We performed a comparison between Microsoft Defender for Business and Trend Micro Smart Protection based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Fortinet FortiEDR's scalability is quite good, and you can add licenses to the solution."
"It is very easy to set up. I would rate my experience with the initial setup a ten out of ten, with ten being very easy to set up."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"I get alerts when scripts are detected in the environment."
"The price is low and quite competitive with others."
"NGAV and EDR features are outstanding."
"We have FortiEDR installed on all our systems. This protects them from any threats."
"This is stable and scalable."
"It is scalable."
"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 interface is quite user-friendly."
"If you're an Intune user, you can bring in certain capabilities like system-hardening policies, which further enhances the security."
"A few things are valuable. One is the alerting we see when any kind of intrusion is happening, any kind of malware is being deployed across the endpoints, or any kind of suspicious activity is going on. We have a footprint across all of North America, Canada, and Mexico, so we want to make sure that all our endpoints are protected and we are able to look for any anomalous activity."
"Your workstation doesn't slow down, unlike when you use Symantec, for example."
"The tool offers centralized security management. The tool's deployment is flexible."
"One of the most valuable features of Trend Micro Smart Protection is the integration with other solutions."
"As a Japanese company, it doesn't have any restrictions on usage in our country."
"Helps with vulnerability and patch management, making it easier to provide top-notch services to our customers."
"The most valuable features of the solution are ransomware protection, device control, and DLP."
"The antivirus signature is valuable."
"Smart Protection is great for monitoring traffic, particularly email, and protecting the endpoints. Both are valuable."
"We've had a lot of false positives; things incorrectly flagged that require manual configuration to allow. Even worse, after we allow a legitimate program, it sometimes gets flagged again after an update. This has caused a lot of extra work for my team."
"It takes about two business days for initial support, which is too slow in urgent situations."
"FortiEDR can be improved by providing more detailed reporting."
"The SIEM could be improved."
"The solution should address emerging threats like SQL injection."
"The EDR console should have more extensive reporting. You shouldn't need to purchase FortiAnalyzer. It should be included in the EDR part. The security adviser cloud platform could be improved with more options for exclusive or intensive rules for devices."
"The amount of usage, the number of details we get, or the number of options that can be tweaked is limited in comparison to that with other EDR solutions"
"FortiEDR could add a separate scanning dashboard. In incident management, we prefer to remove the endpoint system from the environment and scan the system. We typically use Symantec for that, but if we want to use FortiEDR for that, then we need a scanning tab to clarify things."
"We faced some issues while running some applications on Mac."
"The biggest one is that Defender needs to be more proactive to the emerging threats. There can be tighter integration with email, especially how it integrates with our email system, which is the Microsoft Outlook suite. There should be the ability to react a lot quicker to emerging threats because sometimes, it takes a few days before some of these new threats are fully identified, and we need that to be a few hours."
"The security could always be improved."
"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."
"Defender's reporting is rather scattered, and its URL filtering mechanism doesn't really work."
"There are no data loss prevention features."
"Trend Micro Smart Protection could improve automatic scanning because sometimes it pops up when I am doing my work. It would be helpful to have a feature to have it only automatically scan when the system is on standby mode. I would be able to be more efficient with my work. Additionally, security could improve."
"The solution needs to improve the deployment so it aligns with the latest Microsoft patches and upgrades. It makes the deployment process lengthy and painful."
"There is room for improvement to make it better for customers."
"It could be faster in responding to new threats like ransomware."
"The solution's device control options are not too beneficial."
"I want the tool to provide the solutions integrated within it to have regular updates. Currently, the solutions integrated with Smart Protection get updates from the cloud. I want to minimize the download from the cloud."
"The threat response could be a bit better."
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Microsoft Defender for Business is ranked 45th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 5 reviews while Trend Micro Smart Protection is ranked 31st in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 40 reviews. Microsoft Defender for Business is rated 8.0, while Trend Micro Smart Protection is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Defender for Business writes "Quicker response time, improved security posture, and reduced alerts". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Trend Micro Smart Protection writes "Offers strong, all-around cybersecurity but is expensive". Microsoft Defender for Business is most compared with HP Wolf Security, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and SentinelOne Singularity Complete, whereas Trend Micro Smart Protection is most compared with Trend Vision One Endpoint Security, Check Point Harmony Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks. See our Microsoft Defender for Business vs. Trend Micro Smart Protection report.
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