Cisco SecureX vs Cynet comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 7, 2023

We performed a comparison between Cisco SecureX and Cynet based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.

Features: Cisco SecureX earns high marks for its automated utilities, comprehensive visibility, and seamless integration with external resources. Cynet offers strong ransomware protection and an intuitive interface. Users say Cisco SecureX needs better documentation and integration with on-premises systems. It would also benefit by expanding its compatibility with third-party solutions, while Cynet needs to expand device support and add customization options. Users suggest improving network monitoring and strengthening integration with other tools.
Service and Support: Some users describe Cisco support as dependable and efficient, while others noted a decline in quality due to personnel changes. Cynet's customer service is consistently lauded for its excellence. They have a dedicated support team that is available round the clock, and they also have a contingency plan for urgent incidents.
Ease of Deployment: Setting up Cisco SecureX is generally considered to be straightforward in cloud environments, but it requires more effort to integrate the solution with on-premise products. Cynet’s setup is highly efficient, with the ability to configure thousands of devices quickly.
Pricing: A few users said Cisco SecureX’s price could be lower, given that it is included for free with certain Cisco products. Customers generally view Cynet's pricing and licensing experience as affordable and a good value for its features.
ROI: Cisco SecureX provides a positive ROI by speeding up detection and resolution. It also decreases workloads through automation and proactive information gathering. Cynet yields an excellent ROI by preventing cyberattacks and safeguarding sensitive data.

Comparison Results: Users prefer Cynet over Cisco SecureX. Cynet stands out with its streamlined setup process, customized to meet individual requirements. Users appreciate its intuitive interface, automated updates, and low maintenance requirements. Cynet goes above and beyond by offering robust defense against ransomware and an extensive SOC monitoring service. Cisco SecureX received mixed reviews for its setup, documentation, and support. Users say SecureX has room for improvement in terms of integration and documentation.

To learn more, read our detailed Cisco SecureX vs. Cynet Report (Updated: May 2024).

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Microsoft Defender XDR

Market share comparison

As of June 2024, in the Extended Detection and Response (XDR) category, the market share of Microsoft Defender XDR is 23.3% and it increased by 248.9% compared to the previous year. The market share of Cisco SecureX is 1.3% and it decreased by 60.2% compared to the previous year. The market share of Cynet is 2.9% and it decreased by 50.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Extended Detection and Response (XDR)

Unique Categories:

Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

8.4%

Microsoft Security Suite

4.9%

Application Security Tools

0.1%

Vulnerability Management

0.2%

Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)

0.9%

User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)

5.3%

Featured Reviews

Brian Mulambuzi

IT Technician Engineer at Nevasa Foundation

May 14, 2024

Helps improve our visibility, our security posture, and defends against advanced threats

Microsoft Defender XDR provides a unified identity and access management platform. It does a good job with identity protection. Including identity and access management within Defender XDR is valuable because it streamlines our organization's security by consolidating multiple tools into one. This eliminates the need to manage and pay for separate solutions and licenses, simplifying our security posture. Microsoft Defender XDR has improved our visibility, making us more efficient by providing threat details and remediation steps as well as improving our security posture. It safeguards our organization by preventing advanced threats like ransomware and business email compromise, along with stopping lateral movement within our network that could enable attackers to spread and gain wider access. It includes the ability to stop attacks and adapt to evolving threats. This is an important feature for us. We have been enabled to discontinue using Microsoft Sentinel. Microsoft Defender XDR helps save costs through the licensing for businesses which is around $20 each and helps save time for our security team.

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Alon K

CTO & VP of Cyber Solutions, Israel at Rockwell Automation

Aug 5, 2022

Gives our customers visibility and they don't have to go multiple management consoles anymore

One of the examples is related to forensics. The forensics are amazing because when you have enrichment, and the solutions talk with each other, when you need it, you have the ability to know everything in the organization: when, why, whatever. With just one click you have information from email, from the endpoint, from the web. Let's say that tomorrow morning, you have a ransom[ware] attack in your organization and you would like to know from which email it came, or where the customer saved the file, even though the incident didn't occur at the same moment. With SecureX, you have Cisco Threat Response inside. [With] one click, you get all of the flow. That's amazing value. That also releases resources for our customers. The customers don't have to connect many systems and try to register the event on each system, or to go to the SIEM and do a correlation. That's the one-stop shop for the customers, and that's amazing.

