Morphisec vs Trend Micro Deep Discovery comparison

Morphisec and TrendAI are both solutions in the Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) category. Morphisec is ranked #32, while TrendAI is ranked #17 with an average rating of 8.6. Morphisec holds a 1.6% mindshare in ATP, compared to TrendAI’s 2.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Morphisec users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of TrendAI users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 1, 2024

Trend Micro Deep Discovery and Morphisec compete in the network security landscape. Morphisec is favored for its innovative prevention-first approach, while Trend Micro Deep Discovery excels in advanced threat protection across complex networks.

Features: Trend Micro Deep Discovery offers robust threat intelligence, comprehensive threat coverage, and advanced detection capabilities. It excels in monitoring complex networks and detecting advanced persistent threats. Morphisec focuses on a lightweight, prevention-first architecture, is effective against real-time attacks, and offers memory-based attack protection. Its low-footprint solution delivers proactive security measures.

Room for Improvement: Trend Micro Deep Discovery could enhance its ease of deployment and optimize resource usage. Improvement in user interface simplicity and reducing deployment time would increase efficiency. Morphisec could benefit from expanded threat intelligence capabilities and enhanced support for broader integration. Further development in reporting features would improve its analytical depth.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Morphisec is recognized for rapid deployment and minimal impact on systems, suitable for environments requiring quick protection. Its simplicity provides a user-friendly interface. Trend Micro offers a more involved setup but supports a well-structured and comprehensive customer service model, accommodating detailed needs.

Pricing and ROI: Trend Micro Deep Discovery has a higher initial cost but offers extensive threat management capabilities, justifying the expense. Buyers appreciate the in-depth features balancing the higher pricing. Morphisec presents a cost-effective setup with significant ROI attributed to its efficient attack prevention. The budget-friendly approach attracts users prioritizing cost-effectiveness without compromising security.

To learn more, read our detailed Morphisec vs. Trend Micro Deep Discovery Report (Updated: February 2026).

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Categories and Ranking

Morphisec

Ranking in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)

32nd

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Vulnerability Management (54th), Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (52nd), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (60th), Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) (34th), Threat Deception Platforms (20th)

Trend Micro Deep Discovery

Ranking in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)

17th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) (6th), Network Detection and Response (NDR) (6th)

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) category, the mindshare of Morphisec is 1.6%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Trend Micro Deep Discovery is 2.2%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Trend Micro Deep Discovery	2.2%
Morphisec	1.6%
Other	96.2%

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reviewer1739325

CISO at a media company with 10,001+ employees

Easy to deploy and configure, stable, and has good support

The weakest point of this product is how difficult it is to understand the reasons for an alert. This is a problem because it is hard to determine whether an attack is real or not. It blocks the behavior automatically but it is quite difficult to check the reason for this, and it is something that we are discussing with Morphisec. We need to have better reporting features that are able to produce KPIs that we can show to management. Improved analytics reports would help us to understand what type of attack it is and how it was able to reach a particular computer.

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reviewer2266119

Senior IT Security Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Has improved email security through advanced filtration and timely threat detection

I work with Trend Micro Apex One. I have used the Deep Discovery's Sandbox analysis feature, and we utilize another appliance known as Deep Discovery Analyzer, abbreviated as DDA. This tool makes analysis for URLs and attachments contained in inbound emails, so whenever we receive an email with a URL or attachment, it will be analyzed by Trend Micro Deep Discovery Analyzer. In evaluating Deep Discovery's real-time visibility on network traffic, it is important to note that we applied our Deep Discovery Analyzer for Trend Micro to conduct sandboxing specifically for email channels only, and we do not utilize it for network channels. For network channel sandboxing, we use a solution called FortiAnalyzer, which belongs to another team called network security. I assess Deep Discovery's effectiveness in identifying sophisticated attack patterns by looking at how it handles high traffic loads, and how effectively it can use its instances and images to analyze numerous URLs and attachments simultaneously. Additionally, I evaluate its ability to maintain round-robin or load balancing across different analyses without leaving samples queued for analysis. The performance is critical when the product updates for signatures are up-to-date, as this aids in the detection and classification of URLs and attachments without delay in the analysis process. On a scale of one to ten, I rate Trend Micro Deep Discovery a nine.

