McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator vs Vulcan Cyber comparison

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 5, 2024

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator and Vulcan Cyber are key players in the cybersecurity arena. McAfee takes the lead in pricing and customer support, while Vulcan Cyber has the upper hand in feature-set and risk management efficiency.

Features: McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator provides centralized management, compliance checks, and reporting features. Vulcan Cyber focuses on assessing vulnerabilities, prioritizing risk, and offering remediation approaches. McAfee emphasizes policy management and dashboards, whereas Vulcan Cyber integrates with third-party tools and provides advanced analytics.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator requires resource-intensive deployment with detailed documentation, but Vulcan Cyber offers a streamlined, cloud-based deployment with responsive customer service, making it simpler for tech teams.

Pricing and ROI: McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator presents a cost-effective solution with strong ROI through thorough threat management and lower support expenses. Vulcan Cyber's pricing aligns with its enhanced vulnerability management capabilities, ensuring value through significant long-term security improvements.

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McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator vs. Vulcan Cyber

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Categories and Ranking

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator

Ranking in Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR)

12th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Vulcan Cyber

Ranking in Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR)

9th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Vulnerability Management (19th), Risk-Based Vulnerability Management (7th), Cloud Security Remediation (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR) category, the mindshare of McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator is 0.5%, down from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Vulcan Cyber is 0.3%. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR)

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DavidJones7

Head of Content at Pharmaflow

Offers automation alert features with easy integrations and impressive scalability

I would rate the initial setup an eight out of ten. There are a few technical challenges with the deployment, but it can easily solved by an experienced professional but not by a beginner user of the tool. The complete implementation and migration to McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator will take around three months. If someone is using a software platform already with implemented use cases in their environment, it might be difficult to implement the same use cases when the customer is migrating to McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator. The conditions and prior alert settings needs to be accurate when migrating to McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator, otherwise false positive alerts might get generated.

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Shreevinayak Deshpande

Senior Analyst at Deloitte

Makes vulnerability management efficient with a single pane of glass and daily report generation

There are areas for improvement. Initially, when onboarding Vulcan Cyber, the setup and configuration was more complex than expected with a user-friendly approach. This aspect can be enhanced. An important area is performance and speed, as Vulcan Cyber often lacks speed when exporting reports. The team might have to work on scaling up servers. When we click on a vulnerability, it takes ten seconds to pop up a window and show the entire content. Instead of that, they can put a down arrow, and all the details should be shown on clicking the arrow. This will prevent that ten-second delay. Another area for improvement is providing support and documentation for their tool. Users should have access to easy-to-understand trial documentation for reference.

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

"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."

"The best part is management in McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator."

"It is a scalable solution...I rate its scalability a nine out of ten."

"The valuable feature of the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator is the management of the policies."

"The solution's best part is that it is very easy to manage McAfee Agent."

"The general endpoint protection is valuable, and it is easy to manage."

"The most valuable features of McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator are the easy-to-use console, and lots of reports, such as customized reports and inventory reports. Additionally, overall the centralized management is very good where you can see the compliance levels and inventory."

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"The automation capabilities using the Vulcan API platform or the API feature allow me to easily automate scripts and reports and schedule them."

"Out of the three solutions I've used, Vulcan Cyber is the superior option."

"The most notable aspects include having prioritization capabilities and custom scripts."

"The interface of Vulcan Cyber is intuitive with a lot of information about vulnerabilities, which helps in classifying and analyzing threats. We have a good view of assets and vulnerabilities. It helps to do good threat analysis because we can see exactly what the threat is and assess it accordingly."

"Vulcan enables us to automate tickets from multiple scanners. It has lots of analytics options that show us charts and allow us to view the statuses in different waves. The dashboard is nice because it's highly informative about the big picture."

"I was part of the initial deployment. It was pretty easy. To fully deploy, it took about three or four weeks."

"Vulcan Cyber is a very good tool."

