Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Stability
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Samer Samir
Azure Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The solution is stable.
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reviewer2098923
Vice President of IT at a healthcare company
It's pretty stable.
With a browser or web-based system, it might confuse things, saying, "You don't have access," because you should have logged in with your admin credentials but you logged in with your standard user credentials because you are on the same desktop.
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Karl Galbraith
Independent Security Consultant/ Virtual CISO at Galbraith & Associates Inc.
Defender is robust.
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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
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The solution is stable.
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Prashant_Pawar
Principal Architect at LTIMINDTREE
The product is stable.
View full review »Its stability is lesser than some of the competition. I've seen machines having a blue screen. I've seen machines block, but it is usually a problem related to the lack of resources. I wouldn't deploy it on a machine with less than 16 gigs of memory. All the issues that we had on the laptops were essentially related to memory because it does all the analysis in memory, and it eats a lot of memory to do that. So, stability is more a function of making sure that your endpoint farm has what's available. If you've got less than 16 gigs, I would not recommend it. You need to either change your endpoints or consider using another solution because although it'll work, it can be very slow.
View full review »The product is fairly stable.
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James Hinojosa
Sr. Lead Consultant at catapult
It's pretty stable. I haven't had any reliability concerns with Defender, and there have not been too many complaints from users that have to have extensive reboots or any kind of performance impact. So I would say it's pretty stable.
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reviewer2151291
Senior Consultant - Cloud & Infrastructure Security at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is stable.
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KevinFreeman
Director of Security at Overseas Adventure Travel Partners, Inc.
Its stability is very good.
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Bikram Singh
IT Manager at SAI Systems
It is highly stable. We don't even have to look into it to see if it has stopped working, or whether it is doing its job well or not. We have around 500 devices in our organization, and all devices do the regular login with the logs. It is immensely stable.
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Moe
Infrastructure and Security Manager at a sports company with 11-50 employees
With Windows, we have been very happy. We have had no issues or problems whatsoever. We had one issue on the Mac OS platform when an update to Mac OS was deployed. It wasn't a major update, like Monterey. It was a point update. So I think it might have been 12.2.1 where the Defender icon was starting to display across, which means I found a threat or it's not working properly. We had that across a handful of machines. I did a bunch of Google searches and sort of realized this was happening to a lot of other organizations, so it was probably a false positive.
I contacted Microsoft support who confirmed that it was just a visual glitch. I guess Apple is well-known for this. When they do push out their updates, they attempt to break the occasional third-party system. That was the only issue that we have encountered, which was more a visual glitch than an actual threat.
It is pretty much zero-touch because the definitions sort of update themselves. The application updates itself because it is deployed through Microsoft Intune. Therefore, the maintenance is pretty straightforward.
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Shviam Malaviya
Head of Security at Mannai Microsoft Solutions
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is stable.
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reviewer2315553
Senior program lead at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
We have never seen any downtime in it, so it is incredibly stable.
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Hari Shankar
IT Architect at a real estate/law firm with 10,001+ employees
We have never had any downtime or any other issues.
View full review »It's not very stable because Microsoft keeps making a lot of improvements as it's a new product. For example, today I might see something on one page, on another day, it might be located on some other page or portal. However, I have seen stability to some extent over the last couple of months.
View full review »The solution is stable. There are no bugs or glitches and it doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable and the performance is good.
View full review »Defender's stability is one of the things I love most about the solution.
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AntonPryvalko
Sales Manager at Syntech
The stability of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is good.
View full review »Its stability is fine. It is a built-in and legacy solution. It can stand up to any other endpoint security solution.
It's very reliable and very dependable. I don't see any issues with it. In fact, it's the best product I have used because it's integrated with Windows 10. It doesn't eat up resources while running like other products. It's a really well-thought product.
View full review »Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is stable.
View full review »The stability is great.
View full review »I can't think of any ongoing issues that we have other than our own internal minor configuration. I don't know if this is in there, but I would love the ability to see how we're deployed and get recommendations.
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Adeeb Khan
Senior Data Hosting and Security Special at Two aquate
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is extremely stable.
View full review »The solution is solid.
The biggest "catch" is that clients do not always want to implement systems according to the manufacturer's best practices. There's always friction if the client has in mind one way it should be, but it was designed differently.
In our case, we're talking about a big company that is used to being a big enough client that the vendor will change what they do to accommodate them. Microsoft does not have to. That's not a criticism of Microsoft. It's just that Microsoft is big. They are not a little regional provider. They will not change something in their product that's distributed globally to accommodate a client with a non-standard way of wanting to implement something. There's friction with that.
