We performed a comparison between ESET Endpoint Protection Platform and Microsoft Defender for Office 365 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."ESET has regular updates, and it gives me good feedback. It's not too onerous like some of the products I've used in the past."
"The solution's features and pricing are pretty good."
"ESET Endpoint Security is stable. When comparing the solution to competitors it is more stable."
"In terms of the current global landscape, it is a great solution."
"The performance of the solution is very good it does not impact my hardware and is user-friendly."
"The product does not slow down the machine."
"I have found ESET Endpoint Antivirus is light on system resources compared with other antivirus solutions that tend to be very heavy on the computers system resources. Additionally, the solution is very secure."
"The features seem to be alright."
"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."
"The technical support is good and quick to resolve issues."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365's most valuable features are safe attachments and safe links."
"The basic features are okay and I'm satisfied with the Defender."
"Does a thorough job of examining email and URLs for malicious content."
"Since we have started using the solution, there have been fewer compromises."
"The deployment capability is a great feature."
"Defender helps us prioritize threats across our organization."
"The user interface of ESET Endpoint Security could be more user-friendly and more features could be added."
"ESET Endpoint Security could improve EDR integration."
"Sometimes, ESET sends alerts within my own network that cause confusion. That is, it might warn about contamination, or that the VM has crashed, but it doesn't go further than that. It just shows me the alert and sometimes I am not sure what to do about it."
"The scalability could be better."
"I am a MAC user and my asset cybersecurity is continuously displaying warnings that I am not using their firewall."
"The proactive feature is excellent, but I do not believe ESET will make any changes to this feature in the future."
"A few times, we have had problems with downloading an agent. We had to try multiple times and multiple uploads."
"They should focus more on the offline market as well. Everybody is connected nowadays, and they want to do everything via cloud or fast internet connections, however, that's still not possible in many situations."
"The XDR dashboard has room for improvement."
"The certification training for Defender for 365 needs to be deeper and incorporate Sentinel. I took all the security courses except one, and Sentinel isn't included."
"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."
"In some situations, it has not been able to pick impersonated emails having no attachments. Technical support definitely has a scope for improvement."
"The visibility for the weaknesses in the system and unauthorized access can be improved."
"We noticed that from time to time, Microsoft's stability does have problems. Sometimes the service goes up and down. Sometimes they change without prior notice."
"The only thing they should improve is the licensing model. They should stop changing it. A year ago, the five features I mentioned were included in one product. Now, three of them are bundled into one product, and you have to pay extra for the other two. I don't mind paying extra, but I don't want them to change it every year or every six months. I need to know what I'm looking at and not worry about it next year."
"Too many false positives and lacks an accurate capability to detect malicious SharePoint sites."
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ESET Endpoint Protection Platform is ranked 5th in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 97 reviews while Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is ranked 1st in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 41 reviews. ESET Endpoint Protection Platform is rated 8.2, while Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of ESET Endpoint Protection Platform writes "Easy to set up with good security and rapidly improving capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Defender for Office 365 writes "Allows for easy reporting of problems, valuable anti-phishing, and anti-malware support". ESET Endpoint Protection Platform is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business, CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne Singularity Complete and Fortinet FortiEDR, whereas 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. See our ESET Endpoint Protection Platform vs. Microsoft Defender for Office 365 report.
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