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Dell Data Protection - Endpoint Security Suite [EOL] vs Malwarebytes Teams comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Net...
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Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
122
Ranking in other categories
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (4th), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (5th), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (3rd), Ransomware Protection (2nd), AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platforms (1st)
Dell Data Protection - Endp...
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
5.8
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Malwarebytes Teams
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
37
Ranking in other categories
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (24th)
 

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.
Mohammad Shahabuddin Anwar - PeerSpot reviewer
Health Care Integration Engineer at RamSoft
Confident backups have enabled reliable rollbacks and supported multi-cloud growth
Central management is one of the main use cases of Dell Data Protection - Endpoint Security Suite [EOL]. Comprehensive workload coverage in Dell Data Protection - Endpoint Security Suite [EOL] helps us back up our data. Dell Data Protection - Endpoint Security Suite [EOL] has positively impacted our organization because we were able to test and implement changes confidently, knowing that if something goes wrong, we can roll back the changes. This confidence in our recovery capabilities helped us grow and conduct more research and development. Dell Data Protection - Endpoint Security Suite [EOL] offers very fast recovery time capabilities.
reviewer2594097 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Executive Officer at a wholesaler/distributor with 11-50 employees
Exceptional malware protection with regular updates and behavior-based detection
There are no built-in backups or integrated backup options, which could be an opportunity. The free version is effective, however, the paid version is pricey compared to it. Other customers have mentioned issues with false positives. It lacks enterprise-level management and more enterprise functionality. CrowdStrike and SentinelOne are much more enterprise-grade solutions. Malwarebytes has limited integration with cybersecurity tools and lacks enterprise integrations because it is not an enterprise product.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Cortex XDR is stable, offering high quality and reliable performance."
"One major outcome our organization achieved with Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is that it is a good tool for analysis, remediation, and incident response, with no negative points in terms of budget and overall effectiveness."
"Once you become familiar with it, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is a more powerful tool and I would say that I prefer it over MDE because it is a stronger tool for me."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its ability to rapidly detect certain hardware files."
"My advice for anybody who is considering Cortex XDR is that it is a complete solution, and has very good features."
"Cortex XDR's most valuable feature is its intelligence-based dashboards."
"It's very stable. I've never experienced downtime for the ASM console or ASM core."
"The most valuable aspect of Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks for me is its integration with AI detection, where we get to know the behavioral detection based on users, traffic patterns, and different services that we consume."
"The security engine is effective at catching potential threats."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its speed, backup speed, and restore speed."
"It is a stable solution."
"Dell Data Protection has a decent service and integrates well with users' active directories."
"It is a stable solution. Our company faces no problems with the backup system…The initial setup wasn't complex."
"Technical support is excellent."
"There's a really they have a really nice way to test it first. Before you adopt it. And so I would suggest trying to they they create a test site for you, and they give you a link to it, and you can basically try out all the features on your own for I think we did it for a month."
"Dell Data Protection - Endpoint Security Suite [EOL] has positively impacted our organization because we were able to test and implement changes confidently, knowing that if something goes wrong, we can roll back the changes."
"The solution was successfully deployed and so far has been able to stop all ransomware attacks, which has been extremely beneficial to the organization."
"It is a stable solution."
"It sits in the background, works very well and does what you expect it to do."
"When it comes to frontend protections, it has some of the best definitions. In addition, they do traditional signature and heuristic detection a lot better than Microsoft and some other players in that space."
"The solution is very good at scanning; it's a good product, it does the job, it offers good protection, and I haven't come across any issues so far which I need to escalate."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that I can use it wherever I want, be it at the office, at home, or even outside."
"We have a small IT team, and being able to manage even a small fleet of devices that are out in the field and being able to respond and remediate really quickly from the cloud-based console has been really helpful for us."
"It is intuitive and easy to use, and for the most part, it does a good job of catching things and is good at stopping stuff."
 

