ESET PROTECT Enterprise vs Lumu comparison

ESET and Lumu Technologies are both solutions in the Extended Detection and Response (XDR) category. ESET is ranked #17 with an average rating of 8.4, while Lumu Technologies is ranked #16 with an average rating of 9.0. ESET holds a 1.3% mindshare in XDR, compared to Lumu Technologies’s 1.3% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of ESET users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Lumu Technologies users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 8, 2024

ESET PROTECT Enterprise and Lumu compete in the cybersecurity solutions category. ESET PROTECT Enterprise has the upper hand in integration and support, while Lumu excels in intuitive threat visualization and functionality.

Features: ESET PROTECT Enterprise offers centralized management, detailed reporting, and easy integration with existing security tools. Lumu stands out with real-time threat intelligence, superb data analysis, and instantaneous threat detection and response capabilities.

Room for Improvement: ESET PROTECT Enterprise could improve its alert notification system, enhance response times, and expand integration with non-standard security tools. Lumu might benefit from broader integration options, refining its existing tools, and expanding support for non-traditional security systems.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: ESET PROTECT Enterprise is noted for straightforward deployment but may encounter challenges in complex environments. Its customer service is known for detailed guidance. Lumu deployment is swift and user-friendly with proactive customer support, ensuring efficient setup and service.

Pricing and ROI: ESET PROTECT Enterprise is considered cost-effective, with significant ROI due to comprehensive protection. Lumu is praised for its cost-effectiveness and satisfactory investment returns from enhanced threat visibility.

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ESET PROTECT Enterprise vs. Lumu

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Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Extended Detection and Response (XDR) category, the mindshare of Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is 4.9%, down from 5.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ESET PROTECT Enterprise is 1.3%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Lumu is 1.3%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks	4.9%
Lumu	1.3%
ESET PROTECT Enterprise	1.3%
Other	92.5%

Extended Detection and Response (XDR)

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ABHISHEK_SINGH

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.

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Manikumar David

IT Manager at R K Khanna and Associates

Provides comprehensive monitoring and policy implementation with room for memory optimization

ESET PROTECT Enterprise makes the system a little slow sometimes and updates occur at startup. Sometimes unwanted pop-ups appear to users, and they are unable to disable them. The user-friendliness is lacking in some areas. When users are using any computer, ESET PROTECT Enterprise should work in the background without consuming much memory, and any updates should proceed in the background without disturbing the user.

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Jeremiah Johnson

Director, Information Technology at a educational organization with 201-500 employees

Constant monitoring and analysis boosts network security

There is always room for improvement. I am not giving it a perfect score because I am sure there is something that could be enhanced.Having some sort of certification or training, along with more periodic webinars might be helpful. Having a larger support network would be beneficial. Nobody I know has heard of Lumu, so they are in the same space as Darktrace or CrowdStrike, but people give blank stares. As the community grows for Lumu then that will improve, but that is not really a criticism of Lumu, they simply have not been around that long.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It's a nice product that's stable and scalable."

"The protection offered by this product is good, as is the endpoint reporting."

"It detected stuff that other things wouldn't detect."

"The best feature of Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is that it collects logs from different sections such as the endpoint, the network, and the cloud, making it easy to investigate alerts, collect some of the investigation packages related to the infected machines, and provide live response."

"Implementing Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks has had a significant impact on my security analyst workload because it becomes much easier."

"The solution is a new generation XDR that has a lot of artificial intelligence modules."

"One of the main benefits of the solution is its intelligence to correlate the events into an incident."

"It collects and caches and the knowledge of machine learning from different customers to take to the cloud. It makes it better to use for everybody. It allows for quick learning and updates and can, therefore, offer zero-day malware security. This sharing of metadata helps make the solution very safe."

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"ESET PROTECT Enterprise is reliable."

"The solution doesn't have high memory usage."

"Regarding real-time analytics and threat detection capabilities in ESET PROTECT Enterprise, I find them excellent."

