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Huntress vs Microsoft Defender for Business comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 29, 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

Sentiment score
9.0
Huntress support is praised for prompt, knowledgeable, and proactive service, consistently rated excellent by users for reliability and responsiveness.
Sentiment score
4.8
Microsoft Defender for Business customer service is generally good with quick online responses, but phone contact and efficiency need improvement.
 

Room For Improvement

Sentiment score
5.9
Huntress needs enhanced reporting, better integration, expanded features, improved dashboards, and seamless AV and endpoint protection integration.
Sentiment score
3.8
Microsoft Defender for Business needs better reporting, URL filtering, DLP capabilities, integration, false positive management, threat response, communication, and Mac support.
 

Scalability Issues

No sentiment score available
Huntress scales efficiently with rapid deployment, high responsiveness, and minimal expansion effort, supporting diverse user needs and endpoints.
Sentiment score
8.3
Microsoft Defender for Business is highly scalable, cloud-driven, and successfully deployed on 20,000 endpoints with 2,000 users.
 

Setup Cost

No sentiment score available
Huntress is priced per endpoint, seen as fair due to consistent development, with adaptive, cost-effective enterprise pricing.
No sentiment score available
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.6
Huntress is highly rated for stability and reliable performance, with minor compatibility issues, ensuring seamless low-impact integration.
Sentiment score
9.3
Users find Microsoft Defender for Business reliable and stable, appreciating its seamless integration, consistent protection, and minimal maintenance requirements.
 

Valuable Features

Sentiment score
8.6
Huntress provides 24/7 threat detection, automatic remediation, and AI-enhanced security, ideal for small to medium businesses.
Sentiment score
7.9
Microsoft Defender for Business offers scalable, user-friendly security with strong EDR capabilities and integrates seamlessly with Microsoft 365 and Lighthouse.
The automated remediation feature also provides significant value.
 

Categories and Ranking

Huntress
Ranking in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)
10th
Average Rating
9.4
Reviews Sentiment
8.0
Number of Reviews
23
Ranking in other categories
Anti-Malware Tools (5th), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (9th), Managed Detection and Response (MDR) (3rd)
Microsoft Defender for Busi...
Ranking in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)
41st
Average Rating
7.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
Microsoft Security Suite (18th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) category, the mindshare of Huntress is 0.9%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Defender for Business is 1.7%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)
 

Featured Reviews

Andy Larin - PeerSpot reviewer
Effortless to use and is one of the easiest products to deploy
Huntress is effortless to use. It's one of the easiest products to deploy. Pushing out through our RMM is simple, and using it is straightforward once it's on a machine. The end user doesn't have to do anything. Everything comes back to us. I love that the alerts are human-curated. They take a look at alerts before we get them. Other products are very noisy. They'll send you an alert about anything. About 95 percent of those alerts go to Huntress first. They check to make sure that it's real and only alert us if it's actionable, something that requires our attention. When I get an alert from Huntress, it must be looked at. I love that. It saves a ton of time for my people. It can fix low-severity threats. Their team is 24/7, whereas my team is not. We want them to take action on known bad things. Sometimes, that means fixing the problem or isolating the machine so multiple machines aren't getting hit. I love that they can address those issues within a very short time.
Tim_Howard - PeerSpot reviewer
Provides good protection against viruses but support needs improvement
The product's initial setup phase wasn't too bad. The product's installation phase wasn't terrible, but it could have been good to club the things in the process, especially for the ones who are doing it for the first time, and it would be good if Microsoft offered users, someone, to talk to who knows the product. You will be gambling if you use Google for the tool because who knows if it really knows what Microsoft Defender for Business is all about. On a scale of one to ten, if ten is the easiest, I rate the setup phase as an eight out of ten. The setup phase was straightforward. As the tool was needed in a small shop, the solution's deployment was done in a couple of days. The solution was deployed in my company with the help of a small team of ten people. I had my head of IT help me in rolling it out in our company.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
19%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Retailer
7%
Healthcare Company
5%
Computer Software Company
17%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Retailer
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Huntress?
It is very easy to use. It is a great solution. They are one of the better vendors that I have ever worked with since I have been in the industry.
What needs improvement with Huntress?
One issue is the managed antivirus. Huntress takes control of the antivirus built into Windows Defender, but it doesn't if, for some reason, Defender isn't working properly and doesn't attempt to f...
What is your primary use case for Huntress?
We roll Huntress out across the board. It's in our base security shield, so we use it everywhere. We also use ThreatLocker. It's an application for allowlisting and blocklisting. It blocks any soft...
What do you like most about Microsoft Defender for Business?
A few things are valuable. One is the alerting we see when any kind of intrusion is happening, any kind of malware is being deployed across the endpoints, or any kind of suspicious activity is goin...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Defender for Business?
The tool's cost has been a little high, but I do not think it was terrible.
What needs improvement with Microsoft Defender for Business?
The tool's support is an area of concern where improvements are needed. I have had issues trying to get support or even trying to get to somebody. I often give up chasing the support and end up goi...
 

Overview

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