Faronics Deep Freeze vs McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator comparison

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Microsoft Intune
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Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
168
Ranking in other categories
Configuration Management (3rd), Remote Access (4th), Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) (1st), Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) (1st), Microsoft Security Suite (3rd)
Faronics Deep Freeze
Average Rating
7.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) (16th)
McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
40
Ranking in other categories
Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) (9th)
 

Featured Reviews

Joery Van Den Bosch - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 23, 2024
Centralizes endpoint and security management, is easy to use, and can help simplify app updates
The Intune suite offers a lot of features. The AutoPilot feature is helpful. Endpoint privilege management is very good. You can bring your own device setup. You can use it in combination with conditional access policies for encryption. Migration from on-prem to cloud is good. The settings catalog and configuration profiles are also very, very useful. Intunes brings all of our endpoint and security management tools into one place. This is a good thing. We now have one portal to check instead of dozens. I'm really happy with that. The overall user experience is quite nice. I have no complaints from end users regarding their devices enrolled in Intune. We've used CoPilot. We have nothing to complain about, however, it is very expensive. With CoPilot, we summarized a few of our policies and devices, which were great. We check the properties of the devices, hardware, of the devices, and so on. Mostly, we played around with the summaries of the policies, however, we switched it off since it was running for a couple of days, and it was a few hundred euros for those few days. Witnessing the benefits of Intune happen quickly. Clients usually begin to see benefits after the kickoff meeting. Intune is an ongoing development product. It helps both greenfield and existing setups. It's not static. We'll work with policies and versioning, and after every quarter, we'll review our policies and update where necessary. If clients used Intune managed services, they get policy updates included in the managed service. Intune is good for securing hybrid work and protecting data of the company while bringing our own devices. We use device framework policies from Microsoft themselves with some minor adjustments. They have level one, level two, and level three policies. You can just fix the settings of their site, and that's also what we use. Then we just tweak and bring in our own experiences. The endpoint privileged management enables users to enforce privileged access and can positively affect user productivity. In in small environments, the end users are, in 99% of the cases, also local admins on their devices, which is obviously not good. In bigger environments, we get into that less often as it's more of an organized thing. That said, in small environments, everybody is a local admin and that brings certain risks with it. So users can install and download everything they want. With endpoint privilege management, we can set rules for specific applications, and then, a user can ask for approval to run a certain application, which is very good. Intune positively affects overall IT productivity in organizations. If users need to install it on a device that they need in their workday or day-to-day business, they can just grab it themselves from the company portal app. They do not have to wait. They do not have to enter a support ticket that goes to the help desk to request a certain type of software. They can do it themselves, so they save a lot of time. Intune, when applied on the cloud, can save on costs. With the cloud, there's no on-prem infrastructure that needs service, electricity, space, or cooling, for example.
SD
Jan 16, 2017
Allows us to revert to an optimal system state. I would like to see a faster Google Drive Sync.
* Deep Freeze: Ensures that I can maintain a baseline of an optimal system state where performance and system security are guaranteed. No matter how long a computer is in use, it will always revert to that same condition. * Data Igloo: Has been an important feature for me because on a frozen computer, the user's files and folders would have been redirected to the ThawSpace, thereby avoiding data loss upon a system restart. Users no longer have to worry when saving their files naturally to the Documents, Pictures, Music, Video, or Downloads folders or when manually saving their files to other locations. Data Igloo has been configured to handle all that.
JohnBlack - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 5, 2024
Provides our customers alerts to system-wide events from a single view
I worked at McAfee, and we deployed the solution for our customers. The primary use case is policy management, as the solution supports robust policy management. The customer deployments were on-premises McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator significantly streamlines policy management and compliance…

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"The licensing is on a yearly basis."
"We don't get Intune as a separate module. Most of the time, we use it within an enterprise agreement like E3 or E5. Those licenses are at a good price, but what is annoying is that every single year they go higher."
"It is cheap, but as compared to Google, it is costly. Google is cheaper, but quality-wise, Microsoft Intune is better."
"It is reasonable. When you have Microsoft 365 E3 or E5 license, it is already licensed in that license. So, you could say it is free."
"The price is reasonable, but they should lower it a bit to make it more competitive. It's cheaper than AirWatch and other products, but I still feel like Microsoft can make a base version or with Exchange online or a la carte only Intune version which will be useful. A customer who doesn't want to go full-fledged E3 or E5 can take out or consume an Intune solution only for their purpose, and we want to target that customer."
"Every customer used to purchase licenses based on their needs."
"The pricing is competitive, but it is not cheap."
"I liked the tool's pricing until P2 came into effect. I am unsure about the current value versus the cost of the new licensing model."
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"There is a license required to use this solution. If we use the additional components, such as DLP encryption, there is an additional cost. However, it is similar to a separate product altogether. If you want to use that or not, it is optional, but when you use it, it will cost you additional pricing."
"$The price of McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator is expensive, it is approximately $6,000 to $9,000 per license annually."
"McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator is not an expensive solution."
"For large enterprise companies, the price should be alright, but for small businesses, the uptake might be slow because, for these clients, the price doesn't look very attractive."
"It's an expensive solution"
"This solution is priced in the mid-range."
"McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator is a cheaply priced product, meaning it is not expensive since McAfee provides a free version of ePO, which includes phone support as well."
"It is attractively priced. It is a fraction of what we're going to pay for CrowdStrike or SentinelOne, but it only has a fraction of the capabilities as well."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
24%
Computer Software Company
12%
Government
7%
Financial Services Firm
7%
University
24%
Government
13%
Educational Organization
12%
Computer Software Company
10%
Computer Software Company
14%
Government
12%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

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Also Known As

Intune, MS Intune, Microsoft Endpoint Manager
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McAfee ePO, ePolicy Orchestrator, Intel Security ePolicy Orchestrator, McAfee MVISION ePO
 

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