We performed a comparison between Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Sophos EPP Suite based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two EPP (Endpoint Protection for Business) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Fortinet FortiEDR made our clients feel secure and more at ease, knowing that they had an EDR solution that would close the gap in their security posture."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the ability to customize it and to reduce its size. It lets you run in a very small window in terms of memory and resources on legacy cash registers."
"It is stable and scalable."
"Additionally, when it comes to EDR, there are more tools available to assist with client work."
"It is very easy to set up. I would rate my experience with the initial setup a ten out of ten, with ten being very easy to set up."
"The setup is pretty simple."
"The most valuable feature is the analysis, because of the beta structure."
"The console is easy to read. I also like the scanning part and the ability to move assets from one to the other."
"The most valuable features are the Windows Firewall and the regular virus definition updates. These features are very helpful and have helped to improve our security."
"One feature I like the most is vulnerability management, which shows any vulnerable software or OS present in my environment. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint provides a complete overview and also recommends the steps to mitigate the vulnerabilities or threats. Most of the other antivirus or EDR solutions generally don't provide vulnerability management. It is an add-on that Microsoft Defender for Endpoint provides."
"The primary advantage is that you don't need to install it. It's included in the Windows 10 delivery."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to effectively detect threats. It has the EDR feature, endpoint detection and response, and that is very good."
"What I like most is the protection against phishing emails and anti-spam."
"The visibility into threats that the solution provides is pretty awesome... This is something that makes me think, "Wow, okay. If I had my own organization, I would probably get this too." It stops the threat before an employee gets phished or something gets downloaded to their computer."
"The main features of this solution are that it handles everything by itself and is well integrated."
"The installation is straightforward."
"The most valuable features of Sophos EPP Suite are the detection capability, machine learning, ransomware protection, and live response."
"It is stable."
"The most valuable features of Sophos EPP Suite are the synchronized threat and ransomware protection."
"This product is quite stable and there are no problems with it."
"It is doing its job. We use it for standard antivirus purposes and for making sure that people aren't downloading infected attachments. Because we use the cloud version, it is easy to maintain. We don't have to do anything to really maintain it. It gets updated automatically."
"It's very light on the endpoints."
"Sophos EPP Suite's most valuable feature is ease of use."
"Sophos EPP Suite stands out with its user-friendly dashboard and strong web filtering features for enhanced online security."
"Making the portal mobile friendly would be helpful when I am out of office."
"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 SIEM could be improved."
"The solution is not stable."
"The support needs improvement."
"Cannot be used on mobile devices with a secure connection."
"Everything with Fortinet having to do with their cloud services. They need to invest more in their internal infrastructure that they are running in the cloud. One of the things I find with their cloud environment compared to others' is that they go cheap on the equipment. So it causes some performance degradation."
"I haven't seen the use of AI in the solution."
"The automation could be simpler on the mitigation side. It has a learning curve. Otherwise, it's pretty easy."
"I would like to have a dashboard that shows an overview of the results for the enterprise."
"The scanning is slow when it is working with incoming emails."
"They can improve it on the online protection front since people nowadays are moving online and working from home."
"Notifications are always popping up — I hate that."
"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."
"Sometimes, there are different skews. In a basic skew, they should have basic log analysis without the need to integrate with any third-party or SIEM solutions, like Sentinel. This would make it so much easier for users who don't have log collection or log analysis."
"Microsoft Defender for Endpoint's licensing is confusing. It has conflicting information on the website. We also faced integration issues with other systems. It makes laptops slower than traditional antivirus systems."
"Sophos does not currently inform users of potential compatability issues with Windows updates."
"The solution lacks technical support."
"The encryption features are not as good as McAfee's."
"The update part is a bit tricky in the solution...The support is not that good."
"From our enrollment perspective, I would say maybe it could be a little lighter in terms of agent usage so that there is less computer utilization."
"There has been an increase of about 7-10% in recent months. That's why we face issues with customers who have been using it since 2017."
"I would like to have the capability to support legacy operating systems because the majority now don't support Windows XP, and Windows 2000."
"The solution could improve in configuration and the central logging and dashboard."
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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is ranked 1st in EPP (Endpoint Protection for Business) with 78 reviews while Sophos EPP Suite is ranked 26th in EPP (Endpoint Protection for Business) with 30 reviews. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is rated 8.0, while Sophos EPP Suite is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint writes "You can access all your security data and telemetry from a single pane of glass". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos EPP Suite writes "A cost-effective solution for protecting and tracking endpoints". Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is most compared with Intercept X Endpoint, Symantec Endpoint Security, CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne Singularity Complete and Malwarebytes, whereas Sophos EPP Suite is most compared with Trend Micro Deep Security, Seqrite Endpoint Security, Trellix Endpoint Security, SentinelOne Singularity Complete and Xprotect . See our Microsoft Defender for Endpoint vs. Sophos EPP Suite report.
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