Cisco Secure Endpoint and WatchGuard EPDR are leading endpoint security solutions. Cisco Secure Endpoint seems to have the upper hand in performance and advanced threat detection, while WatchGuard EPDR's integrated approach provides broader security coverage.
Features: Cisco Secure Endpoint features advanced malware protection, threat intelligence, and effective incident response. WatchGuard EPDR combines endpoint protection and endpoint detection and response, providing comprehensive security with an integrated approach.
Room for Improvement: Cisco Secure Endpoint improvements include compatibility with different operating systems and enhanced reporting capabilities. WatchGuard EPDR seeks better scalability, more intuitive management, and user-friendly interface. Cisco requires technical enhancements, while WatchGuard focuses on usability and scalability.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Cisco Secure Endpoint has a straightforward deployment process and excellent customer support. WatchGuard EPDR reports a steeper learning curve during deployment but offers responsive customer service. Cisco offers smoother deployment, while WatchGuard requires more initial effort with supportive customer service.
Pricing and ROI: Cisco Secure Endpoint is perceived as more costly, but users feel the robust features justify the price, providing good ROI. WatchGuard EPDR is considered more affordable with a quicker ROI, offering efficient security solutions for cost-conscious organizations.
I can say that knowing you have a product like WatchGuard EPDR that's working 24/7 to help protect students in a school is good for ROI.
Cisco has good technical support, especially considering these are newer solutions compared to traditional routing and switching products.
They create a case, tell me to refer to articles, and if not resolved, they take a remote session to solve the issue.
The technical support from WatchGuard would rate at about an eight on a scale of 1 to 10, where one is the worst technical support and 10 is the best technical support.
Technical support for Panda Adaptive Defense 360 is provided by the reseller, and they also do preventive maintenance yearly.
Cisco Secure Endpoint is definitely scalable.
WatchGuard EPDR is very competitive regarding its scalability.
We have not encountered any problems.
WatchGuard EPDR is a very stable solution and is not resource intensive.
It is very stable with no hanging problems.
The stability is approximately a seven to eight out of ten.
The forensic capabilities need enhancement, especially for deep forensic data collection.
Panda Adaptive Defense 360 is not compatible with certain network devices like access points, switches, or routers, which would be an area for improvement.
An area for improvement would be the software deployment to seamlessly deploy software packages across multiple machines simultaneously.
Other firewalls allow adding categories and in-app controls which WatchGuard currently lacks.
Cisco is aggressive in pricing, making it competitive and sometimes even cheaper than other good products like CrowdStrike, Microsoft Defender, or SentinelOne.
It is worth the money and provides good return on investment.
The pricing is slightly high, but the product quality justifies it.
Regarding pricing, I am not sure because I did not compare it with other antivirus; maybe it is pricey.
Cisco Secure Endpoint is very good in machine learning, which allows it to secure offline contents even if not connected to the internet.
The cloud of WatchGuard lets me see all my devices, updating me to minute levels with detailed information, such as patch status and vulnerabilities.
It prevents issues with Trojans and encryption Trojans, providing efficiency in network oversight.
The software deployment is also a key aspect of the solution.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| WatchGuard EPDR | 2.1% |
| Cisco Secure Endpoint | 1.3% |
| Other | 96.6% |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 21 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 14 |
| Large Enterprise | 21 |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 26 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 8 |
| Large Enterprise | 2 |
Cisco Secure Endpoint is a comprehensive endpoint security solution that natively includes open and extensible extended detection and response (XDR) and advanced endpoint detection and response (EDR) capabilities. Secure Endpoint offers relentless breach protection that enables you to be confident, be bold, and be fearless with one of the industry’s most trusted endpoint security solutions. It protects your hybrid workforce, helps you stay resilient, and secures what’s next with simple, comprehensive endpoint security powered by unique insights from 300,000 security customers and deep visibility from the networking leader.
Cisco Secure Endpoint was formerly known as Cisco AMP for Endpoints.
Reviews from Real Users
Cisco Secure Endpoint stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its ability to enable developers to easily secure their endpoints with one single operation using its management console and its advanced alerting techniques.
Tim C., an IT manager at Van Der Meer Consulting, writes, "The solution makes it possible to see a threat once and block it everywhere across all endpoints and the entire security platform. It has the ability to block right down to the file and application level across all devices based on policies, such as, blacklisting and whitelisting of software and applications. This is good. Its strength is the ability to identify threats very quickly, then lock them and the network down and block the threats across the organization and all devices, which is what you want. You don't want to be spending time working out how to block something. You want to block something very quickly, letting that flow through to all the devices and avoiding the same scenario on different operating systems."
Wouter H., a technical team lead network & security at Missing Piece BV, notes, "Any alert that we get is an actionable alert. Immediately, there is information that we can just click through, see the point in time, what happened, what caused it, and what automatic actions were taken. We can then choose to take any manual actions, if we want, or start our investigation. We're no longer looking at digging into information or wading through hundreds of incidents. There's a list which says where the status is assigned, e.g., under investigation or investigation finished. That is all in the console. It has taken away a lot of the administration, which we would normally be doing, and integrated it into the console for us."
EDR for continuous monitoring that prevents the execution of unknown processes. Behavioral analysis and detection of IoAs (indicators of attack) scripts, macros, etc.
Automatic detection and response for targeted attacks and in-memory exploits. Endpoint protection capabilities such as URL filtering, device control and managed firewall.
Zero-Trust Application and Threat Hunting features delivered as managed services. Lightweight agent and easy-to-use Cloud-based console with detailed reporting.
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