Morphisec Reviews

We have multiple endpoint protection solutions, and Morphisec adds another layer of protection. I'm also part of a mid-market enterprise forum, which is how I was introduced to Morphisec. Morphisec is a little different. It is an in-memory protection solution that doesn't depend on ransomware signatures. It detects malicious activity at the start, regardless of whether there's a variant of it. It provides better protection in that regard than some other competitors.

It's primarily on-premises. All of our Windows-based endpoints are protected, including workstations, laptops, servers, etc. We use the cloud-based communications agent to deploy updates to the Protector.

Morphisec has stopped some attacks we've seen. Most of our security problems are caused by our end-users. While our network is well protected, we're still exposed to attacks when someone clicks on a phishing link from their personal email on their work device. That happened to some of our senior staff. 

It hasn't happened this year, but we had two attacks last year, and Morphisec stopped those before they did any damage. It's proactive, so it preserves our environment. Some of the attacks that happened could have disrupted our business if they had gotten through. The purpose of Morphisec is to avoid disruptions in the business, so it has done what it's supposed to do. We haven't had any impact on our revenue stream.

We faced potential ransomware attacks after we made an acquisition. Even though the company we acquired was segmented, they had two possible ransomware attacks that were averted. We haven't had any problems since we put Morphisec in place. 

We're in the process of hardening our attack surface. We recently underwent exhaustive internal and external pen testing, and we're doing a lot of remediation. We also went through an extensive security risk assessment by a third party. We graded pretty well on the external pen test, but we still have work to do internally.  

The pen testers told us they could stop the communications service but not the Protector service internally, which we addressed with Morphisec. It's protecting us, but it might block communication to the portal, alerting us if there's an issue. That is by design, but we're working with them now, and they are hardening that service, so it can't be stopped.

Morphisec helps close the security gap of device memory at runtime, improving our security posture. It hasn't reduced the time we've spent investigating false alarms. If anything, it has probably increased the time. You still need to investigate alerts to see if they're genuinely damaging. It hasn't reduced our workload because we need to investigate alerts, and we get several each week. The majority of our alerts are false positives. If there are level fours or fives, we do a lot more. Those are the more malicious ones that are not false positives.

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.

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've been using Morphisec since April 2020.

Morphisec is highly stable. We haven't had any major issues with it.

I rate Morphisec support eight out of 10. It depends on the issue, but they're pretty good overall.

Positive

I don't think the initial setup was too tricky, and we've started deploying a cloud-based monitoring solution, making it much more manageable. It offers some advantages. For example, sometimes, an endpoint that wasn't on our networks will be attacked. With the on-prem version, we wouldn't get notified if they dialed in via a VPN because the agent isn't on that computer. The cloud-based monitoring tool only requires an internet connection. 

The deployment is quick with the cloud-based tool because it has a built-in deployment agent. You can push those out. I wouldn't say it's via GPO; it's through their own agent.

We've seen a return on our investment. Morphisec has been worth it, considering the price of competing solutions. 

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.

We didn't evaluate anything else at the time because I have a good relationship with the mid-market enterprise forum, and many of my peers used Morphisec. I knew it was a different type of technology than some competitors. It was unique and geared toward the mid-market.

I rate Morphisec Breach Prevention Platform nine out of 10. It has some unique features compared to competing products that offer in-memory protection. At the same time, Morphisec is relatively new to the market space. CrowdStrike offers incident monitoring services, whereas Morphisec is only starting to do that. If you need a 24/7 managed detection response, other players have it, but Morphisec is beginning to do it. 

It's a part of our security infrastructure. It's next-generation antivirus. It has got endpoint detection and response. 

Because we are in the power sector, we have to adopt a strong IT security policy. We have deployed several systems in place. We have a SIEM tool to monitor all logs. We have patch management. We also do a lot of audits. We are an ISO 27001-certified company. So, we do a lot of security audits. We go through a lot of security exercises internally, and we give a lot of importance to security.

The version that we have is built into the product.

It's the first layer of defense for us on the client and the server side. We haven't come across any instances of ransomware attacks or something else.

Previously, we were using traditional antivirus where a lot of exercises were required from the user's end. We had to monitor the daily updates from the OEM, and in the case of anything suspicious, such as a virus attack or detection of a virus, a lot of exercises were required. With Morphisec, we don't have to do those exercises. It detects everything quickly and takes proactive action as well. It helps with a lot of things. A lot of technical effort gets minimized because of this.

