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Bitdefender GravityZone EDR vs Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Bitdefender GravityZone EDR
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
60
Ranking in other categories
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (13th)
Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Net...
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
8.0
Number of Reviews
90
Ranking in other categories
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (4th), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (7th), Ransomware Protection (2nd), AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platforms (3rd)
 

Featured Reviews

Kevin Mabry - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
Mohammad Qaw - PeerSpot reviewer
Perfect correlation and XDR capabilities for network traffic plus endpoint security
The solution should force customers to integrate with network traffic to see the full benefits of XDR. If you are not integrating it or feeding in your network traffic, then you are just buying a normal antivirus which doesn't make any sense. You are paying double the price to use the antivirus feature or to say you have XDR, but in reality you are not using it. The solution should include an on-premises option because some customers want only on-premises. It would be hard, but good to do if possible. Open XDR would be beneficial in the future. Right now, the solution is Closed XDR so cannot communicate with the few new vendors in the Open XDR market.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It efficiently investigates security incidents."
"The most valuable feature for me is the ability to whitelist, blacklist, and be very granular as to what I blocked, what apps I blocked, and what websites I block. I think that's probably the most valuable feature."
"GravityZone can be controlled from the cloud."
"The solution's deployment is very easy and flexible."
"The installation is straightforward."
"I like the risk assessment tool built into Bitdefender GravityZone EDR because I'm really into risk assessments and vulnerability testing."
"The product is worth the investment."
"It's easy to deploy."
"Cortex XDR lets us manage several clients from the same console, and its endpoint defense is more advanced than traditional antivirus."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"The product's most valuable features are massive user and feature intelligence exploit detection."
"One of the main benefits of the solution is its intelligence to correlate the events into an incident."
"I've found the solution to be highly scalable for enterprises."
"After deploying Traps, we saw the performance of the network improve by 65 to 70 percent."
"The stability of this product is very good."
"Their XDR agent and their behavioral indicators of compromise (BIOC) are pretty nice. Their managed threat hunting is also pretty nice. They also have WildFire, which is a service for actively looking for malware. It's quite useful."
 

Cons

"They should improve the solution's patch management feature."
"The reporting is much too simple."
"The firewall security could be better."
"Areas for improvement would be performance and pricing."
"In the future, maybe this will need to morph into AI threat intelligence."
"I have not had used the EDR portion of the solution to do any custom scripting to allow further advanced operations on the endpoints. From what I understand from reading the comments on reviews is that it is not particularly flexible in this regard."
"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."
"I would like to see the capability for remote installation added, in particular for servers."
"Cortex does not offer an on-premises solution. However, some customers would prefer not to be on the cloud. It would be ideal if it could offer something on-prem as well."
"A little bit more automation would be nice."
"Impact on system performance is horrible, adding a lot of delays for users."
"It's very time-consuming to log support issues and the people that answer the tickets aren't very knowledgeable."
"I would like to see better protection, specifically to protect email applications."
"It is not very strong in terms of endpoint management. It should have additional features like DLP, encryption, or advanced device control. Currently, Cortex is good in terms of the security of the endpoints, but it is not as good as other vendors in terms of the management of the endpoint."
"I would like to see improvement in the tool's user interface, particularly in the area of managing alerts and providing more reporting capabilities."
"I think sometimes Cortex XDR agent automatically stops event capturing from the device, and then even the dashboard does not get any notifications from the agent."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Bitdefender GravityZone Ultra's pricing is competitive in the market."
"Price-wise, we have a better licensing agreement with Bitdefender than we did with competing vendors."
"Licensing is done on a yearly basis and it's workstation-based."
"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."
"The solution is not expensive but there are cheaper options in the market. In terms of competitiveness, the price is reasonable with no other additional costs besides the licensing fees."
"Each endpoint device we purchased came with its own license."
"The pricing is competitive."
"Bitdefender GravityZone EDR is cost-effective and has the best pricing."
"If one wishes to work with another team or large number of users at a future point, he must purchase a license for them."
"The price was fine."
"The solution has one subscription for endpoint protection and one subscription for detection and response. The two licenses combined give you the BRO version."
"I feel it is fairly priced."
"Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is quite an expensive solution."
"Licensing for Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR can be costly, especially when it comes to a hundred users. A license is required for each user, and the subscription must be renewed on a yearly basis."
"The return on investment is from the user side because we have seen the performance of it increase the delivery time of the product if we are using too many web-based and on-premise applications. In indirect ways, we saw the return of investment in terms of performance and user satisfaction increase."
"I don't recall what the cost was, but it wasn't really that expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
16%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Government
6%
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Government
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

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Also Known As

Bitdefender GravityZone Ultra, Bitdefender GravityZone
Cyvera, Cortex XDR, Palo Alto Networks Traps
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Mentor Graphics, Rudersdal Kommune
CBI Health Group, University Honda, VakifBank
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