Sangfor Endpoint Secure vs USM Anywhere comparison

Sangfor and LevelBlue are both solutions in the Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) category. Sangfor is ranked #27 with an average rating of 8.7, while LevelBlue is ranked #44 with an average rating of 8.0. Sangfor holds a 0.8% mindshare in EDR, compared to LevelBlue’s 0.8% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Sangfor users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of LevelBlue users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 9, 2024

Both USM Anywhere and Sangfor Endpoint Secure compete in the cybersecurity market. Users report preferring Sangfor Endpoint Secure's features despite favoring USM Anywhere's pricing and support.

Features: USM Anywhere's valuable features include threat detection, compliance management, and incident response. Sangfor Endpoint Secure offers advanced threat protection, endpoint detection, and integrated response. Users appreciate the comprehensive security suite of Sangfor Endpoint Secure more.

Room for Improvement: USM Anywhere users suggest enhancements in scalability and simplified configurations. Sangfor Endpoint Secure users point out the need for better integration with third-party tools and more user-friendly controls. Users feel both products have distinct areas needing attention, but integration is a significant gap for Sangfor.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: USM Anywhere's deployment is noted for its straightforward process and solid customer support, helping users manage concerns. Sangfor Endpoint Secure, while effective, can be complex to set up, although it benefits from responsive customer service. Users lean towards the simpler deployment process of USM Anywhere, though support quality is strong for both.

Pricing and ROI: USM Anywhere is considered more budget-friendly, offering good value for money. Sangfor Endpoint Secure, while pricier, justifies the cost with robust features and delivers a commendable ROI. Users find USM Anywhere to be more cost-effective, but Sangfor Endpoint Secure’s extensive features provide substantial long-term benefits.

To learn more, read our detailed Sangfor Endpoint Secure vs. USM Anywhere Report (Updated: March 2026).

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Sangfor Endpoint Secure vs. USM Anywhere

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Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Net...

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) category, the mindshare of Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is 3.4%, down from 4.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sangfor Endpoint Secure is 0.8%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of USM Anywhere is 0.8%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks	3.4%
Sangfor Endpoint Secure	0.8%
USM Anywhere	0.8%
Other	95.0%

Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

Featured Reviews

ABHISHEK_SINGH

Senior Process Expert at A.P. Moller - Maersk

Gained full visibility and streamlined threat detection through behavior-based insights and AI integration

Initially, we got to have a lot of false positives when we onboarded, but nowadays it's quite smooth. We have fine-tuned our security policies and allowed different levels of policies to get rid of those false positives. Currently, we are getting a fairly good amount of incidents that are not false positives or benign, but actionable items. The process is streamlined. In the initial days, the operations used to get involved in a lot of benign and other activities, but now the process is streamlined. We are leveraging the auto-detection and remediation plans. The operations teams are now more involved in other business roles as well, not just looking into the logs and fetching out what's happening there. They have fixed a lot of things. Initially, they didn't have IAC code drift detection, cloud posture management, or security posture management, but they have those now. They purchased different vendors and did a merger with that. They have now Prisma Cloud that gets integrated and now they are working with Cortex Cloud. Everything that was negative has now been addressed, and the product altogether looks to be in a very better and mature shape now. Currently, it's more or less detecting the workloads with AI-based best practices. Since most organizations are consuming AI agents and other things, we are looking forward to seeing what other feature enhancements Palo Alto can support in that.

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Ovais Abbas

Coordinator Associate at National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases

Quick threat response and behavior analysis while enhancing network security

The main use case is usually related to security. It deals with attacks that come day-to-day such as zero-day attacks and APT attacks. Our main task is to secure the network infrastructure in the hospital where I work It facilitates the departments of IT and other departments to procure and…

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Kris Nawani

Co-Founder/Director at Bangkok MSP Company Limited

Offers complete coverage without the need to install additional software

USM Anywhere is used for threat detection and investigation. It provides a solution with built-in threat intelligence and various other investigation tools The solution offers complete coverage without the need to install additional software, as it is maintained by the vendor. It helps in saving…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Being a cloud solution it is very flexible in serving internal and external connections and a broad range of devices."

"The most valuable features are incident creation, policy-based protection, IP whitelisting, and device encryption. These are beneficial for endpoint and server security."

"Automation and playbooks have helped me significantly, as Cortex Xnor's playbooks predefine the workflow of the automation, such as response processes, alert triggering, and enriching the context, efficiently detecting and blocking malicious attacks with firewalls while eliminating workload and speeding responses for next-generation operations."

"Cortex XDR lets us manage several clients from the same console, and its endpoint defense is more advanced than traditional antivirus."

"The stability of this product is very good."

"Palo Alto is the core of the security infrastructure in the environment."

"We've had a significant increase in blocking with a decrease in false positives, because it's looking at how the files work, not just a list of files that it's been told to look for."

"The initial setup isn't too bad."

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"The tool's most valuable features are control access, endpoint security, and load balancing of ISPs."

"We use the product for network protection from any malicious threat."