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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

"Morphisec makes it very easy for IT teams of any size to prevent breaches of critical systems because of the design of their tool. When we evaluated Morphisec, the CIO and I sat and listened. What attracted us to them is the fact that it stops activity at the point of detection. That saves a lot of time because now we are not investigating and trying to trace down what to turn off. We have already prevented it, which makes it very much safer and more secure."

"Morphisec stops attacks without needing to know what type of threat it is, just that it is foreign. It is based on injections, so it would know when a software launches. If a software launches and something else also launches, then it would count that as anomalous and block it. Because the software looks at the code, and if it executes something else that is not related, then Morphisec would block it. That is how it works."

"The fact that Morphisec uses deterministic attack prevention that does not require human intervention has affected our security team's operations by making things much simpler. We don't have to really track down various alerts anymore, they've just stopped. At that point, we can go in and we can clean up whatever needs to be cleaned up. There are some things that Morphisec detects that we can't really remove, it's parts of Internet Explorer, but it's being blocked anyway. So we're happy with that."

"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 provides full visibility into security events and from both solutions in one dashboard. I'm not a big security guy, if I have a threat that looks like there's a problem, I will ask Morphisec to dissect it for me, and tell me what might be happening. Because it tends to be all hash codes, so I can tell what's going on. They've been pretty good with that."

"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 has absolutely helped save money on our security stack. The ransomware at the end of the day can cost organizations millions upon millions of dollars. Investing in tools like Morphisec is a great reduction in that cost. If I can spend $10,000 in a year to protect assets that could be ransomed for $20,000,000, that's definitely a bet that one should pursue. Morphisec absolutely it's worth the investment."

"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."

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"The HTML file sandboxing is very good."

"The reporting is very good, providing detailed analysis in a short amount of time."

"The most valuable feature is that the user can customize images of virtual machines in the sandbox functionality. The other vendors only use images that were created by the vendor but not the customer, end-user or partner. This helps to detect advanced threats and attacks."

"As a security product, managing threats is crucial for my clients."

"The tool's stability and performance are good."

"The solution has extension-based features that help it to analyze the environment. The environment can have different platforms like Windows, Linux, and Mac. The tool will give a report which can confirm the analysis of the issues. You can also get clear information on threats or suspicious files."

"The most valuable features are monitoring for advanced persistent threats, the system runs in a sandbox allowing for effective zero-day exploits management, and the Inspector has a built-in sandbox."

"The product is very easy to install."

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Cons

"Automating reports needs improvement. I would like to have better reporting capabilities within it or automated reporting to be a little bit more dynamic. That's something I know they're working on. We literally are in the process. We started the process a week and a half ago of going to their latest version, so I've not seen their latest one up and running yet."

"We started in the Linux platform and we deployed to Linux. The licensing of that has been kind of confusing between Linux licensing and Windows licensing. The overall simplicity of licensing or offering an enterprise license to just cover everything and then we don't have to count needs improvement."

"I haven't been able to get the cloud deployment to work. When there's an update, I'm supposed to be able to roll it out for the cloud solution, but right now I'm continuing to use our SCCM solution to update it."

"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. I have a beta version on that now. I would like them to incorporate that in the cloud solution."

"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."

"From a company standpoint, a little more interaction with the customers throughout the year might be beneficial. I would like check-ins from the Morphisec account executives about any type of Morphisec news as well as a bit more interaction with customers throughout the year to know if anything new is coming out with Morphisec, e.g., what they are working on in regards to their development roadmap. We tend not to get that up until the time that we go for a yearly renewal. So, we end up talking to people from Morphisec once a year, but it is usually at renewal time."

"It would be useful for them if they had some kind of network discovery. That kind of functionality I think would give IT administrators a little bit more confidence that they have 100 percent coverage, and it gives them something to audit against. Network discovery would be one area I would definitely suggest that they put some effort into."

"Sometimes it generates false positive alerts. They need to continue working on that. They have provided solutions for it and have fixed issues with updated versions. The service is quite good but they need to work on it more so that there are no false positive alerts."

