Microsoft Defender for Business vs OpenText Core Endpoint Protection comparison

Microsoft and OpenText are both solutions in the Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) category. Microsoft is ranked #15 with an average rating of 7.6, while OpenText is ranked #47. Microsoft holds a 1.9% mindshare in EPP, compared to OpenText’s 1.3% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of OpenText users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 28, 2025

OpenText Core Endpoint Protection and Microsoft Defender for Business compete in the security solutions category. Microsoft Defender is considered superior due to its comprehensive features and seamless integration, offering more value for the investment.

Features: OpenText is favored for its cloud console, user-friendliness, and minimal performance impact, featuring AI functions, endpoint protection, and mobile security. Microsoft Defender has robust integration with Microsoft tools, excellent threat detection and response, and scalability, making it ideal for small and medium-sized businesses.

Room for Improvement: OpenText needs better reporting, threat detection, and DNS support, along with improved ransomware protection and customer service. Microsoft Defender should refine threat protection to lower false positives, enhance URL filtering, and improve remote management. Its interface could be more intuitive, and support responsiveness should be increased.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Both OpenText and Microsoft Defender support multiple cloud models. OpenText users face DNS and control settings issues during deployment, while Defender users experience easy setup in the Microsoft ecosystem. OpenText service varies, with some quick responses but also dissatisfaction, whereas Microsoft Defender's support is mostly praised despite some challenges in responsiveness and technical assistance.

Pricing and ROI: OpenText is cost-effective, offering flexible pricing and positive ROI with low deployment costs. Microsoft Defender, included in Microsoft 365 licenses, is economical for its users, though some find it pricey compared to alternatives. Its comprehensive security features are seen as justifying the cost, with good ROI reported.

To learn more, read our detailed Microsoft Defender for Business vs. OpenText Core Endpoint Protection Report (Updated: March 2026).

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Microsoft Defender for Business vs. OpenText Core Endpoint Protection

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Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) category, the mindshare of Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is 3.5%, down from 4.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Defender for Business is 1.9%, up from 1.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenText Core Endpoint Protection is 1.3%, up from 0.7% 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	3.5%
Microsoft Defender for Business	1.9%
OpenText Core Endpoint Protection	1.3%
Other	93.3%

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Featured Reviews

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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Takayuki-Umehara

Public Cloud Engineer at Prudential

Product deployment protects assets but needs improvement in system support

I am doing maintenance for Microsoft Defender for Business, and I'm currently working with it. We don't need to use the latest version of Microsoft Defender for Business. We still use the latest virus definition file that Microsoft Defender for Business has automatically updated. We implement a basic update mechanism. Our compliance division manages how many servers and PCs we have and whether those servers have antivirus solutions. I am not certain about how Microsoft Defender for Business helps with AI-driven security strategies. I just use it normally and don't know if it uses AI technology. I rate Microsoft Defender for Business a six out of ten.

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vCIO At Grove Networks Inc. at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

Improving threat detection is critical for enhanced protection

We use Webroot Business Endpoint Protection as a NextGen antivirus solution for our clients. It's included in the contract we have with our clients as a cost-effective option for antivirus protection Webroot Business Endpoint Protection is cost-effective for rolling it out to all of our clients,…

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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

"The information the dashboard provides is very clear."

"The initial setup is easy."

"We can visualize and control the activities in the environment from anywhere."

"It is easy to use."

"After deploying Traps, we saw the performance of the network improve by 65 to 70 percent."

"The most valuable feature is that you can select remote access of any machine for sandboxing."

"It is an easy-to-use tool."

"The solution doesn't need a high level of technical training."

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"I rate Microsoft Defender for Business a 10 out of 10."

"Microsoft Defender for Business stands out due to its ease of use, particularly due to the fact that many of my customers already use Microsoft and Azure."

"The security features in Microsoft Defender for Business that have been most effective for our company include the way it's built-in and intertwined into all the operating systems, giving us a good opportunity to holistically block things for the organization using that tenant."

