Deep Instinct Prevention Platform vs Morphisec comparison

Deep Instinct and Morphisec are both solutions in the Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) category. Deep Instinct is ranked #31 with an average rating of 10.0, while Morphisec is ranked #48. Deep Instinct holds a 1.0% mindshare in EPP, compared to Morphisec’s 0.7% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Deep Instinct 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

Deep Instinct Prevention Platform and Morphisec are advanced cybersecurity solutions. Based on user feedback, Morphisec has the upper hand with superior features, making it worth the price.

Features: Deep Instinct Prevention Platform has robust threat detection, deep learning for proactive protection, and strong pricing and support. Morphisec is lightweight, offers effective memory protection, and has refined, user-friendly features.

Room for Improvement: Deep Instinct Prevention Platform needs better integration with other security tools, improved reporting capabilities, and more deployment flexibility. Morphisec users suggest better detection response rates, expanded threat intelligence features, and enhanced scalability.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Deep Instinct Prevention Platform offers straightforward deployment but sometimes slow customer service. Morphisec provides quick, flexible deployment and reliable customer service.

Pricing and ROI: Deep Instinct Prevention Platform is cost-effective with good ROI. Morphisec, although pricier, provides excellent ROI through its advanced features and comprehensive protection capabilities.

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Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) category, the mindshare of Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is 3.6%, down from 4.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Deep Instinct Prevention Platform is 1.0%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Morphisec is 0.7%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks	3.6%
Deep Instinct Prevention Platform	1.0%
Morphisec	0.7%
Other	94.7%

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ABHISHEK_SINGH

Senior Process Expert at A.P. Moller - Maersk

Gained full visibility and streamlined threat detection through behavior-based insights and AI integration

Initially, we got to have a lot of false positives when we onboarded, but nowadays it's quite smooth. We have fine-tuned our security policies and allowed different levels of policies to get rid of those false positives. Currently, we are getting a fairly good amount of incidents that are not false positives or benign, but actionable items. The process is streamlined. In the initial days, the operations used to get involved in a lot of benign and other activities, but now the process is streamlined. We are leveraging the auto-detection and remediation plans. The operations teams are now more involved in other business roles as well, not just looking into the logs and fetching out what's happening there. They have fixed a lot of things. Initially, they didn't have IAC code drift detection, cloud posture management, or security posture management, but they have those now. They purchased different vendors and did a merger with that. They have now Prisma Cloud that gets integrated and now they are working with Cortex Cloud. Everything that was negative has now been addressed, and the product altogether looks to be in a very better and mature shape now. Currently, it's more or less detecting the workloads with AI-based best practices. Since most organizations are consuming AI agents and other things, we are looking forward to seeing what other feature enhancements Palo Alto can support in that.

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Tom Foal

CTO at Klaatu IT Security Ltd

Stops ransomware before it executes and reduces response time for the team

A potential area of improvement for Deep Instinct Prevention Platform is their focus on file uploads and large data storage, backups, and other related areas. It is difficult to think of what they could improve, but low information provided by the system when it detects something is one area, particularly in scripting. Deep Instinct Prevention Platform detects malicious scripts but it needs better measures, perhaps signing scripts, so we can be sure that a script is created by a client, not by some malware. It is really about helping us triage incidents effectively, so a bit more help with the analysis of incidents, particularly what the Deep Instinct Prevention Platform agent has discovered, would be beneficial. We need to know what it has spotted that makes it suspect malware.

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Rick Schibler

VP of Information Technology at Kentucky Trailer

Offers in-memory protection at a lower price than competitors

Morphisec's in-memory protection is probably the most valuable feature because it stops malicious activity from occurring. If something tries to install or act as a sleeper agent, Morphisec will detect and stop it. Morphisec's Moving Target Defense is critical to hardening our attack surface. If it detects something, it indicates whether it's valid. That means you've got a breach requiring investigation. It detects anomalies but doesn't necessarily point to what caused them. You still need to do that work. The solution is reasonably easy to administer. They made some changes last year, adding a cloud-based monitoring solution that makes deploying and monitoring our endpoints easy.

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Pros

"But overall, when we speak about security and protection, they are one of the top providers."