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"Deep Discovery is easy to manage, but there is still room for improvement on the administration and operations side. Competing products have a cleaner interface that makes it easier to manage their products. Trend Micro offers a lot of features in one product suite, but it can be unwieldy for the customer to manage all that with a single interface."

"This solution could be improved with faster technical support and cheaper licensing prices."

"All issues we faced related to false positives regarding many hashes and URLs specifically for mail gateway and sandboxing, which led us to open a threat ticket with Trend Micro support for validation."

"The stability of the solution could be improved. It should be 100% stable, but it's not there right now."

"Trend Micro Deep Discovery's technical support could be improved, and it could be made more active."

"Additionally, better scanning capabilities for third-party applications would ensure comprehensive security without the need for exclusions."

"The solution could be more secure."

"The solution needs to be able to integrate better with third-party infrastructure."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"Price-wise, it's on the higher side. A traditional antivirus solution is cheaper, but in terms of security and manageability, its ROI is better than a traditional antivirus. I would recommend it to anybody evaluating or considering an antivirus solution. If your system gets compromised, the cost of ransom would be a lot more. This way, it saves a lot of cost."

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

"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 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."

"Morphisec is reasonably priced because our parent company's other subsidiaries use different products like CrowdStrike. CrowdStrike is four or five times more expensive than Morphisec. The competitive pricing saves us money in our overall security stack."

"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 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."

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"Compared to its competitors, Trend Micro Deep Discovery is a little expensive."

"The licensing cost is a bit pricey. We pay a yearly subscription."

"The tool's licensing costs are yearly. There are no additional costs associated with the product."

"The price of the solution is lower compared to the competition."

"Overall, Trend Micro Deep Discovery has proven to be a reliable solution that enhances our security posture while minimizing operational disruptions."

"Overall, the price is good."

"The tool’s licensing costs depend on the customers."

"The pricing is okay for some, and sometimes, some people find it expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Outsourcing Company

17%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

Healthcare Company

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	8
Large Enterprise	8

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Small Business	15
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	9

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The tool's most valuable feature is its collaboration with other products. Integrating with other security products was simple and easy.

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Also Known As

Morphisec, Morphisec Moving Target Defense

Trend Micro Deep Discovery Inspector, Trend Micro Deep Discovery Analyzer

Overview

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

Trend Micro Deep Discovery provides an intuitive interface and extensive threat visibility. It enhances detection with sandboxing and custom virtual machine images. Integration with Trend Micro Office Scan and Vision One ensures robust defense and detailed threat analysis.

Trend Micro Deep Discovery is a comprehensive network security tool used for intrusion detection, malware analysis, and zero-day vulnerability sandboxing. It supports various platforms and can be integrated with email and server protection. It's particularly useful for compliance with regulatory requirements through signature-based behavior analysis and virtual patching. Users benefit from easy installation, management, and responsive technical support.

What are the key features of Trend Micro Deep Discovery?

End-to-End Threat Visibility: Provides comprehensive monitoring and analysis of network threats.
Built-in Sandboxing: Allows custom virtual machine images for advanced threat detection.
Threat Analysis: Delivers detailed insights into threat activities and sources.
Integration Capabilities: Seamlessly integrates with Trend Micro Office Scan and Vision One for enhanced protection.
Platform Support: Supports multiple operating systems and platforms for broad coverage.

What benefits should users look for in reviews?

Improved Security: Enhances network protection and threat response efficacy.
Easy Management: Simplifies installation and administration processes.
Regulatory Compliance: Assists with meeting industry regulations through behavior analysis and patching.
Technical Support: Offers responsive and effective assistance for quick issue resolution.
Scalability: Adapts to growing or changing business needs with minimal disruption.

Trend Micro Deep Discovery is implemented across sectors requiring stringent security measures, such as finance, healthcare, and government. It's favored for its ability to analyze diverse network traffic and provide exceptional protection against sophisticated threats while ensuring compliance with strict data regulations. Industry reviews highlight its role in safeguarding sensitive information through robust security frameworks and adaptable deployment options.

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