Cons

"Additionally, I think the price is very high, and if it can be adjusted, I believe it will be a very good solution."
"There are some default policies which sometimes affect our applications and cause them to run around."
"The solution could improve by providing better integration with their own products and others."
"Every 30 or 40 days, there's a new version and we need to go and make sure our customer's laptops are upgraded."
"As an improvement, I would like to see enhanced connection speeds."
"If Palo Alto reduces the pricing slightly for their products, it would make them more scalable in markets such as India and globally for cybersecurity."
"The solution lacks real-time, on-demand antivirus."
"The downsides of Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks are that in many incidents, when I enter the causality chain, there are numerous logs."
"Implementation in a beta environment is necessary before rollout to the larger community."
"The solution could be more user-friendly."
"Deployment complexity is higher in Dell Data Protection - Endpoint Security Suite [EOL], and the user interface could be improved significantly."
"I consider the product pretty expensive, so from an improvement perspective, I would like the pricing to be better."
"The restore feed needs improvement."
"Whenever we talk about reporting, I have a chance to look at the reporting, and in my opinion, it's not user-friendly."
"The solution’s user interface should be made more user-friendly."
"The backup speed and deduplication are the most valuable features."
"There is room for improvement in the way it is deployed, in terms of being able to distribute it. Right now we have to get our hands on a machine to deploy it. It would be nice if there was an easier system."
"The EPP solution lacks the sophisticated artificial intelligence required for automating reports and letting you know about things in real-time. It stops a suspicious activity in real-time, but it doesn't let you know in real-time. You have to look at a report, and then you find out that something is wrong. You have to manually kick off a scan. With the Advanced EDR solutions, Malwarebytes has the ability to alert you in real-time, but they still don't do automatic remediation or quarantining of devices. That is something that you still have to do manually. So, the endpoint protection piece, which is just like their basic endpoint protection, lacks AI. For the advanced detection and response piece, there is an add-on that comes with it, but it still doesn't go far enough in terms of automatic remediation of viruses. It won't separate that virus from your network if something happens. You have to manually go there and do it."
"Every once in a while, it gets clobbered by updates from other places. I don't think this should happen."
"We experience a lot of false positives."
"I would like to see integration with other vendors going forward."
"There hasn't been an ROI because we haven't had an event that would cause this software to do something. Therefore, at this point, it has just been a cost to us because we haven't gotten anything out of it."
"The EPP solution lacks the sophisticated artificial intelligence required for automating reports and letting you know about things in real-time."
"We have noticed that when the solution is doing the scanning, all the scanning activities make the device heavier. It slows down your machine."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It has a higher cost than other solutions, like CrowdStrike or Microsoft’s EDR tools, but it reduces the cost of our operations because it’s a new generation antivirus tool."
"Very costly product."
"In terms of the cost Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is very expensive because we are a Mexican company and when you translate dollars to pesos the cost is very high. The solution is very expensive for Mexican companies. I understand that they have international prices, but I do not think it offsets the price enough for many companies in countries, such as Mexico. The amount it is reduced is not a massive percentage."
"Cortex XDR’s pricing is very reasonable."
"The tool's price is moderate."
"We didn't have to pay any additional fee for the cloud instance. It just came with the renewal, which was nice."
"Cortex XDR's pricing is ok."
"The solution is expensive. It's pricing is on a yearly-basis."
"You'll need to pay more than the product's original price for the support."
"It is more expensive than one of its competitors."
"It is an expensive solution."
"Yearly, it is around $50 per client."
"Malwarebytes is a cost-effective product."
"The cost may be something in the ballpark of $20-25 a year per computer."
"Its licensing is annual. There are no additional costs beyond the standard licensing fee."
"We expect to pay $1,000 USD a month, depending on the number of users."
"The platform pricing is competitive with other antivirus products."
"On a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price and ten is a high price, I rate the product's pricing a seven."
"The price of Malwarebytes is in the middle range compared to other vendors."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
14%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Construction Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
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Comms Service Provider
12%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Construction Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business50
Midsize Enterprise21
Large Enterprise57
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise2
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business22
Midsize Enterprise8
Large Enterprise6
 

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Also Known As

Cyvera, Cortex XDR, Palo Alto Networks Traps
DDP, ESS
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Sample Customers

CBI Health Group, University Honda, VakifBank
MEIZU, TBG West, Ackerman Charter School District, Church of the Highlands
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