"Its ability to react to cyber data attacks is awesome."

"Previously, we had to install endpoint protection per machine and then scan and update, but Cortex XDR basically does that centrally and predictably, so we have more time to do day-to-day work rather than spend time chasing those endpoints."

"Its interface and pricing are most valuable, and it is better than other vendors in terms of security."

"The level of security I get for my endpoints and servers is extremely valuable."

"It is a simple platform to use."

"The solution's most valuable feature is its ability to rapidly detect certain hardware files."

"The management capabilities, allow an IT organization to get quite a good picture of attempted cyber attacks."

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"Instead of having features like rollback and after-event actionable stuff, the whole premise and the context of the solution is to actually prevent these malicious attacks from happening to begin with.... The ability to prevent threats is the most appealing aspect. It absolutely, 100 percent helps with real-time prevention of unknown malware. That's the strength of the product."

"The support is very good. They reply and respond very quickly."

"It has given us a more structured approach for detecting and preventing threats. It has machine learning-based detection and prevention. Their engines, in even older versions, are able to pick these viruses and malware. They have posted a lot of use cases online for detecting different viruses and malware that have been out for many years."

"The product offers integration capabilities and is also easy to use."

"Deep Instinct can actually predict unknown malware that is going to come out, as well, because of the way they have built this technology."

"Deep Instinct's detection rate is close to 100 percent."

"Deep Instinct complements the solutions we already have. You don't need to rip and replace any antivirus or endpoint that you have. It's easy to use and it's easy to have it side-by-side with other solutions. That makes it really easy to have an additional level of protection, rather than to hassle with doing solution migration."

"Deep Instinct’s prevention-first approach to stopping unknown ransomware and malware is the reason why we purchased the product. The pre-execution versus post-execution is a big piece for us where it is able to stop something before it even hits the box or desktop. That was one of the big reasons why we went with Deep Instinct."

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"It also provides full visibility into security events from Microsoft Defender and Morphisec in one dashboard. We've always had that capability with Morphisec. The more recent version appears to do that even a little bit more natively and it's given us visibility that we didn't have otherwise."

"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 have seen it successfully block attacks that a traditional antivirus did not pick up."

"The biggest feature is that it hides everything from your operating system that's running in-memory from anything to try to run against it. That's the most unique thing that's on the market. There's nothing else out there that's quite like that. That's a big selling point and why we went with it. It does exactly what the design does. If you can't find it, you can't execute against it."

"It's simple, it's easy, and it works."

"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."

"Before we got Morphisec we evaluated solutions that claim to do similar things, and we have done additional evaluations since we started using it, but I don't think anything can truly touch what Morphisec does and the way it does it."

"Since we started using Morphisec, that hasn't happened even once."

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Cons

"It tends to do 99.9% of things. The only thing I'd like is single sign-on authentication into their cloud platform so that my users can be properly authenticated against it."

"Managing the product should be easier."

"In general, the price could be more competitive."

"Previously, the endpoint would leave the environment, not being on our VPN, essentially unable to interact with the server to upload files. It was unable to retrieve new file verdicts. It was using a thing called "local analysis" to determine if something was a malicious file or not. There was no dynamic analysis."

"There's an overall lack of features."

"There are a large number of false positives."

"One thing that was missing was the integration part. Currently, they don't have out-of-box integration with IBM QRadar, or if they have the integration, the integration doesn't work well."

"Previously, the endpoint would leave the environment, not being on our VPN, essentially unable to interact with the server to upload files."

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"I would like to see improvement in the user interface so that the user has more control. For example, it would be good if a user could change their grouping if they want to be part of another group. Or if I want to right-click and scan a specific file that I just imported, that would be helpful. Sometimes you just want to do an extra scan to make sure you're safe."

"Pricing is also an issue. Its pricing is not as aggressive as it could be, and its price makes it difficult to sell."

"Reporting on incidents needs improvement."

"Reporting on incidents needs improvement. It doesn't give very much information compared to Sophos."

"The Deep Instinct client stops working when you have two servers and you add high availability or Windows Failover Cluster mode."

