We performed a comparison between Trellix Endpoint Security and Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks 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. Reviews suggest that Trellix could reduce resource consumption and improve user-friendliness. Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks presents an intuitive interface, advanced identification of risks, expandability, and compatibility with various other solutions. However, Cortex XDR could use enhancements in hard disk encryption, security integration, and customer education.
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. Some customers were impressed with Palo Alto support, while others reported mixed experiences.
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. Some users thought Cortex XDR’s deployment was fast and straightforward, while others consider it to be a complex and time-consuming task that requires thorough planning.
Pricing: Some find Trellix’s price reasonable and competitive, while others believe it could be lowered. Some reviewers said Cortex XDR is expensive, but others said it was reasonable for the robust feature set Cortex offers.
ROI: Trellix Endpoint Security provides significant time savings. Cortex XDR creates value by ensuring system and data security rather than a financial return on investment.
Comparison Results: Trellix Endpoint Security is preferred over Cortex XDR. Users said Trellix's comprehensive management capabilities enable effortless administration of all programs from a single console. Cortex XDR received mixed reviews for its initial setup, customer service, and pricing.
"Its most significant advantage lies in its affordability."
"The Endpoint Manager is incredible; it has a very straightforward interface and is exceedingly easy to use. Pulling out and deploying different tags or resources is a simple task across various departments with different levels of security. The notifications are also simple and satisfying; it's great to see the bubble informing us which devices are compliant and which are waiting to update."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft 365 Defender are the combination of all the capabilities and centralized management."
"The ability to hunt that IM data set or the identity data set at the same time is valuable. As incident response professionals, we are very used to EDRs and having device process registry telemetry, but a lot of times, we do not have that identity data right there with us, so we have to go search for it in some other silo. Being able to cross-correlate via both datasets at the same time is something that we can only do in Def"
"We can automate routine tasks and write scripts to carry out difficult tasks, which makes things easier for us."
"Microsoft XDR's system of analysis and investigation is super convenient for our customers. It integrates with other Microsoft solutions like Defender for 365 to protect email traffic from malicious external web links and phishing."
"Many people don't realize that Microsoft Azure, Exchange Online, and the security and compliance portal all sync together. For instance, within the Azure portal you can set security restrictions and policies to help secure your tenants... The good part of it is that these products have already been integrated. When you sign on as an admin you have global admin rights and that gives you access to all these features."
"The timeline feature is excellent. I also like the phishing simulation. We have phishing campaigns to educate employees and warn them about these threats."
"The ability to kind of stitch everything together and see the actual complete picture is very useful. I guess you'd call it a playbook. Some people call it the forensics analysis of what was happening on particular endpoints when they detected some malicious behavior, and what transpired before that to cause that. It is also very user friendly. The way they have done everything and integrated all the solutions that they've purchased over the years to make it a very seamless, effective product is very good. One thing about Palo Alto is that they take the products or services that they purchase and make them seamless for the end user as compared to some companies that purchase other companies and then just kind of have their products off to the side or keep different interfaces. Palo Alto doesn't do that."
"The dashboard is customizable."
"It can automatically correlate events and logs, which is very helpful for an IT administrator. It can correlate different kinds of malware activities over a network, agent, or host system. You do not need to do it manually. It is a good feature. It is also a user-friendly solution. We have deployed it on the cloud because our space does not provide any flexibility for on-premises deployment, but Palo Alto has added some flexibility to install it on-premises. It must be like the same Cortex XDR agent for all the VPN services, web filtering services, and everything else."
"The stability of the solution is very good. We have about 100 users on it right now, and we use it twice a week."
"If there are multiple alerts, the app will automatically create and rate an event instead of going through each one."
"The solution is a new generation XDR that has a lot of artificial intelligence modules."
"The solution allows us to make investigations. Other XDR solutions also provide similar capabilities but for investigation, Cortex XDR is better."
"Traps has drastically reduced our endpoint attack surface via advanced detection capabilities, sandboxing of never before seen programs, and by drastically limiting where executables can launch in the first place."
"It's easy to use."
"The endpoint security, antivirus and firewall are the most valuable features of Trellix Endpoint Security."
"Trellix Endpoint Security's dashboard is very flexible, and I can create my own user-specific dashboard depending on user privilege or preference."
"It is a stable solution...The solution's technical support is good."
"Trellix Endpoint Security offers robust access protection, addressing major concerns in prevention. It provides both application control and user access control within its access protection features."
"Would benefit with the addition of DLP features."
"The product is quite user-friendly."
"The solution provides dashboard control, so we can centrally monitor the entire status of our organization."
"Intrusion detection and prevention would be great to have with 365 Defender."
"The message trace feature for investigating mail flow issues should add more detailed information to the summary report... if they could extend the summary report a little bit, make it more descriptive, ordinary administrators could understand what happened and that the emails failed at this or that point. That way they would know the location to go to try to correct it and to prevent it from occurring again."
"Microsoft 365 Defender does not have a unique package with emerging endpoint security technologies, such as EDR and XDR."
"A simple dashboard without having to use MS Sentinel would be a welcome improvement."
"Correctly updated records are the most significant area for improvement. There have been times when we were notified of a required fix; we would carry out the fix and confirm it but still get the same notification a week later. This seems to be a delay in records being updated and leads to false reporting, which is something that needs to be fixed."
"The mobile app support for Android and iOS is difficult and needs improvement."
"I personally have not seen much evidence of how Defender can enhance the story of zero trust for enterprises."
"The abundance of sub-dashboards and sub-areas within the main dashboard can be confusing, even if it all technically makes sense."
"Data privacy is a matter of concern. You have to be careful with data privacy, it can be sensitive and Cortex can have most of your access."
"We would also like to have advanced tech protection and email scanning."
"The encryption is not up to the mark."
"There is a severe gap in functionality between Windows, Linux, and Mac versions. For example all folder restriction settings are Windows only. Traps 5.0+ does not have SAML / LDAP integration."
"It'll help if customization was easier."
"I would like to see better protection, specifically to protect email applications."
"The price could be a little lower."
"The GUI could be improved."
"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."
"When it runs in the background of the endpoint, the devices get slowed down for some applications."
"Trellix lacked email protection when it was a McAfee product. They added this feature during the merger with FireEye, but it hasn't been fully integrated. The core features will be integrated into the next release. FireEye has several solutions for EDR and sandboxing."
"The DAC (Dynamic Application Containment) component of this product needs improvement."
"We have a lot of problems with the user experience and it's difficult to implement. MacAfee's better than the ancient anti-virus solutions but it's a little slow to resolve. Many files with malware were destroyed through the network, and MacAfee doesn't detect anything."
"The solution needs to offer better local technical support."
"It would be a lot easier if I could add multiple user accounts within a single device."
"I would like this solution to do what Palo Alto traps does because I would only need to run this one product."
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Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is ranked 4th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 80 reviews while Trellix Endpoint Security is ranked 10th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 94 reviews. Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is rated 8.4, while Trellix Endpoint Security is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks writes "Perfect correlation and XDR capabilities for network traffic plus endpoint security". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Trellix Endpoint Security writes "Good user behavioral analysis and helpful patching but needs better support services". Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, Darktrace, Symantec Endpoint Security and Fortinet FortiEDR, whereas Trellix Endpoint Security is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Trellix Endpoint Security (ENS), CrowdStrike Falcon, Trend Micro Deep Security and Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business. See our Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks vs. Trellix Endpoint Security report.
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