We performed a comparison between Trend Micro XDR and Microsoft 365 Defender based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Trend Micro XDR is commended for its holistic approach to preventing, real-time visualization, and ability to prioritize network-based detection and response. Microsoft 365 Defender offers effortless integration with other Microsoft solutions. Users praised its flexibility and comprehensive protection against multiple threat types. Trend Micro XDR should improve integration, overhaul its web interface, and strengthen its business relationships. Microsoft 365 Defender could upgrade its machine learning and AI capabilities. Some users suggested adopting Zero Trust features.
Service and Support: Some customers have found Trend Micro’s customer service to be helpful and responsive, while others have encountered challenges with technical support in complex situations. Some of our reviewers were satisfied with Microsoft's support, but others complained about slow responses and lackluster problem-solving capabilities.
Ease of Deployment: The initial setup of Trend Micro XDR is straightforward and fast, but it may require the involvement of several technical professionals. Setting up Microsoft 365 Defender is potentially complex and may involve integrating with existing policies. Some users reported longer deployment times.
Pricing: Some reviews noted that Trend Micro XDR might be too costly for small organizations, but others found the price reasonable. Some users say that Microsoft 365 Defender is good value, but others perceive it as more expensive than similar competing products.
ROI: Trend Micro XDR delivers value through automation. Its efficient alerts ensure timely threat detection and prevention. Microsoft 365 Defender offers savings, attack prevention, consolidation of security measures, and proactive threat detection.
Comparison Results: Our users prefer Trend Micro XDR over Microsoft 365 Defender. Trend Micro XDR offers a comprehensive view of attacks and their origins. Users also appreciate its stability, scalability, reasonable pricing, and user-friendly interface. Users say that Microsoft 365 Defender could improve its machine learning capabilities, interface, and documentation. Trend Micro XDR is also considered more reasonable and well-priced compared to Microsoft 365 Defender.
"I like FortiClient EMS. FortiEDR has a lot of great features like lockdown mode, remote wipes, and encryption. I can set malware outbreak policies and controls for detecting abnormalities. You can also simulate phishing attacks."
"The ease of deployment and configuration is valuable. It's very easy compared to other vendors like Sophos. Sophos' configuration is complex. Fortinet is a lot easier to understand. You don't need a lot of admin knowledge to do the configuration."
"Fortinet has helped free up around 20 percent of our staff's time to help us out."
"Fortinet is very user-friendly for customers."
"The price is low and quite competitive with others."
"Exceptions are easy to create and the interface is easy to follow with a nice appearance."
"The console is easy to read. I also like the scanning part and the ability to move assets from one to the other."
"The solution was relatively easy to deploy."
"I like 365 Defender's advanced threat hunting. The dashboard is user-friendly with templates for site policies, etc. The most important use case is evaluating the risk links and applications."
"The integration with other Microsoft solutions is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is the DLP because that's where we can have an added data protection layer and extend it not just to emails but to the documents that users are working on. We can make sure that sensitive data is tagged and flagged if unauthorized parties are using it."
"We are connected to Microsoft and have every laptop enrolled. This acts as an endpoint. The tool helps me check security and compliance. I can also check what a device is doing."
"The most valuable feature is probably the aggregation and correlation of the different telemetry points with Defender for Identity, Defender for Endpoint, and Defender for Cloud Apps. All of these various things are part of that portal. We've wanted that single pane of glass for years."
"From the perspective of Microsoft 365 XDR, the main benefit is a single, centralized dashboard offering the holistic visibility organizations crave."
"The most valuable feature depends on the scenario. For compliance, I like Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Data Loss Prevention. Sentinel is the most helpful feature for security. 365 Defender helps us prioritize threats across an enterprise. It's a crucial feature for the managed services team."
"The summarization of emails is a valuable feature."
"The centralized visibility is good."
"The setup is fairly simple."
"The search features help us try to correlate information and identify any suspicious activity."
"I can prevent my environment from different types of attacks based on what I see in the Vision One console."
"We haven't had any issues with configurations or customizations."
"It is a stable product. It works very well."
"We can scale the product as needed."
"We had a quick deployment. The solution is easy to set up."
"ZTNA can improve latency."
"I would like the solution to extend beyond endpoint protection and include other attack surfaces such as other network components."
"It takes about two business days for initial support, which is too slow in urgent situations."
"To improve Fortinet, we need to see more features and technology areas at the endpoint level introduced."
"The SIEM could be improved."
"Integration with Azure and SaaS provisioning tools could improve Fortinet FortiEDR."
"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 think cloud security and SASE are areas of concern in the product where improvements are required. The tool's cloud version has to be improved in terms of the security it offers."
"The solution could improve by having better machine learning and AI. Additionally, the interface, documentation, and integration could be better."
"The management features could be improved, particularly in terms of better integration with Intune, Microsoft's cloud-based management solution."
"I personally have not seen much evidence of how Defender can enhance the story of zero trust for enterprises."
"Microsoft tends to provide too many features, which makes the solution prone to bugs."
"The patching capability should be there. Patching is something that you cannot do even though you see the vulnerabilities present in your environment. For patching, you have to depend on another solution."
"The user interface of Microsoft 365 Defender could improve. They could make it simpler."
"Intrusion detection and prevention would be great to have with 365 Defender."
"The web filtering solution needs to be improved because currently, it is very simple."
"While blocking an IP address restricts access for 30 days, it eventually becomes accessible again."
"A room for improvement is Trend Micro XDR's website. It's a very complicated website since finding the right point one wants to see is difficult."
"The product needs to have a lot more maturity, and they need to improve the overall technical support framework for getting the value out of XDR."
"There isn't a lot I'd do to change it. The web interface could be improved to sort of make it a little easier to manage multiple clients out of one location. It could also be made a bit easier to sort of manage the licensing side of it."
"Also, XDR should improve its coverage of the latest IOCs. Their suspicious object management works, but the coverage should be improved. It will take one or two months to get those things covered. XDR will detect on a behavioral basis, but these databases will not get updated daily like some other solutions. If you're dealing with new ransomware or malware, it may take around a month before it's covered by Trend Micro."
"The area for improvement is mobile security. We have just finished a proof of concept for Zero Trust Secure Access. We withdrew from this PoC because it does not have that many points for proxy across Europe. Our organization is across Europe... At this time, they are only located in Germany and the UK."
"They should increase their potential for third-party integrations."
"While the continuous addition of features is commendable, the sheer volume of changes makes it difficult to stay abreast of the latest developments."
Microsoft Defender XDR is ranked 7th in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) with 78 reviews while Trend Vision One is ranked 5th in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) with 43 reviews. Microsoft Defender XDR is rated 8.4, while Trend Vision One is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Microsoft Defender XDR writes "Includes four services and four products, which can help organizations a lot". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Trend Vision One writes "The integration of toolsets is key, enabling automation, and vendor has been tremendous partner for us". Microsoft Defender XDR is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager, Wazuh and Microsoft Entra ID, whereas Trend Vision One is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon, Trend Micro Apex One, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Wazuh. See our Microsoft Defender XDR vs. Trend Vision One report.
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