"They recently upgraded their UI, which is great. It is user-friendly."

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Cons

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

"There needs to be support for Mac computers. Currently, McAfee does not work on iOS."

"The solution is difficult to tune to avoid false positives."

"The impact of the agent on the endpoint's performance - the resources it takes. Additionally, the difficulties we experience with inheriting and breaking inheritance on the organization's structure breakdown for policy inheritance and then for rules inheritance. We are actually struggling with this."

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

"The areas of concern where improvements are needed are related to the product's assignment policy and tag assignment, where users can assign the policies with the help of tags and sort out the systems."

"They have to do something to make the solution more resilient or recoverable from power failure events, which may include creating their own database."

"It would be highly beneficial if the metrics or dashboards could be customized"

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"The fact that we cannot use it for our reporting leads me to rate it three out of ten."

"Initially, when onboarding Vulcan Cyber, the setup and configuration was more complex than expected with a user-friendly approach. This aspect can be enhanced."

"We have the highest privilege in the application, and at least for members with the highest privilege, having the capability to reach out to the vendor directly from the application would be beneficial."

"Their support is good, but there are some flaws as well. We often encounter some issues that are not applicable to Vulcan Cyber as a whole; they apply only to us because we have customized requirements. In such cases, when we reach out with specific data and issues to their support team, they sometimes come back and say that the issues have been resolved. However, when we test to see if they have been remediated, they are still there."

"There are several areas needing improvement. The product helps, but the reporting relies heavily on Power BI. It is limited to graphical views and requires additional filtering, posing operational challenges."

"Improvements are needed in providing more concise details on how to apply remedies for particular vulnerabilities."

"Mainly, what I would like from them is more maintenance of the different connectors they have in the platform."

"It would be extremely helpful to have a community group around the product."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"Compared to other Antivirus products, the cost of this solution is a bit high."

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

"It's an expensive solution"

"This solution is priced in the mid-range."

"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."

"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."

"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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"Our leadership knows better about the pricing. As per my knowledge, which might not be accurate, its price can come down."

"Its pricing is quite fair compared to what is out there in the market, especially compared to the tool from Microsoft. It is a SaaS platform that has an annual cost, so it is something that is already used by many companies. It is quite affordable."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Government

10%

Computer Software Company

29%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Construction Company

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By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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...

What do you like most about McAfee MVISION ePO?

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator's performance is good.

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

It's an expensive solution.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Vulcan Cyber?

I don't deal with the pricing of the solution. I'm not a part of that department.

What needs improvement with Vulcan Cyber?

One area for improvement is clarity in the results column of vulnerability reports. Currently, the path where the vulnerability lies is not clear, so Vulcan needs to work on specifying the correct ...

What is your primary use case for Vulcan Cyber?

I have been using the solution for more than six months. Essentially, any reporting I do for our internal Internet assets involves using Vulcan. The primary use of Vulcan is extracting the reports,...

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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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Vulcan Cyber is used by leading cyber security organizations to manage exposure risk created by unmitigated infrastructure, application, code and cloud vulnerabilities.

The Vulcan Cyber ExposureOS starts by correlating and normalizing risk and asset data aggregated from hundreds of vulnerability scanners, asset repositories and threat intelligence feeds. These signals are then used to create a singular view of your organization's attack surfaces to make exposure risk and vulnerability prioritization accurate and actionable.

Vulcan Cyber ExposureOS reduces mean time to remediation by fostering efficient collaboration among security teams, asset and remediation owners through orchestrated workflows and automated remediation tasks.

Use Vulcan Cyber to measure security posture improvement, efficacy of vulnerability risk mitigation campaigns, and compliance with SLAs and regulatory frameworks such as PCI DSS, DORA, NIS2 and HIPPA.

Vulcan Cyber is the only vulnerability risk management solution provider to be named a "Leader" in both the Forrester Wave and Omdia Universe evaluations in 2023.

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

Stitch Fix, Mandiant, Wealthsimple, Entrust, Anaplan, Deloitte, Origami Risk, Verana Health

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