We performed a comparison between Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and WatchGuard Gateway AntiVirus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Anti-Malware Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's absolutely free to use."
"Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is easy to load and it runs quietly in the background, unlike other solutions."
"It's an enterprise solution that provides a centralized console and it supports all the platforms that we use, including Windows, Linux, Mac, iOS, and Android."
"I like the fact that it has the ransomware solution in there. I'm glad that the ransomware solution is built into it. That's probably the biggest thing that I see in Microsoft Defender."
"It is a straightforward setup."
"The main features of this solution are that it handles everything by itself and is well integrated."
"It performs well. The stability is seamless."
"Its threat intelligence feature is beneficial. This solution smoothly integrates with SIEM."
"It is the most effective on non-encrypted traffic and it is able to determine some threats through deep packet inspection."
"I haven't a problem with anti-virus stability using WatchGuard for over two years."
"The pricing of the solution is okay. It's not the most expensive option."
"If there were more template queries in the library, that would make it much easier. They could have basic things, like, "Where's the IP for this user?" or, "What file was downloaded from this user?" If there were more of those basic queries that would help."
"The product itself does not necessarily need improvement, but the support and implementation of the product are the disaster cases."
"It can get a bit laggy sometimes. Other than that, we don't have any issues. They constantly tweak it and fix it up based on users' feedback. It has improved a lot over the past four years. Defender for Endpoint never really used to be a good endpoint security solution, but over the past couple of years, Microsoft has invested heavily in it. So, it has come a long way in all aspects of endpoint security. If they want to make it better, they should just continue investing in the current path of what they've been doing over the past couple of years."
"The interface could be improved."
"I would like to have a dashboard that shows an overview of the results for the enterprise."
"I would like to see fewer pop messages and alerts."
"I would just like them to have more consistency, and that's a comment that's across the board with Microsoft. They change things a lot."
"Defender's cloud integration could be improved."
"It doesn't offer the best protection and it's incompatible with a lot of China's websites. It makes a lot of mistakes when it is detecting items as it's not recognizing items correctly."
"The solution isn't what I would consider feature-rich."
"WatchGuard technical support requires a license."
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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is ranked 1st in Anti-Malware Tools with 182 reviews while WatchGuard Gateway AntiVirus is ranked 44th in Anti-Malware Tools. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is rated 8.0, while WatchGuard Gateway AntiVirus is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint writes "Eliminates the need to look at multiple dashboards by automatically providing one XDR dashboard to show the security score of each subscription". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WatchGuard Gateway AntiVirus writes "A fully complete suite with VPN, firewall, and anti-virus agents for network management". Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is most compared with Symantec Endpoint Security, Intercept X Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne Singularity Complete and Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks, whereas WatchGuard Gateway AntiVirus is most compared with Hornetsecurity Email Spam Filter and Malware Protection and Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP). See our Microsoft Defender for Endpoint vs. WatchGuard Gateway AntiVirus report.
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