I do not see that as friction with Microsoft because of Microsoft, I see it as the friction of a client that takes a solution from a huge provider but sometimes has the mindset that they want the attention that comes when they purchase a solution from a small provider.
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reviewer1732953
Group CISO, VP of Group Security, Risk & Compliance at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint has been stable in our usage.
View full review »It's a stable solution.
View full review »It's stable. From time to time, there's a blackout on the web pages.
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reviewer1633539
Manager at a recruiting/HR firm with 51-200 employees
So far, so good. We haven't had any issues related to the service not being available or anything like that.
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reviewer2169915
Information Security Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is extremely stable.
View full review »Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is a highly stable solution.
View full review »When testing to see if the antivirus solution is working properly with a lot of different events occurring on the device, we found that the Defender interface can become cluttered. The solution does not always give us a real-time view of what is happening, making it difficult to navigate the user interface. Therefore, there is potential for improvement in terms of stability.
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reviewer1984494
Sr Principal Cybersecurity Engineer at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
The solution is very stable, and that has improved with time. It used to be hard on the workstations, but we experienced those issues eight years ago. Microsoft always came out with a patch within a week or two, which would fix the problem. Nowadays, the tool is very stable; the only potential issue is if something happens on the cloud end, as the dashboards are cloud-based. That's something I've yet to personally experience, though.
View full review »I haven't seen any downtime. I don't see any issues with the stability. If there is any downtime, Microsoft will send a message on the dashboard and we can see any service issues.
View full review »I give the stability a nine out of ten.
View full review »It's very stable.
Generally speaking, there are no bugs or glitches. We have had issues twice in the past two months, but nothing too critical. Before those two occasions, it hadn't happened in a year or more.
View full review »Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is a stable product.
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Paul-Jose
Cyber Security Analyst with 1-10 employees
The stability is good.
View full review »It is a stable solution.
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reviewer1828581
ICT&CyberSecurity Services Team Lead at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
It is good. It is stable. Once you set it up, it works, but we haven't tested it on a large time scale. The solution itself is pretty young. We'll see how stable it will be in the next few years.
View full review »The product is very stable and quite reliable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. The performance has been good.
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Sivakumar Rathinakumar
Head of Security at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is stable.
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reviewer1945362
Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is stable.
View full review »It's quite stable.
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reviewer1284948
Network Engineer at a real estate/law firm with 51-200 employees
Its stability is quite good, especially with Windows 11, which is a very stable operating system. Of course, you can run into some issues. We have some issues with docking stations for Surface and screens, but generally, the operating system together with the endpoint security solution is very stable.
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Mauricio Garcia
Infrastructure Engineer at Red Cross International Committee
The stability of Defender for Endpoint is very good. I haven't had trouble with it.
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Nirav Kumar
Cyber Security Specialist at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
It has been quite stable up until now. It does not break. Microsoft is developing on it quite frequently and more and more features are coming in, but overall it is quite stable. It does not break that often.
As we have moved away from Microsoft Defender Antivirus and to the EDR solution, we have seen very few issues so far that users have faced with this. There have been very occasional performance issues for some users, but they have been very rare.
View full review »This product is pretty stable.
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Drake Scott
WPS Security Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is generally stable, but the frequent product changes made by the development team have caused several instances of unusability this year. These changes often introduce bugs that disrupt web functionality, bringing it to a standstill. While the product itself is stable when not affected by these bugs, the recurring issue has occurred three or four times in the past year.
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reviewer1812804
Associate Director-Technology Consultancy at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is stable.
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reviewer1324401
Principle IT Support Engineer at a retailer with 201-500 employees
The solution is stable; Microsoft goes down very rarely. It happened just a few times over my career. If it does go down, the impact is significant.
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Mike LaRochelle
Cloud Architect at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
The stability is excellent and I've never encountered any issues; it has consistently performed well.
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Joshua Mpere
SOC Analyst with 1-10 employees
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is stable. I have only experienced one crash.
View full review »Because it is in the cloud, the stability is good.
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reviewer1489944
Security Technical Specialist at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
The solution is stable.
View full review »The stability has been fine. There are no bugs or glitches and it doesn't crash or freeze.
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Abhisek B
Senior Manager at RP Sanjiv Goenka Group
The stability of the product is good. I have not dealt with bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. the performance is good. It's reliable.
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reviewer1629081
Technology Consultant at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Stability-wise, I have not had another product that has been as stable and has had fewer issues. It's amazing.