"The solution provides EDR. You can customize how you prepare the endpoint for clients and the dashboard alerts."

"We can easily manage resources, disable or enable clients and update them."

"The product enabled Zero-Day Protection for our environment. We never encountered any issues regarding threats."

"The most valuable features of ESET File Security are the performance and it doesn't take too many resources."

"The solution provides EDR. You can customize how you prepare the endpoint for clients and the dashboard alerts."

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"Lumu protects against threats immediately and handles them in time."

"It's been helpful for overall extended network visibility."

"Lumu has impacted my organization positively by providing continuous visibility into network compromise, allowing us to detect threats that were previously unnoticed, significantly reducing our mean time to detect and improving our ability to quickly validate and respond to incidents."

"The automated response to incidents works effectively out of the box, and the number of interfaces and platforms it can work with is impressive."

"Most of it is automated, so I do not have to watch it to get alerts."

"The context provided by the tool is very complete, it includes the miter matrix, playbooks, links, hashes, and much more."

"The tool's support team helps partners resolve any problems with the product."

"You can access external links, playbooks, MITRE Matrix, and a lot of information."

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Cons

"Limited remote connection."

"The playbooks could be improved to include more functionalities or actions."

"Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks could improve by adding a sandbox feature to better compete with their competitors which have it."

"I would like to see improvement in the tool's user interface, particularly in the area of managing alerts and providing more reporting capabilities."

"There are some third-party solutions that are difficult to integrate with, which is something that can be improved."

"The deployment is pretty hard."

"Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks can improve mobile integration to allow access to the console."

"It's more focused on network communication. If a customer wants to increase the level of protection and start working with documents, it's impossible to integrate these features into the system. It's more of a communication-oriented system than a content security-oriented system."

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"ESET Protect could improve the performance. The performance of the home computers and laptops becomes slow due to their heavy software load. It would be a benefit to make a lighter version of the software which does not have any impact on the performance of the computer's hardware."

"When it first starts up, it takes a lot of processing power when the machine is initially booted. Improving the startup side could be beneficial."

"The availability and sustainability could also be improved."

"When it first starts up, it takes a lot of processing power when the machine is initially booted. Improving the startup side could be beneficial."

"I would like to see more in managing mobile devices in an on-premise solution. The latest news I've heard is that ESET drops mobile management module development for the on-prem version. It's moving to the cloud. Like in endpoint client protection, I would also like to see more of the vulnerability management features and additional app control functionality in ESET Protect."

"In the current version of ESET File Security, you cannot download a file, it always wants the real-time upload which you have to wait until the file is ready. This is annoying. In previous versions, you were able to use the downloaded engine."

"The solution can be quite technical and therefore is challenging for new users."

"I would like to see more features on the reporting side of things."

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"Lumu's ability to discover threats is an area of concern where improvements are needed."

"The reports need improvement."

"Lumu is solid for compromise detection, but there are a few areas where it could be improved, including deeper integration with SIEM and XDR, asset context enrichment, custom detection tuning, automated response capabilities, and reporting customization."

"The integration with different vendors and endpoints could be improved."

"Nothing so far needs to be improved."

"I am happy with the current features. However, one important one is to improve the reports."

"The free version is minimal compared to the full version."

"Having a larger support network would be beneficial. Nobody I know has heard of Lumu, so they are in the same space as Darktrace or CrowdStrike, but people give blank stares."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is present, but when compared to other competitive products, I would say it is not less expensive; however, when all of the other added values are considered, the price is reasonable."

"It's way too expensive, but security is expensive. You pay for your licensing, and then you pay for someone to monitor the stuff."

"It is cost-effective compared to similar solutions. It fits for the small businesses through to the big businesses."

"Our license will require renewal in August, after which the maintenance will continue as usual."

"We didn't have to pay any additional fee for the cloud instance. It just came with the renewal, which was nice."

