We performed a comparison between Trend Micro XDR and Cisco SecureX 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 threat prevention, real-time visualization, and ability to prioritize network-based detection and response. Cisco SecureX earns high marks for its automated utilities, comprehensive visibility, and seamless integration with external resources. Trend Micro XDR should improve integration, overhaul its web interface, and strengthen its business relationships. Users say Cisco SecureX needs better documentation and integration with on-premises systems. It would also benefit by expanding its compatibility with third-party solutions.
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 users describe Cisco support as dependable and efficient, while others noted a decline in quality due to personnel changes.
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 Cisco SecureX is generally considered to be straightforward in cloud environments, but it requires more effort to integrate the solution with on-premise products.
Pricing: Some reviews noted that Trend Micro XDR might be too costly for small organizations, but others found the price reasonable. A few users said Cisco SecureX’s price could be lower, given that it is included for free with certain Cisco products.
ROI: Trend Micro XDR delivers value through automation. Its efficient alerts ensure timely threat detection and prevention. Cisco SecureX provides a positive ROI by speeding up detection and resolution. It also decreases workloads through automation and proactive information gathering.
Comparison Results: Our users prefer Trend Micro XDR over Cisco SecureX. Trend Micro XDR is praised for its comprehensive attack view, high detection rate, and easy setup. Cisco users say SecureX would benefit from better documentation and search features.
"We can automate routine tasks and write scripts to carry out difficult tasks, which makes things easier for us."
"I have found the ability to delete unwanted threats beneficial."
"For me, the advanced hunting capabilities have been really great. It allowed querying the dataset with their own language, which is KQL or Kusto Query Language. That has allowed me to get much more insight into the events that have occurred. The whole power of 365 Defender is that you can get the whole story. It allows you to query an email-based activity and then correlate it with an endpoint-based activity."
"It provides a single pane of glass within the 365 admin interface, streamlining our experience by consolidating information in one place and eliminating the need to navigate through multiple interfaces."
"The most valuable aspect is undoubtedly the exploration capability"
"It has great stability."
"Setting up Microsoft 365 Defender is easy. It's a user-friendly solution that provides threat protection. It has good stability and scalability."
"It has been great for us. Previously, we didn't have a solution to protect us, especially from malware, whereas now, we are getting protection up front, especially from the malware attacks coming through emails or endpoints."
"The ability to create firewalls online has been most valuable including the ability to create rules."
"The automation and orchestration tools are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to manage all the applications and visibility. For example, if there is malware, spam, or another component that wants to attack the company in my servers, network, or applications, then SecureX will react to the problem."
"Our customers find the product's third-party integrations valuable. Our customers are also impressed with the tool's capability to pick up third-party threat feeds and use that as part of the decision-making process."
"SecureX enables us to have all the threat intelligence and threat event data in one place."
"The forensics are amazing because when you have enrichment, and the solutions talk with each other, when you need it, you have the ability to know everything in the organization: when, why, whatever."
"I like that I don't have to jump around to five different products and log into five different places to view the data that it returns."
"It has evolved a lot, just that monitoring piece to the current Orchestrator piece. The additional analytics are there. They now have something called Insight, which can basically take data from Microsoft Azure AD and Intune to give us information about our endpoints. This is detailed information about the endpoints, from Secure Endpoint and all these different products. So, it is just constantly evolving. Every time that it evolves, we have more information with more visibility. There are more features that we have that just make everything so much easier, and it is in one place. I don't have to keep going back and forth. I don't have to go to Secure Endpoint and ISE to get the data. I don't have to go to Intune on Microsoft to get the information. It is all in one place."
"Trend Micro XDR is a comprehensive solution that is not overly complex to use or manage."
"I appreciate the value of real-time activity monitoring."
"Scaling is not a problem at all."
"The most important thing for us as a customer is that we can spend more time in other places as it's simpler to have that overview. We have much more time for other tasks."
"I like that it is a comprehensive security solution with a lot of features. You can say XDR is an end-to-end security solution with endpoint security. It includes all your servers, networks, and other devices. The endpoint security solution does not cover this. Plus, machine learning and features like that are the main things in XDR solutions."
