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Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks vs Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response Expert comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Net...
Average Rating
8.4
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)
Kaspersky Endpoint Detectio...
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
45
Ranking in other categories
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (19th)
 

Featured Reviews

Mohammad Qaw - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 15, 2022
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.
Kiarash Heydari - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 28, 2023
Solid security and performance; overall a useful tool
We use Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response for different in-depth solutions. It's a useful tool when you want everything in one module and you don't have a big budget for security. Other use cases are behavior detection, policy management, assessments, and patch fixings The most valuable…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It collects and caches and the knowledge of machine learning from different customers to take to the cloud. It makes it better to use for everybody. It allows for quick learning and updates and can, therefore, offer zero-day malware security. This sharing of metadata helps make the solution very safe."
"Cortex XDR is a simple platform that's easy for administrators and users. You have a lot of flexibility to change or customize the features."
"The stability of the solution is very good. We have about 100 users on it right now, and we use it twice a week."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its ability to rapidly detect certain hardware files."
"We have a complete overview of all our PCs and it's very easy to handle and to use the interface. It has a lot of benefits for us."
"Being a cloud solution it is very flexible in serving internal and external connections and a broad range of devices."
"It's a nice product that's stable and scalable."
"If any application performs suspicious activities, such as changing registries or modifying other applications, Cortex XDR detects and blocks the entire application."
"Its customer service is quite good."
"Encryption is the most valuable feature. It creates an encryption tunnel from your location to the delivery address."
"This is a feature-rich product."
"Has great behavior detection and a very good firmware scanner."
"The most valuable feature is endpoint protection."
"The detection engine running on endpoints works very well and provides a good protection level."
"The performance for Kaspersky is good, and it's not impacted our client performance."
"We particularly appreciate how scalable this solution is, as we often need to increase our end-user numbers."
 

Cons

"There are some third-party solutions that are difficult to integrate with, which is something that can be improved."
"It is an enterprise-level solution. Its price could be less expensive."
"I would like to see improvement in the tool's user interface, particularly in the area of managing alerts and providing more reporting capabilities."
"We would also like to have advanced tech protection and email scanning."
"It is a complex solution to implement."
"Cortex XDR should have a lightweight agent, and the agent size should not be heavy."
"They've been having some issues with updating their endpoint agents, and it has been quite frustrating."
"It automatically detects security issues. It should be able to protect our network devices while operating autonomously."
"Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response should continue to improve its protection while adapting to the changing threat ecosystems. Having more advanced features would be a benefit."
"It's not a simple implementation."
"We'd like more integrations to be available in the future."
"It is not easy to follow the kill chain of a potential infection or malware."
"The solution does not offer much support to its users in Spanish, so I would like to see them offer more support in Spanish."
"The solution could always be more secure."
"The license prices for this solution are quite high."
"There are some issues with EDR's web policy blocking sites that are marked as exceptions."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I don't recall what the cost was, but it wasn't really that expensive."
"The cost of Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is $55 to $90 USD per endpoint per month."
"This is an expensive solution."
"I don't like that they have different types of licenses."
"It's the most expensive solution, but features-wise, it's quite strong. It's very good for protection, so the results are very good in the case of protection. I would rate it a two out of ten in terms of pricing."
"We pay about $50,000 USD per year for a bundle that includes Cortex XDR."
"Traps pays for itself within the first 16 months of a three-year subscription. This is attributed to OPEX savings, as security teams spent less time trying to identify and isolate malware for analysis as a result of a reduction in malware incidents, false positives, and breach avoidance."
"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 solution's cost is reasonable compared to other vendors."
"The solution is expensive in comparison to CheckPoint and Fortinet."
"Kaspersky's pricing is very competitive when it comes to comparison with the other solutions."
"Kaspersky is licensed on a yearly basis."
"The pricing is reasonable. Not too cheap, not too expensive."
"The solution is worth its cost so I rate pricing a ten out of ten."
"Pricing for Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response is so-so when you compare it with its competitors. Its pricing isn't cheap nor expensive."
"EDR is priced on the cheaper side. Licensing for EDR is available on a yearly basis for around 80 SAR a year."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Government
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Computer Software Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Educational Organization
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

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How is Cortex XDR compared with Microsoft Defender?
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What do you like most about Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response Expert?
The integration with our hypervisor is quite smooth, especially within the Kaspersky Enterprise environment. We have many virtual machines, and the integration is helpful.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response Expert?
If one is cheap, ten is expensive, I rate the product’s price as a seven out of ten, especially if I compare it with CrowdStrike.
What needs improvement with Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response Expert?
I would say that Kaspersky is not too big in the cloud-related area. From an improvement perspective, it would be good if Kaspersky went big in the cloud since it would give the tool a fair chance ...
 

Also Known As

Cyvera, Cortex XDR, Palo Alto Networks Traps
Kaspersky EDR
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

CBI Health Group, University Honda, VakifBank
Ferrari, Insolar, Tael, Republic of Serbia
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