We performed a comparison between Malwarebytes and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Microsoft Defender has an edge in this comparison. According to reviews, it is more lightweight than Malwarebytes.
"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."
"Fortinet FortiEDR's scalability is quite good, and you can add licenses to the solution."
"The product detects and blocks threats and is more proactive than firewalls."
"The console is easy to read. I also like the scanning part and the ability to move assets from one to the other."
"The setup is pretty simple."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"he solution is an anti-malware product that integrates well with other vendor products such as firewalls, SIEM, etc. It captures threat intelligence and gives you better visibility. The product also has sandboxing features."
"Forensics is a valuable feature of Fortinet FortiEDR."
"The installation process is very easy, especially since it is on the cloud."
"The product keeps our company safe."
"The platform is straightforward to install."
"The most valuable features of Malwarebytes are the EDR and the complete feature set provided."
"Ten times a day, improved signatures will be downloaded, so it is very up-to-date in terms of malware experience."
"It is intuitive and easy to use. For the most part, it does a good job of catching things. It is good at stopping stuff. I did a couple of tests with a password cracker. I tried to load that on, and Malwarebytes didn't let me do that, which was pretty good. It has a rollback feature that I haven't seen with any other company. If one of your endpoints are hit with mass ransomware, you could actually roll it back. I watched a demo of them do that, and it was pretty sweet."
"It comprehensively finds and removes malicious software."
"This solution helps us by providing central management of anti-malware and anti-exploit functionality."
"The ransomware and malware protection is the most valuable feature."
"It doesn't cause the slowness of the system, which is one of the reasons why I like it."
"Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is a robust platform."
"The biggest benefit to Windows Defender is that it is built-in to the operating system by Microsoft."
"The primary advantage is that you don't need to install it. It's included in the Windows 10 delivery."
"User-friendly, offering safety and security."
"It automatically detects intrusion and malware."
"Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is different from other security tools because we can configure it to use multiple types of scanning or archiving."
"FortiEDR can be improved by providing more detailed reporting."
"The amount of usage, the number of details we get, or the number of options that can be tweaked is limited in comparison to that with other EDR solutions"
"There's room for improvement in the quick response time and technical support for integration issues, especially when dealing with multiple vendors."
"Detections could be improved."
"We've encountered challenges during API deployment, occasionally resulting in unstable environments."
"Once, we had an event that was locked and blocked, but information about it came to us two or three days later."
"Cannot be used on mobile devices with a secure connection."
"Integration with Azure and SaaS provisioning tools could improve Fortinet FortiEDR."
"Overall, I haven't found any ways the solution lacks in features or usability."
"We have noticed that when the solution is doing the scanning, all the scanning activities make the device heavier. It slows down your machine."
"We experience a lot of false positives."
"They should make it faster, less taxing on the processor."
"Malwarebytes should improve its mobile compatibility."
"The interface could be improved. Currently, you need to really dig around to find the elements you need."
"There is room for improvement in the way it is deployed, in terms of being able to distribute it. Right now we have to get our hands on a machine to deploy it. It would be nice if there was an easier system."
"A solution must be installed in the main gateway to give an overview of the incoming and outgoing traffic. The technical support team's response time should be faster."
"Where we stand right now, compared to other products that are there in the market, they still have to work on their threat intelligence and the overall maturity of detecting the malware."
"A challenge is that it is not a multi-tenant solution. Microsoft's tenant is a licensed tenant. I'm an MSSP. So, I have multiple customers. In Microsoft's world, that means that I can't just buy an E5 license and give that out to all my customers. That won't work because all of the customer data resides within a single tenant in Microsoft's world. Other products—such as SentinelOne, Palo Alto Cortex, CrowdStrike, et cetera—are multi-tenant. So, I can have it at the top of the pyramid for my analyst to look into it and see all the customers, but each customer's data is separate. If the customer wants to look at what we see, they would only see their data, whereas in the Microsoft world, if I've got multiple customers connected to the same Microsoft tenant, they would see everybody else's data, which is a privacy problem in Europe. It is not possible to share the data, and it is a breach of privacy."
"The central management console should be improved because it provides limited options to configure Windows Defender."
"Lacks some additional integration."
"Reporting could be improved. I would like to see how many security incidents occurred in the last six months, how many devices were highly exposed to security risks, and how many devices were actually compromised."
"The automation could be simpler on the mitigation side. It has a learning curve. Otherwise, it's pretty easy."
"It could be easier when it comes to managing exceptions."
"The time it takes to implement policies has room for improvement."
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Malwarebytes is ranked 18th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 34 reviews while Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is ranked 1st in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 182 reviews. Malwarebytes is rated 8.0, while Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Malwarebytes writes "Intuitive, easy to use, and does a good job of catching and stopping things for the most part and has a unique rollback feature". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint writes "Eliminates the need to look at multiple dashboards by automatically providing one XDR dashboard to show the security score of each subscription". Malwarebytes is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon, HP Wolf Security, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, ESET Endpoint Protection Platform and Check Point Harmony Endpoint, whereas Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is most compared with Symantec Endpoint Security, Intercept X Endpoint, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, CrowdStrike Falcon and Microsoft Intune. See our Malwarebytes vs. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint report.
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