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We performed a comparison between Mandiant Advantage and ThreatConnect Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"The most valuable aspect is undoubtedly the exploration capability""Microsoft 365 Defender is a good solution and easy to use.""Among the most valuable features are the alert timeline, the alert story, which is pretty detailed. It gives us complete insight into what exactly happened on the endpoint. It doesn't just say, "Malware detected." It tells us what caused that malware to be detected and how it was detected. It gives us a complete timeline from beginning to end.""The Endpoint Manager is incredible; it has a very straightforward interface and is exceedingly easy to use. Pulling out and deploying different tags or resources is a simple task across various departments with different levels of security. The notifications are also simple and satisfying; it's great to see the bubble informing us which devices are compliant and which are waiting to update.""I like Defender XDR's automation capabilities. XDR isn't automated by default, but you can automate it to respond. If an attack is performed anywhere within the organization, you can isolate that instance from the network. This is what I can figure out for it. When integrated with Sentinel, you can set up playbooks to automate all the alerts gathered on Sentinel from different Microsoft solutions. Sentinel has a wider range of capabilities than XDR.""Defender XDR has a feature called the timeline that lets you track all activities. It helps a lot with investigations.""Another noteworthy feature that I find appealing in Microsoft Defender is the credit-backed simulation. This feature enables organizations to train their users on effectively responding to phishing emails through a simulated training environment.""I like that it's stable. It's been stable for a long time, and Microsoft Defender has done a good job there."

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"The feature I have found most valuable is directory monitoring. We experienced an instance of threat actors trying to ensure a complex and massive attack against our customer's infrastructure on the forum. That is, they were animating people on a formum. The solution alerted us to this two days ahead of the attack, which gave us plenty of time to prepare for it.""It is so valuable to have someone performing these functions outside of our business hours when we don't have staff in the building. We've seen a lot of solid metrics on the amount of malware that it's detecting and resolving. We're pleased with it so far.""The advantage of the solution is being able to go look up threat actors and get a lot of detailed information about different attacks and different tactics and general information about threats."

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"The most valuable features are ease of use and the ability to customize it.""ThreatConnect has a highly user-friendly interface.""It's a solid platform and is stable enough. It is not complicated and is easy to use.""The product automatically generated a threat score based on the maliciousness of an IP."

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Cons
"In the future, it would be beneficial for Microsoft to consider making the product more user-friendly or simplified for those who are interested in using it. Currently, it requires a high level of technical expertise, making it challenging for beginners or less experienced individuals.""Sometimes, configurations take much longer than expected.""Advanced attacks could use an improvement.""The abundance of sub-dashboards and sub-areas within the main dashboard can be confusing, even if it all technically makes sense.""Support is hit or miss. Microsoft wants you to buy premium support contracts. Though they call themselves professional support, it's almost like throwing questions into a black hole. You get an answer, but it's never helpful.""The only issue I've had is, when it comes to deployment, the steps I must take around policy setup. That is challenging.""While the XDR platform offers valuable functionalities, it falls short of other solutions in its ability to deliver a cohesive identity experience.""Intrusion detection and prevention would be great to have with 365 Defender."

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"I think that the data query that is used for data cloud language should be improved. It's really hard to query actual data from the platform.""They could have better support. Now that they've merged, they are moving towards a portal system, which isn't very helpful.""Mandiant's on-prem client is too processor-intensive, so it's putting a strain on the local device's CPU. When a scan is running on the device, the other processing tasks slow to a crawl. We're still trying to figure out the correct settings for the client."

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"I couldn’t get any training videos online when I was working with the tool.""Integration is an area that could use some improvement.""They should make it a little bit easier to generate events and share them with the community""It would be good to have more feeds and more integrated sources for enrichment."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The solutions price is fair for what they offer."
  • "The price could be better. Normally, the costs depend on the country you're located in for the license. When we were in the initial stage, we went with the E5 license they call premium standard. It cost us around $5.20 per month for four users."
  • "The price of the solution is high compared to others and we have lost some customers because of it."
  • "Microsoft is not competitive with the pricing of the solution. The competitors are able to offer lower discounts. The price of the solution is higher."
  • "We have a lot of problems in Latin America regarding the price of Microsoft 365 Defender, because the relationship between dollars and the money of the different countries, it's is a lot. Many customers that have small businesses say that they would like the solution but it is too expensive. However, large companies do not find the cost an issue."
  • "The most valuable licensing option is expensive, so pricing could be improved. Licensing options for this solution also need to be consolidated, because they frequently change."
  • "Microsoft should provide lower-level licensing options. They should do it in such a way that even an individual could purchase a license, and it should be entirely flexible."
  • "They have moved from a licensing model to pay-per-use... The question is: What happens if, for any reason, there's not enough budget to accept this model? That could be a great problem."
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  • "The price of this product is in the mid-range, not too expensive, nor inexpensive."
  • "The price could be better."
  • "The tool is expensive."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Scanning, vulnerability reporting, and the dashboard are the most valuable features.
    Top Answer:While Microsoft Defender XDR carries a higher cost, its ease of use compared to Defender may justify the investment.
    Top Answer:While the XDR platform offers valuable functionalities, it falls short of other solutions in its ability to deliver a… more »
    Top Answer:The feature I have found most valuable is directory monitoring. We experienced an instance of threat actors trying to… more »
    Top Answer:I think that the data query that is used for data cloud language should be improved. It's really hard to query actual… more »
    Top Answer:Our primary use case was monitoring the threat actors that our clients were concerned about. We also used Mandiant… more »
    Top Answer:The product automatically generated a threat score based on the maliciousness of an IP.
    Top Answer:The building of playbooks could be more refined. The training is not openly available. I couldn’t get any training… more »
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    Also Known As
    Microsoft 365 Defender, Microsoft Threat Protection, MS 365 Defender
    Mandiant Threat Intelligence
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    Overview

    Microsoft Defender XDR is a comprehensive security solution designed to protect against threats in the Microsoft 365 environment. 

