We performed a comparison between Microsoft Defender XDR and Microsoft Intune based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Microsoft Security Suite solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The unified view of the threat landscape on a central dashboard is the most valuable feature."
"The 'Incidents and Alerts' tab is a valuable feature where we can find triggered alerts."
"I like that it's fully integrated with Windows, Microsoft 365 Exchange Online, and Outlook. It is better than other antivirus solutions because it's fully integrated with all Microsoft products. It's easy to integrate them and onboard all Windows devices from SCCM."
"The product integrates security into one tool instead of having third-party security tools."
"Email protection is the most valuable feature of Microsoft Defender XDR."
"The most valuable feature of all is the full integration with the rest of the software in the operating system and Office 365, as well as Microsoft SCCM. It is quite easy for us to work with the whole instance of Microsoft products. This integration improves the benefits of the whole suite of products."
"The incident threat response and its ability to facilitate effective remediation against threats are the standout features."
"The ability to integrate and observe a more cohesive narrative across the products is crucial."
"I believe that the solution is actually in Gartner's top quadrant at the moment for mobile device management."
"The standout features of Intune are its excellent mobile device management and highly effective application management capabilities."
"Based on my experience, I find Intune very flexible for managing Windows devices. We can use scripting, and we can make use of the self-service portal or the company portal to publish some of the applications for Windows."
"The tool's most valuable feature is Autopilot."
"The most valuable feature is the UEM capabilities."
"It's easy to manage."
"The initial setup is not overly complex or difficult."
"Remote Wipe and Autopilot is one of the best features."
"The data recovery and backup could be improved."
"Improving scalability, especially for very large tenants, could be beneficial for Microsoft Defender XDR."
"The Defender agent itself is more compatible with Windows 10 and Windows 11. Other than these two lines, there are so many compatibility issues. Security is not only about Microsoft. The core technical aspects of it are quite good, but it would be good if they can better support non-Microsoft solutions in terms of putting the agents directly into VMware and other virtualization solutions. There should be more emphasis on RHEL and other operating systems that we use, other than Windows, in the server category."
"Advanced attacks could use an improvement."
"Automated playbooks and automated dashboards would be preferable to the way the data is currently being presented."
"The capability to not only thwart attacks but also to adapt to evolving threats is crucial."
"365 Defender has multiple subsets, including Defender for Cloud Apps. When integrating Defender for Cloud Apps with apps on third-party cloud platforms like AWS or GCP, there are limitations on our ability to control user activities. If Microsoft added more control over third-party products, that would be a game-changer and help us quite a lot."
"This solution could be improved if it included features such as those offered by Malwarebytes."
"I know that their AI pieces are at the infancy stage, but allowing users to do more tagging for information would be an interesting thing because Intune also directly integrates with Azure. Because a lot of the devices are hosted with that, you also get a lot of tagging of user data and other things like that."
"Intune doesn't provide much control over Windows servers. It's something we struggle with."
"I think that there is room for improvement with the reporting. If this is done, it will be a better product."
"Integration with Mac devices requires some improvement."
"Once it's configured it is unobtrusive, but it does take some hands-on to configure and deploy it properly."
"When somebody has a customized application or their own company's application, we cannot deploy that application."
"The reports that are generated aren't so great. They don't give a lot of meaning so far, but that could be down to user knowledge than the actual reporting side of things. I'm not a big user of it, but I was a bigger user of MaaS360, and we used to be able to run weekly and monthly reports. In the case of any deviations. we'd get a warning immediately. That's not so easy to do or to get in place for Intune. This could be just a user issue, but when I compare both, that's the only thing that's lacking for me."
"We would like to see support for Chrome and/or devices for Chromebooks."
Microsoft Defender XDR is ranked 1st in Microsoft Security Suite with 80 reviews while Microsoft Intune is ranked 3rd in Microsoft Security Suite with 166 reviews. Microsoft Defender XDR is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Intune is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Defender XDR writes "Includes four services and four products, which can help organizations a lot". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Intune writes "We can manage all aspects of our devices from a single console, easy to scale, and quick to deploy". Microsoft Defender XDR is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager, Wazuh and Microsoft Purview Information Protection, whereas Microsoft Intune is most compared with Jamf Pro, VMware Workspace ONE, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Microsoft Entra ID and SOTI MobiControl. See our Microsoft Defender XDR vs. Microsoft Intune report.
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