We performed a comparison between Microsoft Defender XDR and Microsoft Purview Information Protection based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Microsoft Security Suite solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Microsoft 365 Defender is a good solution and easy to use."
"Having a single pane of glass for all Microsoft security services makes everything much easier. A security analyst can go to a single portal and see everything in one view. The integration of everything into one portal is a huge benefit."
"The common and advanced security policies for threat hunting and blocking attacks are valuable."
"The integration, visibility, vulnerability management, and device identification are valuable."
"We are able to consolidate licences and make use of many Microsoft products using this solution. If we have any Microsoft customers, we encourage them to use this solution for enterprise defence."
"A crucial aspect for our team is the inclusion of identity and access management tools from the vendor."
"In Microsoft 365 vendor products, monitoring and connectivity across all Microsoft and third-party connectors enable viewing of all activity within those environments."
"The unified view of the threat landscape on a central dashboard is the most valuable feature."
"It ensures that sensitive data is automatically safeguarded, even for email attachments, regardless of the user or device."
"Before using it, we had a lot of unlabeled data, and the tool helped us quickly and accurately label a large number of documents."
"The UI is user-friendly, and I have observed that it improves further each year."
"We can restrict access or specify who can see sensitivity labels, which can be based on the classification level. We can encrypt restricted content and limit who can see that from an internal view, too, so Purview is a powerful tool."
"Incorporating data loss prevention capabilities built into the Microsoft platform to endpoints, such as Windows 10 and Windows 11 computers, can also help prevent data loss and is highly advantageous."
"It would be helpful if the solution could scan faster when it comes to scanning attachments to emails."
"It would be highly beneficial if CoPilot could identify anomalies within the network and notify the IT team."
"The solution does not offer a unified response and standard data."
"The user interface of Microsoft 365 Defender could improve. They could make it simpler."
"The documentation on their website is somewhat outdated and doesn't show properly. I wanted to try a query in Microsoft Defender 365. When I opened the related documentation from the security blog on the Microsoft website, the figures were not showing. It was difficult to understand the article without having the figures. The figures were there in the article, but they were not getting loaded, which made the article obsolete."
"There are other SIEM solutions that are easier to use, mainly based on the creation of rules, use cases, and groups."
"The abundance of sub-dashboards and sub-areas within the main dashboard can be confusing, even if it all technically makes sense."
"There is definitely scope for improvement in the automation area. Because the solution is a SaaS platform, we don't have the overall ability to automate stuff.... There is no direct way to go ahead because it's a SaaS platform."
"Our primary concern is third-party application visibility. Many people choose other DLP tools, as they can search the Office 365 suite and detect sensitive information across thousands of other apps. The product is weak compared to the competitors on the DLP front, but the classification is good; the tool needs a bit more maturation."
"There is potential for more integration in the use of AI."
"Microsoft can improve the affordability of Purview Information Protection by offering it at a lower cost."
"Microsoft Purview Information Protection can improve in terms of scan concurrency and scan processing time."
"There is room for improvement with the policy tips feature."
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Microsoft Defender XDR is ranked 1st in Microsoft Security Suite with 78 reviews while Microsoft Purview Information Protection is ranked 21st in Microsoft Security Suite with 5 reviews. Microsoft Defender XDR is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Purview Information Protection is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Microsoft Defender XDR writes "Includes four services and four products, which can help organizations a lot". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Purview Information Protection writes "Provides protection across multiple environments, can classify data and represent it graphically, and has the option for customer-managed teams to encrypt and manage data". Microsoft Defender XDR is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager, Wazuh and Cisco SecureX, whereas Microsoft Purview Information Protection is most compared with Microsoft Purview Data Governance, Varonis Platform, Informatica Axon, BigID and Securiti. See our Microsoft Defender XDR vs. Microsoft Purview Information Protection report.
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