Morphisec has got a lot of features. It's next-generation antivirus. It has got endpoint detection and response. It detects abnormalities or suspicious activities inside the system and reports back. The good part is that we get reports quickly because we get alerts through the server. It provides a quick response, and alerting is also quick. It gives us detailed information about which exact file was infected, what was the suspicious behavior, and how to mitigate it or what steps Morphisec took. If we need any support, we can always contact their support. Their support is very quick.

It has got extended detection and response as a feature. Up till now, we haven't got any ransomware attacks. I've gone through a lot of reviews. A lot of people have recommended it and shared that it works very well when it comes to ransomware attack detection. Up till now, there has been no problem, and it has been working pretty well.

So far, only a few instances of normal infection have been reported. It detected malware on a few systems, but because of early detection, there were no issues. We have a patch-management solution in place. We continue to do all server patching. We have an SOP to do the patching, and Morphisec is also there for protection. Because of these security solutions in place, we haven't had any major security incidents.

Traditional antivirus products take a lot of resources in terms of memory and processor whenever background scanning happens. Morphisec doesn't take many resources. It's very lightweight, which is the best part of Morphisec.

It doesn't require a daily update. If you are installing it on any system that is not always connected to the internet, it doesn't require an update to be done on a daily basis. Whenever there's a patch or a version upgrade, we have to take care of that, but it doesn't require a daily update, which is a good part.

There were a lot of instances where proactive action was taken by the Morphisec agent. When we got an alert and were trying to investigate what exactly we have to do to eradicate or stop the infection, the Morphisec support team told us that there was nothing required to be done from our side. Everything is already taken care of. We now spend less hours than before. We used to daily monitor the logs of the antivirus system. We are PAN India, so we had to do a lot of exercises whenever an infection was found in the system. We had to go for proper patching and update of the antivirus, and we had to look for logs and other things. In the case of an infection, we used to scan in the safe mode, and in some cases, we even had to format the systems to remove the infection. Since having Morphisec, we are not doing those activities. It has saved a lot of our effort. Because of that, we have started concentrating on other securities areas.

Previously, we used to have one dedicated person for the investigation of false positives, and now, we are managing the entire show without a dedicated person. We are now working without that resource for the whole year. It has saved us approximately INR 45,000 or $600 a month.

It has reduced our team's workload. Earlier, we used to go through all the logs and scan the system. It required a lot of effort. When there was any detection, we used to format the systems, which would take six to eight hours and sometimes more than that. That effort has been minimized. In a month, we are saving the effort of four to five days. Similarly, earlier, we used to have a dedicated person, and now, we don't need a dedicated resource, which has reduced our security spending. We are saving approximately $600 a month.

We don't have to do anything as a user or as an admin. It does everything by default with its coding and inbuilt AI-based intelligence. We don't have to instruct it about what to do. It automatically takes corrective actions and quarantines or deletes a virus, malware, etc. That is the best part that I like about it.

It's lightweight. It doesn't take many resources. The users can enjoy working on their computers with better performance.

It saves a lot of effort for a technical person. Earlier, we used to monitor the traditional antivirus for updates. Now, we don't have to bother about updates, whether they are happening on a daily basis or not. A lot of the administration work has been reduced. Previously, whenever an infection was found, we used to take corrective action. We used to do a safe mode scanning of that particular computer. We had to remove that from the network. A lot of that effort has been minimized. We can enjoy working on other projects. It saves a lot of our effort with its AI and ML-based intelligence. Of course, no antivirus or OEM can give a 100% guarantee of protection from ransomware, but after having Morphisec in place, based on the reports we have gone through and the instances and suspicious activities that have been blocked by Morphisec, we are more assured that Morphisec will be able to take care of any such attacks.

We do VAPT four times a year. So far, no system-related or server-related vulnerability has been detected by the auditor. It was more related to networking devices. After installing Morphisec, we haven't come across any system-related vulnerability detection.

It has got two agents: one is for the client and the other one is for the server. It provides good protection for the servers. What I like about this product is that they've got a fantastic different system for the server.

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.

It has been almost a year.

It's very stable. It has been almost a year since we have been using it, and so far, it has been stable. 

It's easy to scale because it doesn't require anything. We just have to deploy the agent. In our case, we have deployed the agent through the Active Directory policy. It was quick. Once the agent is installed on a system, the system reflects on the server. We can see the client on the server. 

We have around 230 users right now, but we have 300 licenses.

We are very satisfied with their support. Their support is quick and prompt. Whenever we need to get details about an infection detected in our environment, we send an email, and their support is very quick. Within half an hour, we get a response with detailed information, which is something good about this product. I would rate their support a nine out of ten. So far, it has been good. There is no problem at all.

