We performed a comparison between Trend Micro XDR and Cisco SecureX based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Trend Micro XDR is commended for its holistic approach to threat prevention, real-time visualization, and ability to prioritize network-based detection and response. Cisco SecureX earns high marks for its automated utilities, comprehensive visibility, and seamless integration with external resources. Trend Micro XDR should improve integration, overhaul its web interface, and strengthen its business relationships. Users say Cisco SecureX needs better documentation and integration with on-premises systems. It would also benefit by expanding its compatibility with third-party solutions.
Service and Support: Some customers have found Trend Micro’s customer service to be helpful and responsive, while others have encountered challenges with technical support in complex situations. Some users describe Cisco support as dependable and efficient, while others noted a decline in quality due to personnel changes.
Ease of Deployment: The initial setup of Trend Micro XDR is straightforward and fast, but it may require the involvement of several technical professionals. Setting up Cisco SecureX is generally considered to be straightforward in cloud environments, but it requires more effort to integrate the solution with on-premise products.
Pricing: Some reviews noted that Trend Micro XDR might be too costly for small organizations, but others found the price reasonable. A few users said Cisco SecureX’s price could be lower, given that it is included for free with certain Cisco products.
ROI: Trend Micro XDR delivers value through automation. Its efficient alerts ensure timely threat detection and prevention. Cisco SecureX provides a positive ROI by speeding up detection and resolution. It also decreases workloads through automation and proactive information gathering.
Comparison Results: Our users prefer Trend Micro XDR over Cisco SecureX. Trend Micro XDR is praised for its comprehensive attack view, high detection rate, and easy setup. Cisco users say SecureX would benefit from better documentation and search features.
"The Endpoint Manager is incredible; it has a very straightforward interface and is exceedingly easy to use. Pulling out and deploying different tags or resources is a simple task across various departments with different levels of security. The notifications are also simple and satisfying; it's great to see the bubble informing us which devices are compliant and which are waiting to update."
"Defender XDR has a feature called the timeline that lets you track all activities. It helps a lot with investigations."
"Within advanced threat hunting, the tables that have already been defined by Microsoft are helpful. In the advanced threat hunting tab, there were different tables, and one of the tables was related to device info, device alert, and device events. That was very helpful. Another feature that I liked but didn't have access to was deep analysis."
"The visibility into threats is also very impressive because Microsoft helps you predict things and provides analytics to help you really improve your security. And all of this technology works across the domain, so it is pretty helpful in terms of threat analytics."
"In Microsoft 365 vendor products, monitoring and connectivity across all Microsoft and third-party connectors enable viewing of all activity within those environments."
"Microsoft XDR's system of analysis and investigation is super convenient for our customers. It integrates with other Microsoft solutions like Defender for 365 to protect email traffic from malicious external web links and phishing."
"The summarization of emails is a valuable feature."
"The incident threat response and its ability to facilitate effective remediation against threats are the standout features."
"One of the most valuable features is the simplicity of deploying SecureX. It's very easy to do that and then you gain very detailed visibility into everything that's going on in your network and, obviously, at the device level. There's just a wealth of information that you can pull from all of these products that are part of SecureX. You know exactly if you have an issue or not."
"Using SecureX, a tool provided by Cisco, we can easily integrate it with many of our other Cisco products such as Cisco ISE and many networking devices."
"Our customers find the product's third-party integrations valuable. Our customers are also impressed with the tool's capability to pick up third-party threat feeds and use that as part of the decision-making process."
"SecureX enables us to have all the threat intelligence and threat event data in one place."
"The most beneficial feature of Cisco SecureX for cybersecurity efforts is its integration with other Cisco solutions and the environment. This sets it apart, as its APIs and overall integration capabilities are very strong. Additionally, its detection capabilities are commendable."
"I like that I don't have to jump around to five different products and log into five different places to view the data that it returns."
"The ability to create firewalls online has been most valuable including the ability to create rules."
"The forensics are amazing because when you have enrichment, and the solutions talk with each other, when you need it, you have the ability to know everything in the organization: when, why, whatever."
"VisionOne offers a clear window into the security posture of our endpoints."
"It helps us with investigations."
"Drilling down further, we can analyze how our users are utilizing their workstations, including the websites they visit."
"For scalability, I would give a rating of ten out of ten."
"We had previously deployed on-premises, and all we had to do was access the designated console and click a button to migrate all on-premises agents to cloud agents."