"I would love to see a really exceptional, outstanding level of reporting. I know that's like asking for a unicorn to leap out of the sky with any of these products... When everything works, clients began to wonder: "Everything's fine. Why do we need you?" That's where the reporting capabilities would allow us to really demonstrate: "Hey, here's what's actually going on, Mr. Customer.""

"Some of the features are very resource intensive, such as the ransomware detection. It consumed so much of the resource on the endpoints that we have disabled those functions."

"They have a manual, but it is not excessive."

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"Sometimes it generates false positive alerts. They need to continue working on that."

"We started in the Linux platform and we deployed to Linux. The licensing of that has been confusing between Linux licensing and Windows licensing."

"It might be a bit much to ask, but we are now beginning to use Morphisec Scout, which provides vulnerability information. At this time, it's recognizing vulnerabilities and reporting them to us, but it's not necessarily resolving them. There's still a separate manual process to resolve those vulnerabilities, primarily through upgrades. We have to do that outside of Morphisec. If Morphisec could somehow have that capability built into it, that would be very effective."

"Those are some of the features that I was looking for on my on-prem platform that they've already instituted in the cloud and that I'm sure will be instituting on their on-prem platform as well. Having to have an on-prem server required a lot of administration. Being able to push that to the cloud and have it managed up there for us is a real nice addition."

"We wanted to have multi-tenants in their cloud platform, so every entity can look into their own systems and not see other systems in other entities."

"The dashboard is the area that requires the most improvement."

"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."

"The only problem is that their support lives in Israel, so the time zones are a bit off, but I've never had any complaint beyond that."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"This is an expensive solution."

"The cost of Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is $55 to $90 USD per endpoint per month."

"Compared to CrowdStrike, Cortex XDR is an expensive solution."

"The price of the solution is high for the license and in general."

"Cortex XDR's pricing is ok."

"Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is an expensive solution."

"Cortex XDR is a costly solution."

"Our license will require renewal in August, after which the maintenance will continue as usual."

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"Their pricing is very competitive. It is good, fair, and a lot cheaper than what we were doing with Cylance."

"In comparison to the other products out there, it's exceptionally competitively priced. When you consider the lower administrative overhead that it facilitates, it's an absolute value."

"One thing about their licensing program that I like is that just one covers the server as well as on the endpoint as well as mobile devices. There is no complexity in calculating how many SKUs I need for mobile, for laptop, for desktop, and for servers. It's very simple and that makes it much easier to budget."

"Pricing and licensing are very straightforward. It's two SKUs, one is for the console and the other is for the client."

"Its pricing is too high, but that is not because of the product. It is expensive because of the cost of the console. You need a console to control the whole thing, but the console is expensive. You have to split this cost among all possible users. Normally, to be able to make it economically attractive, you need at least 1,000 agents, PCs, or users. If you have a customer with 300 to 500 agents, PCs, or users, it becomes too pricey."

"There is a need for customers of the product to pay towards the licensing costs of the tool."

"If I include the false positive rate and the detection rate in the comparison, Deep Instinct is worth its price."

"The pricing is a little bit expensive but we are satisfied with DI's performance."

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"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."

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

"We are still using a separate tool. I know for our 600 or I think we're actually licensed for up to 700 users, it runs me 23 or $24,000 a year. When you're talking to that many users plus servers being protected, that's well worth the investment for that dollar amount."

"Our licensing is tied into our contract. Because we have a long-term contract, our pricing is a little bit lower. It is per year, so we don't get charged per endpoint, but we do have a cap. Our cap is 80 endpoints. If we were to go over 80, when we renewed our contract, which is not until three years are over. Then, they would reevaluate, and say, "Well, you have more than 80 devices active right now. This is going to be the price change." They know that we are installing and replacing computers, so the numbers will be all over the place depending on whether you archive or don't archive, which is the reason why we just have to keep up on that stuff."

"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."

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

"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."

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Top Industries

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Construction Company

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13%

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

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Outsourcing Company

16%

Construction Company

10%

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Small Business	45
Midsize Enterprise	20
Large Enterprise	48

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Also Known As

Cyvera, Cortex XDR, Palo Alto Networks Traps

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Overview

Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks provides advanced threat detection with AI-driven endpoint protection and seamless integration, ensuring multi-layered security and automatic threat response.

