Morphisec vs Trend Micro Smart Protection comparison

Morphisec and Trend Micro are both solutions in the Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) category. Morphisec is ranked #53, while Trend Micro is ranked #31 with an average rating of 7.6. Morphisec holds a 0.5% mindshare in EPP, compared to Trend Micro’s 0.7% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Morphisec users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 85% of Trend Micro users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 9, 2024

Trend Micro Smart Protection and Morphisec are two competing cybersecurity products. Morphisec seems to have the upper hand due to its advanced threat prevention capabilities and innovative security features.

Features: Trend Micro Smart Protection offers comprehensive antivirus and anti-malware features, active threat monitoring, and robust protection against ransomware. Morphisec is noted for its unique moving target defense technology, proactive breach prevention, and zero-day attack protection.

Room for Improvement: Trend Micro Smart Protection could enhance its performance impact on systems, improve usability during scans, and advance its real-time monitoring. Morphisec could improve its reporting capabilities, better integrate with other security tools, and enhance its user interface for easier navigation.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Trend Micro Smart Protection is relatively straightforward to deploy with comprehensive customer support. Morphisec stands out for minimal technical expertise required for setup, making it accessible to a broader range of companies, and is noted for its responsive customer service.

Pricing and ROI: Trend Micro Smart Protection offers good value for money with relatively low setup costs and satisfactory return on investment. Morphisec, while higher in initial cost, provides superior long-term ROI due to its advanced threat prevention and reduced incidence of security breaches.

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Categories and Ranking

Morphisec

Ranking in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)

53rd

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Vulnerability Management (64th), Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) (35th), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (60th), Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) (33rd), Threat Deception Platforms (17th)

Trend Micro Smart Protection

Ranking in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)

31st

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) category, the mindshare of Morphisec is 0.5%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Trend Micro Smart Protection is 0.7%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Rick Schibler

VP of Information Technology at Kentucky Trailer

Offers in-memory protection at a lower price than competitors

Morphisec's in-memory protection is probably the most valuable feature because it stops malicious activity from occurring. If something tries to install or act as a sleeper agent, Morphisec will detect and stop it. Morphisec's Moving Target Defense is critical to hardening our attack surface. If it detects something, it indicates whether it's valid. That means you've got a breach requiring investigation. It detects anomalies but doesn't necessarily point to what caused them. You still need to do that work. The solution is reasonably easy to administer. They made some changes last year, adding a cloud-based monitoring solution that makes deploying and monitoring our endpoints easy.

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Amey Darekar

Personal Banker at HDFC Bank

Offers centralized security management and flexibility

The improvements required in the product depend on how it is used, meaning it can be used for endpoint security or email and collaboration security. The web gateway is used along with anti-malware, advanced protection, URL filtering, application control, and data protection. I don't have any improvements to suggest in the tool as of now, and not at least for now, as per my security assessment. There are certain concerns with the product's stability, so it is an area where improvements are required.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"Morphisec also provides full visibility into security events for Microsoft Defender and Morphisec in one dashboard... in the single pane of glass provided by Morphisec, it's all right there at your fingertips: easy to access and easy to understand. And if you choose to go down further to know everything from the process to the hash behind it, you can."

"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."

"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."

"Morphisec stops attacks without needing to know what type of threat it is, just that it is foreign. It is based on injections, so it would know when a software launches. If a software launches and something else also launches, then it would count that as anomalous and block it. Because the software looks at the code, and if it executes something else that is not related, then Morphisec would block it. That is how it works."

"The biggest feature is that it hides everything from your operating system that's running in-memory from anything to try to run against it. That's the most unique thing that's on the market. There's nothing else out there that's quite like that. That's a big selling point and why we went with it. It does exactly what the design does. If you can't find it, you can't execute against it."

"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."

"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."

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"Trend Micro Smart Protection includes compliance features where you can establish rules against endpoint vulnerabilities and attack parameters. It offers Smart Detection, Smart Update, and sandboxing to detect and analyze suspicious files, providing a smart approach to zero-day threat detection. Trend Micro Smart Protection offers rapid response to zero-day threats with a strong team backing up the discovery process. Virtual patching is a crucial feature, effectively closing vulnerable ports and access points. Regarding web reputation services, aggregating data from multiple sources, including Trend Micro, Proofpoint, and others, helps inform threat prevention efforts and automate responses."

"The AI is excellent."

"The stability is good and I like the level of performance I can get."

"Integrates easily with almost every third-party product"

"The antivirus signature is valuable."

"The tool will query the information from the cloud to identify suspicious or malicious files that can be a threat. It will provide you with real-time updates on the latest and ongoing attacks and malware information."

"The product maintenance is relatively easy."

"It integrates well with all our tools, including ServiceNow, for fault reporting."

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Cons

"The dashboard is the area that requires the most improvement. We have about, I would say 5,500 computers currently, and searching through all of those takes some time to filter. So as soon as you apply the filter, it takes a few seconds. It crunches, it thinks, and then it brings up the clients that match."

"It would be useful for them if they had some kind of network discovery. That kind of functionality I think would give IT administrators a little bit more confidence that they have 100 percent coverage, and it gives them something to audit against. Network discovery would be one area I would definitely suggest that they put some effort into."

"We have discovered some bugs in the new releases that they've had to fix, so I would like to see more testing and QA on their side before they release."

"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."

"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."

