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VIPRE Endpoint Security vs. WithSecure Elements Endpoint Protection

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Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) category, the mindshare of Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is 3.9%, up from 3.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VIPRE Endpoint Security is 0.6%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of WithSecure Elements Endpoint Protection is 0.9%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks	3.9%
WithSecure Elements Endpoint Protection	0.9%
VIPRE Endpoint Security	0.6%
Other	94.6%

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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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Shawn S

IT Security Analyst at a healthcare company with 11-50 employees

Easy to upgrade and manage but needs better reporting

There just was a lot about it that I didn't like. For blocking certain items, such as USBs, we felt like it was slowing down the network too much. Therefore we utilized a GPO for blocking things like that instead. Our environment was big and I didn't feel like the console did a good enough job. We outgrew the product. I've been asking for a change for a couple of years now, and it finally got approved. In terms of the console, I had over 2000 endpoints in there and there wasn't even a search feature for me to look through them. If I had to find where a policy was I had to sort in alphabetical order to find an endpoint that I wanted. They need to offer a search function within the console - maybe something that shows a "last connected" notice. That way, it's easier to manage obsolete machines that you don't need anymore. They had a very vague setting, like after so many days, when do you want us to remove these, you'd see them. I just wish the console was a little more responsive when I would do commands. The reports could have been better. The product would show a lot of endpoints as not communicating. That was another pain point. We constantly had to run an SQL query to clean up the database as I would know immediately when I was in the console, that it just wasn't being responsive. I could tell I was being given bad data and that we had to clean up the database. As soon as I would clean up that database, it was like a purging of the SQL database and it would become a lot more responsive. The problem was that our environment was too big. We're going through a growth spurt right now. In the end, the solution is small and much better suited for a small business. We would get a lot of false positives and instead of them fixing the false positive, they would just want us to put in an exception, which I didn't care for. The product is based on an older model of signature files. It doesn't use any artificial intelligence or anything. It was slow to refresh the policies and computer scans. The larger we got, the more it became an issue. If a company stayed small, I'm not sure if they would have noticed.

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Mark Feldman

IT-Manager at MKF-Schimanski-ERGIS GmbH

Central console streamlines patch monitoring and device management effortlessly

WithSecure Elements Endpoint Protection is good and easy to set up. I provide an installation file for every client through my domain controller and GPO, and it works properly. We have faced no incidents with viruses or network breaches, and it's easy to monitor patches. I can use remote desktop from the central console. The solution also saves my time because, being the only one handling it, I can monitor all devices easily.

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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

"The positive impacts I see from Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks include a complete 360-degree view of our security posture altogether, being a uniform platform where we are ingesting logs from multiple resources."

"The level of security I get for my endpoints and servers is extremely valuable."

"There are a lot of lead solutions in this space, however, Palo Alto is number one."

"The interface is easy to use and it is more up to date than our previous solution."

"Palo Alto is constantly adding new features."

"Palo Alto is one of the tech vendors that always provides top-of-the-line products."

"Traps is quite a stable product. Once it was properly deployed and configured, you have nothing to be worried about."

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

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"It has improved the way our organization functions, made things run faster in our company, and has done a fantastic job of keeping our networks free of virus."

"Technical support was always very helpful and responsive."

"In general, it was pretty easy to manage."

"It has low overhead as far as machine resources are concerned. Everything runs faster with VIPRE installed versus some of the competitors. It has also been pretty easy to use. It just runs and gives us reports. It also sends us alerts when there is something that we need to look at. It does its job, and you just look at the reports. In other ways, you just forget that it is there."

"WithSecure Elements Endpoint Protection is good and easy to set up."

"The most valuable features of WithSecure Elements Endpoint Protection are the clear useful portal and overall company protection."

"We use the product for detecting network vulnerabilities and for software update purposes."

"F-Secure is useful for keeping user machines up-to-date by pushing out security and critical updates."

"On the cloud management page, the solution scales up very highly."

"The notifications and patch management features are valuable."

"There is a layer of security to prevent a malicious agent (malware) from interrupting or stopping services, deleting or modifying registry entries or even stopping the antivirus from acting, ensuring that there will be no interruption of protection."

"Both incoming and outgoing traffic is protected."

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Cons

"The downsides of Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks are that in many incidents, when I enter the causality chain, there are numerous logs."

"If he is using a smaller company, he can depend on some other tools because Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is a bit expensive."

"The solution should force customers to integrate with network traffic to see the full benefits of XDR."

"In the next release, I would like to see more UI improvements. Their UI is a bit basic. When we are speaking about Palo Alto Networks they are the big company, so they can improve the UI a little bit. The UI, the reports, the log system can all be improved."

"If Palo Alto reduces the pricing slightly for their products, it would make them more scalable in markets such as India and globally for cybersecurity."

"Dashboards do not allow everyone to see what's happening."

"It tends to do 99.9% of things. The only thing I'd like is single sign-on authentication into their cloud platform so that my users can be properly authenticated against it."

"There are some false positives. What our guys would have liked is that it would have been easier to manipulate as soon as they found a false positive that they knew was a false positive. How to do so was not obvious. Some people complained about it. The interface, the ESM, is not user-friendly."

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"Their management interface is a little buggy as it will hang up and crash from time to time."

"We would get a lot of false positives and instead of them fixing the false positive, they would just want us to put in an exception, which I didn't care for."

"Their management interface is a little buggy. It requires a few system resources on the management interface. Its reporting can also be better. Overall, the reports are pretty good. They patch some third-party software, but if they can expand what they do for reporting and patch enterprise software, it would be handy."

"There is no technical support available in the Middle East."

