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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Alternatives

4.4(1894 Ratings)

Considering alternatives to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint? See what this market Microsoft Defender for Endpoint users also considered in their purchasing decision. When evaluating different solutions, potential buyers compare competencies in categories such as evaluation and contracting, integration and deployment, service and support, and specific product capabilities.

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1. CrowdStrike Falcon

By CrowdStrike

4.7
(2967 Ratings)
My overall experience has been excellent. As a previous customer for several years, I have brought Crowdstrike into several organizations. The main need has been to detect novel malicious and anomalous endpoint behavior. After evaluating several vendors, Crowdstrike was the clear winner. Key factors included the administrator interface, which is clean and intuitive for investigating alerts. This made it easy to track event sequences and determine responses to anomalies. While price was important, we also considered market share, innovation, and integrations with tools like our ticketing system, SIEM, and SOC, maximizing our investment. Measuring ROI is difficult, but the product has delivered value. It effectively handles events, quarantines malicious files, and prevents incidents, thus avoiding significant costs from investigations and threat spread. As a CISO, I have peace of mind knowing I can verify its monitoring and blocking. For example, I tested detection by downloading Mimikatz on a test machine, confirming the agent’s effectiveness. Deployment and onboarding were seamless thanks to mobile device management, enabling zero-touch installation of Crowdstrike agents and removal of our previous solution, migrating all devices in two weeks. The agent worked well with our unattended installation method and caused no compatibility issues with legacy systems; only offline devices (due to user leave) were missed—a common issue for any software. Crowdstrike Falcon scales well; it can support thousands of endpoints, and at around 500 now, I foresee no scaling issues as we grow. Its ability to detect advanced threats and suspicious behavior is very high. I’ve used Red Team tools like Stratus Red Team to simulate complex attacks (e.g., creating backdoor users, deploying scenarios across servers, laptops, and cloud). These tests validate its detection and provide a full assessment of our monitoring, SIEM, SOC, log analysis, and escalation processes.Read all insights and reviews for CrowdStrike Falcon
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2. SentinelOne Singularity Endpoint

By SentinelOne

4.7
(2844 Ratings)
SentinelOne is one of a kind, which reduces the workload of the network security people to avoid threat manipulation in the endpoints, and due to the AI engines that is available in the endpoints, making it work efficiently even when there's no internet access for the endpoints. All over the available features and one click policy deployment make it easy and outstanding, also, when a threat is detected, it is very easy to identify and exclude os take mitigation accordingly using the dashboard. Also, this is an EDR solution which makes it very unique from the other products which does support ransomware protection and roll back feature through SSH is a tremendous thing to be noted in S1.Read all insights and reviews for SentinelOne Singularity Endpoint
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3. Sophos Endpoint

By Sophos

4.8
(2044 Ratings)
We have installed Sophos End Point Protection and we are very happy with the product securing our overall infrastructure, hybrid deployment, remote users as well as our cloud infrastructure, Sophos EPP has got the complete protection capabilities with Signature based and signature less technology to protect against the known as well as unknown threats. Read all insights and reviews for Sophos Endpoint
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4. Trellix Endpoint Security Suite

By Trellix

4.5
(1872 Ratings)
My overall experience is very good. Since Trellix has strong security features. It has feature of effective identification and defense against a range of online dangers, such as ransomware, malware & phishing scams. Its deployment is easy & user friendly too.Read all insights and reviews for Trellix Endpoint Security Suite
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5. Symantec Endpoint Security Complete

By Broadcom

4.4
(1623 Ratings)
An integrated cybersecurity suite created to safeguard enterprises against multiple attacks and protect endpoints. The security features and modules of the suite are designed to stop, find, and respond to network-wide cyber threats. Overall, based on the specific requirements, the Symantec Endpoint Security Complete experience may vary. Read all insights and reviews for Symantec Endpoint Security Complete
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6. Trend Vision One - Endpoint Security

By Trend Micro

4.6
(1447 Ratings)
My overall experience has been pretty smooth. What I noticed most is that it runs quietly in the background without slowing things down or spamming me with pop-ups. Most security tools I have used in the past made me feel like I was fighting the product as much as the threats, but this one feels more like it just gets out of the way and lets me work.Read all insights and reviews for Trend Vision One - Endpoint Security
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7. ESET PROTECT

By ESET

4.7
(1100 Ratings)
ESET杀毒软件资源占用低,扫描高效,我们学校的设备普遍性能不高,支持多设备集中管理,服务响应及时,有效保障校园网络安全与稳定。 Read all insights and reviews for ESET PROTECT
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8. ThreatDown Endpoint Detection and Response

By Malwarebytes

4.6
(902 Ratings)
Threatdown EDR provides threat intelligence during remediation of malware at the endpoint. Their UI also provides a user-friendly GUI that even non-IT people can navigate. Lastly, their seven-day ransomware rollback ensures that the company is protected so that they can turn the clock back on attacks and restore systems IT infrastructure.Read all insights and reviews for ThreatDown Endpoint Detection and Response
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Top Alternatives to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

  • CrowdStrike Falcon
  • SentinelOne Singularity Endpoint
  • Sophos Endpoint
  • Trellix Endpoint Security Suite
  • Symantec Endpoint Security Complete
  • Trend Vision One - Endpoint Security
  • ESET PROTECT
  • ThreatDown Endpoint Detection and Response

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