Morphisec vs ThreatLocker Zero Trust Endpoint Protection Platform comparison

Morphisec and ThreatLocker are both solutions in the Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) category. Morphisec is ranked #56, while ThreatLocker is ranked #6 with an average rating of 9.1. Morphisec holds a 0.4% mindshare in EPP, compared to ThreatLocker’s 0.7% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Morphisec users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 97% of ThreatLocker users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 23, 2025

Morphisec and ThreatLocker compete in the cybersecurity solutions category, specifically dealing with threat prevention and application control. Morphisec seems to have the upper hand in terms of seamless integration with Windows Defender and a straightforward pricing model, while ThreatLocker stands out with its detailed application control and zero-trust implementations.

Features: Morphisec offers signatureless protection and zero-day threat prevention, seamlessly integrating with Windows Defender to provide a unified dashboard view. It operates efficiently without degrading performance. ThreatLocker focuses on application control with ring-fencing and allowlisting, which helps administrators manage application activities precisely. It emphasizes strong visibility and control, which is crucial for adherence to zero-trust principles.

Room for Improvement: Morphisec could improve its cloud deployment processes and provide more frequent updates and communication. Users have suggested enhancing the console's clarity and integrating better with non-Microsoft antivirus solutions. ThreatLocker could improve its user experience by refining its interface and learning modes. There is also room for better integration with PSA systems and improved visibility in its support ticket system.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Both Morphisec and ThreatLocker offer flexible deployment across cloud and on-premises environments. Morphisec users note smooth platform transitions, though support time zones can be challenging. ThreatLocker provides comprehensive support, focusing on resolving deployment issues efficiently but could benefit from better documentation and user training resources.

Pricing and ROI: Morphisec is regarded as cost-effective with a clear pricing model that enhances perceived value by reducing maintenance workloads and incidents. ThreatLocker is seen as reasonably priced, delivering excellent visibility and control over software applications. Its integration flexibility and scalability support a fair return on investment without significant financial burden.

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Categories and Ranking

Morphisec

Ranking in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)

56th

Ranking in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)

33rd

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Vulnerability Management (58th), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (59th), Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) (36th), Threat Deception Platforms (14th)

ThreatLocker Zero Trust End...

Ranking in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)

6th

Ranking in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)

6th

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Access Control (NAC) (5th), Application Control (2nd), ZTNA (3rd), Ransomware Protection (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) category, the mindshare of Morphisec is 0.4%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ThreatLocker Zero Trust Endpoint Protection Platform is 0.7%, down from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Islam Shaikh

Senior Manager - IT at IndiGrid Limited

Lightweight, detects everything quickly, and takes corrective action

We sometimes have to depend on the support team to know what action we should take. If the solution for an alert can be built into the report that we are getting, it will save time, and the interaction with support would be less. At times, corrective action is required, but at times, we don't need to take any action. It would be good if we get to know in the report that a particular infection doesn't require any action. It will save us time and effort. Other than that, nothing else is required. They have taken care of everything. We are getting alerts, and we can have multiple admins. We get a good model with this view.

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Johnathan Bodily

Technical Engineer at Cloud 1 Solutions

Ensures ransomware protection and reduces phishing chaos

The application control has been great so far, and while I am still exploring the network access controls, I unfortunately don't have access to one module I would love to have due to licensing restrictions. It's easy to use in regard to reducing attack surfaces. For me, it's a piece of cake. We can have something approved within 30 seconds, thanks to the mobile app. We haven't eliminated security solutions. We just add to it, and ThreatLocker has been a great addition. We also have Kaseya and ThreatLocker as a supplement to that. It's useful. They have overlap, and we look at the overlap as a good thing. It's helped your organization save on operational costs or expenses by ensuring that many fewer hours are spent dealing with ransomware nonsense. I cannot count the amount of hours that I personally have not had to put in to recovering an environment from a ransomware event. The last big one took us about three weeks to completely recover from. Since we've grouped ThreatLocker in, the management of that whole setup has gone down to just daily help desk tasks and general server maintenance instead of having the whole system on fire. There are probably thousands of hours of saved time between our teams. It's been great so far. ThreatLocker Zero Trust Endpoint Protection Platform's ability to block access to unauthorized applications is great. It's my biggest protection, the blocked applications. In a lot of cases, you go to install something yourself that you need for management, and it comes in and says, nope. And then I have to log into the portal and approve it. I get our other guys saying, hey, why are you trying to approve something? Any of the tools that I'm using on a day-to-day basis that haven't been in the environment during the whole learning mode initially, I could go through and set extensions and all that. So, while it's a headache on that end, the amount of saved time I can't even count. It is a little frustrating on my end since I like to go as quickly as I possibly can, and it slows me down. However, that's a really good thing. Depending on the site, it can save a lot of time and cut down headaches. It's likely saved a week's worth of time. It's cut down the amount of sever help desk tickets. Those have become minimal.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"Morphisec has enabled us to become a lot less paranoid when it comes to staff clicking on things or accessing things that they shouldn't that could infect the whole system. Our original ransomware attack that happened came from someone's Google drive and then just filtered on through that. It has put our minds at ease a lot more in running it. It's also another layer of security that has been proven to be effective for us."

