We performed a comparison between Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and WatchGuard Gateway AntiVirus based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, SentinelOne, ESET and others in Anti-Malware Tools."Offers good protection."
"The most important feature is the way it monitors the threats and blocks them. About 10 days ago, we were implementing SOC for a particular client. The SOC was not yet implemented, but they had Microsoft Defender. That organization was hit by some ransomware, but the hacker could not succeed. Because of the EDR, the hacker could not install the hacking tools. They were trying to do that, but Microsoft Defender completely blocked that. The hacker could log into the system, but they could not install anything."
"The solution's main antivirus capabilities are okay. So far, they have kept us safe."
"Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is different from other security tools because we can configure it to use multiple types of scanning or archiving."
"It's great for investigating what's happening on a machine. They show a whole bunch of machine timeline events that are related to a security incident. They have quite good details on the things related to threat and vulnerability management, such as any weakness that has been disclosed publicly, assets that are exposed, and if there is an exploit active in the wild for that vulnerability. It can provide you with all such information, which is cool."
"The solution's latest features for threat analysis are updated to provide us with future protection against the latest threats worldwide."
"I like that Defender is integrated and doesn't have a third-party payload trying to advertise subscription renewal."
"Defender is a part of Windows; you just need to enable it. There is no need to install anything."
"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."
"There is room to improve the security of the solution."
"Alerts need to be sent immediately because as it is now, you see some of them without delay and others arrive perhaps 30 minutes later, and it leaves important gaps in terms of information gathering."
"It would be nice to have a paid upgrade that would provide additional screening of the day-to-day activities."
"It makes your Surface devices hot. It is resource-intensive. It strains your CPU, not more than other file scanners around, but it also does a lot more. When you are transmitting files or data, it is continuously scanning the traffic and analyzing it bit by bit to see what's going on, and that, of course, is costly in terms of CPU. It is CPU intensive, and if you are on battery, it drains your battery fast. That's the only drawback that it has."
"I had some cases a while back and told an agent my issue. When I called the next day, I had to explain everything again to a different person, so I found it annoying to repeat myself all over."
"The central management console should be improved because it provides limited options to configure Windows Defender."
"I would like to see fewer pop messages and alerts."
"Microsoft should improve support for third-party platforms, because not all functionality is available for all of them. It's a good product, but they should just extend the functionality for all platforms."
"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 39th 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).
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