Lookout vs Microsoft Defender XDR comparison

Lookout and Microsoft are both solutions in the Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) category. Lookout is ranked #41 with an average rating of 8.0, while Microsoft is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.4. Additionally, 75% of Lookout users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 97% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.

Lookout

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75% willing to recommend

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97% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 9, 2024

Lookout and Microsoft Defender XDR are two cybersecurity solutions. Microsoft Defender XDR has the upper hand due to its robust features and extensive capabilities.

Features: Lookout offers efficient mobile threat defense, integration with existing security frameworks, and user-friendly interface. Microsoft Defender XDR provides advanced threat detection, comprehensive coverage, and seamless integration with Microsoft products.

Room for Improvement: Lookout can improve in threat intelligence, reporting accuracy, and expand its feature set. Microsoft Defender XDR needs better cross-platform consistency, reduction of false positives, and enhanced user experience.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Lookout is noted for straightforward deployment and responsive customer service. Microsoft Defender XDR has a more complex deployment process but benefits from extensive documentation and effective customer support.

Pricing and ROI: Lookout offers reasonable pricing with good ROI. Microsoft Defender XDR is more expensive, yet its extensive feature set justifies the cost for many users.

To learn more, read our detailed Lookout vs. Microsoft Defender XDR Report (Updated: December 2024).

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Categories and Ranking

Lookout

Ranking in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

41st

Average Rating

7.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Secure Web Gateways (SWG) (23rd), Mobile Data Protection (7th), Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) (12th), Threat Intelligence Platforms (18th), Mobile Threat Defense (2nd), ZTNA as a Service (17th), ZTNA (12th), Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) (21st)

Microsoft Defender XDR

Ranking in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

5th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (5th), Microsoft Security Suite (2nd)

Featured Reviews

reviewer2059746

Director Endpoint Security at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Allows users to self-remediate security issues, maintaining their privacy and providing excellent vulnerability detection

We just submitted an enhancement request reflecting the main area we want to see improvement in; the APIs. Currently, we're able to build dashboards, but it's somewhat backward because we use our MDM API to create them. Lookout should provide APIs to customers so we can query our data and use it in the cloud, and this is the only outstanding area for improvement with the product right now. Another improvement could be a more streamlined activation process for Android and iOS; there are several prompts when activating the application on a new device, and if that could be adapted to one click, that would be beneficial.

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IlanHamoy

Owner at Secusight

Stops the lateral movement of advanced attacks, saves our security team time, and extends security beyond Microsoft technologies

One of the biggest downsides of Microsoft products, in general, is that the menus are often difficult to find, as they tend to move from place to place between versions. It's unclear who makes these decisions, but simplicity would be a highly welcome change. A great way to achieve this simplicity would be to have built-in wizards within the products to help users accomplish tasks. This would eliminate the need to guess where to find the necessary options to enable or disable features. The features I would like to see added to Defender are improved web filtering capabilities and a WAF service. However, I may be mistaken, and Microsoft may already offer a similar solution. I understand that our finance department rejected most of the Defender for Azure services due to their cost, but I lack the information to judge their expense myself. I believe that, as with the Azure environment itself, which was initially considered expensive but became increasingly popular over time, the Defender for Azure solution will also gain traction if its price becomes slightly more competitive. When it comes to visibility into threats, 365 Defender is slightly complicated, and much more complicated than competitors like CloudStrike. That's just the "Microsoft way" where everything is usually slightly more complicated. The interface is not clear. Also, it is not clear when the system is offering a recommendation or just a way to validate something. It is not clear what will be automatically done and what you will have to do yourself.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"We have not had any issues with bugs or breakdowns."

"On the outside, the main differentiation is because Lookout ingest. They have ingested basically all of the apps for the last ten years and all the versions of all the apps, and we have that in a corporate database that allows us to do very large-scale machine learning and analysis on that data set. That's not something that any of the competitors really have the capability to do because they don't have access to the data set. A lot of the apps you can no longer get them because that version of the app is five or six years old, and it just doesn't exist anywhere anymore, except within our infrastructure. So, the ability to have that very rich dataset and learn from that dataset is a real differentiator."

"The solution is stable."

"The protection offered by the product is the most valuable feature. It detects vulnerabilities or traps on our users' phones and then prompts them to clean up their devices. Tools we used previously would only discover, which required us to gather information on the backend, so Lookout is a welcome upgrade."