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Mebbert Chiyangi

Information Security Analyst at INFRATEL CORPORATION ZAMBIA LIMITED

Aug 29, 2023

Efficient endpoint protection features and highly stable and scalable solution

Our primary use case would be incident response Cynet has mostly helped with endpoint protection. Its ability to revert back from a previous state is quite notable. This feature is particularly valuable because, for maintaining integrity, it can inspect the socket for any firewall modifications.…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Defender is easy to use. It has a nice console, and everything is all in one place."

"The most valuable features are spam filtering, attachment filtering, and antivirus protection."

"The integration, visibility, vulnerability management, and device identification are valuable."

"The most valuable feature is the network security."

"The attack simulation is excellent; initially, this feature wasn't very robust, but Microsoft improved what we could achieve with it. We can now customize our practice phishing emails and include our company logo, for example. Attack simulation also helps integrate with third-party solutions where applicable and provides an overview of our security architecture through testing. The summary includes areas for improvement in our protection and what steps we need to take to get there."

"I like the easy integration and advanced possibilities. We can implement it at customer sites in a few clicks, but we can also dive deep and drill down to extended features. There's a very good starting point to get into this product and all the features from Defender."

"We can automate routine tasks and write scripts to carry out difficult tasks, which makes things easier for us."

"Another noteworthy feature that I find appealing in Microsoft Defender is the credit-backed simulation. This feature enables organizations to train their users on effectively responding to phishing emails through a simulated training environment."

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"The ability to create firewalls online has been most valuable including the ability to create rules."

"Integrates well with our existing security infrastructure."

"It has evolved a lot, just that monitoring piece to the current Orchestrator piece. The additional analytics are there. They now have something called Insight, which can basically take data from Microsoft Azure AD and Intune to give us information about our endpoints. This is detailed information about the endpoints, from Secure Endpoint and all these different products. So, it is just constantly evolving. Every time that it evolves, we have more information with more visibility. There are more features that we have that just make everything so much easier, and it is in one place. I don't have to keep going back and forth. I don't have to go to Secure Endpoint and ISE to get the data. I don't have to go to Intune on Microsoft to get the information. It is all in one place."

"Using SecureX, a tool provided by Cisco, we can easily integrate it with many of our other Cisco products such as Cisco ISE and many networking devices."

"The forensics are amazing because when you have enrichment, and the solutions talk with each other, when you need it, you have the ability to know everything in the organization: when, why, whatever."

"One of the most valuable features is the simplicity of deploying SecureX. It's very easy to do that and then you gain very detailed visibility into everything that's going on in your network and, obviously, at the device level. There's just a wealth of information that you can pull from all of these products that are part of SecureX. You know exactly if you have an issue or not."

"SecureX takes all the separate pieces of security within your company, adds in intelligence from different sites and services on the internet, and makes them work together."

"The most valuable feature is its ability to manage all the applications and visibility. For example, if there is malware, spam, or another component that wants to attack the company in my servers, network, or applications, then SecureX will react to the problem."

More Cisco SecureX pros

"Its ability to revert back from a previous state is quite notable. This feature is particularly valuable because, for maintaining integrity, it can inspect the socket for any firewall modifications. In practice, it allows us to return to a previous configuration when everything was functioning correctly."

"Cynet is unique in that it has almost everything included and it was built up from the ground, instead of a bundle of purchased and composed modules. It gives you easier very good visibility than Sentinel One as well as a lower maintenance burden."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is the network part of it because most of the endpoint products in XDS products we find Cynet has networking user behavior analysis and network analysis, for the whole team."

"It is a very stable solution...It is a very scalable solution...The initial setup of Cynet was easy."

"We are very satisfied with the level of performance we get."

"I like that you can implement it in the managed service portfolio."

"A reliable security system that automatically quarantines anything suspicious."

"It's transparent, so it's not something where every user has to press a button to download or do the thing. It is centralized, in fact. Personally, I use Malwarebytes and other tools, which are fine for home use. Cynet is also relatively silent in terms of operation, except when it's required to act."

More Cynet pros

Cons

"There is no common area where we can manage all the policies for the EDR, third-party solutions, devices, servers, Windows, Mac, etc., but it's on the road map, and we ware waiting for that feature."

"The price could be better. It'll also help if they can continuously update and upgrade the solution. Every day there's a new virus uploaded into the network, and we have to keep updating it to identify all these things."

