McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator vs ThreatConnect Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) comparison

McAfee and ThreatConnect are both solutions in the Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) category. McAfee is ranked #13 with an average rating of 8.7, while ThreatConnect is ranked #12 with an average rating of 8.4. McAfee holds a 0.7% mindshare in SOAR, compared to ThreatConnect’s 2.0% mindshare. Additionally, 81% of McAfee users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of ThreatConnect users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 5, 2024

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator and ThreatConnect Threat Intelligence Platform are competing security solutions in cybersecurity management. ThreatConnect TIP has the upper hand due to its advanced threat intelligence capabilities.

Features: McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator offers centralized management, automated threat responses, and policy management, which streamline security operations. ThreatConnect TIP provides comprehensive threat intelligence, collaboration tools, and customizable workflows for proactive threat detection and response.

Room for Improvement: McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator could improve in scalability, reporting capabilities, and user interface enhancements to facilitate easier navigation and management. ThreatConnect TIP might benefit from enhanced integration options, simplified user training, and reduced complexity to attract less technically experienced users.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator is known for an easy setup process and seamless integration with existing security architectures, supported by robust customer service. ThreatConnect TIP's deployment is more complex, requiring technical expertise and reliance on support for threat intelligence integration.

Pricing and ROI: McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator offers a cost-effective initial setup with strong ROI from integrated and efficient security management. ThreatConnect TIP demands a higher initial investment but provides substantial returns due to excellent threat intelligence capabilities, enhancing security postures.

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Categories and Ranking

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator

Ranking in Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR)

13th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

ThreatConnect Threat Intell...

Ranking in Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR)

12th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Threat Intelligence Platforms (5th)

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) category, the mindshare of McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator is 0.7%, down from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ThreatConnect Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) is 2.0%, up from 1.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR)

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Binu Haneef

System Administrator at Sky News Arabia

Comprehensive security management enabled through efficient integration and automation

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator helps automate routine security tasks. We created customized automation. For example, when we did not have an EDR or XDR solution, we created tasks exclusively for detection and response automation and automatic segregation of infected PCs. The ability to customize the dashboard in McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator helps us significantly. The main feature is automation for auto-segmentation and segregation. As we are in an AI era, McAfee can focus on AI tools. Instead of putting manual effort into each security-related task, it can implement more advanced automation using AI. This enhancement could improve cybersecurity significantly. Regarding the reporting area in McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator, we are satisfied with what we currently have. Our cybersecurity team needs customized reports beyond the default ones. We have more than 20 separate reports for identifying threats, managing, and understanding the security posture of our company and assets.

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Harshal Pachpande

Senior Security Analyst at Gruve.ai

Automating intelligence workflows significantly reduces false positives and enhances response efficiency

ThreatConnect Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) offers valuable workflows that integrate with our SOAR platform. It performs dedicated threat scoring capabilities which enrich internal indicators and automate response actions. This has been a key feature in our environment, which we have utilized for picking IOCs. The platform can be domain-specific and customer-specific, allowing data isolation for each customer. The scoring capabilities of ThreatConnect Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) deserve a rating of nine out of ten. Its scalability and threat scoring capabilities have reduced false positives in our detection, as we dynamically change the IOCs which are updated daily through scheduled polling time over QRadar and SOAR.

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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

"We implemented data transfer protection, which allows transfer in one direction only. Users can copy from the PC to the USB but not from the USB to the PC. That way, if someone is carrying a virus on a USB, it will not be transferred to the PC."

"If you set it up right, it can really manage a very complex environment which require fine tuning where there are a lot of exceptions. That's what it caters to. It can just do those specifics in those exceptional situations, which is good."

"It is a highly scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."

"Their support is really good. I would rate it a nine out of ten. I have never any issues with their support. They always reply and follow our queries on time."

"We get fewer false positives than with other solutions."

"Application control and traffic encryption are the most valuable features."

"McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator's performance is good."

"The graphical interface of the solution is its most valuable aspect."

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"ThreatConnect Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) has positively impacted my organization by reducing our MTTD through enriching alerts and providing contextual threat intelligence in real-time, cutting down our triage time for high-priority incidents."

"It's a solid platform and is stable enough. It is not complicated and is easy to use."

"I like their customer support."

