Microsoft Defender for Endpoint vs Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 27, 2023
 

Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Defender for Endp...
Ranking in Anti-Malware Tools
1st
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
182
Ranking in other categories
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (1st), Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) (2nd), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (1st), Microsoft Security Suite (6th)
Microsoft Exchange Online P...
Ranking in Anti-Malware Tools
11th
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
34
Ranking in other categories
Email Security (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2024, in the Anti-Malware Tools category, the mindshare of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is 23.2%, down from 25.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) is 5.6%, up from 3.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Anti-Malware Tools
Unique Categories:
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)
12.6%
Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)
4.1%
Email Security
7.3%
 

Featured Reviews

ML
Nov 28, 2023
Robust security posture and streamlined incident response with excellent automation features, seamless integration within Microsoft systems and efficient threat prioritization
It enhances our security posture. It seamlessly integrates with all our systems, particularly across our Microsoft infrastructure. It offers insights into threats, furnishing information about potential security risks within our environment. It effectively sets up alerts to notify us of any suspicious or unusual activities. The prioritization of threats holds significant importance. It concentrates on the most crucial threats rather than overwhelming us with all potential risks. It excels at organizing and highlighting those critical threats, providing a level of efficiency beyond what I've observed elsewhere. It has proven to be a cost-effective solution, saving both time and money, as the adage goes—time is money. Specifically, it has significantly reduced our time to detect and respond to incidents. Its real-time threat detection and blocking capabilities contribute to these improvements.
Sandip Chauhan - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 5, 2024
Offers configuration for different security policies like anti-phishing, anti-spam, and anti-malware but these policies have their limitations
We face challenges with reporting features and the lack of a proper dashboard in Microsoft's portal. There's no graphical interface, which other products offer. The reporting features need improvement. There isn't a proper dashboard provided by Microsoft, forcing us to search for everything manually in the portal without the aid of a graphical user interface, unlike what other products offer. So, having a proper dashboard would significantly enhance the usability and effectiveness of the service. The tracking features require us to search in MailFlow, where we input dates and times to find emails, focusing on sender and receiver details. This process highlights the challenge of not having an explorer feature in the basic EOP functionalities, making it difficult to search emails beyond the last ten days.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most important and the most relevant features of Defender for Endpoint are the malware and ransomware protection."
"Defender's analytics are much better than CrowdStrike's."
"Provides good security features and you can view it in the central console."
"I like the simplicity of the portal and the integration with Microsoft Intune. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is easy to use and implement."
"Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is free and part of the licensing stack of other Microsoft products."
"The whole bundle of the product, which is similar to other Microsoft products, is valuable. Ten years ago, you had third-party stuff for different things. You had one solution for email archiving and another third-party one for something else. Nowadays, Microsoft Office covers all the stuff that was formerly covered by third-party solutions. It is the same with antivirus. The functionality is just basic. You have the scanning, and then you also have a kind of cloud-based protection and reporting about your environment. With Microsoft Security Center, you have a complete overview of your environment. You know the software inventory, and you have security recommendations. You can not only see that the antivirus is up to date; you can also see where are the vulnerabilities in your system. Microsoft Security Center tells you where you have old, deprecated software and what kind of CVEs are addressed. It's really cool stuff."
"The antivirus features are very useful."
"Its real-time security is the most valuable."
"It is easy to configure, easy to use, easy to add exclusions, easy to track, and easy to add anything else if you want."
"It offers great security against malware and other threats."
"The threat management feature includes policies and alerts that are valuable."
"Microsoft Exchange Online Protection has features like DLP (data loss protection), Safe Attachment, and Safe Links."
"It is scalable."
"It is an easy solution."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Exchange Online Protection are the EOP, ATP, safe links, fishing, and antispam."
"The product's most valuable feature is third-party integrations."
 

