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Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks vs Mimecast Insider Risk Management and Data Protection comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
4.7
Cortex XDR reduces operational costs, offers better value than Microsoft Defender, and enhances ROI via automation and integration.
Sentiment score
6.9
Mimecast Insider Risk Management offers significant cost savings, improved efficiency, and enhanced security, providing users with incalculable benefits.
They appreciate the rich telemetry data from the solution, as it provides in-depth threat identification.
Cyber Security Manager at Welab bank
Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks helps to reduce my total cost of ownership significantly.
Detection and Response Consultant at Inovasys
In Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks, most of the remediation is automated and the accuracy is quite good.
Network Security Engineer at Cyberwell Solution
Mimecast Insider Risk Management and Data Protection eases the workload through automation, through policies and rules that are pre-configured to handle complex tasks that would take hours and days for a team to initiate.
Senior Service Desk Engineer at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
There have been scenarios where we have stopped users from sharing data, and that data has been successfully protected from leaving the premises, adding tremendous value for us.
Security Engineer at Sky Deutschland GmbH
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.0
Cortex XDR support is praised for expertise and responsiveness, but faces inconsistency and regional communication issues. Ratings: 8-9/10.
Sentiment score
8.7
Mimecast excels in customer service with responsive support, effective solutions, and proactive communication, enhancing overall user satisfaction.
The technical support from Palo Alto deserves a mark of ten because they reach out within an hour whenever assistance is needed.
Head of data centers at a non-profit with 10,001+ employees
There is no back and forth, and they know what we are asking for and come up with the best resolution for a solution.
Senior Process Expert at A.P. Moller - Maersk
If any of these services are missed, it becomes a problem in terms of support tickets, follow-up, or special configuration that needs to be done in the system.
Chief of IT Architecture at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
I have never had any problems with the customer support, and they are very responsive.
Cyber Security Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
I would rate customer support a seven out of ten because support is provided through a third party.
Senior Service Desk Engineer at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
I think the customer support is good, and they respond on time.
IT Administrator at a media company with 201-500 employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.6
Cortex XDR efficiently manages extensive workloads across company sizes, praised for scalability, cloud capabilities, and high user satisfaction.
Sentiment score
8.0
Mimecast's scalability is seamless and efficient, easily supporting growth in users with minimal configuration and cloud-based deployment.
You can onboard 10,000 endpoints in just hours, which demonstrates the excellent scalability of this product.
Assistant Security Architect at Cloudnomics
Activating the newly purchased licenses is instantaneous, allowing installations without adjustments since it's cloud-based.
Junior Security Analyst at ITSEC Asia
Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks can be expanded anytime by purchasing another license without any issues related to scalability.
Head of data centers at a non-profit with 10,001+ employees
Mimecast Insider Risk Management and Data Protection has been able to keep up with our organization's growth, including adding more users, expanding across departments, and adapting to larger data volumes.
Deputy Director, Ict Security at a government with 201-500 employees
We can deploy it in organizations with more than a thousand or even ten thousand or even hundreds of thousands of employees.
Security Engineer at Sky Deutschland GmbH
We do not have to manage the scalability part of it.
Soc Analyst at Payatu
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.0
Cortex XDR is praised for reliable stability and improved performance, despite rare lag during high-stress data loads.
Sentiment score
7.9
Mimecast Insider Risk Management offers stable performance and reliability, with minor technical issues generally resolved quickly.
Cortex remains fast and responsive, even with increasing data and alerts.
Final Year Student at Gitam University
The thresholds we've seen on our firewall boxes at some instances reached 80% to 85%, but even at that level of utilization, we don't observe any latency or any issues reported with respect to accessing the application.
Senior Process Expert at A.P. Moller - Maersk
Cortex XDR is stable, offering high quality and reliable performance.
Cyber Security Manager at Welab bank
Mimecast Insider Risk Management and Data Protection is stable in my experience.
Cyber Security Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
 

Room For Improvement

Cortex XDR needs better integration, pricing, UI, feature parity, and automation, while reducing resource use and false positives.
Mimecast needs better reporting, integration, custom rules, speed, user support, AI, alerts, and training enhancements.
Improving reporting and dashboard customization, along with the addition of real-time and exportable reports, would help SOC teams greatly.
Final Year Student at Gitam University
The inclusion of this feature would allow the application of DLP policies alongside antivirus policies via a single agent and console, making it more competitive as other OEMs often offer DLP solutions as part of their antivirus products.
Pre Sales Architect at network techlab
If the per GB data could be provided at a certain level free of cost or at the same cost which the customer is taking for the entire bundle, that would be better.
Cyber Security Information Security Specialist at MHM Holding GmbH
If Mimecast could provide more information about how they store the data and whether the agents are local agents or cloud-hosted agents, that would be of great help for the organizations to consider its AI capabilities while adhering to the compliance needs of a particular organization.
Security Engineer at Sky Deutschland GmbH
Sometimes we do not have the capacity to train someone, but we would like to ensure that Mimecast Insider Risk Management and Data Protection is able to provide that training information.
Senior Service Desk Engineer at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
I suggest that Mimecast provide training and certification on that component and ensure that alerts are more accurate, including the fine-tuning of the alerts.
Deputy Director, Ict Security at a government with 201-500 employees
 