"The simplicity of the solution, how easy it is to deploy and how small it is when deployed as an agent on a device, is probably the biggest aspect, given what it can do."

"Since using Morphisec we have seen a downturn in attacks because Morphisec protects us versus Defenders and whatnot that are signature-based. I know we have not had any issues with ransomware or other zero-day attacks that we've seen with machines that, all of a sudden, have become before we instituted the product. Now the machine had to be re-imaged and there was a loss of data because something was on the machine. You couldn't really determine what was on the machine because nothing was picking it up. The products we were using weren't picking it up."

"Morphisec provides full visibility into security events from Microsoft Defender and Morphisec in one dashboard. Defender and Morphisec are integrated. It's important because it lowers the total cost of maintenance on the engineer's time, more or less. So the administrative time is dramatically reduced in maintaining the product. This saves an engineer around four to five hours a week."

"What's valuable is really the whole kit and caboodle of the Morphisec agent. What it does is genius, in a way, until the bad guys get wise to it. You set it up and then you watch the dashboard. There isn't really much tinkering."

"It also provides full visibility into security events from Microsoft Defender and Morphisec in one dashboard. We've always had that capability with Morphisec. The more recent version appears to do that even a little bit more natively and it's given us visibility that we didn't have otherwise."

"I really like the integration with Microsoft Defender. In addition to having third-party endpoint protection, we're also enabling Defender... I like the reporting that we get from Defender, when it comes in. I like that it's one console showing both Morphisec and Defender where it provides me with full visibility into security events from Defender and Morphisec."

"Morphisec is a straightforward solution that is efficient and very stable."

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"The Zero Trust factor is valuable because it blocks everything. That helps us to stay ahead of bad actors. We do not have to be in recovery mode."

"ThreatLocker provides visibility into user activity and application usage, empowering organizations to define acceptable applications and web browsers."

"Allowlisting, in general, is valuable because it allows us to have a lot more granular control over what is executed on a desktop. We are also able to ringfence known vectors of attack through Office applications, email, browsers, etc."

"The pre-built policies and the fact that I get notified when a user requests an application are significant."

"The most valuable feature is selective elevation, which allows elevating an individual process to admin privilege without granting admin privilege to that user, which has been by far the most useful feature outside of the overall solution itself."

"The time saved from dealing with ransomware nonsense is invaluable."

"The application control is a key feature of ThreatLocker."

"ThreatLocker Allowlisting has all of these features integrated into one console, making it effective."

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Cons

"If anything, tech support might be their weakest link. The process of getting someone involved sometimes takes a little time. It seems to me that they should have all the data they need to let me know whether an alert is legitimate or not, but they tend to need a lot of information from me to get to the bottom of something. It usually takes a little longer than I would expect."

"Sometimes it generates false positive alerts. They need to continue working on that. They have provided solutions for it and have fixed issues with updated versions. The service is quite good but they need to work on it more so that there are no false positive alerts."

"Right now, it's just their auto-update feature. I know they are currently working on that. When they release a new version of the threat prevention platform, I do have to update that, rolling out to every computer. They have said, "From version 5, you would be able to do an auto-update." While this is very minor, that is the only thing that I would say needs to be upgraded. It would just make life a lot easier for other IT teams. However, I have simplified the process, so all I need to do is just download one file."

"Automating reports needs improvement. I would like to have better reporting capabilities within it or automated reporting to be a little bit more dynamic. That's something I know they're working on. We literally are in the process. We started the process a week and a half ago of going to their latest version, so I've not seen their latest one up and running yet."