"The console is missing some features that would be helpful for a managed services provider, like device and user management."

"Microsoft Defender is slow to adapt to evolving threats."

"Correctly updated records are the most significant area for improvement. There have been times when we were notified of a required fix; we would carry out the fix and confirm it but still get the same notification a week later. This seems to be a delay in records being updated and leads to false reporting, which is something that needs to be fixed."

"Defender also lacks automated detection and response. You need to resolve issues manually. You can manage multiple Microsoft security products from a single portal, and all your security recommendations are in one place. It's easy to understand and manage. However, I wouldn't say Defender is a single pane of glass. You still need to switch between all of the available Microsoft tools. You can see all the alerts in one panel, but you can't automate remediation."

"Just like in any solution, the price can always be cheaper."

"The tool gives inconsistent answers and crashes a lot."

More Microsoft Defender XDR cons

"Remediation stuff could be integrated into the product's automation."

"The playbooks provided with the product are great, although I would appreciate having more playbooks available. Threats are constantly evolving, so having access to updated playbooks is crucial."

"If they could make the Cisco Umbrella piece a little bit more advanced or easier to manage, that would help. We use it for filtering and when you compare it to a normal content filter, it lacks some functionality."

"The automation and orchestration could be simpler. It could be that all the other parts are that easy to use so that these stick out as a negative, but that's the trickiest part for us. The workflows within the orchestration are just a bit more difficult."

"They could expand into more areas. The more third-parties that we have tied into it, the better. The capabilities are there. As they just continue to involve the product, the more things that you can look into, then the more analytics that you can get. Also, the more data that we can get, then the better off we will be."

"They could put in more third-party [integrations]... also more playbooks, out-of-the-box, for automation [would be helpful]."

"The front-end work controls the new algorithm and the firewall rules. The search feature of these rules could be improved."

"I would like it to integrate with another solution, e.g., DNA. I would like it to connect to that solution, but not the security aspect."

More Cisco SecureX cons

"Management of the console could be simplified and made more user-friendly because right now it's not very easy to use."

"There are some shortcomings in Cynet's integration capabilities that need improvement."

"It is an endpoint agent, but they don't have a probe for checking the network traffic. They could improve from this point of view."

"I think the technical support could be better."

"There could be more customization options and detailed information provided in the reports."

"The reporting functionality in Cynet may not be as comprehensive or flexible as desired."

"There is room for improvement in terms of support. The support should be faster to respond."

"Could have better integration with other security applications."

More Cynet cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Microsoft should provide lower-level licensing options. They should do it in such a way that even an individual could purchase a license, and it should be entirely flexible."

"I find the pricing to be quite competitive, especially considering its inclusion in our E5 subscription, which provides a comprehensive set of functionalities."

"Sometimes 365 Defender is expensive, but it can be moderate, depending on the organization's size and the license type. We're satisfied with the cost because it gives us a product that protects our entire environment with DLP. To compromise some cost, of course, we are to complete the most secure environment."

"Understanding the subscription model has been a bit challenging, as every feature or requirement comes with an additional cost."

"I believe the pricing is fair and acceptable. I consider it to be reasonable and satisfactory."

"I would like to have more security features in the lower licenses because not every customer is able to buy E5 licenses. The bundling isn't always easy for our customers to understand. Compared to other tools, it's a good price."

"While Microsoft Defender XDR carries a higher cost, its ease of use compared to Defender may justify the investment."

"On average, we pay around 55 euros per user for the services and features we receive."

More Microsoft Defender XDR pricing and cost advice

"Cisco SecureX is more expensive than Trend Micro. However, considering the integration capabilities with other solutions and the quality of technical support, I believe there's justification for the price difference."

"You can spend less money for another solution, but if you really want to have a good solution you have to pay. We are happy that we are getting such a good solution for what we are spending."

"The product is absolutely free to any customer. As such, the only thing one must keep in mind is that as long as he already has one Cisco security product, irregardless of what that product is, SecureX is available for free."

"The pricing is competitive, especially for education institutions. Licensing can be a little bit difficult to navigate, especially with resellers with Cisco, but for us it has been pretty easy."

"It would be nice if they had a different pricing model. Most of our budget for projects goes towards Cisco."

"The pricing is the best part of this solution. It is free if you buy Umbrella or Duo Security. It is also a good solution."

