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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint mindshare

As of January 2025, the mindshare of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint in the Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) category stands at 11.3%, down from 15.7% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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TypeTitleDate
CategoryEndpoint Protection Platform (EPP)Jan 11, 2025Download
ProductReviews, tips, and advice from real usersJan 11, 2025Download
ComparisonMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint vs SentinelOne Singularity CompleteJan 11, 2025Download
ComparisonMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint vs CrowdStrike FalconJan 11, 2025Download
ComparisonMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint vs Cortex XDR by Palo Alto NetworksJan 11, 2025Download
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Educational Organization
27%
Computer Software Company
12%
Government
7%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Comms Service Provider
4%
University
3%
Retailer
3%
Healthcare Company
3%
Energy/Utilities Company
3%
Construction Company
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Insurance Company
2%
Real Estate/Law Firm
2%
Legal Firm
2%
Non Profit
2%
Media Company
2%
Wholesaler/Distributor
2%
Hospitality Company
2%
Performing Arts
1%
Transportation Company
1%
Outsourcing Company
1%
Recreational Facilities/Services Company
1%
Aerospace/Defense Firm
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Pharma/Biotech Company
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Logistics Company
1%
Consumer Goods Company
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Azure Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Verified user of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Jan 12, 2023
Eliminates the need to look at multiple dashboards by automatically providing one XDR dashboard to show the security score of each subscription

Pros

"File protection is the most valuable feature. Antivirus security on the Level OS, Microsoft Defender, and Microsoft Guard for 2019."

Cons

"The solution should be updated by Microsoft with new features from time to time."
PeerSpot user
Vice President of IT at a healthcare company
Verified user of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Feb 16, 2023
Does much of the threat-hunting for me and warns me about my vulnerabilities to threats in the wild

Pros

"For threat-hunting, I'll put some threats in a test scenario. I've downloaded known viruses that are out in the public for testing. They're not really a virus but they've got a signature. Defender for Endpoint will automatically find those, quarantine them for me, and alert me to what it did. It gives me "automated eyes." "

Cons

"In active mode, it's great that it gives you so much information, but it does record every keystroke so you have a lot of logs... that amount of data logging started to add up in the cost."
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Project Manager at LTIMINDTREE
Verified user of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Mar 28, 2023
Provides good visibility into threats, integration with other Microsoft products, and effective threat intelligence

Pros

"Defender for Endpoint provides good visibility into threats and has favorable threat intelligence."

Cons

"The solution has minimal customization options, especially compared to Mandiant, so we want to see more scope for customization. A single portal for customization would also be a welcome addition. "
Sudhen Swami - PeerSpot user
Senior Enterprise Architect at MTVH
Verified user of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Jul 9, 2024
Easy to update with good protection and a useful cloud portal

Pros

"Updates and upgrades are quite smooth and seamless. "

Cons

"We'd like to see integrations with more vulnerability scanning solutions like Tenable. "
Joseph Abakar Yougouda - PeerSpot user
Conseiller Expert en Architecture de sécurité at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Jan 17, 2023
An easily integrated solution and enables us to investigate threats and respond holistically from one place

Pros

"Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is different from other security tools because we can configure it to use multiple types of scanning or archiving."

Cons

"Sometimes the software doesn't work the way we expect it to, and in those cases, we can't communicate with a device because it may be infected."
SB
Infrastructure Engineer at SBITSC
Verified user of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Nov 30, 2022
Provides excellent virus scanning and web activity tracking in an integrated security suite

Pros

"The virus scanning capability is excellent, and it feeds all the logs into the Microsoft 365 Defender portal, making them easy to search for."

Cons

"The integration and effectiveness of email security could be better. It's already built-in to the solution and checks emails, scans the links they contain etc."
KG
Independent Security Consultant/ Virtual CISO at Galbraith & Associates Inc.
Verified user of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Aug 25, 2022
Is great at identifying threats on Windows and Azure products

Pros

"The comprehensiveness of Microsoft threat-protection products is great... Today, Microsoft Sentinel by itself is a leading Gartner SIEM tool. It has advantages over competitors because of the ability to integrate with Microsoft solutions and automate continuous monitoring of Microsoft AD and Office 365 data."

Cons

"If you have multi-cloud like Google and AWS, the native solutions are better for those particular cases."
SimonThornton - PeerSpot user
Cyber Security Services Operations Manager at a aerospace/defense firm with 201-500 employees
Verified user of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Aug 1, 2022
Provides good visibility and is fairly easy to set up within one tenant, but doesn't support multitenancy and is not as capable as other solutions

Pros

"I like the process visibility. This ability to visualize how something was executed is valuable, and the fact that Defender ATP is also linked to the threat intelligence that they have is also valuable. So, even if you have something that doesn't have a conventional signature, the fact that you get this strange execution means that you can detect things that are normally not visible."

Cons

"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. "
AfsareHassane - PeerSpot user
Formateur Cybersecurité and SOC Analyst in the tech services company industry
Verified user of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
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