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.
"Fortinet FortiEDR's firewalling, rule creation, monitoring, and inspection profiles are great."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"The stability is very good."
"Impressive detection capabilities"
"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 most valuable feature is the analysis, because of the beta structure."
"The solution was relatively easy to deploy."
"Ability to get forensics details and also memory exfiltration."
"Automatic user recovery prior to Windows booting up."
"Technical support is always available and very helpful."
"It also allows multifunctionality within a single platform."
"Anyone can use it, the protection is good, and they have all of the features."
"This product has the capability to check a wide range of vulnerabilities and devices."
"The detection is great and the solution is constantly improving."
"The package of protection that it provides is useful. It has antivirus, malware protection, VPN, and a whole bunch of other features."
"The most valuable feature is the centralized console where everything can be controlled by the administration."
"Apex One includes a built-in fine-grained DLP solution."
"The initial setup was very straightforward."
"Many features that this solution has, competitors lack. The feature I think is quite good is data loss prevention."
"The main benefit is the threat intelligence network of Trend Micro."
"It has the ability to share, which is not available in other products."
"The product offers almost all of the features the client expects from such a solution."
"Apex One offers a lot of bang for your buck. It includes an antivirus solution, DLP, app control, and all the other features found in endpoint protection solutions like Microsoft Defender. Many other solutions require additional licenses for different operating systems, but Trend Micro software bundles everything."
"It's reduced administrative overhead overall thanks to its centralized dashboard and single network administrator."
"Once, we had an event that was locked and blocked, but information about it came to us two or three days later."
"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."
"Making the portal mobile friendly would be helpful when I am out of office."
"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"
"Integration with Azure and SaaS provisioning tools could improve Fortinet FortiEDR."
"We've had a lot of false positives; things incorrectly flagged that require manual configuration to allow. Even worse, after we allow a legitimate program, it sometimes gets flagged again after an update. This has caused a lot of extra work for my team."
"We've encountered challenges during API deployment, occasionally resulting in unstable environments."
"The support needs improvement."
"Every time we open a ticket with McAfee, their response differs and they are not consistent."
"Sometimes, while installing the ePO, we were getting so many errors and I don't know why it happened."
"It would be helpful if the controlling of connections coming to the PC could be done from McAfee's side so that we can block those connections."
"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 vendor should simplify the way they bundle the products because it's very hard to explain to customers what products contain which features."
"The solution's technical support should be improved since we faced a lot of issues with the support. There were some delays in responses from the technical support."
"We’re facing remote installation issues sometimes:"
"Tech support is not as helpful as they were in the past."
"Apex One could use some updates to its UI, threat modeling, and insights. I would like to see better integration with helpdesk platforms and more AI-driven features."
"There is a need for enhancement in certain reporting formats."
"When I was setting this up for one of my clients, I was not able to deploy the DLP."
"Sometimes HTTPS sites are not blocked properly."
"We sometimes face issues with policies and rules while working with Apex One. They sometimes do not work."
"The solution could improve by making the interface less confusing, it needs to be simplified."
"It needs a consolidated manager as there are too many parts to currently manage it."
"This software could affect the performance of your device negatively, particularly causing slow performance after installation."
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Trellix Endpoint Security is ranked 11th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 96 reviews while Trend Vision One Endpoint Security is ranked 6th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 125 reviews. Trellix Endpoint Security is rated 8.0, while Trend Vision One Endpoint Security 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 Vision One Endpoint Security writes "We can get consolidated logs of suspicious objects and malware attacks in a single console". Trellix Endpoint Security is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Trellix Endpoint Security (ENS), CrowdStrike Falcon, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks and SentinelOne Singularity Complete, whereas Trend Vision One Endpoint Security is most compared with Trend Micro Deep Security, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Trend Vision One and Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks. See our Trellix Endpoint Security vs. Trend Vision One Endpoint Security report.
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