According to our process, our organization usually explores three solutions by making a detailed technical comparison. After that, based on the business requirements, pricing and technical ratings that our experts provide, we go ahead with one of them. I do not know which two solutions were compared with Trend Micro Deep Security.

We were looking for a tool to help secure our environment. There wasn't anything immediately available as an AWS native service, so we looked for a third-party tool which could do it. 

We would like to see more from AWS natively on the intrusion detection side.

I know that there is another product that we use that's a competitor. It has a team of specialists that monitor the logs. If you've got the product installed on a server, they monitor it live. That's very useful because it adds another dynamic.

We are in process of evaluating the XDR solution. We might go with Vision One. I'm not sure about what has been finalized. 

We are researching another solution right now. Our strategy is to find the last best version that Trend Micro has for covering endpoint detection and response.  We scaled for the next version that we have now, and we are seeing if other solutions help more. We're looking into the Kaspersky Endpoint Suite. 

I was not at the company when they evaluated the other products. I do know that they evaluated Symantec.

Trend Micro was selected because it has better whitelisting of applications, its intrusion detection was far superior, and it has configurability.

for our customers i also evaluated: Symantec, Kaspersky, Sophos. Bitdefender

There are products, like Symantec, but Deep Security from Trend Micro is quite helpful for us. It is being absorbed by a lot of customers, whether they belong to an enterprise or the public sector. It is highly adopted.

We went with Trend Micro because it was more cloud native, the architecture was more on the high availability side of it, and it had the the implementation that we wanted.

After our move to virtualization was complete and its security woes were becoming evident, we began our search for a new security solution that could protect both its physical and virtual environments. After a three-month proof of concept with solutions from Gartner and Forrester’s top five security vendors, we selected Trend Micro Deep Security. “We wanted a solution that provided seamless integration with VMware vCenter management software and true agentless deployment. Deep Security for VMware was the only solution that really worked.

We did evaluate other options, including Kaspersky. I know that it does not have the capability that we need. We did use it for endpoints, but we were not happy with it at the time.

There were three runners up when evaluating this product: Sophos, Symantec, and Trend Micro.

We chose Trend Micro for the following reasons:

• Its smaller footprint.
• It did not take up a lot of storage space. 
• The agent was small enough to where you wouldn't even notice it.
• The ease for the user to install it themselves. 
• The actual web portal.
• Cost: The price offered was decent compared to Sophos, which was extremely expensive.

We resell a variety of products, some of which are similar to the Trend Micro solution, but our recommendation depends on our customer's requirements. Some customers will demand a particular vendor, such as Trend Micro, while others will specify that they do not want to use solutions by a specific vendor. In these cases, we work on alternative solutions for our clients.

Some of the other options our clients consider are solutions by McAfee, Kaspersky, and Symantec. 

We already use Trend Micro for their endpoint protection. Therefore, we selected them for their server product because we liked their endpoint protection product. The process took a week to ten days. 

As a user, I am not finding any drawbacks or problems in this security product. But I do see in some forums comments about issues other customers are facing. I know there are multiple products in the market that are maybe better than Trend Micro. That is why I came to your site and researched other solutions. I have found that Palo Alto is better than Trend Micro. But we have not tested it yet, so I requested from Palo Alto Networks to show us some other products. They are coming next week to show us. If we find that they are better than Trend Micro we will switch. But overall, Trend Micro is working very well.

We had also evaluated Symantec in the past.

We evaluated McAfee and Symantec.

We've looked at McAfee, Kaspersky, and Symantec.

My team specifically looks at what's there on a regular basis. We work closely with the security team to be sure that we are making a good, conscious choice on an annual basis.

We also considered Pure Storage. In the end, we decided to only pursue Trend Micro because it is easier for us to install and use. The decision to use Trend Micro was based on cost, brand name, and ease of use.

I was pretty aware of the market in 2010. I knew Symantec was not doing the job anymore and I had used Trend Micro in a previous life and knew the OfficeScan product. I also considered Sophos as they have a large local presence. I do not ever want McAfee again (bad experience back in the ‘90s). And I didn’t trust the Russian product.

ESET and Symantec

I wasn't involved with the process, but I know we looked at a number of other solutions. I know, however, the reasons they went with this solution is because of its compatibility with VMware, which was one of the big factors. Also, the cost was a deciding factor.

We did not evaluate anything else.