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reviewer1564452
Head of IT at a engineering company with 10,001+ employees
We haven't had any issues. I haven't had any bad experiences. I expect it to work, and it works. It is just there. For example, when you have Word or the whole Office package, as long as it works, people are happy. You just have it, and you don't have to say, "Oh, this version is really..." It is just Microsoft. For most users, Microsoft is Windows, Defender, and the Office package. As long as you just use that, then people will say, "Okay, we're just basically using Windows." They don't care about one thing or another, as long as IT works.
As long as things are slowly upgraded, it works, and we don't have any issues, then I am happy.
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Nchaupe Setshedi
Cyber Threat Hunter at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
In terms of resources, I believe the solution is more resource-intensive because I can initiate multiple automated investigations, which will likely take a day or two to complete.
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Joseph Dacuma
Cloud Security Engineer at Theos
I rate Defender a nine out of ten for stability.
View full review »The stability is okay.
View full review »The stability has been really good so far. I haven't seen it go down or have an issue where it didn't work.
We have had some integration issues when something breaks, but that's just occasional. So far, it's good.
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reviewer2072442
Cyber Security Senior Analyst at a security firm with 51-200 employees
In comparison to the other solutions that I've had experience with, Microsoft Defender was very good.
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AJITH H G
Modern Workspace Solution (Technical Specialist - Managing Consultant) at GFI India
Stability-wise, it is responsive and I don't see any drawbacks. They have additional features that make it a little more robust.
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reviewer1680546
IT Engineer at a real estate/law firm with 201-500 employees
The solution is stable.
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Fred M
Chief Executive Officer at Apollo Asset Management Company
It is quite stable. We have not had any cases, i.e., viruses, that would require a reboot, etc. We have never had a situation where we needed to reinstall the tools as a result of the Defender application or a feature being corrupt.
Four IT support technicians are responsible for administrating Microsoft Defender in our organization. They make sure that upgrades and updates are done in a good timeframe.
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Vili Nurminen
IT Development Manager at S-ryhmä / S Group
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is stable.
View full review »It is stable.
View full review »The solution is stable and responsive.
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YogendraSingh
Head-IT/SAP at Barista Coffee Company Ltd.
The solution is very stable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze.
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reviewer1501215
Principal Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Like every other security product out there, the stability of Defender for Endpoint is a work in progress. The solution is trying to address a tough problem and anybody will tell you that cyber security is not a fair fight. It's just incredibly hard to defend against the bad actors. Everybody is scurrying right now to come up with different ways to stop the problem and it's just not there yet.
View full review »We are testing it right now and we didn't get into the production state just yet. Therefore, it's hard to gauge the capabilities in terms of stability. So far, however, it has been stable.
View full review »Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is stable, except for occasional internet connection issues, but it's stable.
View full review »Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is stable in my usage.
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Abdelkader Raway
Works at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
It is stable for the time being.
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reviewer1757103
Cyber Security Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It can get a little laggy sometimes, but overall, it's fine when investigating events.
View full review »We need to test its functionality in heavy environments.
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NiravKumar
Cyber Security Specialist at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
It is still a new product, and there are many reported bugs in terms of stability and impact on the endpoints.
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OmidKoushki
Solution Architect at KIAN company
This is a very stable solution and we plan to continue using it.
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Mircea Sandu
Solutions Architect at SC PROSERVICECORP SRL
It is very stable. It is highly recommended.
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reviewer896508
Infrastructure Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's very stable.
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint has been stable.
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reviewer1435104
Managing Director at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
It's a stable solution.
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reviewer1846029
Engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
I would rate it an eight out of ten in terms of stability.
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reviewer1662975
Security Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Microsoft has some creative accounting when they promise an SLA of 99.99%. But it is generally good. There's always going to be a problem with the cloud. If it works 99% of the time, that's great.
The frustrating thing is, you're not sure if there's a problem with your configuration or if the service itself is down because Microsoft tends to only report that the service is down much later than when you started experiencing things. So sometimes I have to jump onto a private forum or a Slack channel and ask other consultants if they experienced something similar. But when it works, it works. There's never going to be a cloud solution that has 100% uptime.
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Oriyomi Fowler
Head, Information Security & Network Operations at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees
With respect to the stability of the product line, Microsoft has many products that do almost the same thing. The question becomes which one you want to use. This is a good product but at the same time, after a while, you don't know if it is the next one that Microsoft is going to stop releasing because of other products that practically do the same thing.
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reviewer1007844
Product Manager at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
This solution looks stable. Provided that Windows 10 is updated, everything is okay.