"What stands out to me is the dual-end user interface they provide."

"The tool's AI feature is helpful in endpoint security."

"The user-friendliness of Sangfor Endpoint Secure is particularly impressive. Even with basic technical knowledge, users can easily navigate the system, make changes, and implement updates."

"The real-time monitoring feature of Sangfor Endpoint Secure is truly real-time, with no delay compared to other solutions."

"Sangfor Endpoint Secure has some good policy certificates."

"The product's initial setup phase was straightforward."

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"AlienVault has an advanced component within one package. With this, we can cover more area with one solution."

"Customer support is excellent."

"The feature that I liked the most is that they have a vulnerability assessment package that comes along with the SIEM solution. So, whenever I find any threat or alert for any of the devices or servers, I could immediately initiate a vulnerability assessment scan on that machine. That is one of a kind. The price at which AlienVault operates is also valuable."

"It is my "security person" looking at irregularities and letting me know when something has occurred."

"The dashboards are very descriptive and contain just the right amount of information. The activity alarms and events contain a plethora of data that is very descriptive and useful."

"AlienVault has helped us in improving our visualization and incident response during cybersecurity situations."

"Customer Service: There is excellent customer service and we have never had a complaint."

"The price of this solution is reasonable, which is one of the reasons why we selected it over other solutions."

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Cons

"While using Cortex, I noticed some aspects that could be improved, such as increasing the synchronization speed between XDR and Xnor."

"Cortex does not offer an on-premises solution. However, some customers would prefer not to be on the cloud. It would be ideal if it could offer something on-prem as well."

"Based on our experience so far, its implementation is quite complex."

"The connection to the internet has not performed as expected."

"It's not an ideal choice for smaller businesses, as you need a minimum of 200 endpoints to even use the solution at all."

"Technology evolves every day, so it would be nice if it gets more secure. It can also have more integration with other platforms."

"In terms of areas of improvement, we have not completed our review of the product. We're also looking at other products. So, it's a little bit hard to tell what could be different because we have not completed the review of this product, but based on our experience so far, its implementation is quite complex."

"I have run into some detection issues with Cortex XDR. It needs to be better at detection of internal attacks."

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"I face issues while migrating from Kaspersky to Sangfor Endpoint Secure."

"Sangfor Endpoint Secure should include healing capabilities."

"When an issue occurs, the response time for first-level support and the time taken for meetings could be improved."

"There are a few areas for improvement. We have encountered licensing issues on occasion, and sometimes updates don't apply properly."

"It is complicated to establish a tunnel due to technical issues in the VPN system."

"Sometimes, the VPN is not secure and doesn't work properly in Sangfor Endpoint Secure."

"It would be much more convenient if the migration tool could be installed directly on the customer's VMs, enabling a smoother migration process to the new infrastructure, with potential restrictions addressed accordingly."

"Currently, the tool lacks reporting functionalities."

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"Sometimes the log is unclear, and the report is a bit ambiguous."

"Pay attention to false-positive event automatic correlations."

"There could be some type of integration with our existing portal."

"One area that has room for improvement is storage. AllienVault is a good place to put logs, but sometimes it's a tough place to go get logs."

"It would be hard for any legitimate MSSP to use it."

"For creating new rules, you have to be familiar with regular expressions. I feel there could be something built-in to make sure that process is easier."

"I don't think the product's pricing is a good value because they try to raise the price 50 percent every year."

"The reporting could do with some improvements for example the vulnerability report only tells you what vulnerabilities are open and lists them but there is no indication of how old they are at a glance and what vulnerabilities have been closed since the previous scans."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is okay, although direct support can be expensive."

"I don't like that they have different types of licenses."

"Licensing for Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR can be costly, especially when it comes to a hundred users. A license is required for each user, and the subscription must be renewed on a yearly basis."

"I don't have any issues with the pricing. We are satisfied with the price."

"We didn't have to pay any additional fee for the cloud instance. It just came with the renewal, which was nice."

"Our customers have expressed that the price is high."

"The price is on the higher side, but it's okay."

"It's about $55 per license on a yearly basis."

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"The solution is cheap. It is cheaper than other products by 15-20 percent."

"Its "pay as you grow" model offers cost-effectiveness compared to major cloud providers."

"We were using Hyper-V. So, we switched to Sangfor because of the pricing."

"Price-wise, Sangfor Endpoint Secure can be considered a competitively priced product in the market as it offers quite low prices compared to other solutions."

"Sangfor Endpoint Secure's pricing is cheap. I rate it seven out of ten."

"Sangfor Endpoint Secure is not a cheap solution."

"The product is expensive compared to other vendors."

"Its price is in the medium to upper range."

"It's very reasonably priced. It was one of the lowest among the ones I looked at. Licensing is pretty flexible. They can do a two-year or a three-year, even a one-year, perhaps."

"The ROI is quite good."

"It's saved security costs."

"The price point is good."

"The price for this solution is very good, but since the features do not work the price is expensive."

