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Deep Instinct Prevention Platform vs Intercept X Endpoint comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 9, 2024

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
7.3
Deep Instinct enhances security, reduces workload and false positives, ensuring 440% ROI and productivity without expert intervention.
Sentiment score
6.1
Companies report mixed results with Intercept X Endpoint; some see strategic value in its cost-effective, robust network security enhancements.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.8
Deep Instinct offers responsive, proactive technical support, with minor challenges, rated highly by customers for communication and issue resolution.
Sentiment score
6.5
Intercept X Endpoint support is praised for customer service but criticized for delays and lack of support in some regions.
Technical support from Deep Instinct Prevention Platform is fantastic.
When you are in real deep trouble, you just want to get out of it; you don't need so many jargons.
There are issues with onboarding technical engineers to resolve problems, which causes delays.
Technical support from Sophos is rated as nine out of ten, which represents high quality.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.6
Deep Instinct Prevention Platform provides scalable and seamless endpoint expansion, supporting diverse deployment methods for medium to large organizations.
Sentiment score
7.5
Intercept X Endpoint is scalable, adaptable for various business sizes, highly rated by users, and suitable for SMBs and large enterprises.
The tool's scalability is good, and I would rate it an eight out of ten.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.5
Deep Instinct Prevention Platform is stable and reliable, featuring quick support for minimal issues and consistent performance improvements.
Sentiment score
8.0
Intercept X Endpoint is praised for stability and performance, with minor occasional issues, earning high user satisfaction ratings.
In terms of stability, I would rate Intercept X Endpoint an eight out of ten.
To improve Intercept X Endpoint performance, upgrades in RAM and other system features are needed.
 

Room For Improvement

Deep Instinct needs improved control, compatibility, logging, resource efficiency, and competitive pricing for better usability and performance.
Intercept X Endpoint needs improvements in integration, performance, resource usage, support, mobile support, and third-party solution integration.
There should be a profile where I can see what files Sophos is scanning.
Intercept X Endpoint's anti-ransomware capabilities failed us during a bad attack, and just because of our own backup policies, we could restore our normal operations.
There is a licensing issue with Intercept X Endpoint; these licenses are user-based, and most of our customers require per-device licenses because they use one PC for multiple accounts, which presents a problem.
 

Setup Cost

Deep Instinct offers competitively priced, efficient enterprise protection with nonprofit discounts, simple licensing, and included support, despite console cost concerns.
Intercept X Endpoint offers flexible pricing with competitive, tiered licensing and payment options, seen as a smart security investment.
The licensing is very competitively priced, better than all other solutions.
Pricing of Sophos, including for Intercept X Endpoint, is okay.
The pricing of Intercept X Endpoint is a bit high.
I would describe it as economical, but not much cheaper than other solutions.
 

Valuable Features

Deep Instinct offers accurate, lightweight malware protection with real-time, offline capabilities and seamless deployment across Windows, Mac, and Android.
Intercept X Endpoint excels with AI-enhanced threat detection, anti-ransomware, centralized management, and integration for superior data security.
The stronger the AI/ML in an endpoint, the better the protection against unknown threats.
Intercept X Endpoint is the only endpoint security product I know that provides content filtering and application controls.
Once we started using CrowdStrike, it was so lightweight; the servers have hardly any lag unlike when we used to use Intercept X Endpoint for servers.
 

Categories and Ranking

Deep Instinct Prevention Pl...
Ranking in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)
39th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
19
Ranking in other categories
Anti-Malware Tools (22nd)
Intercept X Endpoint
Ranking in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)
12th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
107
Ranking in other categories
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (15th), ZTNA (10th), Managed Detection and Response (MDR) (6th), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (12th), Ransomware Protection (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2025, in the Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) category, the mindshare of Deep Instinct Prevention Platform is 0.7%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Intercept X Endpoint is 1.5%, down from 2.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Intercept X Endpoint1.5%
Deep Instinct Prevention Platform0.7%
Other97.8%
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)
 

Featured Reviews

Elena Yau - PeerSpot reviewer
Prevention, in advance, saves us remediation time
We have a PHI (protected health information) committee, and some of the things that we review on a weekly basis are incidents. For example, if there was malware or adware or some kind of phishing attempt, or even ransomware, we would have to investigate and see if there was any PHI impact. We've seen small things because some kind of adware made its way through the browser from some malicious link, and it's really hard to prevent those. We're putting more levels of filtering around that. There are some product development ideas that we have been working on alongside the DI team, and they've been super helpful. There are definitely a lot more little areas of improvement for the interface. Also, we have talked with the DI team about adding the forensic piece, which is what we do a lot. That would be added value and they've just recently provided more individuals to think about the roadmap. That's part of their strategy and one of the good features that they want to bring on. Hopefully, they can bring that to fruition and that will ease our workflow a little bit more. The additional predictive and prevention capabilities in the 3.0 version, that don't require special rules and configuration, help our organization. The only caveat is that when things get done automatically, I would appreciate more logging of what's happening in the background, if it is doing some kind of intervention. If we need to do some forensics, we should be able to backtrack from the log that gets uploaded to our cloud instance and see, forensically, what the root cause was. We should be able to see what instigated that trigger by DI and what exactly was done. That's a missing piece. It does a good job of preventing, but then we don't know what were the symptoms of the prevention. Let's say that there was like a PowerShell block. We'll see an indicator on the dashboard and we'll look at the logs and investigate. Sometimes we find that the logs that are captured locally on the endpoint itself are not very thorough. We were coached through our training with DI that, when troubleshooting, the DI team would always ask for the logs from the endpoint. We know what we need to do to look at something. But the logging for DI doesn't capture everything. There are some things that are missing. When it comes to root-cause analysis, or kill-chain analysis, and figuring out exactly what happened, it's very hard to do that right now on the product. I have used Carbon Black before and they're pretty good with the forensic analysis. That does save some efforts of my one engineer and myself when we have to go through the PHI committee. Right now, with Di, that feels like a blind spot. Another area for development is making the license clean-up a little bit easier. We always have to manually uninstall agents. If there were some way to remove the licensing and do better license management on the platform, that would help my team as well.
Suwandhi Suraweera - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers advanced filtering features and benefits from improved licensing and performance
There is a licensing issue with Intercept X Endpoint. Their licenses are user-based. Most of our customers use per device licenses, and they need per device licenses because they use one PC for multiple accounts. This creates a problem. There was one customer who complained about the slowness of PCs using Intercept X Endpoint. They use minor performance PCs, which causes their PCs to become slow.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
18%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
6%
Computer Software Company
16%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Educational Organization
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business10
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise5
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business72
Midsize Enterprise22
Large Enterprise22
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Deep Instinct?
The product offers integration capabilities and is also easy to use.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Deep Instinct?
The pricing of this tool has almost zero setup cost, and the implementation is straightforward. The licensing is very competitively priced, better than all other solutions.
What needs improvement with Deep Instinct?
The main area for improvement in Deep Instinct Prevention Platform is Arm support, which is not implemented yet. Though it's coming, they haven't released it yet.
How does Crodwstrike Falcon compare with Sophos Intercept X?
I like that Crowdstrike Falcon allows me to easily correlate data between my firewalls. Its detection and machine learning are very valuable features. Crowdstrike Falcon also successfully prevents ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Sophos Intercept X?
Pricing of Sophos, including for Intercept X Endpoint, is okay; definitely, it is okay. We pay for Sophos on a product by product basis, whatever we buy, whatever we use.
 

Also Known As

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Sophos Intercept X
 

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