Cisco Secure Endpoint vs Morphisec comparison

Cisco and Morphisec are both solutions in the Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) category. Cisco is ranked #13 with an average rating of 8.3, while Morphisec is ranked #56. Cisco holds a 1.5% mindshare in EPP, compared to Morphisec’s 0.4% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of Cisco users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Morphisec users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 9, 2024

Cisco Secure Endpoint and Morphisec are leading endpoint security solutions. Cisco Secure Endpoint appears to have the upper hand due to its comprehensive support and pricing, while Morphisec is notable for its advanced features.

Features: Cisco Secure Endpoint offers robust security features such as advanced threat detection, remediation, and integration with other Cisco security products. Morphisec provides proactive prevention capabilities, a lightweight agent, and minimal impact on system performance.

Room for Improvement:Cisco Secure Endpoint could benefit from performance optimization, a more intuitive setup process, and enhanced user interface. Morphisec needs improvement in reporting capabilities, greater configuration flexibility, and better customer support documentation.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service:Cisco Secure Endpoint is noted for straightforward deployment, though its configuration process is complex, with highly rated customer support. Morphisec offers easy deployment and minimal system disruption, but customer service receives mixed reviews compared to Cisco.

Pricing and ROI:Cisco Secure Endpoint is cost-effective with a good return on investment, though initial setup costs can be high. Morphisec is more expensive but users believe its superior features justify the cost and provide solid ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Cisco Secure Endpoint

Ranking in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)

13th

Ranking in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

12th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cisco Security Portfolio (5th)

Morphisec

Ranking in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)

56th

Ranking in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

59th

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Vulnerability Management (58th), Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) (33rd), Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) (36th), Threat Deception Platforms (14th)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) category, the mindshare of Cisco Secure Endpoint is 1.5%, down from 1.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Morphisec is 0.4%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Mark Broughton

Level 2 tech at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

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.

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Islam Shaikh

Senior Manager - IT at IndiGrid Limited

Lightweight, detects everything quickly, and takes corrective action

We sometimes have to depend on the support team to know what action we should take. If the solution for an alert can be built into the report that we are getting, it will save time, and the interaction with support would be less. At times, corrective action is required, but at times, we don't need to take any action. It would be good if we get to know in the report that a particular infection doesn't require any action. It will save us time and effort. Other than that, nothing else is required. They have taken care of everything. We are getting alerts, and we can have multiple admins. We get a good model with this view.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The integration with other Cisco products seemed to be really effective. We had Umbrella in place and we were using AnyConnect as well as Firepower. Once a threat was detected, being able to do the threat lookups and the live tracking was really useful."

"The threat Grid with the ability to observe the sandboxing, analyze, and perform investigations of different malicious files has been great."

"Its most valuable features are its scalability and advanced threat protection for customers."

"Another of my favorite features is called the Device Trajectory, where it shows everything that's going on, on a computer. It shows the point in time when a virus is downloaded, so you can see if the user was surfing the internet or had a program open. It shows every running process and file access on the computer and saves it like a snapshot when it detects something malicious. It also has a File Trajectory, so you can even see if that file has been found on any of your other computers that have AMP."

"Definitely, the best feature for Cisco Secure Endpoint is the integration with Talos. On the backend, Talos checks all the signatures, all the malware, and for any attacks going on around the world... Because Secure Endpoint has a connection to it, we get protected by it right then and there."

"It is extensive in terms of providing visibility and insights into threats. It allows for research into a threat, and you can chart your progress on how you're resolving it."

"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."

"The entirety of our network infrastructure is Cisco and the most valuable feature is the integration."

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"Morphisec Guard enables us to see at a glance whether our users have device control and disk encryption enabled properly. This is important because we are a global company operating with multiple entities. Previously, we didn't have that visibility. Now, we have visibility so we can pinpoint some locations where there are machines that are not really protected, offline, etc. It gives us visibility, which is good."

