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Bitdefender GravityZone EDR vs Cisco Secure Endpoint comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 9, 2024
 

Categories and Ranking

Bitdefender GravityZone EDR
Ranking in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
13th
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
60
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Cisco Secure Endpoint
Ranking in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
12th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
48
Ranking in other categories
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (14th), Cisco Security Portfolio (6th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) category, the mindshare of Bitdefender GravityZone EDR is 3.4%, down from 3.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Cisco Secure Endpoint is 2.0%, down from 2.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
 

Featured Reviews

Kevin Mabry - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 26, 2024
Provides telemetry, risk assessment, and behavior monitoring
I like the risk assessment tool built into Bitdefender GravityZone EDR because I'm really into risk assessments and vulnerability testing. I think that is crucial and needed, and I don't see that often with most EDRs. The telemetry I get from the tool can be used in a SOC I use. The solution has behavior monitoring that allows you to monitor people's specific behaviour and practices. You can then ask the person to stop or start doing something. You can also do application management and access management. You can do many things within Bitdefender GravityZone EDR because it is like a one-stop shop scenario.
Mark Broughton - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 10, 2022
Tighter integration with Umbrella and Firepower gave us eye-opening information
We were using a third-party help desk. One of the ways that they were fixing problems was to delete the client and then add the client back if there was an issue where the client had stopped communicating. Any improvement in the client communicating back to the server would be good, particularly for machines that are offline for a couple of weeks. A lot of our guys were working on a rotation where the machine might be offline for that long. They were also terrible about rebooting their machines, so those network connections didn't necessarily get refreshed. So, anything that could improve that communication would be good. Also, an easier way to do deduplication of machines, or be alerted to the fact that there's more than one instance of a machine, would be useful. If you could say, "Okay, we've got these two machines. This one says it's not reporting and this one says it's been reporting. Obviously, somebody did a reinstall," it would help. That way you could get a more accurate device count, so you're not having an inflated number. Not that Cisco was going to come down on you and say, "Oh, you're using too many licenses," right away. But to have a much more accurate license usage count by being able to better dedupe the records would be good. I also sent over a couple of other ideas to our technical rep. A lot of that had to do with the reporting options. It would be really nice to be able to do a lot more in the reporting. You can't really drill down into the reports that are there. The reporting and the need for the documentation to be updated and current would be my two biggest areas of complaint. Also, there was one section when I was playing with the automation where it was asking for the endpoint type rather than the machine name. If I could have just put in the machine name, that would have been great. So there are some opportunities, when it comes to searching, to have more options. If I wanted to search, for example, by a Mac address because, for some reason, I thought there was a duplication and I didn't have the machine name, how could I pull it up with the Mac address? When you're getting to that level, you're really starting to get into the ticky tacky. I would definitely put the reporting and documentation way ahead of that.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The product is worth the investment."
"I like that you can manage all the time and you can uninstall and install everything via the web console."
"They are constantly updating the solution against malware."
"The tool's graphical user interface is common and very friendly, making it an overall user-friendly product."
"The product is stable. It has a small footprint, but it does a lot of heavy lifting."
"It's easy to deploy."
"I have access to it from anywhere."
"It efficiently investigates security incidents."
"There are several valuable features including strong prevention and exceptional reporting capabilities."
"The most valuable feature is its threat protection and data privacy, including its cyber attack and data protection, as we need to cover and protect data on user devices."
"I'm only using the AMP (advanced malware protection) which is protecting my file system from all the malicious things that might happen. It should protect all kinds of things that might happen on the servers, things that I cannot see."
"The solution makes it possible to see a threat once and block it everywhere across all endpoints and the entire security platform. It has the ability to block right down to the file and application level across all devices based on policies, such as, blacklisting and whitelisting of software and applications. This is good. Its strength is the ability to identify threats very quickly, then lock them and the network down and block the threats across the organization and all devices, which is what you want. You don't want to be spending time working out how to block something. You want to block something very quickly, letting that flow through to all the devices and avoiding the same scenario on different operating systems."
"The solution’s most valuable feature is malware protection."
"Any alert that we get is an actionable alert. Immediately, there is information that we can just click through, see the point in time, what happened, what caused it, and what automatic actions were taken. We can then choose to take any manual actions, if we want, or start our investigation. We're no longer looking at digging into information or wading through hundreds of incidents. There's a list which says where the status is assigned, e.g., under investigation or investigation finished. That is all in the console. It has taken away a lot of the administration, which we would normally be doing, and integrated it into the console for us."
"I am told that we get over 100 million emails a month. This filters them down and allows only somewhere about three million emails, which is a great help."
"The product's initial setup phase was very simple."
 

