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Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks vs Malwarebytes comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 9, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

Customer Service

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Malwarebytes' customer service is praised for availability, but some users face unresolved issues; enterprise support lacks maturity.
 

Room For Improvement

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Sentiment score
5.8
Users criticize Malwarebytes for performance, usability issues, false positives, high costs, and demand better integration, protection, and features.
It lacks enterprise-level management and more enterprise functionality.
 

Scalability Issues

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Sentiment score
4.5
Malwarebytes suits small to large organizations but may encounter performance issues with endpoint expansion and increased use.
 

Setup Cost

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Malwarebytes offers enterprise pricing from $20-$60 per device annually, with additional charges for modules and regional price variations.
Malwarebytes is a bit pricey for some regions, such as Ukraine, since it's priced in US dollars.
 

Stability Issues

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Sentiment score
8.1
Malwarebytes is stable and reliable, though some users report occasional update issues and performance impacts, leading to minor improvements.
 

Valuable Features

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Sentiment score
7.5
Malwarebytes offers excellent threat detection, easy setup, robust protection, frequent updates, and strong anti-ransomware capabilities with lightweight performance.
The behavior-based detection is very nice, and it combats zero-day threats by looking for anomalous behaviors.
 

Categories and Ranking

Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Net...
Ranking in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)
4th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
8.0
Number of Reviews
90
Ranking in other categories
Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (7th), Ransomware Protection (2nd), AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platforms (3rd)
Malwarebytes
Ranking in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)
28th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
36
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) category, the mindshare of Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is 4.3%, down from 5.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Malwarebytes is 1.7%, down from 2.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)
 

Featured Reviews

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.
Anas Anas - PeerSpot reviewer
Effective threat predictions, simple to deploy, and light on resources
Malwarebytes's initial setup is simple. It is easy to deploy and configure the policies and the configuration. I deployed Malwarebytes for one customer and I did it in under two days. They had approximately 50 users, it took approximately an hour. The steps I took for the implementation were downloading the Malwarebytes management console from the site, installing it, then running the discovery tool, scanning my network, and checking all of the PCs on my network. It's already pre-configured, you don't need to configure anything. The only configuration that I did on the administration console was some of the exclusion from the scan. This is the only rule that I have created. I rate the initial setup of Malwarebytes a ten out of ten.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Government
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
13%
University
9%
Government
7%
Retailer
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 Malwarebytes?
Ten times a day, improved signatures will be downloaded, so it is very up-to-date in terms of malware experience.
What needs improvement with Malwarebytes?
The product could be improved in blocking malicious traffic, such as communication with known malicious IP addresses.
 

Also Known As

Cyvera, Cortex XDR, Palo Alto Networks Traps
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Overview

 

Sample Customers

CBI Health Group, University Honda, VakifBank
Knutson Construction
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