"Provides good exfiltration, and is an all-in-one product."
"Its greatest strength is the DXL client which can rapidly disseminate attack information to all clients via the McAfee Agent instead of going through the ePO server."
"It is easy to set up. Based on the number of devices you would like to set up, you can use scripts, Group Policy, etc. It takes five minutes to set up."
"This solution has advanced a lot over the last few years."
"The basic security monitoring at its core feature is the most valuable aspect. But also the investigative parts, the historical logging of events over the network are extremely interesting because it gives an in-depth insight into the history of account activity that is really easy to read, easy to follow, and easy to export."
"Defender for Identity has not affected the end-user experience."
"Make the ATD system a part of the whole product and take the whole thing onto the cloud. While it is there already, it is not to the same level as the on-premise version."
"Lacks remote capabilities not dependent on the internet."
"When the data leaves the cloud, there are security issues."
"The solution could be better at using group-managed access and they could replace it with broad-based access controls."
"I would like to be able to do remediation from the platform because it is just a scanner right now. If you onboard a device, it shows you what is happening, but you can't use it to fix things. You need to go into the system to fix it instead."
"The impact of the sensors on the domain controllers can be quite high depending on your loads. I don't know if there's any room for improvement there, but that's one of the things that might be improved."
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McAfee Advanced Threat Defense is ranked 13th in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 2 reviews while Microsoft Defender for Identity is ranked 8th in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 4 reviews. McAfee Advanced Threat Defense is rated 8.6, while Microsoft Defender for Identity is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of McAfee Advanced Threat Defense writes "Can rapidly disseminate attack information to all clients". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Defender for Identity writes "Gives most administrators absolutely amazing insight into what's happening in the network that they probably never had before". McAfee Advanced Threat Defense is most compared with FireEye Network Security, Fortinet FortiSandbox, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Palo Alto Networks WildFire and Symantec Advanced Threat Protection, whereas Microsoft Defender for Identity is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Splunk User Behavior Analytics, Palo Alto Networks WildFire, Rapid7 InsightIDR and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series. See our McAfee Advanced Threat Defense vs. Microsoft Defender for Identity report.
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