"The most valuable features are the antivirus as a whole, the anti-malware, and all of the protection features that scan our enterprise devices."

"I like that Defender is easy to use and the alerts are all in one central location."

"The summarization of emails is a valuable feature."

"Vulnerability assessment and just-in-time access are some valuable features of Defender for server plans."

"We can use Defender to block and monitor for security purposes without needing multiple other products to do different tasks."

"Microsoft Defender XDR has significantly improved our operational security."

"What I like most about the product is its all-in-one solution. With Microsoft Defender XDR, we get coverage for various aspects like endpoint security, cloud security, and image-related cases, all within a single platform. This eliminates the need for multiple products or technical controls to address incidents. The main benefit became evident immediately after deployment, especially in its ability to analyze files and phishing emails quickly. By submitting suspicious files or emails, we receive quick results on whether they are legitimate, suspicious, or malicious, saving time."

"Microsoft 365 Defender is a good solution and easy to use."

"Defender XDR enables you to scan a system remotely and get a complete inventory of its assets. You can gather more information from the asset inventory and apply threat intelligence using Office 365 or something."

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Cons

"From the analysis that we've done, they do seem to be maybe a step behind in trying to enter the market with a new solution. But when they do pick up, they do come out with some good products."

"The initial setup requires a little bit of experience with configuration."

"We just submitted an enhancement request reflecting the main area we want to see improvement in; the APIs. Currently, we're able to build dashboards, but it's somewhat backward because we use our MDM API to create them. Lookout should provide API to customers so we can query our data and use it in our cloud, and this is the only outstanding area for improvement with the product right now."

"The stability depends on the service from where you access it. Because sometimes, the place you are in, you have Gateway. You don't have Gateway. The gateway is overutilized. At the end, you need to go through their gateways. And this is the key point here. You have a tracking point. If it's not well orchestrated, and it scales up as you add more to the existing team, you will suffer"

"Lookout was moving into the SSE space. And so their work on SecureWeb Gateway and SD-WAN is still sort of evolving."

"The data recovery and backup could be improved."

"The design of the user interface could use some work. Sometimes it's hard to find the exact information you need."

"Correctly updated records are the most significant area for improvement. There have been times when we were notified of a required fix; we would carry out the fix and confirm it but still get the same notification a week later. This seems to be a delay in records being updated and leads to false reporting, which is something that needs to be fixed."

"The support could be more knowledgable to improve their offering."

"For some scenarios, it provides good visibility into threats, and for some scenarios, it doesn't. For example, sometimes the URLs within the emails have destinations, and you do get a screenshot and all further details, but it's not always the case. It would be good if they did a better job of enabling that for all the emails that they identified as malicious. When you get an email threat, you can go into the email and see more details, but the URL destination feature doesn't always show you a screenshot of the URL in that email. It also doesn't always give you the characteristics relating to that URL. It would be quite good if the information is complete where it says that we identified this URL, and this is what it looks like. There should be some threat intel about it. It should give you more details."

"The solution could improve by having better machine learning and AI. Additionally, the interface, documentation, and integration could be better."

"Troubleshooting in Microsoft 365 Defender can be inefficient."

"While the XDR platform offers valuable functionalities, it falls short of other solutions in its ability to deliver a cohesive identity experience."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"In terms of feature performance versus cost, they're a good value."

"The licensing costs are good. Prisma has much more options and support for security, but it has a higher cost. For example, Lookout costs 2/3rd of Prisma's licensing price."

"Lookout is definitely on the lower end when it comes to price point and that seems to be the only differentiator. The technology is in place in this space and it's really about who is coming in at the better price point now."

"The pricing is fair; it's comparable to our previous solution, and we carried out multiple POCs and POVs (proof of value). The product is worth the money we pay for it."

"The solution is affordable, and we haven't been hit with any hidden costs. The subscription model is straightforward, and it's easy to understand how much additional features cost. If we need to cancel a license or feature, we do that well in advance to avoid being charged for it, but overall, the pricing and licensing are simple and easy."

"The bundling of software makes it easier to manage our setup, but Microsoft purposefully obfuscates this through marketing ploys to hide costs."

"Microsoft purposely makes its license combinations complex and includes combinations like Microsoft 365 E3 and Microsoft 365 E5, Office 365 E3, Office 365 E5, and Office 365 E1, so you get confused. Microsoft tries to sell you a bundle of a lot of things together."

