We primarily use the solution for our endpoint protection. It is integrated for endpoint protection. It's a good product. Some of our clients also use the solution.
Head of Business Development at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Good endpoint protection and helpful support but i not user-friendly
Pros and Cons
- "The nano protection and device control are great."
- "The product can be a bit heavy."
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
Trend Micro Apex One is good for endpoint protection. They're a Gartner leader for it, so that's why customers like it.
Their patch management is unique compared to other endpoint protection solutions. It is a good feature.
The nano protection and device control are great. We were monitoring predictive machine learning. All features are available in the Apex One feature.
It's scalable.
It is stable.
Technical support is helpful.
What needs improvement?
It is not user-friendly. If they improve this side and make it more user-friendly, then it'll be helpful for IT admins in terms of operating the solution. It's just a bit complex to learn and use at this point, compared to other endpoints.
Sometimes the solution cannot support legacy PCs.
The product can be a bit heavy.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been dealing with the solution for one year.
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What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The platform is good. The product offer is good and the customer experience is good. The only limitation is it's not easy to operate. That said, it is reliable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It is scalable. That's not a problem.
How are customer service and support?
Technical support isn't too bad. I've been satisfied with the level of support I can get. They are pretty responsive. Their level of knowledge is good.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I've also used Symantec, which is easier to set up. It's also lighter. However, Symantec's support is not good at all.
How was the initial setup?
The solution has a moderate level of difficulty. It's not too easy and also not overly complex. For example, compared to Symantec, Trend Micro is more complex.
I'd rate the setup process a two out of five in terms of the ease of setup. You need to have prior knowledge.
What other advice do I have?
We use the solution in-house. We also resell it and are integrators.
We're using the latest version of the solution.
I'd rate the solution seven out of ten.
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Integrator / Reseller

IT Administrator at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
Provides good protection, is simple to use, has a user-friendly interface, and is reasonably priced
Pros and Cons
- "One of the better features, in my opinion, is that it also makes use of a web reputation. For example, if someone accidentally clicks on a link in an email that leads to a malicious website, they will block it."
- "The only thing that I would like to see changed or improved in the next release is when it reports C&C callbacks, to make it easier to trace, to see what's doing that, whether it's a program checking for updates or a malicious program."
What is our primary use case?
Trend Micro Apex One was an upgrade for a desktop virus scanner, web reputation, and a firewall.
What is most valuable?
It is very easy to use.
One of the better features, in my opinion, is that it also makes use of a web reputation. For example, if someone accidentally clicks on a link in an email that leads to a malicious website, they will block it.
The interface is good.
It's an excellent product for a desktop.
What needs improvement?
The only improvement I can see is that it occasionally warns us about callbacks, and there's almost no way to trace it back other than a Windows service, making it difficult to completely eliminate it, or know what program is creating the callback.
The only thing that I would like to see changed or improved in the next release is when it reports C&C callbacks, to make it easier to trace, to see what's doing that, whether it's a program checking for updates or a malicious program. At this time, all it says is that it's a C&C callback and then traces back to a Windows Service.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have been using Trend Micro Apex One for approximately 20 years.
We upgraded to Apex One, between four and six months ago.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Trend Micro Apex One is a stable solution.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Trend Micro Apex One is very scalable.
It's on everyone's desktop on their computers.
We don't have any plans to increase our usage.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Previously, we used the OfficeScan version.
We are currently using Carbon Black as well.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is straightforward.
We gradually upgraded everyone from the previous version to the new version. If I add up all of the time we spent getting everything done, it probably took us a couple of weeks.
There are two of us that manage this solution as well as Carbon Black.
What about the implementation team?
We completed the installation in-house.
What was our ROI?
We have never calculated the ROI. It may be difficult to calculate, but all it has to do is keep you safe once or twice and it has paid for itself.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing is good.
Licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis.
If I remember correctly, the cost is approximately four and a half thousand per year.
There are no additional fees.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate Trend Micro Apex One a nine out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Infraestructura & Seguridad TI at a pharma/biotech company with 51-200 employees
DLP feature is useful for our environment and we also get good support, but it needs a lighter agent that doesn't impact the performance
Pros and Cons
- "DLP is a solid feature in the product. I like it very much. It is very useful in our environment. It is also a very stable solution. Their support is also very good."
- "Trend Micro should make the agent lighter. When we run the scanning process, it consumes a lot of memory, and the performance is degraded. It is very invasive. It could be lighter. When we used Symantec, we didn't have this problem when we ran our scanning process. It worked like a charm. On the endpoints, it didn't feel like that the process is running, whereas, in Trend Micro Apex One, we can feel that the endpoint is running slow. Sometimes it even hangs. Scanning should be faster."
What is our primary use case?
We are using it as an antivirus solution. We are testing the Data Loss Prevention feature, but basically, we are using it for our endpoints in a segmented network. There is not so much traffic to the internet.
What is most valuable?
DLP is a solid feature in the product. I like it very much. It is very useful in our environment.