"I haven't been able to get the cloud deployment to work. When there's an update, I'm supposed to be able to roll it out for the cloud solution, but right now I'm continuing to use our SCCM solution to update it."

"It might be a bit much to ask, but we are now beginning to use Morphisec Scout, which provides vulnerability information. At this time, it's recognizing vulnerabilities and reporting them to us, but it's not necessarily resolving them. There's still a separate manual process to resolve those vulnerabilities, primarily through upgrades. We have to do that outside of Morphisec. If Morphisec could somehow have that capability built into it, that would be very effective."

"We sometimes have to depend on the support team to know what action we should take. If the solution for an alert can be built into the report that we are getting, it will save time, and the interaction with support would be less. At times, corrective action is required, but at times, we don't need to take any action. It would be good if we get to know in the report that a particular infection doesn't require any action. It will save us time and effort."

"We have only had four attacks in the last year, "attacks" being some benign PDF from a vendor that, for some reason, were triggered. There were no actual attacks. They were just four false positives, or something lowly like adware. There have been false positives with both the on-premises solution and the cloud solution."

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"If you have a thousand computers with ThreatLocker agents on them, when you approve or create a new policy saying that Adobe Reader that matches this hashtag and meets certain criteria is allowed to be installed, it applies at the top level or the organization level. It applies to every computer in the company. When you make that new policy and push it out and it goes out and updates all of the clients. Unfortunately, at this time, it does not look like they stagger the push-out."

"Initially, the learning curve was slightly high for me, however, that has been resolved now."

"It has not helped reduce our help desk tickets. We are still in learning mode, and after we are fully knowledgeable, we will be able to see some ticket reductions."

"ThreatLocker Allowlisting needs to improve its user interface and overall workflow."

"The company should strive to stay ahead of all the developments happening externally. If their progress accelerates more rapidly than the ongoing changes outside, it would prove advantageous."

"There are some times when applications get submitted, the hashes don't really line up."

"Some reporting areas need improvement. We need to generate more reports."

"One area I see for improvement is in the visibility of support tickets within the ThreatLocker ticketing system."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We are still using a separate tool. I know for our 600 or I think we're actually licensed for up to 700 users, it runs me 23 or $24,000 a year. When you're talking to that many users plus servers being protected, that's well worth the investment for that dollar amount."

"Price-wise, it's on the higher side. A traditional antivirus solution is cheaper, but in terms of security and manageability, its ROI is better than a traditional antivirus. I would recommend it to anybody evaluating or considering an antivirus solution. If your system gets compromised, the cost of ransom would be a lot more. This way, it saves a lot of cost."

"It is a little bit more expensive than other security products that we use, but it does provide us good protection. So, it is a trade-off."

"It is priced correctly for what it does. They end up doing a good deal of discounting, but I think it is priced appropriately."

"Morphisec is reasonably priced because our parent company's other subsidiaries use different products like CrowdStrike. CrowdStrike is four or five times more expensive than Morphisec. The competitive pricing saves us money in our overall security stack."

"Licenses are per endpoint, and that's true for the cloud version as well. The only difference is that there is a little extra charge for the cloud version."

"Our licensing is tied into our contract. Because we have a long-term contract, our pricing is a little bit lower. It is per year, so we don't get charged per endpoint, but we do have a cap. Our cap is 80 endpoints. If we were to go over 80, when we renewed our contract, which is not until three years are over. Then, they would reevaluate, and say, "Well, you have more than 80 devices active right now. This is going to be the price change." They know that we are installing and replacing computers, so the numbers will be all over the place depending on whether you archive or don't archive, which is the reason why we just have to keep up on that stuff."

"Compared to their competitors, the price of Morphisec is not that high. You can easily deploy it on a large-scale or small-scale network."

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"The pricing is reasonable and normal. I do not have any problems with the cost."

"I find ThreatLocker's pricing to be reasonable for the services it provides."

"The price of ThreatLocker Allowlisting is reasonable in the market, but it is not fantastic."

"The pricing works fine for me. It's very reasonably priced."

"Its price is fair. They have added some additional things to it beyond allowlisting. They are up-charging for them, but in terms of the value we get and the way it impacts us, we get a bang for our buck with ThreatLocker than a lot of our other security tools."