"Microsoft should provide lower-level licensing options. They should do it in such a way that even an individual could purchase a license, and it should be entirely flexible."

"The price of the solution is high compared to others and we have lost some customers because of it."

"The license cost for a year is approximately forty-four thousand, and this annual saving is a significant factor in our decision to switch."

"The solutions price is fair for what they offer."

"365 Defender can get expensive because you pay per gigabyte of data ingested. On the other hand, much of the data available in the other Microsoft security solutions are made available relatively cheaply—sometimes at cost or for free. Integrating only a limited set of third-party solutions with Sentinel would be cost-effective. It's much more affordable if companies only have Microsoft stuff."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

19%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Lookout?

The solution is stable.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Lookout?

The pricing is a little expensive. We are currently looking at comparisons with other solutions, including Umbrella.

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What needs improvement with Lookout?

There is nothing we have come across that we've desired.

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What do you like most about Microsoft 365 Defender?

Microsoft Defender XDR provides strong identity protection with comprehensive insights into risky user behavior and potential indicators of compromise.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft 365 Defender?

Licensing is somewhat confusing, particularly when presenting our pitch decks to stakeholders and leveraging key features in premium SKUs, but we managed with some assistance from Microsoft.

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What needs improvement with Microsoft 365 Defender?

It would be beneficial to reduce the number of clicks required to navigate between blades, as the current navigation and breadcrumb system can be a bit confusing. Some inconsistencies exist between...

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Also Known As

CipherCloud

Microsoft 365 Defender, Microsoft Threat Protection, MS 365 Defender

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Lookout

Microsoft

Overview

Lookout is a well-established and powerful secure web gateway (SWG) solution that protects more than 200 million users from threats that can result from the penetration of unsecured web traffic into their networks. Lookout is designed to enable organizations to work remotely while maintaining a tight blanket of security over their confidential business data. It provides administrators with security that extends from their endpoints to the cloud service that they are using to run their organization’s network.

Users of Lookout are able to proactively detect threats and keep themselves secure from a field of threats that constantly evolves. IT teams can protect their organizations without having to rely on any other security solutions. This singular solution can run on multiple kinds of mobile devices. The privacy of individuals is preserved while keeping compliance rules intact. Additionally, users gain access to a number of tools that enable them to prevent security breaches from taking place.

Lookout Benefits

Some of the ways that organizations can benefit by deploying Lookout include:

Ease of deployment. Lookout is a solution whose design makes it easy for users to deploy it. It provides users with simple, step-by-step instructions that remove the need for organizations to devote extensive amounts of time to make sure that it is properly set up. Anyone can quickly set up the solution without undergoing technical training.

Built-in support. Users of the Lookout application have access to built-in demos that can teach them how to use various solution features. Instead of spending time trying to figure out the application, users can watch the demo that is most relevant to them and see for themselves how that particular feature is used.

Easy-to-use user interface. Lookout’s user interface is laid out in an intuitive way that makes it easy for administrators to navigate. This interface is present in both the mobile and desktop versions of this solution.

Settings customization. Lookout has a built-in settings customization menu. This makes it possible for administrators to easily customize their settings so that they best conform to their needs.

Lookout Features

Activity monitoring and activity tracking. Lookout’s activity monitoring and activity tracking capabilities enable users to keep a close eye on the activities that are taking place in their networks. IT teams and administrators have the ability to watch their networks for any unusual activity. These features ensure that organizations can keep ahead of any potential threats. They provide the kinds of insights and warnings that make the jobs of those IT teams and administrators much easier and more streamlined.

Encryption. Organizations that employ Lookout can encrypt their networks and keep crucial business data from being read by unauthorized parties. This feature keeps the secrets organizations are trying to keep out of the wrong hands.

Anti-virus tools. Lookout provides users with tools to block threats from harming their networks. These tools can successfully block 99.6 percent of threats without raising false alarms.

Microsoft Defender XDR is a comprehensive security solution designed to protect against threats in the Microsoft 365 environment.

It offers robust security measures, comprehensive threat detection capabilities, and an efficient incident response system. With seamless integration with other Microsoft products and a user-friendly interface, it simplifies security management tasks.

Users have found it effective in detecting and preventing various types of attacks, such as phishing attempts, malware infections, and data breaches.

Watch the Microsoft demo video here: Microsoft Defender XDR demo video.

Sample Customers

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Accenture, Deloitte, ExxonMobil, General Electric, IBM, Johnson & Johnson and many others.

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