"One of the features I like in Trend Micro XDR is that you can drill down on the root-cause analysis for anything you find on the solution. I also like that it works for detection purposes. Behavior analytics is also what I like most about Trend Micro XDR. I love that it has features such as behavior detection, program detection, and memory scanning. By default, the solution protects against spyware, apart from the normal virus scan. Smart Scan and DLP are also available in Trend Micro XDR which I like as well."
"The centralized visibility is good."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"The user interface of Microsoft 365 Defender could improve. They could make it simpler."
"The documentation on their website is somewhat outdated and doesn't show properly. I wanted to try a query in Microsoft Defender 365. When I opened the related documentation from the security blog on the Microsoft website, the figures were not showing. It was difficult to understand the article without having the figures. The figures were there in the article, but they were not getting loaded, which made the article obsolete."
"The Defender agent itself is more compatible with Windows 10 and Windows 11. Other than these two lines, there are so many compatibility issues. Security is not only about Microsoft. The core technical aspects of it are quite good, but it would be good if they can better support non-Microsoft solutions in terms of putting the agents directly into VMware and other virtualization solutions. There should be more emphasis on RHEL and other operating systems that we use, other than Windows, in the server category."
"A simple dashboard without having to use MS Sentinel would be a welcome improvement."
"It would be helpful if the solution could scan faster when it comes to scanning attachments to emails."
"Microsoft Defender XDR is not a full-fledged EDR or XDR."
"The message trace feature for investigating mail flow issues should add more detailed information to the summary report... if they could extend the summary report a little bit, make it more descriptive, ordinary administrators could understand what happened and that the emails failed at this or that point. That way they would know the location to go to try to correct it and to prevent it from occurring again."
"The interface could be improved. For example, if you want to do a phishing simulation for your employees, it can take a while to figure out what to do. The interface is a bit messy and could be updated. It isn't too bad, but doing some things can be a long process."
"For us, the biggest sticking point is that the product is not being designed for multi-tenancy use at present, from an MSP perspective."
"They could expand into more areas. The more third-parties that we have tied into it, the better. The capabilities are there. As they just continue to involve the product, the more things that you can look into, then the more analytics that you can get. Also, the more data that we can get, then the better off we will be."
"The documentation can be improved and the on-prem integration. The set of applications that it was integrated with wasn't comprehensive."
"The playbooks provided with the product are great, although I would appreciate having more playbooks available. Threats are constantly evolving, so having access to updated playbooks is crucial."
"If they could make the Cisco Umbrella piece a little bit more advanced or easier to manage, that would help. We use it for filtering and when you compare it to a normal content filter, it lacks some functionality."
"what's missing right now is the multi-tenant capability."
"Enhancing automation capabilities could further improve the product."
"One of the improvements the product needs is more integration with collaboration platforms."
"It is very expensive."
"The zero trust is a bit complicated compared to other parts of the solution."
"Results were delayed."
"The centralized dashboard has room for improvement."
"Having more variables within the playbook would be useful. It would allow us to have more refined playbooks for the business. It would allow us to take stronger action through a playbook. It will give us confidence to target a particular area of business where our risk tolerance might be higher or lower. We would like to have more granular playbooks."
"I would like to have more integration with mobile device management."
"The solution could always be made to be more secure."
"I think that continued optimization of the environment towards automation and orchestration, a kind of layer that sits underneath all of the technologies, would be extremely important."
Cisco SecureX is ranked 14th in Extended Detection and Response (XDR) with 13 reviews while Trend Vision One is ranked 6th in Extended Detection and Response (XDR) with 43 reviews. Cisco SecureX is rated 9.0, while Trend Vision One is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cisco SecureX writes "Gives our customers visibility and they don't have to go multiple management consoles anymore". 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". Cisco SecureX is most compared with Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks, Splunk SOAR, Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Wazuh and Fortinet FortiSOAR, whereas Trend Vision One is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon, Trend Vision One Endpoint Security, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Cynet. See our Cisco SecureX vs. Trend Vision One report.
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