Positive

At my previous company, we used eScan. It's an Indian product, and before that, we used Symantec.  

At my current company, we thought to go ahead with Morphisec, as it’s a next-generation anti-virus (NGAV). We switched because we wanted to have a next-generation antivirus solution with good detection. Nowadays, security challenges faced by corporates are very high, and there are a lot of threats and infections. We wanted to have a solution that would take corrective actions and protect our environment quickly so that we don't face any challenges. The major one was ransomware. No one wants to face that kind of crisis. That was the reason we went ahead with Morphisec. It filled a lot of gaps that we had with our traditional antivirus solution.

We haven't found any complexity. It was smooth and pretty easy. We have to deploy the agent and everything starts working. It gets connected to the cloud server, and we get all the reports. That's one of its good features. In traditional antivirus, we had to go through and deploy a lot of policies. There were a lot of things to do, which is not the case with Morphisec. We don't have to do that much configuration. It's ready-made, and it works pretty well. 

We have our IT and security teams for its deployment and maintenance. We have got a team of four. It doesn't require a dedicated person. We all are experts on this solution, and not much configuration needs to be done on the server side or the client side. We just do the deployment, and if there's any alert, it automatically comes to our mailbox. So, not much effort is required. We already have a policy in place where as soon as we configure a system on the network, automatically, our agent gets deployed with the Active Directory policy. It hardly takes any time. It's easy, and everything is automatic through our Active Directory policy.

It has been a good investment. There was a little bit increase in the cost as compared to a traditional antivirus, but we are now more stress-free. Up till now, we haven't come across any ransomware because of the protection it provides. Even though its cost is a little bit on the higher side, we've seen ROI in terms of security. It's a good investment. If somebody is using traditional antivirus and is infected with ransomware, they would end up paying a ransom.

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.

You have to keep a watch on all the alerts you are getting. There is no major thing that needs to be monitored or taken care of during the deployment. You can simply go ahead with it and then forget worrying.

I would recommend it for a small organization. The spending on security is less in smaller organizations, and they often don't go for an alert mechanism or a SIEM tool. A solution like Morphisec is recommended for having an analytical view of what is happening inside the server and what kind of infection is there. It has been working pretty well for us.

I would rate it a nine out of ten.

We purchased Morphisec to protect our endpoints from anomalous behavior. The biggest use case would be to prevent ransomware, but also to detect other unnecessary programs running on devices. So, the use case has been endpoint protection, both for servers and endpoints, e.g., laptops and desktops.

We do a multi-layered defense in-depth. They are our primary prevention at the endpoints for anomalous behavior. I would classify it as a preventative tool, since Morphisec blocks and prevents execution. So, I would put it at the preventative layer.

We have agents on all of our endpoints and servers pointing to their cloud instance.

Morphisec makes it very easy for IT teams of any size to prevent breaches of critical systems because of the design of their tool. When we evaluated Morphisec, the CIO and I sat and listened. What attracted us to them is the fact that it stops activity at the point of detection. That saves a lot of time because now we are not investigating and trying to trace down what to turn off. We have already prevented it, which makes it very much safer and more secure.

The biggest feature is its ability to prevent. Here is the interesting thing with a tool like Morphisec. You implement it almost as an insurance policy. If it works, nothing happens. If it fails, you have bad things occurring. So far, nothing terrible has happened. It does a good job of reporting when it detects anomalous behavior so we can research it. However, the key is that we can research in a much calmer fashion, since we do not need to uninstall because it blocks the activity.

Morphisec is a venture startup. They are still early in their growth stage. They need to get mature on their customer support and on how they interface with system tools. For example, they need to get multifactor in place and an API for the major multi-factor systems, e.g., Okta, Duo, Ping, and Microsoft. They don't have them built in yet. They are working on them. It is just not there yet. Also, their stability, customer support, and processes need improvement, which is just part of maturity.

My company has been using Morphisec since mid-December of 2020.

I have been aware of Morphisec since I worked for Optiv and met one of the key sales people back in 2015 or 2016. When I was at that company, I was a consultant helping companies with their roadmaps. So, we connected there and got Morphisec introduced to Optiv, the company I was working with then, who is also a VAR. Therefore, it was getting the product in via another sales route or sales channel.

It takes less than one person to deploy and maintain the solution. So far, we have not had to do maintenance. The biggest thing that we are working with Morphisec right now on is the multi-factor interface enhancement.

