be lowered. Some considered the price of Trend Micro Apex One to be fair, while others found it expensive.
ROI: Trellix Endpoint Security provides significant time savings. Trend Micro Apex One provides extra cost-effective advantages and safeguards vital information.
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"NGAV and EDR features are outstanding."
"It is very easy to set up. I would rate my experience with the initial setup a ten out of ten, with ten being very easy to set up."
"The console is easy to read. I also like the scanning part and the ability to move assets from one to the other."
"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."
"Fortinet FortiEDR's scalability is quite good, and you can add licenses to the solution."
"The product detects and blocks threats and is more proactive than firewalls."
"We have FortiEDR installed on all our systems. This protects them from any threats."
"The product is quite user-friendly."
"It has improved my organization because it helps with visibility, in terms of security. We can see the actual attack and can contain it. The antivirus can detect that."
"McAfee EndPoint Security has a lot of good features that work well if they are implemented properly."
"The primary reason the solution is good is because of its ease-of-use."
"The solution is reliable."
"The thing that I like is that they have gathered almost all the products in one management server, the ePolicy Orchestrator."
"I have found many of the features to be useful."
"There is a new feature where you can set thresholds for all the CPU consumption allowing for no consumption on the servers when the scans happen. It is a separate plugin or addon, and if we have it on all the virtual machines it automatically checks the resources, and based on that, it will schedule the scans. That is something that I have not seen in other antivirus solutions, such as Symantec."
"I have found it beneficial when I update a policy it is implemented within a few seconds and the blocking of USB storage function."
"It is very precise and allows more permission for different use cases."
"The solution is stable and scalable."
"Its reporting and dashboard are valuable. Its dashboard is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is Vulnerability Protection."
"It's reduced administrative overhead."
"It's a stable solution, to date we have not had any issues."
"I like Apex Central. We can manage all the Trend Micro products from one console."
"The amount of usage, the number of details we get, or the number of options that can be tweaked is limited in comparison to that with other EDR solutions"
"The only minor concern is occasional interference with desired programs."
"The dashboard isn't easy to access and manage."
"Integration with Azure and SaaS provisioning tools could improve Fortinet FortiEDR."
"FortiEDR could add a separate scanning dashboard. In incident management, we prefer to remove the endpoint system from the environment and scan the system. We typically use Symantec for that, but if we want to use FortiEDR for that, then we need a scanning tab to clarify things."
"To improve Fortinet, we need to see more features and technology areas at the endpoint level introduced."
"ZTNA can improve latency."
"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."
"The user interface could be improved by making it more user-friendly. There are multiple solutions and there is no clear line differentiating all of them. There is a centralized console where we manage everything but most of the administrators feel a little confused when it comes to managing multiple products from a single place."
"There are times the solution has some additional software added that is not fully integrated properly, such as Exchange Group Sheild. It is quite old and is not fully integrated properly and could be improved."
"The DAC (Dynamic Application Containment) component of this product needs improvement."
"We’re facing remote installation issues sometimes:"
"We would like to see all the features available on cloud."
"Technical support from the vendor is very bad."
"On the next release, they should build an easier way to see a repair option within the McAfee icon on your system tray. If there was an issue, you should be able to contact the user or just right-click on "repair". That would be a very good feature to add. That could be a place of improvement, just adding that button, or customizing it."
"McAfee Endpoint Protection could improve the word control feature."
"I think the one place where we like where they lacking is in a unified style dashboard."
"One of Trend Micro's weaknesses is its high resource utilization."
"The price is the main concern of the clients."
"The reporting can be improved. We'd like to have had broader insights as to what was happening on a machine."
"Trend Micro Apex One could improve by making the user interface more user-friendly."
"The solution could be improved by providing better training to the vendors."
"I think that this product needs to improve the data loss prevention port."
"The solution could use extra dashboards and offer more analytics."
Trellix Endpoint Security is ranked 12th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 94 reviews while Trend Micro Apex One is ranked 6th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 124 reviews. Trellix Endpoint Security is rated 8.0, while Trend Micro Apex One is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Trellix Endpoint Security writes "Good user behavioral analysis and helpful patching but needs better support services". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Trend Micro Apex One writes "Good monitoring and server protection with helpful machine learning". Trellix Endpoint Security is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Trellix Endpoint Security (ENS), CrowdStrike Falcon, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks and Cisco Secure Endpoint, whereas Trend Micro Apex One is most compared with Trend Micro Deep Security, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks, Trend Micro Smart Protection and SentinelOne Singularity Complete. See our Trellix Endpoint Security vs. Trend Micro Apex One report.
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