We performed a comparison between ESET Endpoint Security and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: ESET Endpoint Security ultimately won out in this comparison. Our reviewers agree that ESET Endpoint Security is easy to install and easy to use. In addition, it has excellent customer support.
"NGAV and EDR features are outstanding."
"It is stable and scalable."
"Forensics is a valuable feature of Fortinet FortiEDR."
"The main thing is that I feel safe. Because the processes that have been used to get a handle on the attackers are much better than other competitors"
"The product detects and blocks threats and is more proactive than firewalls."
"We have FortiEDR installed on all our systems. This protects them from any threats."
"The price is low and quite competitive with others."
"The most valuable feature is the analysis, because of the beta structure."
"The solution provides good accessibility and is not heavy on resources when there are updates or when it is in operation."
"This solution blocks the brand new malware threats."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the management."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the ease of use."
"The tool protects everything."
"This solution has a traditional antivirus, I believe that signature-based detection is most valuable."
"Technical support has been very good. They are helpful and responsive."
"It's easy to set up and quick to deploy."
"The investigation aspect is the most useful. It's user friendly and has a good user interface."
"One of the valuable features of the solution is the small updates that keep my machine relatively clean from any infections."
"The intelligence mechanisms are good."
"I enjoy using the live response feature, which allows me to remotely access different endpoints and investigate malicious files, such as malware that people may have downloaded, and other related issues."
"The installation is straightforward."
"It shows us the risky sign-ins, and if a user's password has been compromised."
"The folders and files protection are its most valuable features. These have been valuable because of the increase in ransomware attacks. With these two features, I can ensure that no changes have been made to our system or endpoint folders and files without the user being aware."
"It's absolutely free to use."
"FortiEDR can be improved by providing more detailed reporting."
"Cannot be used on mobile devices with a secure connection."
"Integration with Azure and SaaS provisioning tools could improve Fortinet FortiEDR."
"They can include the automation for the realtime updates. We have a network infrastructure with remote sites. Whenever they send updates, they are not automated. We have to go into the console and push those updates. I wish it was more automated. The update file is currently around 31 MB. It could be smaller."
"The dashboard isn't easy to access and manage."
"The security should be strong for the cloud. Some applications are on-prem and some are on the cloud. Fortinet should also have strong security for the cloud. There should be more security for the cloud."
"There's room for improvement in the quick response time and technical support for integration issues, especially when dealing with multiple vendors."
"The solution is not stable."
"It would be nice to have more features in vulnerability scanning, which I believe will happen eventually."
"The stability needs to be improved. There are bugs that you have to deal with."
"I would like for ESET to create a central management solution. This would make it practical to use the internet for medium-sized networks."
"They should have better support for different languages and auto-upgrading."
"I am a MAC user and my asset cybersecurity is continuously displaying warnings that I am not using their firewall."
"The product’s AI implementation feature could be better for learning user behavior."
"The interface is good. However, it could always be better. It could be more user-friendly."
"It would be useful if they could automate the deployment more."
"Right now, the solution provides some recommendations on the dashboard but we don't have any priorities. It's a mix of all the vulnerabilities and all the security recommendations. I would like to see some priority or categorization of high, medium, and low so that we can fix the high ones first."
"We encountered some issues when we were trying to enable automatic updates from our group policy."
"The solution could improve by providing more integration."
"Threat intelligence has the potential for improvement, particularly by integrating more sources."
"In active mode, it's great that it gives you so much information, but it does record every keystroke so you have a lot of logs... that amount of data logging started to add up in the cost."
"The solution can be more user-friendly."
"Microsoft Defender could be improved with features more like the McAfee ePO. It would be better if I had a console to get all the information for my endpoints. Maybe this is too much for it, but it would be better if it could handle those non-signature-based malicious codes or viruses."
"In terms of improvement, they update the platform it seems quite a bit. Every month something is in a new spot or something changed somewhere. There should be less of that."
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ESET Endpoint Protection Platform is ranked 9th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 96 reviews while Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is ranked 1st in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 182 reviews. ESET Endpoint Protection Platform is rated 8.2, while Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is rated 8.0. 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 Endpoint writes "Eliminates the need to look at multiple dashboards by automatically providing one XDR dashboard to show the security score of each subscription". ESET Endpoint Protection Platform is most compared with Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business, CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, Check Point Harmony Endpoint and Fortinet FortiClient, whereas Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is most compared with Symantec Endpoint Security, Intercept X Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne Singularity Complete and Fortinet FortiClient. See our ESET Endpoint Protection Platform vs. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint report.
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