"The weakest point of this product is how difficult it is to understand the reasons for an alert. This is a problem because it is hard to determine whether an attack is real or not."

"In the Windows Defender integration, they have put in a report of computers that need Windows Defender updates. If those updates could be kicked off directly from the dashboard, instead of having to go to another system entirely, that would be good."

"From a company standpoint, a little more interaction with the customers throughout the year might be beneficial. I would like check-ins from the Morphisec account executives about any type of Morphisec news as well as a bit more interaction with customers throughout the year to know if anything new is coming out with Morphisec, e.g., what they are working on in regards to their development roadmap. We tend not to get that up until the time that we go for a yearly renewal. So, we end up talking to people from Morphisec once a year, but it is usually at renewal time."

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"The solution should improve its mobile management solution."

"Trend Micro Smart Protection could improve automatic scanning because sometimes it pops up when I am doing my work. It would be helpful to have a feature to have it only automatically scan when the system is on standby mode. I would be able to be more efficient with my work. Additionally, security could improve."

"The solution’s technical support is not very good and could be improved."

"We were considering switching to SentinalOne because it has pre-detection, and Trend Micro does not offer this; it's something the solution should add."

"There are certain concerns with the product's stability, so it is an area where improvements are required."

"Sometimes, the tool bases its actions on behaviour, and we lack a policy learning mechanism. If Trend Micro Smart Protection introduced an AI model, its protection capabilities would be enhanced. I used a different browser once, which may have prevented protection. Another time, our own ISP was added to the blacklist, and it took the support team two business days to resolve it."

"It is onsite. It does have its challenges in terms of scalability."

"The solution's device control options are not too beneficial."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It does not have multi-tenants. If South Africa wants to show only the machines that they have, they need their own cloud incidence. It is not possible to have that in a single cloud incidence with multiple tenants in it, instead you need to have multiple cloud incidences. Then, if you have that, it will be more expensive. However, they are going to change that, which is good."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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"The solution is a little expensive. However, they can reduce the price for competition. There are different licensing models."

"Its price is fine. Price-wise, it is competitive with any other vendor."

"The product is not very expensive."

"The cost seems competitive."

"In terms of licensing cost, it falls within the average range compared to competitors, almost 7 out of 10."

"A yearly price has to be paid. I rate the pricing an eight out of ten."

"The solution is a little bit expensive in comparison to other traditional tools."

"Trend Micro Smart Protection is more costly than competitor solutions"

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Top Industries

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Outsourcing Company

15%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

12%

Computer Software Company

12%

Performing Arts

10%

Government

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What do you like most about Trend Micro Smart Protection?

The tool offers centralized security management. The tool's deployment is flexible.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Trend Micro Smart Protection?

I'm not involved in licensing, so I have no idea of the cost. However, their pricing is comparable to CrowdStrike. None of these solutions are cheap.

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What needs improvement with Trend Micro Smart Protection?

The dashboard could be easier to manage. We've experienced compatibility issues with Windows endpoint protection. More support for malware and botnets would be beneficial.

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Also Known As

Morphisec, Morphisec Moving Target Defense

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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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Trend Micro Smart Protection is a comprehensive security solution designed to safeguard enterprises from a wide array of threats, including malware, ransomware, and advanced persistent threats (APTs). This solution combines multiple layers of protection and real-time threat intelligence to deliver robust security across networks, endpoints, and cloud environments.

Trend Micro Smart Protection utilizes advanced machine learning, behavioral analysis, and automated threat detection to identify and mitigate threats before they can cause harm. The solution integrates seamlessly with existing security infrastructure and provides centralized management through a user-friendly console. Its cloud-based architecture ensures continuous updates and real-time protection against the latest threats.

What are the critical features of Trend Micro Smart Protection?

Multi-Layered Security: Protects endpoints, networks, and cloud environments with a combination of machine learning, behavior analysis, and automated threat detection.
Real-Time Threat Intelligence: Leverages global threat intelligence to identify and block new and emerging threats quickly.
Centralized Management: Simplifies security management with a single console for monitoring and controlling security across the organization.
Seamless Integration: Easily integrates with existing security systems and infrastructure, enhancing overall protection without requiring significant changes.
Automated Threat Response: Automatically responds to and mitigates threats, reducing the need for manual intervention and minimizing potential damage.

What benefits should users look for in reviews when evaluating Trend Micro Smart Protection?

Improved Security Posture: Enhanced protection across all enterprise environments, reducing the risk of breaches.
Reduced Operational Costs: Automated threat detection and response lower the need for extensive manual security management.
Scalability: Ability to scale protection as the organization grows, ensuring continuous and comprehensive security.
User-Friendly Management: Ease of use and centralized management enable IT teams to efficiently monitor and control security measures.
Real-Time Protection: Continuous updates and real-time threat intelligence ensure the organization is protected against the latest threats.

Trend Micro Smart Protection is implemented across various industries, including finance, healthcare, and retail, providing customized security solutions to meet specific regulatory and operational needs. Its ability to adapt to different environments and integrate with existing systems makes it a versatile choice for enterprises.

Pricing and licensing for Trend Micro Smart Protection are typically based on the number of users and endpoints, with flexible options available to suit different organizational needs. Customer support includes comprehensive service packages with 24/7 assistance and dedicated account managers for enterprise clients.

In summary, Trend Micro Smart Protection offers robust, multi-layered security with real-time threat intelligence and centralized management, making it a reliable solution for safeguarding enterprise environments.

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