Cortex XDR is designed to safeguard endpoints against malware and suspicious activities. It offers advanced threat detection and response capabilities using behavioral analysis, AI, and machine learning. It seamlessly integrates with security infrastructures, providing endpoint security, firewall integration, and enhanced visibility in both cloud-based and on-premises environments.

What are the key features of Cortex XDR?

Advanced Threat Detection: Uses AI and machine learning for proactive threat identification.
Multi-layered Security: Combines various security measures for comprehensive protection.
Endpoint Protection: Safeguards against malware and exploits.
Behavioral Analysis: Monitors suspicious activity for early detection.
Automatic Threat Response: Automates responses to neutralize threats.

What benefits should users expect?

Ease of Use: Simplifies security management with intuitive design.
Resource Efficiency: Minimizes impact on system resources.
Integration Capabilities: Works well with existing security setups.
Reduced Analyst Workload: Automates processes to decrease manual intervention.

Organizations in diverse sectors deploy Cortex XDR to protect against malware, leveraging its advanced threat detection capabilities. Its integration with existing security infrastructures appeals to those seeking comprehensive protection in both cloud and on-premises environments, providing enhanced visibility and threat intelligence.

Palo Alto Networks

Deep Instinct PREVENTS >99% of UNKNOWN threats like ransomware and zero-days before they land inside your environment – not after. With both an agentless and agent-based approach, we ensure file-based and fileless attacks are prevented. To achieve this, Deep Instinct is pioneering the use of deep learning AI to prevent threats in <20ms, without requiring calls to the cloud for threat intelligence. Our ability to scale to the needs of the enterprise is unprecedented as is our delivery of the industry’s lowest false positive rate of <0.1%.

The Deep Instinct Prevention Platform combines industry-leading static analysis based on the only deep learning framework dedicated to cybersecurity and includes two solutions:

Deep Instinct Prevention for Applications is a flexible, containerized and highly scalable solution, deployed via API or ICAP, to scan million so files per day and prevent malicious files from entering storage environments.

Deep Instinct for Endpoints complements EDR solutions by preventing threats pre-execution, minimizing false positives, improving the productivity of SOC teams, and increasing the efficiency of the security stack.

To learn more, visit: https://www.deepinstinct.com.

Deep Instinct

Morphisec delivers signatureless endpoint-specific protection, effectively blocking zero-day threats and ransomware without affecting performance, making it a preferred choice for enhancing security strategies.

Morphisec empowers users by providing comprehensive protection against advanced threats with its innovative signatureless and in-memory security features. Its seamless integration with Microsoft Defender ensures complete visibility and automatic threat blocking through a unified dashboard. The Moving Target Defense technology enhances deployment efficiency while its lightweight design maintains system performance. Despite some challenges in cloud deployment and feature updates, users find value in its ease of use and minimal administrative effort.

What are the key features of Morphisec?

Signatureless Protection: Blocks threats without relying on signatures, ensuring up-to-date defense.
In-Memory Protection: Prevents attacks targeting system memory to safeguard endpoints.
Zero-Day Threat Blocking: Offers proactive defense against undiscovered threats.
Unified Dashboard: Provides comprehensive security event visibility and integration with Microsoft Defender.
Lightweight Design: Ensures smooth operation without system performance issues.

What benefits can users expect when evaluating Morphisec?

Enhanced Security: Strengthens defense layers against ransomware and memory attacks.
Seamless Integration: Works alongside existing antivirus solutions like Microsoft Defender.
Minimal Administration: Requires low maintenance due to its set-and-forget nature.
Automatic Updates: Keeps protection current without manual intervention.
Broad Coverage: Suitable for desktops, servers, and cloud platforms.

In industries with high security needs, deploying Morphisec adds a robust defense against advanced threats. Its compatibility with antivirus solutions and cloud platforms makes it adaptable to diverse environments, ensuring effective threat mitigation and detection.

Morphisec

Sample Customers

CBI Health Group, University Honda, VakifBank

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

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