"All the alerts are on the dashboard, which is quite simple and useful for us. You can easily check all the alerts that are being blocked or allowed, or whatever the action is. You can easily see that and you can take the necessary actions. You can add a PowerShell extension or any activities for blocking at your network level or for endpoints."

"It provides full visibility into security events and from both solutions in one dashboard. I'm not a big security guy, if I have a threat that looks like there's a problem, I will ask Morphisec to dissect it for me, and tell me what might be happening. Because it tends to be all hash codes, so I can tell what's going on. They've been pretty good with that."

"The simplicity of the solution, how easy it is to deploy and how small it is when deployed as an agent on a device, is probably the biggest aspect, given what it can do."

"We don't have to do anything as a user or as an admin. It does everything by default with its coding and inbuilt AI-based intelligence. We don't have to instruct it about what to do. It automatically takes corrective actions and quarantines or deletes a virus, malware, etc. That is the best part that I like about it."

"Morphisec is a straightforward solution that is efficient and very stable."

"I really like the integration with Microsoft Defender. In addition to having third-party endpoint protection, we're also enabling Defender... I like the reporting that we get from Defender, when it comes in. I like that it's one console showing both Morphisec and Defender where it provides me with full visibility into security events from Defender and Morphisec."

"Morphisec provides full visibility into security events from Microsoft Defender and Morphisec in one dashboard. Defender and Morphisec are integrated. It's important because it lowers the total cost of maintenance on the engineer's time, more or less. So the administrative time is dramatically reduced in maintaining the product. This saves an engineer around four to five hours a week."

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Cons

"This product has issues with the number of false positives that it reports."

"Maybe there is room for improvement in some of the automated remediation. We have other tools in place that AMP feeds into that allow for that to happen, so I look at it as one seamless solution. But if you're buying AMP all by itself, I don't know if it can remove malicious software after the fact or if it requires the other tools that we use to do some of that."

"I would recommend that the solution offer more availability in terms of the product portfolio and integration with third-party products."

"The Linux agent is a simple offline classic agent, and it doesn't support Secure Boot, which is important to have on a Linux machine. The Linux agent has conflicts with other solutions, including the Exploit Prevention system found in Windows servers. We didn't find a fix during troubleshooting, and Cisco couldn't offer one either. Eventually, we had to shut down the Exploit Prevention system. We didn't like that as we always want a solution that can fit smoothly into the setup without causing problems, especially where security is concerned. The tool also caused CPU spikes on our production machine, and we were seriously considering moving to another product."

"The room for improvement would be on event notifications. I have mine tuned fairly well. I do feel that if you subscribe to all the event notification types out-of-the-box, or don't really go through and take the time to filter out events, the notifications can become overwhelming with information. Sometimes, when you're overwhelmed with information, you just say, "I'm not going to look at anything because I'm receiving so much." I recommend the vendor come up with a white paper on the best practices for event notifications."

"The one challenge that I see is the use of multiple endpoint protection platforms. For instance, we have AMP, but we also have Microsoft Windows Defender, System Center Endpoint Protection, and Microsoft Malware Protection Engine deployed. So, we have a bunch of different things that do the same thing. What winds up happening is, e.g., if I get an alert for a potential incident or malware and want to pull the file, I'll go to fetch the file to analyze it. But, one of these other programs has already gotten it, so the file has already been quarantined by another endpoint protection system. AMP doesn't realize that and the file fetch fails, then you're left wondering what's going on."

"The connector updates are very easily done now, and that's improving. Previously, the connector had an issue, where almost every time it needed to be updated, it required a machine reboot. This was always a bit of an inconvenience and a bug. Because with a lot of software now, you don't need to do that and shouldn't need to be rebooting all the time."

"The solution needs more in-depth analytics."

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"Sometimes it generates false positive alerts. They need to continue working on that. They have provided solutions for it and have fixed issues with updated versions. The service is quite good but they need to work on it more so that there are no false positive alerts."