"The interface is quite user-friendly."

"Using Microsoft Defender for Business is beneficial for my company."

"Defender's main strength is its integration with Microsoft Sentinel, offering valuable insights."

"I would recommend Microsoft Defender for Business to others, rating it as ten out of ten."

"Everything is stable. There have been no technical errors or stability issues."

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"The ease of use of the centralized admin console is its best asset."

"I haven't observed any of the instabilities in the solution. It is a stable solution."

"Probably, compared to other antivirus programs, what we like about it is it is lightweight."

"We've not had any issues with scalability. If an organization needs to expand, they can do so quite easily."

"Low performance requirements."

"Webroot Business Endpoint Protection is very scalable."

"The main reason we had Webroot is that it was cost-effective for our clients."

"The Webroot cloud console is very powerful."

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Cons

"It is not easy to sell Cortex XDR, not because it isn't a good tool. Its marketing needs to be improved."

"It is not very strong in terms of endpoint management. It should have additional features like DLP, encryption, or advanced device control. Currently, Cortex is good in terms of the security of the endpoints, but it is not as good as other vendors in terms of the management of the endpoint."

"The connection to the internet has not performed as expected."

"Traps doesn't work with McAfee. You need to remove McAfee to install Traps. This is very common, and its nothing that should be an issue. Some antivirus engines recognize Traps as an threat component, so maybe they need to shake hands somewhere."

"They have the worst support, as a company, that I have ever worked with, as they are difficult to get a hold of and keep on the phone. They don't know what they are talking about when you get them on the phone. They don't like to respond to messages when you send them to them. They like to "research problems" for weeks on end, then pass you off to somebody else."

"Initially, we got to have a lot of false positives when we onboarded, but nowadays it's quite smooth."

"It would be better if they could educate the customers more. Some sort of seminars and roadshows will help educate the customers and show what the product can do. The price could be better. It would also help if they had a team for deployment and support."

"The dashboard is the area that needs to improve so that we can have the ability to drill down without having to go elsewhere to verify results."

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"The areas where Microsoft Defender for Business could improve include the support, installation process, and wiki. I should be able to find solutions to issues quickly without having to delve too deep."

"I have an open case for close to two months with no responses or updates, except for an email response, and I've made four or five phone calls regarding the Microsoft Interconnect for AD and cloud tenant."

"The user interface has a lot of features which can make it complex and hard to adapt to for some users."

"If I need logs and don't have local storage bundled with Defender, I need to add workspace and log analytics, which is costly for storing logs of 2 GB, 5 GB, 10 GB."

"The pricing of Microsoft Defender for Business has a long way to go since people are still preferring solutions such as CrowdStrike and Palo Alto."

"The biggest one is that Defender needs to be more proactive to the emerging threats. There can be tighter integration with email, especially how it integrates with our email system, which is the Microsoft Outlook suite. There should be the ability to react a lot quicker to emerging threats because sometimes, it takes a few days before some of these new threats are fully identified, and we need that to be a few hours."

"The technical support from Microsoft is very poor. I would rate it a one, as their technical staff are very junior and take a long time to respond to simple questions."

"I am not satisfied with Microsoft's technical support. There are challenges with the knowledge and experience of the support staff, frequent redirection between departments, and slow response times."

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"We need to know more details about how the virus interacted with the computer."

"Unified threat management (UTM) integration."

"There should be a Webroot Business Endpoint Protection mobile app."

"The reporting is the weakest part of the Webroot console. Frequently, I export to Excel to massage something into it to pass on to others."

"It would be nice if it had a feature for automatically generating reports on the client end for device status, security status and backup information."

"It would be great if there was a feature which would allow you to scan an individual file on an endpoint user's computer."

"There needs to be more advanced analytics. It would make it a more powerful antivirus solution within the marketplace."

"We need more control over when upgrades to the app are rolled out."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"It has a yearly renewal."

"This is an expensive solution."

"I don't have any issues with the pricing. We are satisfied with the price."