"It is "expensive" and flexible."

"The price is on the higher side, but it's okay."

"It has a yearly renewal."

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"The product is cost-effective compared to one of its competitors."

"ESET PROTECT Enterprise is affordable."

"There is a license needed to use ESET Protect. The licensing cost is very low, it is approximately $10 per license."

"Compared to Lumu, other solutions are more expensive. SentinelOne was a bit cheaper, and another provider's price structure is unclear, but Lumu fit our budget nicely. SentinelOne's cost depends on the number of devices, and it might be similar to Lumu's, depending on deployment."

"It is the cheapest solution we found."

"The tool is available at a good price. The tool offers a good and competitive price for customers."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

13%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Insurance Company

Comms Service Provider

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	44
Midsize Enterprise	20
Large Enterprise	47

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	11
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	2

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	4

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How is Cortex XDR compared with Microsoft Defender?

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What needs improvement with ESET Protect?

One area for improvement in ESET PROTECT Enterprise is its capabilities on Mac devices, which are less functional com...

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What is your primary use case for ESET Protect?

My customers use ESET PROTECT Enterprise to secure all their operating systems; we have a lot of customers who rely o...

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What advice do you have for others considering ESET Protect?

I suggest that other users considering ESET PROTECT Enterprise utilize this platform to manage all their laptops and ...

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What do you like most about Lumu?

Lumu protects against threats immediately and handles them in time.

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What needs improvement with Lumu?

There is always room for improvement. I am not giving it a perfect score because I am sure there is something that co...

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What is your primary use case for Lumu?

We use it as our managed SOC instead of contracting with an MSP. It coordinates endpoint and gives us a single pane o...

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Also Known As

Cyvera, Cortex XDR, Palo Alto Networks Traps

ESET Protect, ESET File Security

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Overview

Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks provides advanced threat detection with AI-driven endpoint protection and seamless integration, ensuring multi-layered security and automatic threat response.

Cortex XDR is designed to safeguard endpoints against malware and suspicious activities. It offers advanced threat detection and response capabilities using behavioral analysis, AI, and machine learning. It seamlessly integrates with security infrastructures, providing endpoint security, firewall integration, and enhanced visibility in both cloud-based and on-premises environments.

What are the key features of Cortex XDR?

Advanced Threat Detection: Uses AI and machine learning for proactive threat identification.
Multi-layered Security: Combines various security measures for comprehensive protection.
Endpoint Protection: Safeguards against malware and exploits.
Behavioral Analysis: Monitors suspicious activity for early detection.
Automatic Threat Response: Automates responses to neutralize threats.

What benefits should users expect?

Ease of Use: Simplifies security management with intuitive design.
Resource Efficiency: Minimizes impact on system resources.
Integration Capabilities: Works well with existing security setups.
Reduced Analyst Workload: Automates processes to decrease manual intervention.

Organizations in diverse sectors deploy Cortex XDR to protect against malware, leveraging its advanced threat detection capabilities. Its integration with existing security infrastructures appeals to those seeking comprehensive protection in both cloud and on-premises environments, providing enhanced visibility and threat intelligence.

Palo Alto Networks

ESET PROTECT Enterprise ensures real-time visibility for all endpoints as well as full reporting and security management for all OSes

Cloud-based console with the possibility of an on-premises deployment
Provides real-time visibility of all endpoints: desktops, servers, virtual machines and even managed mobile devices
Enables full reporting for ESET security solutions
Controls endpoint prevention, detection & response layers across all platforms
Connect anytime, anywhere from your favorite web browser

ESET

Lumu Technologies is a cyber-security company that illuminates threats, attacks, and adversaries affecting enterprises worldwide. Using actionable intelligence, Lumu provides a radical way to secure networks by enhancing and augmenting existing defense capabilities established over the past 25 years.

Lumu Technologies

Sample Customers

CBI Health Group, University Honda, VakifBank

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