We performed a comparison between Microsoft Defender XDR and WatchGuard EPDR based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, SentinelOne, CrowdStrike and others in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)."Forensics is a valuable feature of Fortinet FortiEDR."
"Exceptions are easy to create and the interface is easy to follow with a nice appearance."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the ability to customize it and to reduce its size. It lets you run in a very small window in terms of memory and resources on legacy cash registers."
"he solution is an anti-malware product that integrates well with other vendor products such as firewalls, SIEM, etc. It captures threat intelligence and gives you better visibility. The product also has sandboxing features."
"It is a scalable solution...The initial setup of Fortinet FortiEDR was straightforward."
"Ability to get forensics details and also memory exfiltration."
"We have FortiEDR installed on all our systems. This protects them from any threats."
"Fortinet is very user-friendly for customers."
"The most valuable feature is the DLP because that's where we can have an added data protection layer and extend it not just to emails but to the documents that users are working on. We can make sure that sensitive data is tagged and flagged if unauthorized parties are using it."
"We can automate routine tasks and write scripts to carry out difficult tasks, which makes things easier for us."
"Defender is easy to use. It has a nice console, and everything is all in one place."
"The comprehensiveness of Microsoft's threat detection is good."
"Email protection is the most valuable feature of Microsoft Defender XDR."
"Microsoft Defender's most critical component is its CASB solution. It has many built-in policies that can improve your organization's cloud security posture. It's effective regardless of where your users are, which is critical because most users are working from home. It's cloud-based, so nothing is on-premise."
"In Microsoft 365 vendor products, monitoring and connectivity across all Microsoft and third-party connectors enable viewing of all activity within those environments."
"The product integrates security into one tool instead of having third-party security tools."
"The product's most valuable features are the zero-trust application service and its capability to detect threats and attacks."
"Detections could be improved."
"The solution is not stable."
"We find the solution to be a bit expensive."
"It takes about two business days for initial support, which is too slow in urgent situations."
"We've encountered challenges during API deployment, occasionally resulting in unstable environments."
"To improve Fortinet, we need to see more features and technology areas at the endpoint level introduced."
"Everything with Fortinet having to do with their cloud services. They need to invest more in their internal infrastructure that they are running in the cloud. One of the things I find with their cloud environment compared to others' is that they go cheap on the equipment. So it causes some performance degradation."
"The EDR console should have more extensive reporting. You shouldn't need to purchase FortiAnalyzer. It should be included in the EDR part. The security adviser cloud platform could be improved with more options for exclusive or intensive rules for devices."
"I personally have not seen much evidence of how Defender can enhance the story of zero trust for enterprises."
"It would be beneficial to have a more seamless experience with everything consolidated in one place, particularly when dealing with aspects related to the Exchange console."
"Advanced attacks could use an improvement."
"The design of the user interface could use some work. Sometimes it's hard to find the exact information you need."
"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 support could be more knowledgable to improve their offering."
"One of the biggest downsides of Microsoft products, in general, is that the menus are often difficult to find, as they tend to move from place to place between versions."
"The web filtering solution needs to be improved because currently, it is very simple."
"The product is available at a very high price, making it an area where improvements are required."
Microsoft Defender XDR is ranked 7th in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) with 78 reviews while WatchGuard EPDR is ranked 34th in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) with 1 review. Microsoft Defender XDR is rated 8.4, while WatchGuard EPDR is rated 10.0. 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 WatchGuard EPDR writes "Offers URL filtering and protection against phishing". Microsoft Defender XDR is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager, Wazuh and Microsoft Entra ID, whereas WatchGuard EPDR is most compared with ESET Endpoint Protection Platform, Panda Adaptive Defense 360, Bitdefender GravityZone EDR and Microsoft Defender for Business.
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