We performed a comparison between Microsoft Defender for Office 365 and NetWitness Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Email Security solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The initial setup is straightforward. You just add the license, click it, and then you can set up the rules. It is quite simple."
"The email protection is excellent, especially in terms of anti-phishing policies."
"There are several features that I consider valuable."
"The solution is very easy to use. All you have to do is to assign the license to the end-user and it's done. The customer will only have the feature activated, and the solution will monitor the emails to determine if they are a threat or not."
"The most valuable feature is the integration. It's a single console, so we don't have to switch around between multiple products. Another valuable feature is the ease of operations and maintenance."
"Microsoft Defender has a feature to protect each and every attachment. Even if it's an encrypted attachment, it will check for any potential threats."
"Defender for Office 365 has helped eliminate having to look at multiple dashboards and that is the aspect I like most about it. It is simpler, effective, and convenient. The users like the process efficiency."
"Some of the valuable features on the email side are anti-phishing, anti-malware, and Safe Links."
"It's fully scalable. There is no limit. Of course, the license limits per day the number of terabytes. In my opinion, it's very flexible."
"The most valuable features are the threat prediction and network forensics."
"Alerting Module: It provides real-time event processing language on all the logs/packets stream for advanced alerting, i.e., using SQL LIKE statements."
"The most valuable feature of RSA NetWitness Logs and Packets are the alerts and correlations tools."
"Their technical support responds quickly and are knowledgable."
"The most valuable features are its ingestion of logs and raising of alerts based on those logs."
"The solution is really scalable for the high-end power, enterprise customer."
"The most valuable features are the packet inspection and the automated incident response."
"The custom alerts have to improve a lot."
"We need a separate license and we don't know how to get the license that is required."
"The product must provide better malware detection."
"There needs to be an improvement in integrating the product to work across multiple operating systems, and to have better support for non-Microsoft file types."
"The phishing and spam filters could use some improvement."
"They can improve their security in a way where a customer can know if all their attachments are safe or not to open through a report. The solution does its job perfectly, but it never reports to the customer whether those attachments have been stopped before or not."
"There's room for improvement regarding the time frame for retrieving emails."
"The GUI is sometimes slow to fetch the device report and could be improved."
"More customizability is required, which is something that they need to improve on."
"It is not so easy to customize this product."
"I believe that integrating the solution with other products such as Oracle would be beneficial."
"Nowadays, their support is a little subpar compared to other solutions. I rate RSA support six out of 10."
"The product's licensing models are complex to understand. This particular area needs improvement."
"There is no support for this product in this country, so problems have to be resolved through global technical teams."
"The system architecture is complex and sometimes it’s hard to troubleshoot potential problems."
"There are instances where you try to run the reports and then it does not give you the desired outcome."
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Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is ranked 1st in Email Security with 41 reviews while NetWitness Platform is ranked 19th in Log Management with 36 reviews. Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is rated 8.4, while NetWitness Platform is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Microsoft Defender for Office 365 writes "Allows for easy reporting of problems, valuable anti-phishing, and anti-malware support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetWitness Platform writes "Can find out if there is lateral movement, but integration and workflow need improvement". Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is most compared with Proofpoint Email Protection, Mimecast Email Security, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Cisco Secure Email and Barracuda Email Security Gateway, whereas NetWitness Platform is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security, RSA enVision, IBM Security QRadar, Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Microsoft Sentinel. See our Microsoft Defender for Office 365 vs. NetWitness Platform report.
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