"We have not had any real issues with the pricing. As they have added more features, due to the way our contracts are structured with our customers, we have had to hold off on adopting the new features because they do add costs."

"So far, it has been great. I have no complaints. Of course, everybody wishes it was cheaper."

"The pricing is fair and there is no hard sell."

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Top Industries

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Outsourcing Company

14%

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

36%

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Financial Services Firm

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What do you like most about ThreatLocker Allowlisting?

The interface is clean and well-organized, making it simple to navigate and find what we need.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ThreatLocker Allowlisting?

Pricing, setup costs, and licensing have been pretty accessible and manageable. It was not too expensive to get started, especially at a small scale for a smaller MSP. It is very accessible, easy t...

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What needs improvement with ThreatLocker Allowlisting?

For the space that it's in, it's already there. I don't know of another product that compares to its level. Even recently, with the addition of the detect module is a very nice add-on to the packet...

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Also Known As

Morphisec, Morphisec Moving Target Defense

Protect, Allowlisting, Network Control, Ringfencing

Overview

Morphisec integrates seamlessly with platforms like Microsoft Defender, offering signatureless protection against zero-day threats and ransomware. It enhances existing endpoint solutions with minimal maintenance through its set-and-forget deployment, providing heightened security and reduced false positives.

Morphisec strengthens defense strategies by merging memory morphing and signatureless protection to effectively block zero-day attacks and ransomware. It operates efficiently within existing infrastructure, reducing system impact and maintenance needs. Users find its full visibility dashboard invaluable. Despite its strengths, cloud deployment and reporting features can be improved. Stability, alerts, and integration with other systems pose challenges for users, impacting usability and support quality.

What are Morphisec's key features?

Seamless Integration: Works with Microsoft Defender for comprehensive dashboard visibility
Memory Morphing: Hides processes to reduce attack surfaces
Signatureless Protection: Prevents threats without impacting performance
Automatic Threat Blocking: Uses inbuilt intelligence to detect risks
Set-and-Forget Deployment: Simplifies management and reduces maintenance

What benefits should users consider in reviews?

Quick Deployment: Fast setup without disrupting operations
Enhanced Protection: Provides an additional defense layer against advanced threats
Cost-Effectiveness: Works with existing licenses, minimizing extra investments
Improved Compatibility: Integrates smoothly with current antivirus systems
Minimal System Impact: Operates efficiently without overloading resources

In security-focused industries, Morphisec is crucial for protecting workstations and servers against sophisticated attacks like ransomware. Its signatureless technology offers early threat detection, while compatibility with existing systems ensures seamless integration, providing advanced protection without additional licensing costs.

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ThreatLocker Zero Trust Endpoint Protection Platform offers robust endpoint security through application control and allowlisting, safeguarding servers and workstations from unauthorized software execution.

ThreatLocker Zero Trust Endpoint Protection Platform provides extensive application control with features like ring-fencing and selective elevation, ensuring meticulous execution management. Offering learning mode and extensive support, it integrates threat detection and activity monitoring to enhance compliance, reduce costs, and bolster cybersecurity through alerts and approvals. Despite its strengths, there are areas for improvement in training flexibility, policy updates, and interface enhancements, along with challenges in handling non-digitally signed software. Deployed across environments, it works well with existing cybersecurity instruments for real-time threat prevention.

What are the top features of ThreatLocker?

Intuitive Interface: User-friendly design simplifies endpoint protection management.
Application Blocking: Prevents unauthorized applications from running.
Selective Elevation: Grants control over application permissions.
Ring-Fencing: Isolates applications to limit interactions.
Allowlisting: Ensures only trusted software can execute.
Learning Mode: Facilitates configuration by observing user behavior.
Real-Time Support: Access to assistance and training resources.

What benefits should reviewers seek?

Compliance: Meets regulatory standards.
Operational Cost Reduction: Consolidated alerts and approvals.
Enhanced Cybersecurity: Prevention of unauthorized applications.
Regulatory Alignment: Helps ensure adherence to legal requirements.

ThreatLocker Zero Trust Endpoint Protection Platform is widely implemented to safeguard IT infrastructures against unauthorized access and application use. In sectors where data security is paramount, this platform enables users to prevent unauthorized software installations and control device applications, ensuring real-time threat prevention and compliance with industry regulations.

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Sample Customers

Lenovo/Motorola, TruGreen, Covenant Health, Citizens Medical Center

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