"Everything from Microsoft is integrated. You receive regular reports on them all. You can push your reports, logs, and security alerts, which are all integrated. It is crucial that these solutions work natively together to deliver coordinated detection and response across our environment."
"Threat detection is its key feature, and that's why we use this tool. It gives an alert if a PC is attacked or there is any kind of anomaly, such as there is a spike in sending emails or we see an unauthorized website being accessed. So, it keeps us on our toes. We get to know that there is something wrong, and we can isolate the user and find any issues with it. So, threat detection is very robust in this tool."
"If your business requirements are relatively simple, it can get the job done."
"I like the web GUI/the management interface. I also like the security of Microsoft. As compared to other manufacturers, it's less complex and easy to understand and work with."
"The solution does not affect a user's workflow."
"It is very easy to use, which is what we look for in these types of solutions."
"It's very easy to install and it includes the Intune portal from Microsoft where I can control all the devices from one place."
"There are a lot of features with benefits, including discovery, investigation, and putting controls around things. You can't say that you like the investigation part but not the discovery. Everything is correlated; that's how the tool works."
"The dashboard is beautiful, overall easy of use, and the UBA and NBA features are valued."
"I like that you can implement it in the managed service portfolio."
"The most valuable feature is the monitored support behind it."
"It provides good protection from ransomware and malware attacks. It is very good as compared to other products. If any threat is there, their support is very good. They immediately respond to the users and do a follow-up. They call us and also provide email support."
"It can be deployed in autonomous mode, and then it automatically blocks malware threats."
"It's transparent, so it's not something where every user has to press a button to download or do the thing. It is centralized, in fact. Personally, I use Malwarebytes and other tools, which are fine for home use. Cynet is also relatively silent in terms of operation, except when it's required to act."
"Advanced detection and protection against ransomware paired with SOC monitoring are the most valuable features. They have 24/7 SOC monitoring and file activity. It is a very robust tool."
"The level of automation is very good because the majority of the time, it blocks the attacks without requiring anything from our side. The technicians don't have to do anything. They are just alerted about what happened. So, the user intelligence works quite well."
"The solution provides dashboard control, so we can centrally monitor the entire status of our organization."
"I think the costing is fine compared to other products. Cost-wise you definitely get value for your money."
"It's easy to use and it's very powerful. It offers nice endpoint protection."
"I have found many of the features to be useful."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature is the centralized console where everything can be controlled by the administration."
"It's easy to use."
"We like the management of the ePO, and we like the management console."
"Currently, reporting is not very straightforward and it needs to be enhanced. Specific reports are not included and you need to run a query, drill down, and then export it and share it. I would love to have reports with more fine-tuning or granularity, and more predefined reports."
"There are some features, such as user navigation content filtering, that are disabled by default, and it probably makes sense to enable them by default."
"We would like to get more information from the endpoint. I don't get enough detailed information right now on why something failed. There is not enough visibility."
"The integration with macOS operating systems needs to be better."
"They should continue integration with all other Microsoft security-related products. The integration with all the other products is still ongoing."
"I want them to enhance in-session policy."
"This service would be better if it had a separate license, only for this service, that could be used to track usage."
"There are challenges with detection and there are challenges with false-positive rates."
"The reporting is a little weak and could be improved. The other downside is that Cynet does not use the local time zone. It's based off of Greenwich Mean Time."
"Cynet could improve when a reverse proxy is being used to connect to the servers. There could be an easier configuration because it is not plug-and-play."
"The solution just needs to keep maturing and they need to keep up with the threat landscape to ensure they're protecting clients well as time passes."
"Sometimes, it is necessary for me to make important changes to a hard drive of a computer, and because Cynet does not allow me to do that, I have to go to the console and remove the computer from the security group just for Cynet. After that, I have to wait for 10 or 15 minutes for that to take effect. I would like to be able to disable Cynet locally. I shouldn’t have to go to the console to find the PC and then take it out of the group and then add it again to the group. I should locally be able to disable Cynet on a computer with a password or something like that, but it is currently not possible."
"I'd like to see more data loss prevention within the product."
"It is an endpoint agent, but they don't have a probe for checking the network traffic. They could improve from this point of view."
"They have some things in the pipeline, we understand, and they're going to be able to support Android and all these other devices soon. The key is the devices - which is an aspect that is lacking right now. Every company has that problem, not just Cynet."
"They have automated response capability, and they're moving more and more into SOAR capability. They have built-in deception technology with host-file users, phantoms, etc. We used to call them honeypots. So, they're on target. They're doing a really good job, and they should continue to improve with SOAR."
"An area of improvement for this solution is to make it easier to manage."
"An area in need of improvement involves the overview, which usually does not enable one to get the value in reports."
"The solution has problematic encryption, which needs reforming."
"It would be nice if the solution were to allow not just on-cloud management, but on-premises, as well."
"There is room to improve with scalability."
"The solution takes up a high amount of memory and can cause the system to hang."
"The management console is a little bit difficult to understand for admins. You need a lot of time in order to become familiar with that. It is a little bit complicated and not too easy to understand. Its price can also be improved. Its price is higher than its competitors. McAfee also needs to have better cloud integration and more data centers in the EU. The cloud center should be in Europe or in Germany. In Germany, it is really important to have access to your data within the same country. Customer data needs to be placed and processed in the same country."
"The product could do more to keep administration alerted to detected threats on endpoints."
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Cynet is ranked 4th in Extended Detection and Response (XDR) with 17 reviews while Trellix Endpoint Security is ranked 3rd in Extended Detection and Response (XDR) with 37 reviews. Cynet is rated 8.6, while Trellix Endpoint Security is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cynet writes "A complete, transparent, and centralized solution ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Trellix Endpoint Security writes "Protect your business against a wide variety of threats". Cynet is most compared with SentinelOne, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, Darktrace and Rapid7 InsightVM, whereas Trellix Endpoint Security is most compared with McAfee MVISION Endpoint, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Symantec Endpoint Security, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks and CrowdStrike Falcon. See our Cynet vs. Trellix Endpoint Security report.
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