"Every customer has to pay for a license because it doesn't work with what you get from a managed services provider."

"The solution is expensive. It's pricing is on a yearly-basis."

"In terms of the cost Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is very expensive because we are a Mexican company and when you translate dollars to pesos the cost is very high. The solution is very expensive for Mexican companies. I understand that they have international prices, but I do not think it offsets the price enough for many companies in countries, such as Mexico. The amount it is reduced is not a massive percentage."

"Our customers have expressed that the price is high."

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"Since we're a nonprofit, we get pretty good discounts on the tool."

"The tool is cheap, while some other solutions are more expensive. I remember the tool cost about five euros for a workstation or for a user on a monthly basis."

"The tool's cost has been a little high, but I do not think it was terrible."

"It has to get more competitive because we are starting to see some of the competitors providing better pricing, and some of it, of course, is to gain market share. The Defender product pricing is probably a little higher than the competitors."

"Defender for Business is included by default with an Office 365 premium subscription."

"From a pricing standpoint, I would rate it a four out of five."

"We evaluate other options using multiple choices, best value, management and functionality."

"With Webroot Business Endpoint Protection, I can select a yearly billing cycle."

"If you purchase for clients, then you are the managing billing entity. It's better to either get a monthly subscription check from your clients, or to prepay for the year (so as to not keep cash in reserve to pay the bill each month) IMHO."

"The solution doesn't cost too much. It's about 30 Euros a year for each endpoint. It's pretty affordable for us and for many other companies."

"It is relatively cheap."

"Its cost is not much per month. Our price is a couple of bucks a user."

"I can't recall the exact pricing, but I believe there is a monthly fee of $20-30 per user."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

Computer Software Company

16%

Comms Service Provider

Government

Outsourcing Company

Computer Software Company

Performing Arts

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	44
Midsize Enterprise	20
Large Enterprise	47

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	15
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	4

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	35
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	2

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What advice do you have for others considering Microsoft Defender for Business?

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Comparisons

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Compared 3% of the time

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Also Known As

Cyvera, Cortex XDR, Palo Alto Networks Traps

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Webroot SecureAnywhere Business Endpoint Protection

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

Microsoft Defender for Business is a new endpoint security solution that was designed especially for the small and medium-sized business (up to 300 employees). With this endpoint security solution, your company's devices are better protected from ransomware, malware, phishing, and other threats.

Microsoft

OpenText Core Endpoint Protection offers cloud-managed endpoint security with AI integration, providing real-time protection and lightweight performance. It ensures low system impact, seamless cloud integration, and cost-effective security solutions for various devices.

OpenText Core Endpoint Protection is a comprehensive endpoint security platform utilized by managed-service providers for antivirus and firewall functionality across servers, workstations, and mobile devices. It employs AI for robust threat detection, integrating with cloud applications for real-time updates. Multi-layered security features include malware protection, network defense, and DNS protection. Although connectivity and threat reporting need improvement, this platform extensively supports remote device management and integrates efficiently with Active Directory policies.

What are the key features of OpenText Core Endpoint Protection?

Cloud Management: Centralized admin console for easy oversight
AI Integration: Enhanced threat detection capabilities
Lightweight Performance: Minimal impact on system resources
Real-time Threat Database: Constant updates for effective protection
Web Control Interface: Monitors and controls web traffic

What benefits are associated with OpenText Core Endpoint Protection?

Ease of Setup and Maintenance: Facilitates quick deployment and upkeep
Seamless Cloud Integration: Simplifies scalability and operation
Cost-Effectiveness: Affordable pricing with comprehensive features
Mobile Security Capabilities: Supports remote device management

OpenText Core Endpoint Protection finds application in industries requiring stringent data protection and peace of mind over device security. Managed-service providers implement this for comprehensive antivirus and firewall features, safeguarding multi-device networks. It is particularly useful for DNS protection and integrating with Active Directory policies, enabling secure yet flexible operations across sectors.

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Sample Customers

CBI Health Group, University Honda, VakifBank

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