"Pricing is very competitive with other products and you get much more functionality from AlienVault."

"It allows you to do a lot with a small price tag... The pricing is the best on the market."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Construction Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

14%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Computer Software Company

Government

Construction Company

20%

Computer Software Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	44
Midsize Enterprise	20
Large Enterprise	47

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	3

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	64
Midsize Enterprise	29
Large Enterprise	25

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Compared 11% of the time

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Compared 6% of the time

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Also Known As

Cyvera, Cortex XDR, Palo Alto Networks Traps

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AT&T AlienVault USM, AlienVault, AlienVault USM, Alienvault Cybersecurity

Overview

Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks provides advanced threat detection with AI-driven endpoint protection and seamless integration, ensuring multi-layered security and automatic threat response.

Cortex XDR is designed to safeguard endpoints against malware and suspicious activities. It offers advanced threat detection and response capabilities using behavioral analysis, AI, and machine learning. It seamlessly integrates with security infrastructures, providing endpoint security, firewall integration, and enhanced visibility in both cloud-based and on-premises environments.

What are the key features of Cortex XDR?

Advanced Threat Detection: Uses AI and machine learning for proactive threat identification.
Multi-layered Security: Combines various security measures for comprehensive protection.
Endpoint Protection: Safeguards against malware and exploits.
Behavioral Analysis: Monitors suspicious activity for early detection.
Automatic Threat Response: Automates responses to neutralize threats.

What benefits should users expect?

Ease of Use: Simplifies security management with intuitive design.
Resource Efficiency: Minimizes impact on system resources.
Integration Capabilities: Works well with existing security setups.
Reduced Analyst Workload: Automates processes to decrease manual intervention.

Organizations in diverse sectors deploy Cortex XDR to protect against malware, leveraging its advanced threat detection capabilities. Its integration with existing security infrastructures appeals to those seeking comprehensive protection in both cloud and on-premises environments, providing enhanced visibility and threat intelligence.

Palo Alto Networks

Organizations use Sangfor Endpoint Secure for endpoint protection and security management, managing devices, servers, and networks against malicious threats. It also assists in blocking websites, managing infrastructure, applications, antivirus needs, and aids in migrating to cloud environments.

Sangfor Endpoint Secure offers end-to-end protection, incorporating file protection, AI detection, behavior analysis, access control, and ISP load balancing. It facilitates VM migration with minimal downtime and includes a dual-end user interface for creating firewall rules, uploading images, and configuring VM settings. Enhancements such as Hyper-V capabilities, policy certificates, honeypot features, and next-generation firewall integrations are available. However, Sangfor Endpoint Secure could improve on console management, reporting functionalities, public cloud migration support, navigation, VPN system issues, licensing, update management, transitioning processes, and incorporating healing capabilities.

What are its most important features?

Comprehensive end-to-end protection including file protection
AI detection and behavior analysis
Access control and ISP load balancing
Ease of VM migration with minimal downtime
Streamlined dual-end user interface for firewall rules and VM settings
Hyper-V capabilities and policy certificates
Honeypot feature for attack detection and RDP protection
Integration with next-generation firewalls

What benefits or ROI should users look for?

Enhanced device, server, and network security from malicious threats
Simplified migration from on-premises to cloud environments
User-friendly navigation and management capabilities
Advanced detection and behavior analysis reducing potential threats
Streamlined enforcement of robust security policies

Sangfor Endpoint Secure is implemented across various industries to ensure comprehensive security management and protection. IT departments leverage its VM migration capabilities for seamless transitions to cloud environments. Healthcare organizations use it to secure sensitive patient data, while educational institutions utilize it for safeguarding academic records and personal information. Financial services employ it to protect critical transactional data and adhere to stringent compliance requirements.

Sangfor

USM Anywhere centralizes security monitoring of networks and devices in the cloud, on premises, and in remote locations, helping you to detect threats virtually anywhere.

Discover

Network asset discovery
Software & services discovery
AWS asset discovery
Azure asset discovery
Google Cloud Platform asset discovery

Analyze

SIEM event correlation, auto-prioritized alarms
User activity monitoring
Up to 90-days of online, searchable events

Detect

Cloud intrusion detection (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Network intrusion detection (NIDS)
Host intrusion detection (HIDS)
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

Respond

Forensics querying
Automate & orchestrate response
Notifications and ticketing

Assess

Vulnerability scanning
Cloud infrastructure assessment
User & asset configuration
Dark web monitoring

Report

Pre-built compliance reporting templates
Pre-built event reporting templates
Customizable views and dashboards
Log storage

LevelBlue

Sample Customers

CBI Health Group, University Honda, VakifBank

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Abel & Cole, Bank of Ireland, Bluegrass Cellular, CareerBuilder, Claire's, Hays Medical Center, Hope International, McCurrach, McKinsey & Company, Party Delights, Pepco Holdings, Richland School District, Ricoh, SaveMart, Shake Shack, Steelcase, TaxAct, Taylor Morrison, Vonage and Zoom

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