Microsoft Defender for Business Reviews

We get various services with Defender for Business, including endpoint detection and response and threat prevention plus vulnerability management, attack surface detection, and automated investigation.

Microsoft Defender for Business is good for small and medium-sized businesses. It offers solid security flexibility and integration with tools like Microsoft Lighthouse and some other software. It takes some of the features of Defender for Endpoint EDR and provides those services for small and medium-sized business environments. 

The threat landscape is rapidly changing over time, and the scanning can always be improved. Microsoft sees trillions of signals every day, helping them to build their threat intelligence and improve their products.

Defender's threat protection should be fine-tuned to reduce false positives. It could be more targeted, reflecting a continuous evolution in detecting. Also, it could be easier to integrate into other environments. 

I rate Microsoft support seven out of 10. Microsoft customer service is generally good, but they take time to resolve some situations. Time is critical in security. Their support has room for improvement. They could be more proactive and efficient, fixing the issue without multiple follow-ups. 

Neutral

The pricing for Microsoft products can be a little costly at times. On the other hand, Microsoft has an entire ecosystem that covers all the pillars of security, such as identity, applications, endpoints, etc. 

It helped us avoid purchasing products from multiple vendors and integrating those as an ecosystem. It can be somewhat expensive for small organizations, but it's competitive. I don't see a significant difference between Microsoft products and other solutions. 

I rate Microsoft Defender for Business eight out of 10. It's a good solution for protecting small and medium-sized businesses. 

If you're an Intune user, you can bring in certain capabilities like system-hardening policies, which further enhances the security. Also, Defender's vulnerability checking is very sensitive and automatically checks for and reports on vulnerabilities on all machines that have been on the domain.

Defender's reporting is rather scattered, and its URL filtering mechanism doesn't really work. In the next release, I would like to see more fine-grained URL filter control and more reporting options like the ability to generate a scheduled report.

I've been using Microsoft Defender for Business for a month and a half.

Defender is scalable because it's totally cloud-driven.

Microsoft's technical support is very good, but it's difficult to get in touch with them via phone, so we have to raise an online ticket and get a callback (though they do respond very quickly).

Previously, I used McAfee Endpoint Security.

The initial setup is pretty straightforward, with very little configuration work administratively. Just the basic settings have to be brought online, and then the system takes care of things.

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

Defender is top class in terms of functional security. I would rate Defender eight out of ten.