    It offers robust security measures, comprehensive threat detection capabilities, and an efficient incident response system. With seamless integration with other Microsoft products and a user-friendly interface, it simplifies security management tasks. 

    Users have found it effective in detecting and preventing various types of attacks, such as phishing attempts, malware infections, and data breaches.

    Watch the Microsoft demo video here: Microsoft Defender XDR demo video.

    Mandiant Advantage is a multi-vendor XDR platform that provides security teams of all sizes with frontline intelligence. Mandiant Advantage aims to speed up operational as well as strategic security and risk decision making. Mandiant Advantage provides security teams with an early knowledge advantage through the Mandiant Intel Grid, which provides platform modules with current and relevant threat data and analysis capabilities. Organizations are better protected from cyber attacks and more confident in their readiness when they have access to continuous security validation, detection, and response.

    Mandiant Advantage Features

    Mandiant Advantage has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

    • Threat intelligence: Front-line intelligence that enables a defender to be aware of the strategies and tactics that opponents are employing at this moment. Organizations will be able to contextualize, prioritize, and implement the most pertinent new intelligence by fusing ASM and threat intelligence.
    • Security validation: This allows security teams to optimize, rationalize, and prioritize their security activities from a budget and manpower viewpoint. It measures the effectiveness of security controls applied within an organization. Controls can be evaluated against the most recent TTPs actively used by threat actors by incorporating information into the security validation procedure. Organizations can determine whether their security policies are successfully thwarting or detecting attacks against their external attack surface by integrating ASM and security validation.
    • Automated Defense: In order to fuel SOC event/alert correlation and triage, Automated Defense combines knowledge and intelligence with machine learning. This is similar to integrating a machine-based Mandiant analyst into your security program. By merging ASM and Automated Defense, more context is given to Automated Defense, enhancing the relevance and usefulness of alarms.
    • Attack surface management: ASM offers a continuous, scalable method for locating hundreds of different asset and exposure types within on-premises, cloud, and SaaS application environments. In addition to assets being found, technologies in use are also identified, and vulnerabilities are confirmed rather than just speculated. Cyber defenders are able to effectively and efficiently limit their external exposures by integrating the full Mandiant Advantage suite into ASM, which prioritizes and validates the information regarding the attack surface.

    Mandiant Advantage Benefits

    There are many benefits to implementing Mandiant Advantage. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

    • Boost your current security investments: No matter what security policies you have implemented, you may improve your security capabilities by automating Mandiant's expertise as a virtual extension of your team.
    • Improve your visibility and priority: View the threats Mandiant is continuously monitoring across your attack surface and internal controls in order to prioritize and drive focus.
    • Flexible deployment: Depending on your needs, Mandiant Advantage can be supplied as technology, along with support, or as a fully managed contract.
    • Scale efficiently: Without the need for time-consuming and expensive human labor, a SaaS-based strategy deploys in hours, scales with your environment, and provides constant expert analysis.

    The ThreatConnect Threat Intelligence Operations (TIOps) Platform lets organizations operationalize and evolve their cyber threat intel program, enabling cybersecurity operations teams to measurably improve their organization’s resilience to attacks. The TIOps Platform enhances collaboration across teams to drive proactive threat defense, and improve threat detection and response. The AI- and automation-powered TI Ops Platform enables analysts to perform all their work effectively and efficiently in a single, unified platform, allowing threat intel to be aggregated, analyzed, prioritized, and actioned against the most relevant threats. 

    Sample Customers
    Accenture, Deloitte, ExxonMobil, General Electric, IBM, Johnson & Johnson and many others.
    Stater Bros. Markets, Rush Copley, Blackboat, CapWealth
    Oracle, IBM, General Dynamics, Scotiabank, Sony, Athena Health, Berkshire Hathaway Energy, Workday, TikTok
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Manufacturing Company18%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Government12%
    Computer Software Company12%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company18%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Government8%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm18%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Government9%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm17%
    Computer Software Company16%
    Government11%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business43%
    Midsize Enterprise24%
    Large Enterprise33%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise57%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise67%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise71%
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    Mandiant Advantage is ranked 19th in Extended Detection and Response (XDR) with 3 reviews while ThreatConnect Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) is ranked 4th in Threat Intelligence Platforms with 4 reviews. Mandiant Advantage is rated 8.6, while ThreatConnect Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Mandiant Advantage writes "It gives us peace of mind that issues can be addressed when our core IT team isn't working". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ThreatConnect Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) writes "The tool could be integrated into any environment, but it was expensive, and the deployment process was complex". Mandiant Advantage is most compared with Cortex Xpanse, CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management, Cymulate and Trellix Endpoint Security, whereas ThreatConnect Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) is most compared with Anomali ThreatStream, Recorded Future, ThreatQ, Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR and Palo Alto Networks AutoFocus.

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