View full review »Defender is stable, I haven't had any problems with viruses when using it, and it's easy to update.
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Sabina C
Sr. IT Business Analyst at Citigroup
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint has been stable. It does not slow down my computer.
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reviewer1653642
Manager of Information Systems at a engineering company with 51-200 employees
We had absolutely no issues with the stability of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. We did not experience any bugs or glitches.
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reviewer1386096
Assistant Manager IT at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees
This is a stable product. We have been using the standard version for a long time and it hasn't negatively affected our environment. Generally speaking, it is reliable.
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reviewer2237718
Technical Account Manager at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
I give the stability an eight out of ten.
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Oleksii-Shcherbatiuk
IT Director at Innovecs
It's quite stable. Sometimes it can overload the CPU of endpoints, but Microsoft provides ways to solve this problem.
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Avinash Shet
Sr SOC Analyst at a security firm with 201-500 employees
The stability is good. It's a stable platform. I don't see any issues right now. However, I did see something in the past. I can't quite remember the exact situation. It's resolved and right now there are no issues.
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Rupesh Singh
Technical Team Lead at Alepo
Stability-wise, it is good, and it performs very nicely.
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Reviewer694845
IT Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
This is a stable solution that has matured over the years.
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reviewer1216809
Information Security Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
It seems stable.
View full review »With what we have seen, it's a stable solution.
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reviewer1293498
Sr. Consultant at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
The stability is great. It just keeps getting more and more stable. As it matures, it's going to be very good.
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EdherIbañez
Subject Matter Expert at Vision Software
I don't recall any issues with the solution.
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reviewer1674681
Cyber Security BA/BSA at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The solution was very stable.
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Rudy Zurita
Consultor Senior at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
It performs well. The stability is seamless.
View full review »I find the solution to be stable.
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ZelalemGedefie
Senior System Administrator at Debre Markos University
The solution is stable and secure.
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reviewer1374351
Security Architect at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees
It's my understanding that the solution is very stable. It's a pretty mature solution.
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MicroAdmin677
Microsoft Enterprise administrator at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's really stable. I've used a lot of products, like ESET and Kaspersky. None of them are comparable with this one. This one is much better.
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is a stable solution.
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reviewer1570806
Azure Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It is okay in terms of stability. I haven't seen any issues. Even if you go for a third-party vendor as your primary anti-malware software, you can get the benefit of Defender in a passive mode.
I am an Azure engineer, and I work with an architect to design the solutions. I'm not a security person, and I don't know whether it catches all the new malware that comes into the IT world, and how quickly it gets updated because it is not my area of work as I'm not an SEC OP admin. I have read a few articles mentioning that the engine might only be 80% or 90% up to date. Obviously, no engine is 100% up to date, but it is still a little bit behind some of the third-party vendors.
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Devanand PR
IT Support Executive at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees
It is very stable.
You do not need to worry about maintenance. It is automatically updated. Sometimes it will show you a red marker to do a system scan. People normally kind of ignore that, but I suggest people do a system scan from time to time. Now, what happens is just a bubble icon showing a red cross sign, but that may not be enough. It should give a pop-up window to remind people to scan the system once a month or quarter. It should be built-in scanning, without asking anybody, once per month or quarter.
View full review »The solution is stable.
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NaveenKumar21
Senior IT Manager at Excelra
It is stable, but it depends on how you configure the existing ATP and what existing features you need to enable it.
Based on the features that are enabled, it will work perfectly. 60% to 80% will depend on the configuration that is done for the ATP trade products.
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Syed Asif
Cloud Consultant at Brio Technologies Private Limited
It's a stable product. Microsoft only recently entered this market and nobody believed that Microsoft antivirus would be good. They are now trying to prove everyone wrong in that sense by having a good security product.
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John-Maina
Navision Consultant and user support at NCPD
The solution is very stable. It has good features that make it efficient in the security aspects of our systems.
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Jean-Jacques Niava
Deputy Director at BG Service
It's a good product but it is limited in some cases. I had a bad experience because a few weeks ago I was in Seoul in Korea and with my Dropbox, my children did some things on my computer at home and I got ransomware to Defender and it corrupted my whole Dropbox. The stability can use improvement.
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reviewer1701507
Delivery manager at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
This solution is very much stable.
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Wai Kok Cheng
Head of Information Security at K2 Baseline Sdn Bhd
It is stable.
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AndyChen4
Works at Systex Software
In general, Defender Antivirus can work with my operating system. So, its performance is okay.
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Lalit Vazirani
Director at Darknext
The solution is stable.
