We performed a comparison between Microsoft Defender XDR and Secureworks Taegis XDR based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Extended Detection and Response (XDR) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The ability to hunt that IM data set or the identity data set at the same time is valuable. As incident response professionals, we are very used to EDRs and having device process registry telemetry, but a lot of times, we do not have that identity data right there with us, so we have to go search for it in some other silo. Being able to cross-correlate via both datasets at the same time is something that we can only do in Def"
"I like that it's fully integrated with Windows, Microsoft 365 Exchange Online, and Outlook. It is better than other antivirus solutions because it's fully integrated with all Microsoft products. It's easy to integrate them and onboard all Windows devices from SCCM."
"The most valuable feature depends on the scenario. For compliance, I like Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Data Loss Prevention. Sentinel is the most helpful feature for security. 365 Defender helps us prioritize threats across an enterprise. It's a crucial feature for the managed services team."
"Email protection is the most valuable feature of Microsoft Defender XDR."
"The advantage of Microsoft Defender XDR has over other XDRs in the market is that it's easy to use. You can quickly differentiate between alerts, incidents, devices, software, etc. It's easier to investigate an incident, and you have so many options. You can automate investigations and use playbooks. There's also the live response session, which is something you can't find in any other XDR."
"Microsoft 365 Defender's most valuable feature is the ability to control the shadow IP."
"Scanning, vulnerability reporting, and the dashboard are the most valuable features."
"The timeline feature is excellent. I also like the phishing simulation. We have phishing campaigns to educate employees and warn them about these threats."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"It's a complete solution package."
"It would be highly beneficial if CoPilot could identify anomalies within the network and notify the IT team."
"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."
"The advanced threat-hunting capabilities are phenomenal, and the security copilot enhances that, but some data elements could be better or have more context inside of the advanced tables themselves. The schemas feel a little limited to what they're building into the product. It's probably just a maturity thing. I imagine we'll see the features I want in the next year."
"The price could be better. It'll also help if they can continuously update and upgrade the solution. Every day there's a new virus uploaded into the network, and we have to keep updating it to identify all these things."
"The message trace feature for investigating mail flow issues should add more detailed information to the summary report... if they could extend the summary report a little bit, make it more descriptive, ordinary administrators could understand what happened and that the emails failed at this or that point. That way they would know the location to go to try to correct it and to prevent it from occurring again."
"It would be helpful if the solution could scan faster when it comes to scanning attachments to emails."
"The solution could improve by having better machine learning and AI. Additionally, the interface, documentation, and integration could be better."
"Intrusion detection and prevention would be great to have with 365 Defender."
"We found limitations in the XDR's detections, lacking the ability to create customized detection and log parsing rules."
"The pricing could be improved."
Microsoft Defender XDR is ranked 5th in Extended Detection and Response (XDR) with 80 reviews while Secureworks Taegis XDR is ranked 28th in Extended Detection and Response (XDR) with 2 reviews. Microsoft Defender XDR is rated 8.4, while Secureworks Taegis XDR is rated 6.0. 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 Secureworks Taegis XDR writes " It's a complete solution package". Microsoft Defender XDR is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager, Wazuh and Microsoft Entra ID, whereas Secureworks Taegis XDR is most compared with Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks, Wazuh, CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Cloud and IBM Security QRadar. See our Microsoft Defender XDR vs. Secureworks Taegis XDR report.
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