Cons

"Microsoft Defender for Endpoint should have more transparency. In the latest edition of Windows, Windows 11, it is a compulsory requirement to connect to a Microsoft account, which in turn has implications for Defender. This should be removed."
"The file scanning has room for improvement. Many people use macros within their files, so there should be a mechanism that helps us to scan them for malicious payloads."
"On the Mac OS platform, there is no parity between Windows and Mac OS. The solution is very feature-rich and very well-integrated into Windows, and I guess baked into Windows 10 and Windows 11. Whereas, on the Mac OS platform, there is still some work there to give it a more feature-reach platform."
"Some of the integrations that Defender should include involve the use of the web app."
"I would like to see improvements made to how it secures activities on web pages."
"I would like the solution to be able to prevent unauthorized programs from installing and to block unauthorised URLs which is similar to web filtering product."
"We encountered some issues when we were trying to enable automatic updates from our group policy."
"There is room to improve the security of the solution."
"Online Protection has an issue in that it doesn't provide an option to stop impersonation."
"The product could be more stable. Microsoft products could be more stable because sometimes, even though they are updating some things, we cannot find those updates."
"The biggest issue that I experience is that Microsoft keeps moving things around, and it's very inconsistent as to where you find the information when you're trying to work on different pieces."
"The solution can be complex at times. It would be nice to have the on-server version. It needs to improve the stability as well."
"The tool's classification for bulk email is cumbersome."
"The management interface of Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP) could be intuitive."
"The tool is not 100% stable."
"I would like to get reports about vulnerable connections from our clients with information about domains, public IPs, etc. That would be highly useful."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"They are now doing it on an endpoint basis. It is based on the number of endpoints, which is good."
"There is no licensing fee."
"We went for Microsoft Defender once we were informed that it would be part of our Office 365 package. So, we combined the licensing for the OS with Office 365. Yeah. We thought it was a good bargain."
"If you don't purchase the advanced threat protection then there is no additional charge."
"Its price is fair. It has approximately the same price as the other products such as Kaspersky. It is much cheaper than Malwarebytes."
"This solution is part of Windows and comes included with it."
"It's included with the Windows Operating System, I don't pay for any licensing fees."
"Most people don't realize M365/E5 licenses are an amazing deal. They think "Oh, it's expensive," and I'll ask, "Compared to what?" If you don't have it you will have to buy licenses for multiple products to fill the same security space that you would have gotten with the Microsoft product. Go figure out how much it costs you per product, per user, and then come back and tell me how things add up financially."
"The tool's pricing is excellent."
"It's a high price."
"Apart from the license fee for the solution, there are no additional costs."
"Microsoft Exchange Online Protection's pricing is a little bit more because its price has recently increased."
"The solution is expensive but is backed by Microsoft's reputation."
"Regarding the price, it's comparable to other service providers. We've also looked at Check Point's offerings, and the pricing doesn't seem to be an issue."
"Online Protection is fairly expensive."
"The solution should reduce the cost."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
23%
Computer Software Company
13%
Government
8%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Computer Software Company
16%
Government
8%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

How is Cortex XDR compared with Microsoft Defender?
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is a cloud-delivered endpoint security solution. The tool reduces the attack surface, applies behavioral-based endpoint protection and response, and includes risk-ba...
Which offers better endpoint security - Symantec or Microsoft Defender?
We use Symantec because we do not use MS Enterprise products, but in my opinion, Microsoft Defender is a superior solution. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is a cloud-delivered endpoint security s...
How does Microsoft Defender for Endpoint compare with Crowdstrike Falcon?
The CrowdStrike solution delivers a lot of information about incidents. It has a very light sensor that will never push your machine hardware to "test", you don't have the usual "scan now" feature ...
What do you like most about Microsoft Exchange Online Protection?
The initial setup was easy. The configuration process is very straightforward.
What needs improvement with Microsoft Exchange Online Protection?
We face challenges with reporting features and the lack of a proper dashboard in Microsoft's portal. There's no graphical interface, which other products offer. The reporting features need improvem...
What is your primary use case for Microsoft Exchange Online Protection?
The main use case is to block suspicious links in emails. However, some functionalities like SIPP attachment are not available in the basic EOP. Alos, complete phishing protection is also not avail...
 

Also Known As

Microsoft Defender ATP, Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection, MS Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Defender Antivirus
Microsoft EOP, MS Exchange Online Protection
 

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Sample Customers

Petrofrac, Metro CSG, Christus Health
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