We performed a comparison between Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Norton Security Premium [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, SentinelOne, ESET and others in Anti-Malware Tools."The integration with all variations of Microsoft Defender, for Endpoint, 365, and Cloud is valuable."
"Defender has very little impact on the end-user and the agent works quite well with a minimal impact on the client and server."
"It captures data through machine learning, which is built-in on the back-end. It also provides built-in analytics and a threat intelligence feature. It is a one-stop solution that doesn't require an antivirus because it comes prebuilt into Windows 10."
"Microsoft's technical support is fantastic."
"Defender is stable. The performance is good."
"Ensures that I'm working with a product that gets updated regularly without me having to remember to do it. Since it's a Microsoft product, I'm confident that it requires a low use of system resources. The benefit of that being that my computer isn't constantly being drained."
"The solution's threat protection is mostly AI and machine-learning based. That is the most important feature of the product. It also offers centralized management so I can remotely manage devices."
"We can run the virus scan across our entire environment."
"The most valuable feature is the quick installation."
"Security Premium's best features are blocking, notifications, and the user interface."
"The dashboard is good."
"The product is called Norton 360 all-in-one. It is a full product."
"The internet security was a plus, and it's pretty good."
"The antivirus aspect of the solution is very good."
"It does not take many resources during scanning."
"With the heightened security around phishing, identity theft, and malware, this is a good product."
"It is using a large space in your memory all the time. While an antivirus will use some of your memory, if they could reduce the load of the antivirus to some extent that would be good."
"On the Mac OS platform, there is no parity between Windows and Mac OS. The solution is very feature-rich and very well-integrated into Windows, and I guess baked into Windows 10 and Windows 11. Whereas, on the Mac OS platform, there is still some work there to give it a more feature-reach platform."
"Microsoft Defender in the basic form is not very useful for managing the security environment. The free version is not capable of covering the needs of centralized management, EDR, and behavioral analysis. If you don't have the commercial version, you can't have centralized management and set up the policies and other things. Each client is a standalone installation, which is not useful for security in an enterprise model."
"If you have multi-cloud like Google and AWS, the native solutions are better for those particular cases."
"I think Microsoft needs to improve some of the security aspects of Defender. The email part, in particular, needs to be improved in terms of security effectiveness."
"Microsoft Defender for Endpoint could provide us with a more holistic approach, such as collaboration. They can provide us with an environment from where we can manage all the endpoints from one central location, such as overall management."
"Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is secure but when it comes to security all solutions could improve security."
"I have accounts for administrators and corporate employees, but I also have accounts for students. I can't split these types of accounts. I need a separate configuration for both... I need to research how I can get alerts for only the administrative machines."
"The solution can improve the security modules."
"Having a dashboard that shows the different functions of Norton Security Premium can convince end users that the software is more than just an antivirus solution. This product offers several features, but end users think that it's just one out of the box solution, because the different functions are not explained in detail."
"The only problem with Norton Antivirus is that it consumes a lot of resources like CPU and memory in the background. Whenever it's scanning, my laptop becomes very slow, and the worst part is you cannot do anything about it. As this product is secured by my local IT team, you cannot even kill that process, and that's what I've felt about many other antivirus solutions. I'm using McAfee for personal use, and I have the same problem."
"I don't like the password manager of Norton Security Premium."
"Security Premium's cost could be lower."
"The product could always be more secure."
"It would be helpful for me if this solution works on our cloud backup data."
"The product is an antivirus, it should be updated automatically when needed."
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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is ranked 1st in Anti-Malware Tools with 182 reviews while Norton Security Premium [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Anti-Malware Tools with 13 reviews. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is rated 8.0, while Norton Security Premium [EOL] is rated 8.8. 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 Norton Security Premium [EOL] writes "User-friendly solution with good blocking". 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 Norton Security Premium [EOL] is most compared with .
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