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reviewer1432815
Project Director at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is very stable.
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reviewer1280631
Manager Cyber Defense Operations Centre at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
It is stable.
View full review »Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is a very stable solution.
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reviewer1396728
Technology Consultant at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
I am satisfied with the stability of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.
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Koen Eersels
System Engineer at Dr. Marc Daenen
For me, this solution is both reliable and stable.
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Augusta Marbenny
MIS Specialist at a agriculture with 201-500 employees
Defender is stable. The performance is good.
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reviewer1473762
Head Of Information Technology at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution is quite stable. It goes well with Windows applications. We haven't had any issues with it so far. It doesn't crash or freeze or glitch. However, we haven't tried the app just yet.
View full review »Windows Defender is a stable product and we plan to continue using it in the future.
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Mani MS
CRM & IT Head at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
In my experience, Microsoft Windows Defender has never caused any issues as such. It is pretty much stable and has not affected the system resources as per my observation.
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Ganusha Alwis
Deputy General Manager at SLT Visioncom Pvt Ltd
Microsoft Windows Defender is stable.
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Mahendra Patel
SOC Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
This solution has very good stability.
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James Phoon
Sales Director at CLoud3 Solutions Pte Ltd
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is stable.
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reviewer1596288
Specialist Consultant in Microsoft Security at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
I like its stability a lot.
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Charles Levy
Systems Administrator at The Port Authority of Jamaica
We have onboarded a number of machines without any issues.
We find that Microsoft Defender Antivirus is very stable. We've experienced complications with other solutions in the past and found that this is one of the most stable solutions. It's also very scalable, too.
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reviewer1473762
Head Of Information Technology at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is very stable for Windows.
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Ibikunle Imam
COO at Floating-Dot Technology LTD
In my experience, Microsoft Windows Defender has never caused any issues in operation. It is very stable. It doesn't affect the system.
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reviewer1781595
IT Operations Lead at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The solution has good performance, I have not seen a problem.
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Sipho Ngubonde
Admin at IEC (Electoral Commission of South Africa)
Defender is a highly stable product.
View full review »The stability of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is good.
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reviewer1520301
Consulting Director at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
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reviewer1505484
Owner at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
On Mac, it's quite unstable and unusable; however, it's very stable for Windows. We're content with what it does and how it works.
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reviewer940044
Senior Manager -Datacenter Planning and Operations at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Defender is stable enough and is competitive with the other products in the market.
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AbdullahAl Masum
Professional Prospect List Building Service Provider, Email Sourcer, Virtual Assistant at Freelance
Stability-wise, this is a strong product and it works better than other anti-virus solutions.
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reviewer1532022
Technical Project Manager at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The solution has been stable.
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reviewer1335006
Program Manager at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is stable.
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reviewer1734894
Cyber Security Consultant at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
This solution is quite stable. In our opinion, it's similar to those signature-based antivirus software, and almost at the same level.
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Gabriel Petcu
Program Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The solution is stable.
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ITsece56457
IT Security Analyst at Ingenium Group
I haven't had any noticeable issues with it. It's quite stable.
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reviewer1741080
Administrator at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The solution is stable and working fine for me. I haven't faced any problem with it.
View full review »The solution is stable but sometimes when you do a security update when it starts, you see the hinge process in Task Manager. It also sometimes corrupts the PC. You need to either start it or recalibrate. If the installation happened without it starting, like patching without starting, it's better.
With Windows Defender, it will want to do these updates so that when you install an update it has to be done with a Windows update and then you can start. If you can manage it easily in a natural phase like updating security, ejecting and installing, it's better. Like checking a box.
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reviewer1632729
QA Test Lead at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees
I've been using this solution for three years and haven't had any problems.
View full review »The solution is very stable. So far I haven't had any issues on my laptop. It uses very little resources. It doesn't crash or freeze. There aren't bugs or glitches that I have noticed. It's reliable.
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Olive Kusumbara
Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
So far, we haven't had any issues, and we're using it for the server right now.
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reviewer1516353
Technical Support Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
For the most part, free things are not as effective as licensing or something you purchase. That's why many times our clients ask for a licensed antivirus such as Kaspersky. Our clients do ask for licensed Kaspersky or BitDefender, or other antiviruses. Windows Defender, which is just a free version, is not as effective. It doesn't have deep support or deep protection.
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reviewer1464093
Co-Founder at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
It is stable.
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reviewer1238874
Network Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Windows Defender is very stable. We have not experienced bugs or glitches at a rate higher or lower than other software.
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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
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