Microsoft Defender for Cloud vs Trellix Endpoint Security comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 7, 2023
 

Categories and Ranking

SentinelOne Singularity Clo...
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Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
83
Ranking in other categories
Vulnerability Management (5th), Cloud and Data Center Security (7th), Container Security (6th), Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) (6th), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (5th), Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) (5th), Compliance Management (4th)
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
46
Ranking in other categories
Vulnerability Management (7th), Container Management (10th), Container Security (3rd), Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) (3rd), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (3rd), Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) (3rd), Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) (3rd), Microsoft Security Suite (2nd), Compliance Management (2nd)
Trellix Endpoint Security
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
96
Ranking in other categories
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (11th), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (10th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2024, in the Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) category, the mindshare of SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is 1.6%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Defender for Cloud is 13.9%, down from 16.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Trellix Endpoint Security is 0.1%, up from 0.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP)
Unique Categories:
Vulnerability Management
1.6%
Container Management
0.9%
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)
4.5%
Extended Detection and Response (XDR)
4.1%
 

Featured Reviews

AS
May 9, 2024
Evidence-based reporting shows all the findings and severity, helping us to prioritize issues
We provide cloud services on our site using AWS. Singularity detects flaws that we must close for security reasons. We use Singularity to observe those findings and fix things based on the customer's requirements. Previously, we used to segregate issues and look after them. Singularity helped us secure our infrastructure. We've significantly reduced our potential security breaches to a minimum. It has improved how we operate on a larger scale. We set up the platform, onboarded the info, and then gradually moved further. Over time, it helped us slowly resolve those issues. We were using the cloud platforms' native security tools, but those were unhelpful. Now, we rely on this more than those services. Singularity reduced our false positive rate by about 60 percent. We've had even better results in terms of our risk posture. We can rely on this tool to improve our security conditions on a broader scale. If I gave our security posture a percent rating, I would give it 89 percent. The solution saves time by giving us everything in one place. You don't need to manually check every account. It tells us a lot. Singularity reduces our detection time by about 60 percent. Singularity has improved collaboration among cloud security, application developers, and AppSec teams. Previously, it would take around a week for engineers to address issues. Now that we use this tool, we resolve issues in one or two days.
Srikanth Matsa - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 5, 2022
Offers a security posture score that indicates how well our environment is protected but should offer better pricing options
Before Microsoft Defender our external team would give us updates on which ports are opening and which vulnerabilities are being attacked. Now with the recommendations of Microsoft Defender, we can find these vulnerabilities sooner and fix them. Before onboarding those respected resources into Microsoft Defender, we faced a few issues. Once we onboarded those resources, we received prompt recommendations that helped us make the organization's resources more secure. If resources are not secured, it can impact the reputation of the organization. The solution helped identify a lot of the issues, at a high priority that we could resolve. Microsoft Defender helps any organization that needs to follow security baseline recommendations in order to improve its environment. Regarding threats, I recommend Microsoft Sentinel for detecting and hunting the threats. I can identify what exactly happened at that particular time or particular resource with the help of Microsoft Sentinel. The solution has significantly reduced the overall time it takes us to detect issues. Most of the resources are scanned every 30 minutes, so it doesn't take much time for the solution to give us the respected recommendations. Depending on the issue, Microsoft Defender for Cloud has helped reduce our overall time to respond. There are a few recommendations that we can fix immediately by just clicking using the UI. However, the overall time to respond to issues depends upon that respected recommendation list. There are a few things that we need to consider when it comes to the security settings of our virtual machines which can take a long time to identify and fix.
SS
Oct 31, 2022
Scalable and quickly deployable, but they should try moving away from the signature-based model
It covers the AV and malware security piece It's mainly for compliance. In terms of products in the market, it's probably not the best, but it's the one that is already paid for under the corporate buy. It basically checks the box that we're doing malware threat prevention and antivirus…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It is scalable, stable, and can detect any threat on a machine. It uses artificial intelligence and can lock down any virus."
"The key strength of Singularity Cloud Security lies in its ability to pinpoint vulnerabilities in our cloud accounts and identify suspicious activity that warrants further investigation."
"It's positively affected the communication between cloud security, application developers, and AppSec teams."
"PingSafe offers an intuitive user interface that lets us navigate quickly and easily."
"The user-friendly dashboard offers both convenience and security by providing quick access to solutions and keeping us informed of potential threats."
"We like PingSafe's vulnerability assessment and management features, and its vulnerability databases."
"With PingSafe, it's easy to onboard new accounts."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to gain deep visibility into the workloads inside containers."
"Microsoft Defender has a lot of features including regulatory compliance and attaching workbooks but the most valuable is the recommendations it provides for each and every resource when we open Microsoft Defender."
"The solution's robust security posture is the most valuable feature."
"The technical support is very good."
"We saw improvement from a regulatory compliance perspective due to having a single dashboard."
"One of the features that I like about the solution is it is both a hybrid cloud and also multi-cloud. We never know what company we're going to buy, and therefore we are ready to go. If they have GCP or AWS, we have support for that as well. It offers a single-panel blast across multiple clouds."
"The security policy is the most valuable feature for us. We can go into the environment settings and attach any globally recognized framework like ISO or any benchmark."
"It is very intuitive when it comes to policy administration, alerts and notifications, and ease of setting up roles at different hierarchies. It has also been good in terms of the network technology maps. It provides a good overview, but it also depends on the complexity of your network."
"It's got a lot of great features."
"The product is quite user-friendly."
"The most valuable features are the adaptive tech on McAfee."
"We receive good protection with this solution."
"It's easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is ease of use."
"I have found many of the features to be useful."
"The solution offers very good endpoint security."
"The manageability of the product itself is its most valuable aspect. You have the underlying EPO, and on top of it, you can deploy the various components as you require. This is unlike other solutions like Symantec where you have to deploy everything or nothing. With this solution, you can choose to only deploy antivirus or only deploy a firewall, or only something else. I choose the components and that deployment is done through EPO. It makes manageability very flexible."
 