"The Playbook feature is a game-changer for us, as the integration is available with the SOAR."

"ThreatConnect has a highly user-friendly interface."

"We have been able to see a return on investment as our clients believe in us more."

"The most valuable features are ease of use and the ability to customize it."

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Cons

"McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator should improve its integration with other tools."

"McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator could improve by supporting container microservices, such as Docker and Kubernetes."

"Features such as full drive encryption are lacking in the cloud version."

"Some drawbacks include difficulty in supporting improvements because we don't get proper response from Trellix support, so there is a need to improve the support."

"Sometimes agents hang. We have to reinstall the agents."

"There are some issues relating to the automation of reports. That's why I wanted the DLP reports. There are some problems in this area. Sometimes it does not work even though all the configuration words are right. There are also some problems with automatic updates."

"McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator needs to upgrade its technology since the solution's EDR function is not good compared to other vendors in the market."

"The issues with the integration capabilities of the product, specifically the ones that are deployed on an on-premises model, need to be improved."

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"ThreatConnect Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) could be improved by addressing challenges such as the customization over the tagging mechanism, where filtering based on individual tags is not available, limiting data export."

"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."

"Integration is an area that could use some improvement."

"I couldn’t get any training videos online when I was working with the tool."

"Support is an area with which nobody is ever fully satisfied, so it can be improved."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is attractively priced. It is a fraction of what we're going to pay for CrowdStrike or SentinelOne, but it only has a fraction of the capabilities as well."

"For large enterprise companies, the price should be alright, but for small businesses, the uptake might be slow because, for these clients, the price doesn't look very attractive."

"$The price of McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator is expensive, it is approximately $6,000 to $9,000 per license annually."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a three out of ten."

"There is a license required to use this solution. If we use the additional components, such as DLP encryption, there is an additional cost. However, it is similar to a separate product altogether. If you want to use that or not, it is optional, but when you use it, it will cost you additional pricing."

"McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator is not an expensive solution."

"McAfee tries to package different things into different products, then sell them as different products with different licenses. They just split everything up into multiple things. That's just their sales pitch and how they do it."

"McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator is a cheaply priced product, meaning it is not expensive since McAfee provides a free version of ePO, which includes phone support as well."

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"The price could be better."

"The price of this product is in the mid-range, not too expensive, nor inexpensive."

"I rate the product price as six on a scale of one to ten, where one is extremely expensive, and ten means it is cheap."

"The tool is expensive."

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Manufacturing Company

10%

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Financial Services Firm

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Questions from the Community

Which is better - Mcafee's MVision ePO or ePolicy Orchestrator?

Our organization ran comparison tests to determine whether Mcafee's MVision ePO or ePolicy Orchestrator network security software was the better fit for us. We decided to go with Mcafee's ePolicy O...

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What do you like most about McAfee MVISION ePO?

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator's performance is good.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for McAfee MVISION ePO?

It's an expensive solution.

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What do you like most about ThreatConnect Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP)?

The product automatically generated a threat score based on the maliciousness of an IP.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ThreatConnect Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP)?

The pricing seems a bit high for smaller companies. It would be beneficial if they had pricing tailored to different client sizes.

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What needs improvement with ThreatConnect Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP)?

The platform needs improvement in its customization of the tagging mechanism. Some filtering options are not available based on individual tags, and we cannot export more types of data. The initial...

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Also Known As

McAfee ePO, ePolicy Orchestrator, Intel Security ePolicy Orchestrator, McAfee MVISION ePO

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Overview

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (McAfee ePO) is the most advanced, extensible, and scalable centralized security management software in the industry. Unifying security management through an open platform, McAfee ePO makes risk and compliance management simpler and more successful for organizations of all sizes.

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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.

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Sample Customers

Brelje & Race, Cognizant, Sutherland Global Services, Eagle Rock Energy, Arab National Bank, Bank Central Asia, Kleberg Bank, Leading Mexican Bank, SF Police Credit Union, Macquarie Telecom, Seagate Technology, Blackburn & Darwen Council, California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation, IRCEP, Major U.S. State Government, State of Alaska, State of Colorado, Cemex, Deutsche Edelstahlwerke

Oracle, IBM, General Dynamics, Scotiabank, Sony, Athena Health, Berkshire Hathaway Energy, Workday, TikTok

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