We performed a comparison between MetaDefender and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, SentinelOne, ESET and others in Anti-Malware Tools."I like the simplicity, the way it works out of the box. It's pretty easy to run and configure. The integration of the network devices with the ICAP server was easily done."
"The most valuable features are that it is flexible, and it is integrated with Microsoft products."
"This solution definitely increases our security posture. When you are reviewing your existing fleet or endpoints and based on the configuration that you put out of your Defender for Endpoint, you then receive a security score from Microsoft. Depending on what rules you have configured, what policies you have deployed, and what attack surface reduction rules that you have set up and deployed, it is almost gamifying information security in the sense that you are always trying to achieve a higher score. The more hardening you perform on your endpoints, the better score you receive. This generally tends to give you a better peace of mind, but also makes you secure at the same time."
"The features I have found most valuable are the ransomware and malware protection. The solution detects malware live and whenever it detects suspicious activity, it quarantines it."
"Technical support has been great."
"We use Microsoft Defender for the antivirus."
"We have just started to implement it. It is useful for protection from malware and ransomware."
"The fact that it's from Microsoft, you don't have many false positives, unlike products from other vendors might have."
"It's an enterprise solution that provides a centralized console and it supports all the platforms that we use, including Windows, Linux, Mac, iOS, and Android."
"The documentation is not well written, and I often need to talk with support."
"Monitoring can always be better, onboarding can be a little bit faster, log collection could be easier, they could streamline the dashboard. They could maybe split it up into different workspaces and have the ability to segment groups a little bit more."
"In the next release, I would like to see better management reporting."
"Some integration components for Mac should be added. We use both Windows 10 desktops and Mac desktops, but presently, the Mac component is still lagging a bit behind."
"Defender is free for one year. Once that year is over, we will switch to Kaspersky."
"There are alternative solutions that offer a greater range of dashboard insights when compared to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint."
"In terms of the architecture of the management infrastructure, we found that other technologies are more simple. Microsoft Defender could be simpler too."
"The onboarding and deployment could be more user-friendly, and there is room to grow in some of the reports. I don't want them to be oversimplified or overly complex, but there is room for improvement in the reporting it can do. It's relatively minor."
"The scalability could be improved - I would rate it between a seven and an eight."
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MetaDefender is ranked 17th in Anti-Malware Tools with 1 review while Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is ranked 1st in Anti-Malware Tools with 182 reviews. MetaDefender is rated 9.0, while Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of MetaDefender writes "Blocks malicious files , has a low false-positive rate". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint writes "Eliminates the need to look at multiple dashboards by automatically providing one XDR dashboard to show the security score of each subscription". MetaDefender is most compared with VirusTotal, CrowdStrike Falcon, Symantec Content Analysis and Forcepoint ZT CDR (Zero Trust Content Disarm & Reconstruction), whereas Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is most compared with Symantec Endpoint Security, Intercept X Endpoint, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, CrowdStrike Falcon and Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks.
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