Setup Cost

Cortex XDR offers competitive pricing between $55-$90, though setup costs are high, with flexible licensing for cloud and on-prem use.
Mimecast offers scalable pricing and support, ideal for businesses needing comprehensive data protection and risk management solutions.
The pricing on SentinelOne is far more reasonable and cheaper than Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks.
Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I would say it is definitely not a cheap product, considering how mature it is and how scalable all Palo Alto products are together.
Senior Process Expert at A.P. Moller - Maersk
Cortex XDR is perceived as expensive by some customers, yet offers dynamic pricing.
Cyber Security Manager at Welab bank
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing indicates that pricing is always very expensive.
Senior Service Desk Engineer at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
The customer support has always been good, and except for the licensing cost, I think the pricing is also reasonable, and the setup cost is a one-time investment that will stay with us forever.
Security Engineer at Sky Deutschland GmbH
 

Valuable Features

Cortex XDR offers advanced AI-driven analytics, multi-layered security, and automation, enhancing threat detection and incident response efficiency.
Mimecast provides advanced data protection and cybersecurity features with machine learning, ensuring security, compliance, and seamless deployment.
It incorporates AI for normal behavior detection, distinguishing unusual operations.
Cyber Security Manager at Welab bank
The product provides automation responses in case of a threat attack, severity assessments, centralized manageability, and comprehensive compliance features, resulting in reduced costs.
Pre Sales Architect at network techlab
It includes machine learning to easily analyze data and detect complex threats across endpoints, networks, or clouds.
Final Year Student at Gitam University
Mimecast Insider Risk Management and Data Protection has positively impacted our organization as it has helped us identify a lot of phishing emails and stopped many unauthorized disclosures or accidental disclosures of information.
Soc Analyst at Payatu
The second thing is that the alert getting triggered is very fast. There is no latency issue that we have observed.
Security Engineer at Sky Deutschland GmbH
Mimecast Insider Risk Management and Data Protection offers the ability to conduct a deep dive and granular access to previous data in our organization.
Senior Service Desk Engineer at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Net...
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
112
Ranking in other categories
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (4th), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (6th), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (4th), Ransomware Protection (2nd), AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platforms (1st)
Mimecast Insider Risk Manag...
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
85
Ranking in other categories
Data Loss Prevention (DLP) (10th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks and Mimecast Insider Risk Management and Data Protection aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is designed for Extended Detection and Response (XDR) and holds a mindshare of 4.6%, down 5.1% compared to last year.
Mimecast Insider Risk Management and Data Protection, on the other hand, focuses on Data Loss Prevention (DLP), holds 2.7% mindshare, up 1.6% since last year.
Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks4.6%
CrowdStrike Falcon9.2%
SentinelOne Singularity Endpoint6.0%
Other80.2%
Extended Detection and Response (XDR)
Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Mimecast Insider Risk Management and Data Protection2.7%
Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention6.2%
Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention4.8%
Other86.3%
Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
 

Featured Reviews

ABHISHEK_SINGH - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Process Expert at A.P. Moller - Maersk
Gained full visibility and streamlined threat detection through behavior-based insights and AI integration
Initially, we got to have a lot of false positives when we onboarded, but nowadays it's quite smooth. We have fine-tuned our security policies and allowed different levels of policies to get rid of those false positives. Currently, we are getting a fairly good amount of incidents that are not false positives or benign, but actionable items. The process is streamlined. In the initial days, the operations used to get involved in a lot of benign and other activities, but now the process is streamlined. We are leveraging the auto-detection and remediation plans. The operations teams are now more involved in other business roles as well, not just looking into the logs and fetching out what's happening there. They have fixed a lot of things. Initially, they didn't have IAC code drift detection, cloud posture management, or security posture management, but they have those now. They purchased different vendors and did a merger with that. They have now Prisma Cloud that gets integrated and now they are working with Cortex Cloud. Everything that was negative has now been addressed, and the product altogether looks to be in a very better and mature shape now. Currently, it's more or less detecting the workloads with AI-based best practices. Since most organizations are consuming AI agents and other things, we are looking forward to seeing what other feature enhancements Palo Alto can support in that.
External Ganesh - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Engineer at Sky Deutschland GmbH
Insider threats have been detected faster and internal data exposure is now controlled
Regarding how Mimecast Insider Risk Management and Data Protection can be improved, sometimes the tool is slightly laggy, wherein it would take some time for us to fetch the related logs from the Mimecast portal, and that of course can be improved. There could also be a graph or a kind of a graph where, if the organization has a smaller number of employees, it is fine, but if it has a large number of employees and different departments, then in that case, Mimecast could give us an AI suggestion upon how to improvise the current security posture, how we stand and where we can go up to in terms of implementing or tweaking the policies. As the organization's size gets bigger, it would also be better if Mimecast could provide some solutions upon how to segregate the users into groups and what groups can have which policies. Those kinds of features can be added. Regarding Mimecast Insider Risk Management and Data Protection's AI capabilities, I think its governance and security could improve as I am not entirely sure how it works. It would be helpful if Mimecast could, as the AI capabilities are in place, maintain a strict governance policy upon the data that is being processed, especially for user personally identifiable information. As insider risk management sometimes also gets into the personal details of the user, organizations might be hesitant; even we are also hesitant to use the AI capabilities. If Mimecast could provide more information about how they store the data and whether the agents are local agents or cloud-hosted agents, that would be of great help for the organizations to consider its AI capabilities while adhering to the compliance needs of a particular organization.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Construction Company
10%
Computer Software Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business46
Midsize Enterprise20
Large Enterprise52
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business27
Midsize Enterprise28
Large Enterprise33
 

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Also Known As

Cyvera, Cortex XDR, Palo Alto Networks Traps
Mimecast Incydr, Code42 Next-Gen DLP, Code42 Next-Gen Data Loss Protection, Code42 Forensic File Search, Code42 Backup + Restore
 

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