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Morphisec pros and cons

Vendor: Morphisec

4.6 out of 5

21 reviews
100% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

Morphisec provides full visibility into security events by integrating Microsoft Defender and Morphisec events into a single dashboard. Using deterministic attack prevention, it avoids human intervention and simplifies security operations, reducing ransomware and zero-day attacks. In-memory protection prevents threats by changing memory locations. Users, however, struggle with cloud deployment, experience false positives, and find tech support slow. Licensing for Linux and Windows can be confusing.

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PROS

Morphisec provides deterministic attack prevention that does not require human intervention, simplifying security operations.

Morphisec integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Defender, offering enhanced security management.

Morphisec's approach changes the memory locations where applications run, enhancing protection against memory-based attacks.

Morphisec has reduced administrative workload, saving significant time for engineers.

Morphisec's in-memory protection detects and stops malicious activity before it can execute.

CONS

Users have struggled with cloud deployment and rely on SCCM for updates.

More customer interaction and updates from account executives throughout the year are desired.

Licensing confusion exists between Linux and Windows platforms, suggesting a need for a unified enterprise license.

Integration with other traditional antivirus solutions beyond Microsoft Defender is requested.

There is a demand for built-in solutions for alerts and vulnerability resolutions to reduce dependence on support teams.

Morphisec Pros review quotes

DP

Information Technology Manager at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

Jul 22, 2021

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.

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JM

Sr. IT Architect at Yaskawa Motoman Robotics

Jun 3, 2021

Since using Morphisec we have seen a downturn in attacks because Morphisec protects us versus Defenders and whatnot that are signature-based. I know we have not had any issues with ransomware or other zero-day attacks that we've seen with machines that, all of a sudden, have become before we instituted the product. Now the machine had to be re-imaged and there was a loss of data because something was on the machine. You couldn't really determine what was on the machine because nothing was picking it up. The products we were using weren't picking it up.

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SL

Network Administrator at a educational organization with 201-500 employees

Jul 26, 2021

Morphisec has enabled us to become a lot less paranoid when it comes to staff clicking on things or accessing things that they shouldn't that could infect the whole system. Our original ransomware attack that happened came from someone's Google drive and then just filtered on through that. It has put our minds at ease a lot more in running it. It's also another layer of security that has been proven to be effective for us.

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TM

Chief Information Officer at Houston Eye Associates

Jun 23, 2021

I really like the integration with Microsoft Defender. In addition to having third-party endpoint protection, we're also enabling Defender... I like the reporting that we get from Defender, when it comes in. I like that it's one console showing both Morphisec and Defender where it provides me with full visibility into security events from Defender and Morphisec.

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Senior Manager - IT at IndiGrid Limited

Oct 19, 2022

We don't have to do anything as a user or as an admin. It does everything by default with its coding and inbuilt AI-based intelligence. We don't have to instruct it about what to do. It automatically takes corrective actions and quarantines or deletes a virus, malware, etc. That is the best part that I like about it.

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reviewer1633446

Director, DevOps at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Jul 22, 2021

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.

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reviewer1592379

VP IT at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees

Jun 1, 2021

Morphisec makes use of deterministic attack prevention that doesn’t require investigation of security alerts. It changes the memory locations of where certain applications run. If you think of Excel, opening a PDF, running an Excel macro, or opening a webpage and clicking on a link, all of those actions run in a certain area of memory. Morphisec changes the memory locations of where those run.

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reviewer1804593

IT Director at a real estate/law firm with 201-500 employees

Mar 22, 2022

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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reviewer1598802

Systems Administrator at Wayne Transports Inc.

Jun 10, 2021

What's valuable is really the whole kit and caboodle of the Morphisec agent. What it does is genius, in a way, until the bad guys get wise to it. You set it up and then you watch the dashboard. There isn't really much tinkering.

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NK

Norman Kromberg

VP of Info Security at SouthernCarlson, Inc.

Aug 22, 2021

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.

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Morphisec Cons review quotes

DP

Information Technology Manager at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

Jul 22, 2021

Right now, it's just their auto-update feature. I know they are currently working on that. When they release a new version of the threat prevention platform, I do have to update that, rolling out to every computer. They have said, "From version 5, you would be able to do an auto-update." While this is very minor, that is the only thing that I would say needs to be upgraded. It would just make life a lot easier for other IT teams. However, I have simplified the process, so all I need to do is just download one file.

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JM

Sr. IT Architect at Yaskawa Motoman Robotics

Jun 3, 2021

Those are some of the features that I was looking for on my on-prem platform that they've already instituted in the cloud and that I'm sure will be instituting on their on-prem platform as well. Having to have an on-prem server required a lot of administration. Being able to push that to the cloud and have it managed up there for us is a real nice addition.

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SL

Network Administrator at a educational organization with 201-500 employees

Jul 26, 2021

The dashboard is the area that requires the most improvement. We have about, I would say 5,500 computers currently, and searching through all of those takes some time to filter. So as soon as you apply the filter, it takes a few seconds. It crunches, it thinks, and then it brings up the clients that match.

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TM

Chief Information Officer at Houston Eye Associates

Jun 23, 2021

If anything, tech support might be their weakest link. The process of getting someone involved sometimes takes a little time. It seems to me that they should have all the data they need to let me know whether an alert is legitimate or not, but they tend to need a lot of information from me to get to the bottom of something. It usually takes a little longer than I would expect.

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Senior Manager - IT at IndiGrid Limited

Oct 19, 2022

We sometimes have to depend on the support team to know what action we should take. If the solution for an alert can be built into the report that we are getting, it will save time, and the interaction with support would be less. At times, corrective action is required, but at times, we don't need to take any action. It would be good if we get to know in the report that a particular infection doesn't require any action. It will save us time and effort.

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reviewer1633446

Director, DevOps at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Jul 22, 2021

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.

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reviewer1592379

VP IT at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees

Jun 1, 2021

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.

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reviewer1804593

IT Director at a real estate/law firm with 201-500 employees

Mar 22, 2022

It might be a bit much to ask, but we are now beginning to use Morphisec Scout, which provides vulnerability information. At this time, it's recognizing vulnerabilities and reporting them to us, but it's not necessarily resolving them. There's still a separate manual process to resolve those vulnerabilities, primarily through upgrades. We have to do that outside of Morphisec. If Morphisec could somehow have that capability built into it, that would be very effective.

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reviewer1598802

Systems Administrator at Wayne Transports Inc.

Jun 10, 2021

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.

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Norman Kromberg

VP of Info Security at SouthernCarlson, Inc.

Aug 22, 2021

Morphisec is a venture startup. They are still early in their growth stage. They need to get mature on their customer support and on how they interface with system tools. For example, they need to get multifactor in place and an API for the major multi-factor systems, e.g., Okta, Duo, Ping, and Microsoft. They don't have them built in yet. They are working on them. It is just not there yet. Also, their stability, customer support, and processes need improvement, which is just part of maturity.

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