We have had no issues with scalability. It's worked fine.

We have probably 10 people between our help desk, Tier 2, and executives accessing the system and using the dashboards, which has been pretty straightforward and easy to do.

In the system, our IT people research alerts. We get a daily report of all the events from the prior day. If there was a critical alert, the help desk will go out and research to see if they need to do anything with the endpoint. They have to go into the system to monitor and look at it. If we are running into an issue on a particular server and endpoint, we may go out there to see if there was any indication of an issue or if the actual agent is causing a problem. We have yet to find that the agent is causing a problem, but that is why they potentially would go out there.

It is on every endpoint, e.g., laptops, desktops, and servers, which is pretty extensive. We may expand into their incident response process and a number of other things that we can use them for, but that will be evaluated as we go into our budget cycle at the end of the year.

I would rate Morphisec technical support as eight out of 10. They have just been very responsive. They are very strong at follow-up. They won't close tickets until we tell them to. They are very much a customer service focused group. They have been very good at tech support, providing knowledge, information, etc.

Morphisec makes use of deterministic attack prevention that doesn’t require investigation of security alerts. We didn't have a protection layer prior to Morphisec, so we added it. The key is the amount of work by the team is minimal. So, it did not increase our workload. We did not have to add staff. It has been a positive benefit that way.

This solution was an additive layer that we didn't have before. So far, it has been successful in the sense that it has not caused us to add resources. So, we have been able to get layer protection without additional expense, in terms of staff. That is a good thing.

The initial setup was very straightforward. It was simple to install the agent. They provided good support. It was just a push, then it just took minutes to get the process rolling. We could monitor how well it rolled out, and they were there to support us. This was one of the easiest that we have ever done.

The deployment took a day or two in total actual work time, so we could confirm it reporting in on the dashboard. 

It probably took us a week or two to get it rolled out to all the devices because of our change control windows. 

We put it in the most conservative setting that we could for prevention. We did roll through certain applications for the logic of what not to include, but they had a pretty good baseline for what we should reference. We then just pushed the agents with some logic on the change windows. So, we did all the desktops and laptops first, then the servers. It was a pretty straightforward implementation.

Morphisec helps us save money on our security stack. We probably would have spent $100,000 more on a different solution. So, it did save us on that expense.

It is an annual subscription basis per device. For the devices that we have in scope right now, it is about $25,000 a year.

We also evaluated CrowdStrike, Cylance, and SentinelOne. CrowdStrike and Cylance were way too expensive. You could also throw in Sophos and Symantec in there. All those were too expensive and burdensome. SentinelOne was interesting. We were able to get better pricing and better access to the top people at Morphisec, and that is why we went with Morphisec.

We do not use Morphisec for antivirus at this time. We are using another tool for antivirus, but we will look at Morphisec Guard when that license is up.

Don't overthink it. Just do it. Follow the directions of Morphisec and go for it, but make sure you understand what your application stack is before you go full bore, so you don't create false positives. However, they are easy to work with in those terms.

The reality is nobody ever gets to a single pane of glass or a single dashboard. Those claims are made by vendors, even Morphisec will make it. The problem is you have so many layers in your security stack that you will never get to a single pane of glass. So, I never have that as a requirement because I know it is not attainable.

We do not have Microsoft Defender in place, but so far it is providing visibility for what it is installed on.

While I have known of the company since 2016, they are still a startup. They are still equity-backed. I don't know where they are going to end up, but right now I am confident that they have good backing and financial resources. They got a new round of funding just after the first of the year. That is always a good sign.

Biggest lesson is the amount of discipline required in our company to stay current. Morphisec highlights breakdowns that we have in process and procedure, which is a good thing, but it's highlighted to us that we need to be a little bit more disciplined.

I would rate Morphisec as nine out of 10.

I use it mainly as an additional layer of security since we have quite a lot of servers. I have unblocked a couple of things that got filtered out, and it worked great. We are a small company, not a really large firm.

We were on-prem before, but now we are on a SaaS service that they provide, which is hosted through AWS. This makes it easier for me to access from any location. I can also have Morphisec lock it down to a specific IP for allowing me to get into the system. I would need to be on a computer within the network in order to access the AWS site. 

They provide some information about security events from Microsoft Defender. I know recently when there was that Print Nightmare issue, they did release an email saying, "We are aware of this, and Morphisec is basically on it as well." So, they don't release just random little Microsoft stuff. They would release any major breaches and ransomware. This is where they would notify clients that Morphisec has been updated already to block these things. This is definitely important to us. I am usually up-to-date on all these things. However, if I don't hear from my software vendor, I would be a little bit worried, "Are they blocking it? Is this something that will be blocked? Are they looking into it?" So, it is good to be informed on these things.