Cons

"One of our use cases was setting up a firewall for our endpoints, specifically for our remote users... We were hoping to utilize SentinelOne's firewall capabilities, but there were limitations on how many URLs we could implement. Because of those limitations on the number of URLs, we weren't able to utilize that feature in the way we had hoped to."
"There is a bit of a learning curve for new users."
"We use PingSafe and also SentinelOne. If PingSafe integrated some of the endpoint security features of SentinelOne, it would be the perfect one-stop solution for everything. We wouldn't need to switch between the products. At my organization, I am responsible for endpoint security and vulnerability management. Integrating both functions into one application would be ideal because I could see all the alerts, heat maps, and reports in one console."
"Currently, we would have to export our vulnerability report to an .xlsx file, and review it in an Excel spreadsheet, and then we sort of compile a list from there. It would be cool if there was a way to actually toggle multiple applications for review and then see those file paths on multiple users rather than only one user at a time or only one application at a time."
"With Cloud Native Security, we can't selectively enable or disable alerts based on our specific use case."
"I want PingSafe to integrate additional third-party resources. For example, PingSafe is compatible with Azure and AWS, but Azure AD isn't integrated with AWS. If PingSafe had that ability, it would enrich the data because how users interact with our AWS environment is crucial. All the identity-related features require improvement."
"I would like PingSafe's detections to be openly available online instead of only accessible through their portal. Other tools have detections that are openly available without going through the tool."
"Some of the navigation and some aspects of the portal may be a little bit confusing."
"We would like to have better transparency as to how the security score is calculated because as it is now, it is difficult to understand."
"I would like to have the ability to customize executive reporting."
"The solution's portal is very easy to use, but there's one key component that is missing when it comes to managing policies. For example, if I've onboarded my server and I need to specify antivirus policies, there's no option to do that on the portal. I will have to go to Intune to deploy them. That is one main aspect that is missing and it's worrisome."
"Microsoft sources most of their threat intelligence internally, but I think they should open themselves up to bodies that provide feel intelligence to build a better engine. There may be threats out there that they don't report because their team is not doing anything on that and they don't have arrangements with another party that is involved in that research."
"The documentation could be much clearer."
"Microsoft Defender could be more centralized. For example, I still need to go to another console to do policy management."
"Most of the time, when we log into the support, we don't get a chance to interact with Microsoft employees directly, except having it go to outsource employees of Microsoft. The initial interaction has not been that great because outsourced companies cannot provide the kind of quality or technical expertise that we look for. We have a technical manager from Microsoft, but they are kind of average unless we make noise and ask them to escalate. We then can get the right people and the right solution, but it definitely takes time."
"If a customer is already using Okta as an SSO in its entire environment, they will want to continue with it. But Security Center doesn't understand that and keeps making recommendations. It would help if it let us resolve a recommendation, even if it is not implemented."
"The user interface could be improved by making it more user-friendly. There are multiple solutions and there is no clear line differentiating all of them. There is a centralized console where we manage everything but most of the administrators feel a little confused when it comes to managing multiple products from a single place."
"The product is not easy to use."
"Every time we open a ticket with McAfee, their response differs and they are not consistent."
"The product could do more to keep administration alerted to detected threats on endpoints."
"There are times the solution has some additional software added that is not fully integrated properly, such as Exchange Group Sheild. It is quite old and is not fully integrated properly and could be improved."
"There are two main areas that require improvement. One is the size of the packages. Although I'll admit manageability is good, if I want to deploy, let's say just the antivirus or just the firewall, each of those package sizes are quite large. They are sometimes as big as 200MB or 250MB. When I have operations in remote areas where connectivity is always poor, it's difficult. To deploy such a package in a remote location over the internet or something like that is always challenging."