It is also a very stable solution. Their support is also very good.
What needs improvement?
Trend Micro should make the agent lighter. When we run the scanning process, it consumes a lot of memory, and the performance is degraded. It is very invasive. It could be lighter. When we used Symantec, we didn't have this problem when we ran our scanning process. It worked like a charm. On the endpoints, it didn't feel like that the process is running, whereas, in Trend Micro Apex One, we can feel that the endpoint is running slow. Sometimes it even hangs. Scanning should be faster.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using this solution for around three months.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is very stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It should be easy to scale. We have 40,000 subscriptions.
How are customer service and technical support?
We are using the support from our region, and they provide very good support. They have very well-trained people.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We are migrating next week from Symantec Endpoint Protection to Trend Micro. We are part of a corporation that has offices in many countries of South America. We signed an agreement with Trend Micro, and that's why we are switching to Trend Micro.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was straightforward. It takes a day to configure the server for configuration policies and other such stuff. For the deployment of the endpoints, it can take 15 days to set it up at the workplace.
What about the implementation team?
Our IT department has around two people working on IT infrastructure and security. Those are the required people.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
We have a yearly subscription. Our subscription includes all solutions of Apex One, such as endpoint protection, DLP, and ransomware protection. We are paying around $30 for each.
What other advice do I have?
I would recommend this solution. Apex One has to make some changes to the scanning process. That's a negative point, but on the other hand, we get good support that responds almost immediately to our requests.
I would rate Trend Micro Apex One a seven out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Other
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
System Administrator at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The management is really good, you can see everything on the dashboard
Pros and Cons
- "The management console is pretty good. We have a dashboard that shows us what stuff to log, different malicious links that people are trying to access and also if somebody was trying to connect something to the computer, to a USB port or something like that, and if this person is on the under control management. It shows that he tried and he got blocked."
- "We're not sure if we're going to continue with those products or their products or we're going to switch to something else. That's why we stopped the immigration process. If we were going to replace another product, it's not really efficient to waste time on it moving patients and other clients."
What is most valuable?
The management console is pretty good. We have a dashboard that shows us what stuff to log, different malicious links that people are trying to access and also if somebody was trying to connect something to the computer, to a USB port or something like that, and if this person is on the under control management. It shows that he tried and he got blocked. Also, the virus and malware attempts that were trying to attack the computer storage and stuff like that so the console is pretty intuitive, it's pretty user friendly.
Managing the clients themselves, if, for example, I want to have different sites and laws. It's pretty easy to manage the clients and also to move them to different containers. The migration process itself is really easy from office scanning G to Apex One. It's just a few clicks to migrate the clients so the management is pretty good.
What needs improvement?
It works okay. The management console itself looks pretty much like the regular Office Mechanics.
We are looking into different solutions, like SentinelOne and Sophos. We might continue with Apex One, it also depends on budget and pricing.
For how long have I used the solution?
We enabled it a few months ago, but we only moved five to six clients from the office scan from the regular and point protection to Apex One. So far, it has actually resolved as one of the bugs that we had because the regular office scan, a client agent was causing some Windows problems. A lot of Windows systems were crashing, having blue screens. We didn't know what the message share or message said. We tried to analyze it and stuff like that. Eventually, we found out that it was actually because of the OfficeScan agent, the regular agent, and after moving them to Apex One, the blue screens had stopped. This was a good improvement.
We're not sure if we're going to continue with those products or their products or we're going to switch to something else. That's why we stopped the immigration process. If we were going to replace another product, it's not really efficient to waste time on it moving patients and other clients.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It's stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We're actually a very small team, currently, we're down to three. IT and infrastructure people deal with all of the network issues and all of the management of the systems for our IT systems and products. One guy does help desk and another person and I were managing the systems. It's actually down to two people to manage all of the other stuff like that.
We use it on a daily basis, Monitoring is part of our daily monitoring and schedule. We're going from our different systems, more critical stuff in the morning, for a few hours and then we get to our later tasks and stuff like that.
How are customer service and technical support?
We offer support to the vendor directly. They were at our site two times already during the negotiation with the management.
Based on the latest experience with technical support which was moving from migrating from the IMSDA to the DDI, it was actually pretty good. There was one support guy that worked with over the phone and everything is remote of course and after about two or three hours, all of it was running in production with the new system.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We previously used Symantec. I was mainly dealing with the end point, installing, and uninstalling it and solving different issues that were involved or problems that were involved due to the Symantec endpoint client, but besides that, I wasn't managing the system.
The main difference between the two is the heaviness that was edited with Symantec on the endpoint client itself and into the client. The agent is pretty heavy on the resources sometimes, the memory specialists and we feel that with Trend, the product is more light on the station, and doesn't consume a lot of resources. That's I think the main issue.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was straightforward. We did the migration ourselves.
What other advice do I have?