"It comes free with all Cisco products. So, it is a good price."

"It is free. It can't get any better than that."

More Cisco SecureX pricing and cost advice

"Its licensing is on a monthly basis."

"The licensing for Cynet is yearly. The solution pricing depends on the customer, but it is not very expensive."

"The price is very competitive."

"Cynet has a pay-as-you-go pricing model."

"This solution is expensive. I would rate the price as a three out of five when compared to similar products."

"Cynet is cheaper than other solutions in the market."

"It costs us 20,000 to 28,000 per year."

"There is an extra cost if you want the support of Cynet."

More Cynet pricing and cost advice

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

36%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

19%

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Microsoft 365 Defender?

Microsoft Defender XDR provides strong identity protection with comprehensive insights into risky user behavior and p...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft 365 Defender?

Microsoft Defender XDR is expensive, especially for the full suite functionality. However, when compared to buying mu...

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What needs improvement with Microsoft 365 Defender?

Improving scalability, especially for very large tenants, could be beneficial for Microsoft Defender XDR. Additionall...

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What do you like most about Cisco SecureX?

Integrates well with our existing security infrastructure.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cisco SecureX?

Cisco SecureX is more expensive than Trend Micro. However, considering the integration capabilities with other soluti...

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What needs improvement with Cisco SecureX?

One area for improvement in SecureX could be additional on-premises options for organizations like ours that require ...

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When evaluating User Activity Monitoring, what aspect do you think is the most important to look for?

The support team that stands behind the detection and response. Is there adequate expertise and are they behind you ...

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What do you like most about Cynet?

In terms of incident response, Cynet can contain attacks, offer a trial period to customers, and uninstall if not con...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cynet?

I don't have specific information about integration capabilities or licensing costs.

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Compared 15% of the time

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Compared 5% of the time

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Compared 4% of the time

Fortinet FortiEDR vs Microsoft Defender XDR

Compared 2% of the time

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Compared 15% of the time

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Compared 14% of the time

Splunk SOAR vs Cisco SecureX

Compared 9% of the time

Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs Cisco SecureX

Compared 8% of the time

Wazuh vs Cisco SecureX

Compared 6% of the time

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Compared 13% of the time

SentinelOne Singularity Complete vs Cynet

Compared 11% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

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Overview

Microsoft Defender XDR is a comprehensive security solution designed to protect against threats in the Microsoft 365 environment.

It offers robust security measures, comprehensive threat detection capabilities, and an efficient incident response system. With seamless integration with other Microsoft products and a user-friendly interface, it simplifies security management tasks.

Users have found it effective in detecting and preventing various types of attacks, such as phishing attempts, malware infections, and data breaches.

Watch the Microsoft demo video here: Microsoft Defender XDR demo video.

Cisco SecureX is an integrated security platform that connects the breadth of Cisco's integrated security portfolio and the customer's infrastructure to create a consistent experience. The solution unifies visibility, enables automation, and strengthens your security across network, endpoints, cloud, and applications. Cisco SecureX is embedded within every Cisco Security product and supports integrations with SIEM and SOAR, so customers will not need to replace any solution or worry about layering on new technology.

Cisco SecureX Features

Cisco SecureX has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

Unified overview: Cisco SecureX offers key metrics on transactions and threats for network, endpoints, cloud and applications. In addition, the SecureX interface is integrated into all Cisco Security technologies.

Automation and an increase in operational efficiency: With Cisco SecureX, you gain better automation of workflows for products of the Cisco Security portfolio and third parties, allowing you to focus on other more important tasks. By eliminating manual work (through automatic identification of threats using analytical data of Cisco Talos and other sources), the solution helps your organization save a significant amount of time.

Security strengthening: Cisco SecureX makes it easy to compare analytical data from a set of various sources with the telemetry received from network, endpoints, e-mail, cloud, and third-party products.

Cisco SecureX Benefits

Some of the benefits of using Cisco SecureX include:

Secure every business endeavor with an open, integrated platform that has out-of-the-box interoperability and scales to meet security needs.

Advance your security maturity level using existing resources.

Turn security from a blocker into an enabler. Cisco SecureX allows you to add new security capabilities for the threat landscape.

Maximize your operational efficiency, helping you get the most from your security investments.

Reviews from Real Users

Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by Cisco SecureX users.

