We performed a comparison between Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Symantec Norton 360 [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, SentinelOne, CrowdStrike and others in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)."The product detects and blocks threats and is more proactive than firewalls."
"NGAV and EDR features are outstanding."
"It is very easy to set up. I would rate my experience with the initial setup a ten out of ten, with ten being very easy to set up."
"Fortinet FortiEDR made our clients feel secure and more at ease, knowing that they had an EDR solution that would close the gap in their security posture."
"This is stable and scalable."
"Fortinet is very user-friendly for customers."
"It is stable and scalable."
"Having all monitoring, response, tracking, and mitigation tools in one dashboard provides our analysts and SOC team with a comprehensive view at a glance."
"Provides good security features and you can view it in the central console."
"It is easy to install and use requiring little maintenance but applying updates."
"It doesn't cause the slowness of the system, which is one of the reasons why I like it."
"Defender has very little impact on the end-user and the agent works quite well with a minimal impact on the client and server."
"We have liked the fact that it comes with Microsoft Windows 10 and it is constantly updated with all new virus definitions. It is also updated with new security features on a regular basis."
"The integration of Defender, Security Center, and the Microsoft compliance score, is the feature we use most to share the results with our clients and to create a roadmap together."
"Defender is a part of Windows; you just need to enable it. There is no need to install anything."
"The scalability is good."
"It provides confidence by ensuring software programs are virus free and file integrity through an online backup."
"The solution is not stable."
"Detections could be improved."
"Everything with Fortinet having to do with their cloud services. They need to invest more in their internal infrastructure that they are running in the cloud. One of the things I find with their cloud environment compared to others' is that they go cheap on the equipment. So it causes some performance degradation."
"I think cloud security and SASE are areas of concern in the product where improvements are required. The tool's cloud version has to be improved in terms of the security it offers."
"We'd like to see more one-to-one product presentations for the distribution channels."
"The solution's installation from a central installation server could be improved because the engineers had a little bit of trouble getting it installed from a central location."
"We've encountered challenges during API deployment, occasionally resulting in unstable environments."
"The amount of usage, the number of details we get, or the number of options that can be tweaked is limited in comparison to that with other EDR solutions"
"A concern is ransomware, whether people can penetrate and encrypt my data or steal my credit card/banking information."
"Microsoft Defender could be improved with features more like the McAfee ePO. It would be better if I had a console to get all the information for my endpoints. Maybe this is too much for it, but it would be better if it could handle those non-signature-based malicious codes or viruses."
"I would like to see the next generation of the tool improved to work with other operating systems, like Linux."
"The time it takes to implement policies has room for improvement."
"Microsoft Defender for Endpoint can improve by providing more and different types of reports."
"I personally haven't experienced any pain points, but some of my coworkers feel that it isn't secure enough."
"The product development team makes frequent changes that affect the stability of the solution."
"Additional security would be beneficial."
"The free online storage capacity is limited."
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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is ranked 1st in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 182 reviews while Symantec Norton 360 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP). Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is rated 8.0, while Symantec Norton 360 [EOL] is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint writes "Eliminates the need to look at multiple dashboards by automatically providing one XDR dashboard to show the security score of each subscription". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Norton 360 [EOL] writes "Provides online backup in case of ransomware and hardware failure". Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is most compared with Symantec Endpoint Security, Intercept X Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne Singularity Complete and Fortinet FortiClient, whereas Symantec Norton 360 [EOL] is most compared with .
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