As a current user of Trend Micro, I would recommend it, it does the job. It works fine and usually stops different virus attempts. The management is really good, you can see everything on the dashboard. If someone downloads some kind of infected file or some malicious file, we can see it and it usually gets blocked automatically.
I would rate Apex One an eight out of ten.
In the next release, I would like to have the ability that if something happens, then we have a record of what exactly has occurred on the station, how it started and how it evolved and eventually, in case something bad happened, something malicious gets through and it wasn't recognized in the signatures and the station got infected so that we can later come and analyze and investigate it and see what exactly happened and learn from it actually for the next time.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Presales & Implementation Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Excellent and efficient end point security for enterprise companies
Pros and Cons
- "I think this is the best solution in the category of endpoint protection, it's really excellent. It's better than McAfee."
- "Could channel video more efficiently."
What is our primary use case?
I've installed this product for clients numerous times. Each situation is different but usually it's for companies with a minimum of 50 users. One client had 200 users of Apex One, another 500 and I also had a larger client with 1,500 users. It's an enterprise license. I'm a pre-sales and implementation engineer and our company is the Apex One local partner in India.
What is most valuable?
I think this is the best solution in the category of endpoint protection, it's really excellent. It's better than McAfee.
What needs improvement?
I think there could be improvement in a couple of areas, particularly with technical support and making the solution more user friendly. They could channel their video more efficiently and develop a root functionality solution control across all functions.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been working with this solution for two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It's a stable solution, no problems.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
This solution is very scalable, it's great.
How are customer service and technical support?
In general the technical support is very good, although lately I've been less satisfied with the local support here in India.
How was the initial setup?
Initial setup is straightforward, it takes a day. Deployment requires between two and five people depending on the size of the company.
What other advice do I have?
I think Apex One is a very good product for end-users. Some of the features you get here are also available in Symantec which is a better package, but Apex One is a better end solution. Symantec and McAfee both have good solutions but Apex One and Symantec are the best for end point security. For singular implementation, Apex One management is great for application control and deactivation.
I would rate this solution a 10 out of 10.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partner
Regional Sale Manager at Cyber Labs
Has many solutions that competitors lack; good for protecting the endpoint
Pros and Cons
- "Many features that this solution has, competitors lack. The feature I think is quite good is data loss prevention."
- "I think that this product needs to improve the data loss prevention port."
What is our primary use case?
It's quite a good solution for protecting the endpoint.
What is most valuable?
All the features are quite good. Many features that this solution has, competitors lack. The feature I think is quite good is data loss prevention.
What needs improvement?
I think that this product needs to improve the data loss prevention port.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using this solution for one year.
What other advice do I have?
We are using the SaaS version, but there's on-prem available as well.
Overall, I would rate this solution a nine, on a scale from one to 10, with one being the worst and 10 being the best.
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: partner and user
Head Cyber Security at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Powerful, stable, and flexible, but integration could improve
Pros and Cons
- "The solution is powerful, simple to use, and very flexible. Having the solution in the cloud allows us to do remote work from anywhere."
- "Trend Micro Apex One could improve by having better integration in the future."
What is our primary use case?
We use Trend Micro Apex One for protection against network threats.
What is most valuable?
The solution is powerful, simple to use, and very flexible. Having the solution in the cloud allows us to do remote work from anywhere.
What needs improvement?
Trend Micro Apex One could improve by having better integration in the future.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have used Trend Micro Apex One for approximately two months.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The solution is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
In my experience, Trend Micro Apex One has been scalable.
We have approximately 5,000 users using this solution.
How was the initial setup?
It was quite easy for us to migrate to Trend Micro Apex One cloud.
What about the implementation team?
We used a three-member outsourced team that did the implementation and maintenance of the solution for approximately one month.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
We are using an annual license for this solution.
What other advice do I have?
I would recommend this solution to others.
I rate Trend Micro Apex One a seven out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
CIO at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees
Good antivirus support and reasonably-priced, but the reporting should be improved
Pros and Cons
- "The most valuable feature is the antivirus."
- "I would like to see better reporting."
What is our primary use case?
We use this product as our antivirus solution.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature is the antivirus. We don't use any of the other features.
What needs improvement?
For Trend Micro in general, I would like to see better technical responses.
We had a few issues with the former product (Office Scan - this is not an EDR product). We did not get any useful answer from technical support. As a conesquence, there is room for improvement as it comes to our future use of Apex One - let's see how this will evolve.
For how long have I used the solution?
We are currently testing Apex One, formerly known as OfficeScan which we had been using during the last 6 years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
This is a stable product.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Apex One is scalable.
How are customer service and technical support?
From what I can tell, the technical support is non-existent. I sent questions about search behavior a couple of times and didn't get any answer.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I have worked with Kaspersky in the past. The setup is very different from what we have now and it is difficult to compare, but I think that Kaspersky is a better product.
In the Kaspersky deployment, the company had a lot of sites and edge-caching was needed to distribute videos.
How was the initial setup?
The deployment took place before I joined the company.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The price is reasonable.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate this solution a six out of ten.
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.

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