"Technical support is an area that can be improved because sometimes, the response time is a bit slow and the explanation is short."
"We would like to see all the features available on cloud."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"PingSafe is cost-effective for the amount of infrastructure we have. It's reasonable for what they offer compared to our previous solution. It's at least 25 percent to 30 percent less."
"It is not that expensive. There are some tools that are double the cost of PingSafe. It is good on the pricing side."
"PingSafe falls somewhere in the middle price range, neither particularly cheap nor expensive."
"PingSafe is less expensive than other options."
"The pricing for PingSafe in India was more reasonable than other competitors."
"PingSafe is priced reasonably for our workload."
"I am not involved in the pricing, but it is cost-effective."
"PingSafe's pricing is good because it provides us with a solution."
"Although I am outside of the discussion on budget and costing, I can say that the importance of security provided by this solution is of such importance that whatever the cost is, it is not a factor."
"The cost is fair. There aren't any costs in addition to the standard licensing fee."
"It is bundled with our enterprise subscription, which makes it easy to go for it. It is available by default, and there is no extra cost for using the standard features."
"The pricing is very difficult because every type of Defender for Cloud has its own metrics and pricing. If you have Cloud for Key Vault, the pricing is different than it is for storage. Every type has its own pricing list and rules."
"Currently, Microsoft offers only one plan at the enterprise level which is $15 per machine."
"Security Center charges $15 per resource for any workload that you onboard into it. They charge per VM or per data-base server or per application. It's not like Microsoft 365 licensing, where there are levels like E3 and E5. Security Center is pretty straightforward."
"I'm not privy to that information, but I know it's probably close to a million dollars a year."
"I am not involved in this area. However, I believe its price is okay because even small customers are using Azure Security Center. I don't think it is very expensive."
"There is a one-year and a three-year license available for this solution, we are currently on a three-year license."
"It is not that expensive. There is no additional cost. We got the entire bundle together."
"McAfee's prices are flexible and can be quite competitive, although there are other solutions that are even more so."
"I would rate the cost as four to five, considering it's normal compared to other products. I find it nominal and worth the money."
"It is reasonably priced."
"I am happy with the pricing."
"We pay for the license on an annual basis."
"Trellix Endpoint Security is neither a cheap nor an expensive solution."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
21%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Insurance Company
5%
Computer Software Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
7%
Educational Organization
38%
Government
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about PingSafe?
The dashboard gives me an overview of all the things happening in the product, making it one of the tool's best featu...
What needs improvement with PingSafe?
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How is Prisma Cloud vs Azure Security Center for security?
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What do you like most about Microsoft Defender for Cloud?
The entire Defender Suite is tightly coupled, integrated, and collaborative.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Defender for Cloud?
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How does McAfee Endpoint Security compare with MVISION?
The flexible manageability of McAfee Endpoint Security is one of our favorite aspects of this solution. You can deplo...
What do you like most about McAfee Endpoint Security?
It provides a robust defense against cybersecurity threats while offering user-friendly features like notifications a...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for McAfee Endpoint Security?
Trellix Endpoint Security is an affordable tool. Its renewal price is also quite low. The product is available as a s...
 

Also Known As

PingSafe
Microsoft Azure Security Center, Azure Security Center, Microsoft ASC, Azure Defender
McAfee Endpoint Security, McAfee Complete Endpoint Protection, McAfee Endpoint Protection, Total Protection for Endpoint, Intel Security Total Protection for Endpoint, MCAFEE Complete Endpoint Protection
 

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Microsoft Defender for Cloud is trusted by companies such as ASOS, Vatenfall, SWC Technology Partners, and more.
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