"It would be useful for them if they had some kind of network discovery. That kind of functionality I think would give IT administrators a little bit more confidence that they have 100 percent coverage, and it gives them something to audit against. Network discovery would be one area I would definitely suggest that they put some effort into."

"Some of the filters for the console need improvement. There are alerts that show up and just being able to acknowledge that we've seen those and not turn them off, but dismiss them, would be a huge benefit."

"I haven't been able to get the cloud deployment to work. When there's an update, I'm supposed to be able to roll it out for the cloud solution, but right now I'm continuing to use our SCCM solution to update it."

"In the Windows Defender integration, they have put in a report of computers that need Windows Defender updates. If those updates could be kicked off directly from the dashboard, instead of having to go to another system entirely, that would be good."

"Automating reports needs improvement. I would like to have better reporting capabilities within it or automated reporting to be a little bit more dynamic. That's something I know they're working on. We literally are in the process. We started the process a week and a half ago of going to their latest version, so I've not seen their latest one up and running yet."

"If anything, tech support might be their weakest link. The process of getting someone involved sometimes takes a little time. It seems to me that they should have all the data they need to let me know whether an alert is legitimate or not, but they tend to need a lot of information from me to get to the bottom of something. It usually takes a little longer than I would expect."

"We have only had four attacks in the last year, "attacks" being some benign PDF from a vendor that, for some reason, were triggered. There were no actual attacks. They were just four false positives, or something lowly like adware. There have been false positives with both the on-premises solution and the cloud solution."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The costs of 50 licenses of AMP for three years is around $9,360."

"We had faced some license issues, but it has been improved. At the beginning of the implementation, we faced a lot of licensing issues, but now, we have EA licensing, which gives us an opportunity to grow."

"You must make monthly payments towards the licensing charges attached to the product. There are no extra charges apart from the standard licensing fees associated with the product."

"Because we do see the value of what it's bringing, I think they have priced it well."

"Whenever you are doing the licensing process, I would highly advise to look at what other Cisco solutions you have in your organization, then evaluate if an Enterprise Agreement is the best way to go. In our case, it was the best way to go. Since we had so many other Cisco products, we were able to tie those in. We were actually able to get several Cisco security solutions for less than if we had bought three or four Cisco security solutions independently or ad hoc."

"There are a couple of different consumption models: Pay up front, or if you have an enterprise agreement, you can do a monthly thing. Check your licensing possibilities and see what's best for your organization."

"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 solution's price is about the same as that of Palo Alto solutions."

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"Morphisec is reasonably priced because our parent company's other subsidiaries use different products like CrowdStrike. CrowdStrike is four or five times more expensive than Morphisec. The competitive pricing saves us money in our overall security stack."

"It is an annual subscription basis per device. For the devices that we have in scope right now, it is about $25,000 a year."

"It is priced correctly for what it does. They end up doing a good deal of discounting, but I think it is priced appropriately."

"The pricing is definitely fair for what it does."

"Compared to their competitors, the price of Morphisec is not that high. You can easily deploy it on a large-scale or small-scale network."

"It is a little bit more expensive than other security products that we use, but it does provide us good protection. So, it is a trade-off."

"It does not have multi-tenants. If South Africa wants to show only the machines that they have, they need their own cloud incidence. It is not possible to have that in a single cloud incidence with multiple tenants in it, instead you need to have multiple cloud incidences. Then, if you have that, it will be more expensive. However, they are going to change that, which is good."

"Price-wise, it's on the higher side. A traditional antivirus solution is cheaper, but in terms of security and manageability, its ROI is better than a traditional antivirus. I would recommend it to anybody evaluating or considering an antivirus solution. If your system gets compromised, the cost of ransom would be a lot more. This way, it saves a lot of cost."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

18%

Government

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Outsourcing Company

14%

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

12%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Cisco Secure Endpoint?