"It helps a lot to understand where the threat is coming from, where is it going, how is it being dealt with, et cetera."
"I like the workbench. It is a view of all the alerts or problems in your estate. The visibility that it provides to engineers is very useful. It is one thing having lots of alerts. It is another thing to have something to correlate all your alerts into a workbench for you so that you can see what is going on."
"Scaling is not a problem at all."
"In the beginning, it's difficult to navigate the system because it is quite large. Just trying to find your way and understand how the system works can be hard. After spending quite a lot of time searching it's a lot easier, but I wish it were a bit more user-friendly when you're trying to find things."
"The onboarding and offboarding need improvement. I work with other vendors as well, and they have an option to add a device or remove a device from the portal, whereas with Microsoft 365 Defender, we need to do that manually. However, once you do that, everything can be controlled through the portal, but getting the device onboarded and offboarded is currently manual. If we have an option to simply remove a device from the portal or get a device added from the portal, it would be more convenient. The rest of the features are similar. This is the only area where I found it different from others. I would also like to be able to simply filter with a few of the queries that are already there."
"The licensing is a nightmare and has room for improvement."
"The message trace feature for investigating mail flow issues should add more detailed information to the summary report... if they could extend the summary report a little bit, make it more descriptive, ordinary administrators could understand what happened and that the emails failed at this or that point. That way they would know the location to go to try to correct it and to prevent it from occurring again."
"365 Defender has multiple subsets, including Defender for Cloud Apps. When integrating Defender for Cloud Apps with apps on third-party cloud platforms like AWS or GCP, there are limitations on our ability to control user activities. If Microsoft added more control over third-party products, that would be a game-changer and help us quite a lot."
"The capability to not only thwart attacks but also to adapt to evolving threats is crucial."
"The cost can be high if you want to build custom license packages. Another area for improvement is the policies. In Azure, we need to implement policies in JSON format, but in 365 Defender 365, it would be helpful to use a different format so we can customize the platform."
"There is definitely scope for improvement in the automation area. Because the solution is a SaaS platform, we don't have the overall ability to automate stuff.... There is no direct way to go ahead because it's a SaaS platform."
"They could put in more third-party [integrations]... also more playbooks, out-of-the-box, for automation [would be helpful]."
"The automation and orchestration could be simpler. It could be that all the other parts are that easy to use so that these stick out as a negative, but that's the trickiest part for us. The workflows within the orchestration are just a bit more difficult."
"The front-end work controls the new algorithm and the firewall rules. The search feature of these rules could be improved."
"I'm not sure that I would call it a bug, but sometimes the solution is a little slow."
"I would like it to integrate with another solution, e.g., DNA. I would like it to connect to that solution, but not the security aspect."
"what's missing right now is the multi-tenant capability."
"If they could make the Cisco Umbrella piece a little bit more advanced or easier to manage, that would help. We use it for filtering and when you compare it to a normal content filter, it lacks some functionality."
"The playbooks provided with the product are great, although I would appreciate having more playbooks available. Threats are constantly evolving, so having access to updated playbooks is crucial."
"The support documentation could be more comprehensive."
"The integration with third-party tools and with on-premises Active Directory needs improvement."
"The solution could always be made to be more secure."
"I would like to have more integration with mobile device management."
"The solution only supports Windows and Mac. It would be helpful if it could support other OS, such as Linux."
"While blocking an IP address restricts access for 30 days, it eventually becomes accessible again."
"They should increase their potential for third-party integrations."
"When you deploy these tools from Trend Micro, the integration and getting them to work together, are among the more difficult pieces of the puzzle. But when you get that set up and working, you're glad you did."
Cisco SecureX is ranked 12th in Extended Detection and Response (XDR) with 13 reviews while Trend Vision One is ranked 5th in Extended Detection and Response (XDR) with 42 reviews. Cisco SecureX is rated 9.0, while Trend Vision One is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Cisco SecureX writes "Gives our customers visibility and they don't have to go multiple management consoles anymore". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Trend Vision One writes "The integration of toolsets is key, enabling automation, and vendor has been tremendous partner for us". Cisco SecureX is most compared with Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks, Splunk SOAR, Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Fortinet FortiSOAR and Microsoft Defender for Cloud, whereas Trend Vision One is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Trend Micro Apex One and Intercept X Endpoint. See our Cisco SecureX vs. Trend Vision One report.
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