We performed a comparison between Microsoft Defender for Office 365 and NetWitness Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Email Security solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It also gives me good visibility because, with Defender, I'm using a Microsoft product to defend Microsoft products. The integration was really seamless and I have wide visibility because it picks up almost everything. Literally, I can see almost every activity that happens, from the e-mail to the workstation itself."
"Since we have started using the solution, there have been fewer compromises."
"The technical support is good and quick to resolve issues."
"The benefit that stands out to me is the ability for multiple individuals to collaborate simultaneously within the same document. Additionally, there is the option to save the document directly in the integrated OneDrive or SharePoint."
"At the moment we are satisfied with this product. It's a stable, scalable, and resilient solution for us."
"The good part is that you don't have to configure it, which is very convenient."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is a stable solution."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365's most valuable feature is its performance."
"It's quite economical compared to other solutions in the market."
"It's fully scalable. There is no limit. Of course, the license limits per day the number of terabytes. In my opinion, it's very flexible."
"What we are mainly using are the RSA concentrator, RSA Decoder, Archiver, Broker, and Log Decoder."
"The software is scalable to whatever is required, and you can also put a lot of resources in the cloud."
"The most valuable feature is the security that it provides."
"The most valuable feature of RSA NetWitness Logs and Packets are the alerts and correlations tools."
"The most valuable features are the packet inspection and the automated incident response."
"I can have enterprise security, email security, next generation firewall security log, HIDS and NIDS logs, etc. all on the same dashboard. It makes it easy to pinpoint or correlate our server to this. I can find out if there is lateral movement. This is the biggest advantage of this solution."
"They can improve their security in a way where a customer can know if all their attachments are safe or not to open through a report. The solution does its job perfectly, but it never reports to the customer whether those attachments have been stopped before or not."
"Microsoft wants its well-paying customers to finish testing some of its half-baked products, find bugs, and report bugs back to Microsoft's team, which is a little frustrating for those who have to manage it and roll it up to thousands of people across the organization."
"The pre-sales cost calculations could be more transparent."
"The product must provide better malware detection."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 should improve the troubleshooting tools. It's unclear whether the device is blocked at the firewall level or at the device itself. The granularity needed for troubleshooting is currently lacking. From my perspective, Microsoft should address this issue to benefit many users who likely share the same sentiment."
"The XDR dashboard has room for improvement."
"Configuration requires going to a lot of places rather than just accessing one tab."
"The GUI is sometimes slow to fetch the device report and could be improved."
"The initial setup is complex. There are other solutions that are easier to implement."
"The system looks like it is a mix of a bunch of different systems, and nothing looked like it was quite together."
"I believe that integrating the solution with other products such as Oracle would be beneficial."
"Lots of competing products have vulnerability protection built into their products, and this solution would be improved by including that support."
"We have encountered issues with unresolved crashes."
"Log aggregation is an issue with this solution because there are a huge number of alerts in a single instance."
"An area for improvement would be better automation and more inbuilt use cases."
"The multi-tenant capabilities are lagging compared to IBM QRadar."
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Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is ranked 1st in Email Security with 41 reviews while NetWitness Platform is ranked 20th in Log Management with 36 reviews. Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is rated 8.4, while NetWitness Platform is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Microsoft Defender for Office 365 writes "Allows for easy reporting of problems, valuable anti-phishing, and anti-malware support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetWitness Platform writes "Can find out if there is lateral movement, but integration and workflow need improvement". Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is most compared with Proofpoint Email Protection, Mimecast Email Security, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Barracuda Email Security Gateway and Cisco Secure Email, whereas NetWitness Platform is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security, RSA enVision, IBM Security QRadar, Microsoft Sentinel and Cisco Secure Network Analytics. See our Microsoft Defender for Office 365 vs. NetWitness Platform report.
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