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We performed a comparison between Anomali Match and Symantec Advanced Threat Protection based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"Microsoft Defender XDR is scalable.""It gives a lot of flexibility in terms of configuration and customization as per the business requirements.""The integration between all the Defender products is the most valuable feature.""Its most significant advantage lies in its affordability.""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.""Setting up Microsoft 365 Defender is easy. It's a user-friendly solution that provides threat protection. It has good stability and scalability.""It's a very scalable tool that can be used in a very small environment or in a very large environment. Everything can be managed from a simple dashboard and can be scaled up or down depending on the customer's environment.""The most valuable feature depends on the scenario. For compliance, I like Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Data Loss Prevention. Sentinel is the most helpful feature for security. 365 Defender helps us prioritize threats across an enterprise. It's a crucial feature for the managed services team."

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"I have found Cyber threat intelligence (CTI) very useful and concise. The solution is easy to use."

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"Currently we have 800-plus nodes connected with this solution, without any issues. The solution is scalable.""The Application Control code and the easy integration are valuable features.""The most valuable feature is NetFlow threat protection.""It has certainly helped out our audit efforts because we each stay compliant in terms of various security standards.""Technical support is very responsive. You just have to open a ticket. They respond in a timely manner. Their response is good. I'm satisfied.""The great advantage in using this product is it creates multiple services.""Symantec Endpoint Protection provides end-to-end protection. Along with antivirus protection, it has a lot of key areas, including intrusive prevention, firewall features, and application and device control.""All of the solution's features are quite valuable for us. We especially like the threat protection it provides."

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Cons
"The price could be better. It'll also help if they can continuously update and upgrade the solution. Every day there's a new virus uploaded into the network, and we have to keep updating it to identify all these things.""The licensing is a nightmare and has room for improvement.""In the Microsoft Azure Portal, in Active Directory, if there is anything on the user it will provide you with the information, but you still have to go through it a bit. And sometimes, I have experienced difficulties in understanding the information, especially because the synchronization between Microsoft Intune and the devices that are connected to the user in Azure Active Directory takes a lot of time.""The support could be more knowledgable to improve their offering.""The solution could improve by having better machine learning and AI. Additionally, the interface, documentation, and integration could be better.""Offboarding latency should be reduced. Even after a device has been successfully offboarded using a particular offboarding script, it still shows up as onboarded.""The advanced threat-hunting capabilities are phenomenal, and the security copilot enhances that, but some data elements could be better or have more context inside of the advanced tables themselves. The schemas feel a little limited to what they're building into the product. It's probably just a maturity thing. I imagine we'll see the features I want in the next year.""The interface could be improved. For example, if you want to do a phishing simulation for your employees, it can take a while to figure out what to do. The interface is a bit messy and could be updated. It isn't too bad, but doing some things can be a long process."

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"A lot of tools can give you many features, such as CTI intelligence and a tax service reduction. However, many people are combining different tools together to have more capabilities. It is up to the consumer whether they want to have multiple tools or have one tool that serves the purpose. Anomali Enterprise could improve by combining all the other tools' features into one solution."

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"Scalability could be better.""There are some ‎features that would add value to this product. One of them would be a graphical presentation of threats that the system has encountered.""There are limits with respect to blocking files by hash value or blocking IP addresses, and these limits should be removed.""An improvement could be made on the reporting because then it would be easier to collect information and submit it for compliance.""The support has dropped down to a five out of ten.""The support for new OSs and older OSs could be a little tighter. They need to be more upfront about what protection services they're going to provide on new OSs. I haven't seen the Windows 11 version out yet. It is either already released in Beta, or the Beta will be released soon. There could be a little bit more advanced updates on what they're doing to help protect Windows 11 environments. They can let us know in advance so that we know it is going to be protected. We can't roll out the new OS without putting end-point protection on it. So, they should tell us what is their support model for that, and what are they doing to protect Windows 11. They're not telling me, and that's a criticism. The same issue is applicable to all the other antivirus tools. It is not just Symantec; all of them have this problem.""Symantec appliances need improvement. The whole appliance environment is a robust system and it needs a massive amount of storage space. If you have to increase or speed up the background storage it's a pretty complicated process. The scalability and sizing is critical, and if you do it wrong you run into issues pretty quickly.""It also needs network-based threat protection for shared folders and files."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The solutions price is fair for what they offer."
  • "The price could be better. Normally, the costs depend on the country you're located in for the license. When we were in the initial stage, we went with the E5 license they call premium standard. It cost us around $5.20 per month for four users."
  • "The price of the solution is high compared to others and we have lost some customers because of it."
  • "Microsoft is not competitive with the pricing of the solution. The competitors are able to offer lower discounts. The price of the solution is higher."
  • "We have a lot of problems in Latin America regarding the price of Microsoft 365 Defender, because the relationship between dollars and the money of the different countries, it's is a lot. Many customers that have small businesses say that they would like the solution but it is too expensive. However, large companies do not find the cost an issue."
  • "The most valuable licensing option is expensive, so pricing could be improved. Licensing options for this solution also need to be consolidated, because they frequently change."
  • "Microsoft should provide lower-level licensing options. They should do it in such a way that even an individual could purchase a license, and it should be entirely flexible."
  • "They have moved from a licensing model to pay-per-use... The question is: What happens if, for any reason, there's not enough budget to accept this model? That could be a great problem."
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  • "When comparing the price of Anomali Enterprise to other solutions it is in the medium to high range. However, I am satisfied with the price."
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  • "Pricing is good. It is nice to have a great product at a fair price."
  • "The pricing of this solution is inexpensive and affordable."
  • "Symantec Advanced Threat Protection's pricing is comparable."
  • "Symantec Endpoint Protection has an average price."
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    Also Known As
    Microsoft 365 Defender, Microsoft Threat Protection, MS 365 Defender
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    Overview

    Microsoft Defender XDR is a comprehensive security solution designed to protect against threats in the Microsoft 365 environment. 