PeerSpot user Wouter H., Technical Team Lead Network & Security at Missing Piece BV, shares several reasons why he thinks the solution is fantastic. In his opinion, “SecureX takes all the separate pieces of security within your company, adds in intelligence from different sites and services on the internet, and makes them work together. If an email is received on a machine and malware is being executed, it can be put into lockdown mode. The fact that you can have a single solution that combines endpoint intelligence with email intelligence, firewalls, and publicly available intelligence is really helpful. Also, SecureX provides us with contextual awareness throughout our security ecosystem. Before SecureX, things that were not possible, or that would take days, now literally take seconds to find out.

Michal S., Infrastructure Engineer at a media company, says, “SecureX provides many measurements and has a really good dashboard. Working with it you are able to see things very clearly and you have every detail on a single display. That saves us money and time.” He also adds, “It brings all our data into a central point. It also shows us many data connections between many of our environments. SecureX gives you really good information about potential risks. You are able to find the source of a risk, a potential risk from a user or a machine.”

Blair A., Technology Director at Shawnee Heights USD #450, explains, "One of the most valuable features is the simplicity of deploying SecureX. It's very easy to do that and then you gain very detailed visibility into everything that's going on in your network and, obviously, at the device level. There's just a wealth of information that you can pull from all of these products that are part of SecureX. You know exactly if you have an issue or not."

Cynet has pioneered the security industry’s first all-in-one security platform purposely built for organizations that need the ability to effortlessly identify, block and respond to all types of attacks inside the perimeter - defending endpoints, network, files and users - without the heavy burden of deep cyber expertise and the overhead of integrating and managing multiple products. Our approach converges and brings synergy with technology: endpoint protection, EDR, vulnerability management, deception, threat intelligence and network and end-user analytics, and expertise: a 24/7 cyber SWAT team for incident response, malware analysis, threat hunting and forensics. Cynet deploys in hours and simplifies management with automated monitoring to complement any sized staff.

Cynet Consists Of:

Next-generation AV (NGAV)
Endpoint Protection (EPP)
Endpoint Detection Response (EDR)
NDR and MDR
UBA Rules
Network Detection Rules
Intelligent Deception

With Cynet You Can:

Consolidate network and endpoint protection in one central place
Protect against a very wide range of attacks, including common attacks as well as complex multi-layered attacks
Have access to a team of world-class cybersecurity experts available around the clock that complements whatever expertise you have in place

Cynet Supports:

Four different deployment methods: On-premise, IAAS, SAAS, and a Hybrid mode

Cynet Benefits and Features:

Advanced threat detection
Incident response capabilities
Extended detection and response(XDR)
Managed detection and response (MDR)
Response automation
Network-specific playbook
Multi-layer protection
Alerts delivered to a single point for visibility
In-house SOC for clientele

Features Users Find Most Valuable:

IT hygiene: By scanning assets, including endpoints, users, files, and network traffic to render a dashboard of security issues, Cynet is able to quickly map an entire IT infrastructure.
Prevention: Various prevention capabilities include UBA, deception, and traditional endpoint protection.
Detection: This includes traditional endpoint security, EDR, UBA, deception and network analytics, which helps detect malicious behavior, ransomware, exploitation, user login anomalies, DNS tunneling, and much more.
Vulnerability management: Cynet can find Windows vulnerabilities, unauthorized and outdated applications, and security policy violations.
Response: Cynet includes various analyses, response and remediation capabilities, across endpoints, files, users and networks.
Automated response: Users can create an automatic remediation rule for each alert Cynet creates, which helps improve the incident response process and can prevent a real-time threat.
24/7 Support: For no additional cost, Cynet includes CyOp, a 24/7 operations team available to you at all times.

Reviews from Real Users

“I have found the continued support and pretty much all the features to be valuable. They all stand out as being positive. It continues to detect unusual activity when it's supposed to, and so far we haven't had any issues.” - Ken S., Director InfoSec and Audit at a manufacturing company

"The feature that I have found most valuable is that the configuration and the usage of the product are not so complicated. For people responsible for using this infrastructure for the first line of workstation monitoring, it's quite easy to use." - Senior Cyber Security Manager at a financial services firm

"The dashboard is beautiful, overall ease of use, and the UBA and NBA features are valued." - Harsh P., Cyber Security Operations Center Analyst at Vincacyber

Sample Customers

Accenture, Deloitte, ExxonMobil, General Electric, IBM, Johnson & Johnson and many others.

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