Cons

"They were working on the encryption management for laptops, and if they complete it then it would be helpful."
"Policy customization and deployment need a little bit of improvement. The push policies, the first line, and all those things."
"Sometimes, the platform takes a while to allow connectivity on the Mac endpoints."
"The software itself is solid. It would be better if it was more of a real-time solution, like SentinelOne. The one thing that holds me back on the SentinelOne side is that I can blacklist websites and stuff like that, but it's not as granular as Bitdefender. With Bitdefender, I feel like I have more control over what I can whitelist and blacklist."
"In the future, maybe this will need to morph into AI threat intelligence."
"I would like to see the capability for remote installation added, in particular for servers."
"There was a bit of a problem deploying."
"The installation is not straightforward and should be easier to do."
"It is an expensive solution."
"The reporting and analytics areas of the solution need to be improved."
"...the greatest value of all, would be to make the security into a single pane of glass. Whilst these products are largely integrated from a Talos perspective, they're not integrated from a portal perspective. For example, we have to look at an Umbrella portal and a separate AMP portal. We also have to look at a separate portal for the firewalls. If I could wave a magic wand and have one thing, I would put all the Cisco products into one, simple management portal."
"Logging could be better in terms of sending more logs to Cisco Firepower or Cisco ASA. That's an area where it could be made better."
"I would like them to add whatever makes filtering more advanced in scanning and blocking for malware in emails."
"It cannot currently block URLs over websites."
"Integration and dashboard are areas with certain shortcomings in Cisco Secure Endpoint."
"We had a lot of noise at the beginning, and we had to turn it down based on exclusions, application whitelisting, and excluding unknown benign applications. Cisco should understand the need for continuous updates on the custom Cisco exclusions and the custom applications that come out-of-the-box with the AMP for Endpoints."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"If you look at the solution's price point, it's actually low market value, especially in comparison to other ones."
"I have very good pricing for the solution, which is one of the reasons why I am not switching to other products. I rate the tool's pricing a two out of ten."
"Price-wise, Bitdefender GravityZone EDR is a bit expensive in the Philippines."
"The solution's pricing is average."
"The product has a reasonable price."
"Price-wise, we have a better licensing agreement with Bitdefender than we did with competing vendors."
"The price is per license per endpoint. The price is different for everyone, but we find the price is cheap for us."
"Each endpoint device we purchased came with its own license."
"It is quite cost-effective. I would rate it ten out of ten."
"I rate the pricing a five or six on a scale of one to ten, where one is expensive, and ten is cheap."
"We can know if something bad is potentially happening instantaneously and prevent it from happening. We can go to a device and isolate it before it infects other devices. In our environment, that's millions of dollars saved in a matter of seconds."
"The pricing and licensing of the security solutions of Cisco are very good in comparison with the competitors, but sometimes, it's difficult to see all the discounts and other kinds of things. So, you have to be careful, but the pricing is good."
"Cisco Secure Endpoint is not too expensive and it's not cheap. It's quite fair."
"There is also the Cisco annual subscription plus my management time in terms of what I do with the Cisco product. I spend a minimal amount of time on it though, just rolling out updates as they need them and monitoring the console a couple of times a day to ensure nothing is out of control. Cost-wise, we are quite happy with it."
"It can always be cheaper."
"Licensing fees are on a yearly basis and I am happy with the pricing."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
17%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Government
6%
Computer Software Company
18%
Government
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Bitdefender GravityZone Ultra?
They need to improve the dashboard by adding a dedicated executive view. This view should provide executives with a clear overview of what's happening. Also, the UI needs to be more user-friendly, ...
What do you like most about Cisco Secure Endpoint?
The product's initial setup phase was very simple.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cisco Secure Endpoint?
The solution's price is about the same as that of Palo Alto solutions.
What needs improvement with Cisco Secure Endpoint?
Cisco Secure Endpoint is an expensive solution.
 

Also Known As

Bitdefender GravityZone Ultra, Bitdefender GravityZone
Cisco AMP for Endpoints
 

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Sample Customers

Mentor Graphics, Rudersdal Kommune
Heritage Bank, Mobile County Schools, NHL University, Thunder Bay Regional, Yokogawa Electric, Sam Houston State University, First Financial Bank
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