We performed a comparison between Trend Micro Apex One and Trend Micro Deep Security based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on the parameters we compared, Trend Micro Apex One appears to be the superior solution. Any issues they are currently facing, they feel, will likely resolve with future updates. However, our reviewers found Trend Micro Deep Security to be expensive and difficult to deploy, and weren’t satisfied with the level of support.
"It is stable and scalable."
"It is a scalable solution...The initial setup of Fortinet FortiEDR was straightforward."
"Forensics is a valuable feature of Fortinet FortiEDR."
"Exceptions are easy to create and the interface is easy to follow with a nice appearance."
"It notifies us if there's any suspicious file on any PC. If any execution or similar kind of thing is happening, it just alerts us. It doesn't only alert. It also blocks the execution until we allow it. We check whether the execution is legitimate or not, and then approve it or keep it blocked. This gives us a little bit of control over this mechanism. Fortinet FortiEDR is also very straightforward and easy to maintain."
"NGAV and EDR features are outstanding."
"The price is low and quite competitive with others."
"The product detects and blocks threats and is more proactive than firewalls."
"I have opened three tickets with the technical support and they were responsive and asked me to send them my logs."
"Stability is okay."
"It's a good solution, and they have something called Suite incorporating many, many engines like encryption, GLB, anti-virus."
"We really like the ability to have different policies to keep servers and endpoints unique to their own policy."
"I like One Endpoint Security. We can manage all the Trend Micro products from one console."
"The DDAN and the sand boxing features are very good and accurate."
"Its ability to detect ransomware and malware is the most valuable. Its protection is also good."
"I use Trend Micro Apex One for work control, application control, firewall, whitelist and blocklist filtration, analysis, monitoring, deep security for the servers, major monitoring, and IPS modules."
"Technical support is good."
"We use the solution to detect malicious threats, secure the endpoints, and disable the UFT."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the virtual path function, which is the reason we chose to implement it."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"Trend Micro gave our security teams a certain degree of comfort by just having it in the background, as they have familiarity with the product."
"We find that their technical support team is always accessible and willing to assist."
"Deep Security enables us to bridge the gap between patching windows using the Virtual Patching feature. This allows us to make sure full patching is tested properly in our testing environments before rollout."
"DLP, Data Loss Prevention, and the complexity of how we manage the console and how this client, or this tool, will notify us when there is something going wrong within the server and endpoint, is good."
"Once, we had an event that was locked and blocked, but information about it came to us two or three days later."
"I haven't seen the use of AI in the solution."
"We find the solution to be a bit expensive."
"The support needs improvement."
"The solution's installation from a central installation server could be improved because the engineers had a little bit of trouble getting it installed from a central location."
"I think cloud security and SASE are areas of concern in the product where improvements are required. The tool's cloud version has to be improved in terms of the security it offers."
"We've encountered challenges during API deployment, occasionally resulting in unstable environments."
"I would like the solution to extend beyond endpoint protection and include other attack surfaces such as other network components."
"Some of the updates still require a complete reboot of the system."
"The Apex One endpoint sensor has room for improvement."
"The solution should adjust its pricing for the smaller market we are in."
"We're actually looking to upgrade to more sophisticated ADL products. We need a more sophisticated endpoint. We need to have the ability to automate those instant response processes."
"The cost could be improved."
"Trend Micro Apex One could improve by providing signatureless detection, reducing the agent's needed system resources to increase performance, and enhance further the vulnerability assessment feature. These changes would be very helpful in the future."
"More integration with different platforms would be great, as everyone seems to want the solution to integrate with each team."
"The DLP model needs improvement."
"The cost is very high."
"Requires simplification, a fair amount of trouble shooting required."
"f it had the capability of generating retroactive alerts it would be helpful."
"I would like to see an EDR function for the servers, as that would be useful for us."
"If I had more reporting, the product would be an A plus."
"Installation and operations may have issues on some machines owing to their configuration of the network cards as the product is a DPI driver."
"The tool needs to improve its subscription."
"What this product lacks at this stage is the ability to have automated workbooks to do the response. At this stage, the response is more manual, and it is not automated. If there is a response functionality in Deep Security, similar to what we have in EDR these days, to automatically respond to some of the threats, it would be cool. So, we'd like to have an automated response. There should be a response functionality."
Trend Micro Apex One is ranked 6th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 125 reviews while Trend Micro Deep Security is ranked 1st in Virtualization Security with 81 reviews. Trend Micro Apex One is rated 8.2, while Trend Micro Deep Security is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Trend Micro Apex One writes "We can get consolidated logs of suspicious objects and malware attacks in a single console". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Trend Micro Deep Security writes "Offers excellent endpoint protection and great stability ". Trend Micro Apex One is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike Falcon, Trend Micro Smart Protection and Trend Vision One, whereas Trend Micro Deep Security is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Symantec Endpoint Security, Trellix Endpoint Security and Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business.
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