We performed a comparison between Microsoft Defender XDR and Microsoft Entra ID based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Microsoft Security Suite solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product integrates security into one tool instead of having third-party security tools."
"I like how Microsoft XDR and the other Microsoft products are integrated into a single unified security stack covering identity access management, endpoint protection, email, cloud applications, etc."
"I like that it's fully integrated with Windows, Microsoft 365 Exchange Online, and Outlook. It is better than other antivirus solutions because it's fully integrated with all Microsoft products. It's easy to integrate them and onboard all Windows devices from SCCM."
"The threat intelligence is excellent."
"In Microsoft 365 vendor products, monitoring and connectivity across all Microsoft and third-party connectors enable viewing of all activity within those environments."
"The EDR and the way it automatically responds to ransomware and other attacks are valuable features."
"From the perspective of Microsoft 365 XDR, the main benefit is a single, centralized dashboard offering the holistic visibility organizations crave."
"Advanced hunting is good. I like that. We can drill down to lots of details."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to deploy and make changes to every workstation that I need to. We use it to control policy and I can apply the right policies to all our 1,500 workstations, notebooks, et cetera."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to set up conditional access, where you can enforce users to connect using multifactor authentication."
"The boards for task tracking are a valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is the factor identification. I find that it is natural integration, and it is just a natural step. I do not need to do anything else."
"Active Directory itself is the best feature it has. It also gives us a single pane of glass for managing user access."
"Privileged Identity Management and Privileged Identity Management make controlling access considerably easier and ensure that authorized access is achieved."
"The user management groups are valuable. It is a pretty basic product, but user management, in general, is valuable with the ability to differentiate between business lines and add different policies, group-based management, and dynamic user groups."
"The most valuable features in Active Directory are the password writeback product and the MDM technology."
"This solution could be improved if it included features such as those offered by Malwarebytes."
"Sometimes, configurations take much longer than expected."
"Microsoft 365 Defender does not have a unique package with emerging endpoint security technologies, such as EDR and XDR."
"The mobile app support for Android and iOS is difficult and needs improvement."
"The solution could improve by having better machine learning and AI. Additionally, the interface, documentation, and integration could be better."
"The support could be more knowledgable to improve their offering."
"Advanced attacks could use an improvement."
"Automated playbooks and automated dashboards would be preferable to the way the data is currently being presented."
"I want to see new functionalities for the active directory."
"The Azure AD Application Proxy, which helps you publish applications in a secure way, has room for improvement. We are moving from another solution into the Application Proxy and it's quite detailed. Depending on the role you're signing in as, you can end up at different websites, which wasn't an issue with our old solution."
"The initial setup was complex."
"Some systems do not integrate very well with Azure AD. We thought of going for Okta, but later on we were able to achieve it, but not the way we wanted. It was not as easy as we thought it would be. The integration was not very seamless."
"It would be an improvement if Authenticator made it easier to recover the app if you reboot your cellphone and lose access."
"The documentation, and the way that people are notified of updates, are things that can be improved. I'm a big fan of Microsoft products but the way they document is not that great."
"Azure Active Directory could benefit by adding the capability for identity life cycle for the on-premise solution. For example, an HR solution, which is built on-premise or, in general, better on-premise capable solutions."
"If Microsoft can give us a way to see where this product is running, from a backend perspective, then it would be great."
Microsoft Defender XDR is ranked 1st in Microsoft Security Suite with 76 reviews while Microsoft Entra ID is ranked 4th in Microsoft Security Suite with 190 reviews. Microsoft Defender XDR is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Entra ID is rated 8.6. 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 Microsoft Entra ID writes "Allows users to authenticate from home and has excellent integrations in a simple, stable solution". Microsoft Defender XDR is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager, Wazuh and Fortinet FortiEDR, whereas Microsoft Entra ID is most compared with Microsoft Intune, Google Cloud Identity, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Yubico YubiKey and Cisco Duo. See our Microsoft Defender XDR vs. Microsoft Entra ID report.
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