We performed a comparison between Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence and VirusTotal based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Threat Intelligence Platforms solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The user interface is pretty user-friendly."
"The product's anti-spam and malware-scanning features are useful. We scan email attachments, documents, and malicious codes."
"The technical support services are excellent."
"The product is useful when the end user downloads malware files."
"Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence assesses machines for vulnerabilities and gives remediations."
"The solution is well integrated with other Microsoft security products."
"Microsoft collects trillions of signals from all over the world, which is incredibly valuable. It helps us identify zero-day vulnerabilities and global threats."
"The product's initial setup phase was straightforward."
"With VirusTotal, I can check for any hash, malware, file, domain, IP URL, or malicious URL, and Kaspersky stays clean."
"The most valuable feature is the worldwide malware information database."
"The software is expensive."
"One area that can be improved is reducing false positives."
"The price could be improved."
"I would like to see more integration with other solutions. For example, integration well with Microsoft but not with other solutions."
"Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence is evolving and needs to fix and enhance numerous issues like stability and licensing. The continuous rebranding and licensing changes are confusing."
"The tool's onboarding of users that use on-premise or hybrid environments needs to be improved."
"The price of the solution is an area of concern where improvements are required. In general, the solution's price needs to be reduced."
"It would be beneficial to enhance the pricing structure and make it more affordable."
"I would like to see an improved user interface and some automation."
"VirusTotal is hard to understand because you need to know Google Docs to create queries, and it doesn't have documentation for that."
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Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence is ranked 3rd in Threat Intelligence Platforms with 23 reviews while VirusTotal is ranked 6th in Threat Intelligence Platforms with 2 reviews. Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence is rated 8.4, while VirusTotal is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence writes "A tool that offers endpoint protection with low maintenance costs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VirusTotal writes "A highly stable solution that can be used to manually investigate data leaks, compromised information, and malware". Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence is most compared with Microsoft Sentinel, STAXX, Cisco Threat Grid, ThreatConnect Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) and Splunk Mission Control, whereas VirusTotal is most compared with Cuckoo Sandbox, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, MetaDefender, ANY.RUN and Recorded Future. See our Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence vs. VirusTotal report.
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