    It offers robust security measures, comprehensive threat detection capabilities, and an efficient incident response system. With seamless integration with other Microsoft products and a user-friendly interface, it simplifies security management tasks. 

    Users have found it effective in detecting and preventing various types of attacks, such as phishing attempts, malware infections, and data breaches.

    Watch the Microsoft demo video here: Microsoft Defender XDR demo video.

    Anomali Match is an intelligence-driven extended detection and response solution that helps organizations quickly identify and respond to threats in real time. Anomali Match boosts organizational efficiency and productivity by automating detection actions that quickly profile a danger and its impact on the organization, allowing for an effective response.

    Anomali Match gathers security telemetry from your entire organization, including SIEM, EDR, Messaging, and Network, and integrates layered threat detection to identify pertinent threats and give analysts the actionable intelligence they need to look into the root causes or to clearly confirm an attack so that they can respond immediately.

    Anomali Match assists organizations in achieving cyber resilience by providing essential characteristics, such as:

    • Relevant intelligence at scale
    • Precision attack detection
    • Optimized response across security ecosystems

    Anomali Match Features

    Anomali Match has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

    • Match is offered as a cloud-native or on-premises solution.

      • High performance indicator correlation at a rate of 190 trillion EPS is one of the additional cloud match capabilities.

      • Appliance and cloud-based ingestion of any telemetry related to security control.
    • Automated collection of current and historical event logs, asset data, and active threat data
    • Comprehensive visibility into historic security telemetry logs, millions of IOCs, and asset and vulnerability scan data
    • Continuous, real-time comparison of millions of indicators of compromise (IOCs) with all relevant security telemetry and log data
    • Automated retrospective inquiry and correlation of historical event logs with newly identified threat intelligence
    • Predictive protection against malicious C2 domains created by attacker domain generation algorithms
    • TTP-based hunting by actor, threat bulletin, or vulnerability employing advanced search analytics

    • Contextual threat intelligence in the form of actors, TTPs, campaigns, threat bulletins, and vulnerabilities, including MITRE ATT&CK details on the TTPs for a specific actor
    • Predictive DGA analysis to find bots connecting to C&C servers in your network

    Anomali Match Benefits

    There are many benefits to implementing Anomali Match. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

    • Quickly identify the impact in order to assess the criticality and prioritize the response.
    • Shorten the time it takes for active threats to be detected and for a response to be made.
    • Use automation, machine learning, and accessible intelligence to automatically detect and respond to potential threats.
    • Gain access to more than 5 years of security telemetry, millions of IOCs, and asset and vulnerability scan data.
    • Respond to difficult questions promptly and confidently to increase C-Level visibility.
    • Lower incident costs related to security, allowing for more effective security operations.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Anomali Match stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its concise CTI and its scalability.

    One PeerSpot reviewer, an IT Cyber Security Senior Analyst, notes of the solution, “I have found Cyber threat intelligence (CTI) very useful and concise. The solution is easy to use.” He adds, “Anomali Enterprise is scalable. We have approximately 15 people using the solution in my company.”

    Symantec Advanced Threat Protection is a single unified solution that uncovers, prioritizes, and remediates advanced attacks. The product fuses intelligence from endpoint, network, and email control points, as well as Symantec’s massive global sensor network, to stop threats that evade individual security products. It leverages your existing Symantec Endpoint Protection and Symantec Email Security.cloud investments, so it does not require the deployment of any new agents. You can deploy a new installation of Symantec Advanced Threat Protection and start to discover suspicious activity in under an hour. Using the proven technology in Symantec Insight reputation based detection, Symantec SONAR behavioral analysis with the new Symantec Cynic sandbox and file analysis platform, Symantec Advanced Threat Protection provides better detection and prioritization than other vendors, allowing security analysts to “zero in” on just those specific security events of importance.

    Sample Customers
    Accenture, Deloitte, ExxonMobil, General Electric, IBM, Johnson & Johnson and many others.
    Bank of England, First Energy, UBISOFT, Bank of Hope, Blackhawk Network
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    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Manufacturing Company19%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Government11%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company17%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Government8%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm17%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Government8%
    Manufacturing Company7%
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    Comms Service Provider27%
    University13%
    Computer Software Company13%
    Insurance Company13%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Educational Organization69%
    Financial Services Firm6%
    Computer Software Company3%
    Manufacturing Company3%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business44%
    Midsize Enterprise23%
    Large Enterprise33%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise57%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise63%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business39%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise52%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business7%
    Midsize Enterprise73%
    Large Enterprise20%
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    Anomali Match is ranked 36th in Extended Detection and Response (XDR) while Symantec Advanced Threat Protection is ranked 18th in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 14 reviews. Anomali Match is rated 7.0, while Symantec Advanced Threat Protection is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Anomali Match writes "Scalable, easy to use, but more features needed". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Advanced Threat Protection writes "Provides end-to-end antivirus protection and has good stability ". Anomali Match is most compared with ThreatConnect Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP), EclecticIQ, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 and STAXX, whereas Symantec Advanced Threat Protection is most compared with Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Trellix Network Detection and Response, Check Point SandBlast Network and Fortinet FortiSandbox.

    We monitor all Extended Detection and Response (XDR) reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.