"There could be a dedicated security partner with essential knowledge."

"The solution could improve by having more real-time responses. For example, when a license gets removed from a computer it does not update the records of the change. Additionally, when I installed Microsoft Windows Defender I was not able to send licenses through email to our tenants. The integration with other solutions could improve."

"But the biggest one for us is patch management because this has been our top priority when looking at alternatives. Every solution needs to have patch management, if that's possible. It would cut costs on our side if that feature were included, so we don't need to pay for two separate pieces of software."

"The program and cloud service management is in English. It's not a problem for me, however, it might be for users who don't speak English or use it regularly."

"Resource consumption is suboptimal and could be improved."

"In my opinion, there is room for improvement for WithSecure Elements Endpoint Protection, especially in the deployment tools, which could be a little better, but not by much."

"One problem is that the solution takes too much RAM from the client."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The cost of Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is $55 to $90 USD per endpoint per month."

"Cortex XDR's pricing is ok."

"Traps pays for itself within the first 16 months of a three-year subscription. This is attributed to OPEX savings, as security teams spent less time trying to identify and isolate malware for analysis as a result of a reduction in malware incidents, false positives, and breach avoidance."

"It has reasonable pricing for the use cases it provides to the company."

"The price of the solution could be reduced. I have customers that have voiced that the solution is good for the value but if I want to sell more of the solution the price reduction would help."

"Its pricing is kind of in line with its competitors and everybody else out there."

"We pay about $50,000 USD per year for a bundle that includes Cortex XDR."

"The cost depends on your chosen license type, like Pro or other licenses."

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"Its price point has been phenomenal. Our previous solution from Trend Micro was triple the cost of it."

"The cost of the solution depends on the size of the company and where the licenses are being ordered from."

"We pay a yearly licensing fee of about €20 per computer."

"If you purchase licenses in bulk the price of the licenses can decrease."

"The price is comparable."

"The product has average pricing."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Construction Company

12%

Outsourcing Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Comms Service Provider

18%

University

Government

Wholesaler/Distributor

Comms Service Provider

20%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Computer Software Company

Construction Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	46
Midsize Enterprise	21
Large Enterprise	54

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Large Enterprise	1

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Also Known As

Cyvera, Cortex XDR, Palo Alto Networks Traps

VIPRE Cloud, VIPRE Endpoint Security Cloud Edition, VIPRE Endpoint Security Server Edition

F-Secure Elements Endpoint Protection, F-Secure Protection Service for Business

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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

VIPRE Endpoint Security offers advanced protection tailored for business environments focusing on threat detection, prevention, and management. It's designed to safeguard endpoints from malware and cyber threats, delivering powerful security tools for optimal defense.

With its robust technology, VIPRE Endpoint Security caters to enterprises needing comprehensive security, ensuring responsive threat mitigation and simplified management. Its scalable architecture allows efficient deployment across networks, supporting complex IT infrastructures. Enhanced threat intelligence and rapid incident response make it a trusted choice for modern security challenges.

What are the most important features of VIPRE Endpoint Security?

Advanced Threat Protection: Provides real-time monitoring to detect and neutralize threats.
Centralized Management: Streamlines security management across all endpoints from a single interface.
Automatic Updates: Ensures endpoints are always protected with the latest security patches.
Comprehensive Reporting: Offers detailed analysis and visibility into security status and incidents.

What benefits or ROI should users look for in reviews when evaluating VIPRE Endpoint Security?

Cost-Effectiveness: Provides robust security without significant financial investment.
Time Efficiency: Reduces the time spent on managing security tasks and incidents.
Scalability: Easily accommodates growth within the organization, adapting to increased demands.
Enhanced Security Posture: Strengthens defenses against emerging threats, ensuring data protection.

VIPRE Endpoint Security is valued in industries such as finance, healthcare, and manufacturing, where data protection is critical. Its proactive threat detection and compliance features meet the stringent security requirements in these sectors, providing peace of mind and regulatory adherence while optimizing operational continuity.

VIPRE Security

WithSecure Elements Endpoint Protection offers advanced security capabilities to safeguard IT environments. It features tamper protection and DeepGuard technology, ensuring comprehensive protection against cyber threats while providing intuitive management and effective notification systems.

This endpoint protection excels in vulnerability detection and patch management, making it a viable competitor to top antivirus solutions like Kaspersky and Symantec. Its centralized management system is user-friendly, allowing administrators to monitor and update software seamlessly across remote devices. Installation is straightforward, securing both incoming and outgoing traffic efficiently. Despite areas for improvement such as resource consumption and integration, it remains integral for safeguarding IT infrastructures.

What are the main features of WithSecure Elements Endpoint Protection?

Tamper Protection: Prevents unauthorized alterations to system settings.
AMSI Integration: Enhances system defenses through scripting analysis.
DeepGuard: Advanced threat detection using behavior-based techniques.
Centralized Management: Streamlined monitoring and control from a single portal.
Patch Management: Efficiently ensures all devices are up-to-date.

What benefits should users consider in reviews?

Efficient Updates: Timely software updates directly impact security posture.
Effective Notifications: Alerts users about potential vulnerabilities promptly.
Comparability: Offers features on par with top antiviruses.
Support and Resources: Users have access to regular webinars and direct file submissions.

Organizations across industries use this solution for securing IT systems, ensuring device health, and automated response. Financial institutions appreciate the intrusion detection capabilities, while educational sectors benefit from its automated updates. It serves manufacturing sectors with robust security to monitor threats actively while adapting to evolving security requirements.

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Sample Customers

CBI Health Group, University Honda, VakifBank

College Station ISD, Mid-West Companies, Guardian Network Solutions

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