The product's initial setup phase was very simple.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cisco Secure Endpoint?

I am not entirely sure about the exact licensing cost. It ranges from 2,000 to 2,500 INR annually.

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What needs improvement with Cisco Secure Endpoint?

Previously, there were options to uninstall the agent without a password if you had admin access, and this could be improved. It may require a password for uninstalling clients, which would be help...

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Comparisons

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint vs Cisco Secure Endpoint

Compared 15% of the time

CrowdStrike Falcon vs Cisco Secure Endpoint

Compared 12% of the time

SentinelOne Singularity Complete vs Cisco Secure Endpoint

Compared 6% of the time

Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks vs Cisco Secure Endpoint

Compared 6% of the time

Check Point Harmony Endpoint vs Cisco Secure Endpoint

Compared 4% of the time

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CrowdStrike Falcon vs Morphisec

Compared 35% of the time

Halcyon vs Morphisec

Compared 13% of the time

SentinelOne Singularity Complete vs Morphisec

Compared 12% of the time

Virsec Security Platform vs Morphisec

Compared 7% of the time

Tanium vs Morphisec

Compared 5% of the time

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Also Known As

Cisco AMP for Endpoints

Morphisec, Morphisec Moving Target Defense

Overview

Cisco Secure Endpoint is a comprehensive endpoint security solution that natively includes open and extensible extended detection and response (XDR) and advanced endpoint detection and response (EDR) capabilities. Secure Endpoint offers relentless breach protection that enables you to be confident, be bold, and be fearless with one of the industry’s most trusted endpoint security solutions. It protects your hybrid workforce, helps you stay resilient, and secures what’s next with simple, comprehensive endpoint security powered by unique insights from 300,000 security customers and deep visibility from the networking leader.

Cisco Secure Endpoint was formerly known as Cisco AMP for Endpoints.

Reviews from Real Users

Cisco Secure Endpoint stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its ability to enable developers to easily secure their endpoints with one single operation using its management console and its advanced alerting techniques.

Tim C., an IT manager at Van Der Meer Consulting, writes, "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."

Wouter H., a technical team lead network & security at Missing Piece BV, notes, "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."

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Morphisec integrates seamlessly with platforms like Microsoft Defender, offering signatureless protection against zero-day threats and ransomware. It enhances existing endpoint solutions with minimal maintenance through its set-and-forget deployment, providing heightened security and reduced false positives.

Morphisec strengthens defense strategies by merging memory morphing and signatureless protection to effectively block zero-day attacks and ransomware. It operates efficiently within existing infrastructure, reducing system impact and maintenance needs. Users find its full visibility dashboard invaluable. Despite its strengths, cloud deployment and reporting features can be improved. Stability, alerts, and integration with other systems pose challenges for users, impacting usability and support quality.

What are Morphisec's key features?

Seamless Integration: Works with Microsoft Defender for comprehensive dashboard visibility
Memory Morphing: Hides processes to reduce attack surfaces
Signatureless Protection: Prevents threats without impacting performance
Automatic Threat Blocking: Uses inbuilt intelligence to detect risks
Set-and-Forget Deployment: Simplifies management and reduces maintenance

What benefits should users consider in reviews?

Quick Deployment: Fast setup without disrupting operations
Enhanced Protection: Provides an additional defense layer against advanced threats
Cost-Effectiveness: Works with existing licenses, minimizing extra investments
Improved Compatibility: Integrates smoothly with current antivirus systems
Minimal System Impact: Operates efficiently without overloading resources

In security-focused industries, Morphisec is crucial for protecting workstations and servers against sophisticated attacks like ransomware. Its signatureless technology offers early threat detection, while compatibility with existing systems ensures seamless integration, providing advanced protection without additional licensing costs.

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Sample Customers

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

Lenovo/Motorola, TruGreen, Covenant Health, Citizens Medical Center

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