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.

Most of the alerts that we have gotten are for legitimate stuff. They have typically been for logins and stuff that users might try to install, e.g., WebEx or some background Google update, so we block them. We have been working internally to block the use of plugins and stuff. It's not that they are fake; they are real notifications. It is just that we have to restrict certain access to certain browsers.

It reduces two alerts every month. It is not so much. We have locked down a lot of things, like our internal group policies. In this way, we don't have to run into any random alerts developed in other people's software for a lot of little things, which we noticed that we can immediately remediate. We have Morphisec doing its real job versus just blocking tiny little programs that don't matter to it. We just have it there as a layer of security on top of our layer of security policies that we already have. I don't think it's going to really catch a lot of stuff, but if something were to happen, it is the backup. That is why we have it.

Every month we get a security report, which tells us, "These are all the things that it scanned, and these are the things that it blocked." 99% of the time, there won't be a lot of stuff, but it gives us an executive report at the end of the month. I usually review it just to make sure that things are okay, e.g., any machines that we might have replaced, need to get rid of, or archive. That is really all I would really look at the security report for. Because if I were to get something like a threat, I won't see it at the end of the month. I see it right away.

Morphisec makes it super easy for our IT team to prevent breaches of critical systems. It is a one-click install, then it takes care of the rest. If we have to evaluate anything, they will notify us. After it has been prevented, we can jump in and release it or create a new rule. Then, if it gets deployed, it gets deployed to all our endpoints. It is really simple for the amount of stuff that they actually do.

As far as threat prevention goes, it does great. There have been a couple of preventions that it blocked from browsers and stuff. From time to time, Google may try to install something through the use of a plugin and it blocks that out. 

The dashboard is really easy to use. It is not super convoluted, which is great.

Like any other threat prevention platform, this one is mostly specific to memory attacks. That is what I really like about it. I get emails if there are any threats. 

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.

At my company, we have been using Morphisec for about three years.

I have been using it since last November, which is when I took over from the previous IT manager and was introduced to Morphisec. 

The stability seems great. There is literally no downtime that I have ever noticed.

There is no maintenance. Morphisec does everything. As long as the endpoint is connected to the dashboard, which is hosted online, then there is nothing that I need to do besides just making sure that it has Internet access on my side, which is how it gets updates.

Scaling is very simple. We just have to add a new computer, then install Morphisec. There is really nothing else to do.

There's only two users who have access to it: a backup admin and me. In the event that something were to happen to me, the backup admin could still get into it, but I am the most active admin on the account. I usually make sure everything is up and the devices are checking in. I just check it from time to time to make sure that all the devices are cleaned up and archived. Since we have been replacing computers, I want to make sure that they are not going to be showing up in our list as offline devices if they were replaced. I just have to remove them and archive it.

I contacted their tech support once, when I was deploying the software. I just had to update an IP, and that was it. It was pretty fast. I have a direct contact with their support tech, and even our account manager. I can send issues to them, then they will forward them to their tech support team. They get back to you within an hour, and they are in different time zones. Time-wise, in terms of getting back to you, it is pretty fast.

We previously used Carbon Black. We switched to Morphisec because Carbon Black had a lot of false positives. Based on my knowledge, it was really noisy for stuff that really didn't matter. So, Carbon Black was not the best choice.

When I came in, my company was on an older version, so I had to roll out a newer version. It was literally a migration. We moved from the on-prem server to the cloud. I had to do that from scratch. It really was just Morphisec saying, "This is your new link. There is an installer. You can either install it on all your computers one by one or you can script it out." They provide all the information. Therefore, whenever a computer signs in, it would just install the program and point it to the new server.

The migration took a few seconds. Once I have set it up, all I have to do is wait for people to turn their computers on. Then, I can see them start populating inside of the new dashboard. It was just a waiting game for whenever the CPAs would turn their computers on and log in.

We are in a domain, so all our computers are managed by user accounts. We can set specific rules, e.g., when a user logs in, this happens. So, I set up a rule that would install the new version of Morphisec when a user logs in. Then, I just have to wait for them to log in from wherever they are.

Before, we had to manually install it. However, I am a believer in automating things and doing things a lot faster. So, I was able to roll it out to every computer, even making sure that we had it on all our computers by using their built-in, automatic deployment.

I get emails if I have to set up anything.

I met the guys from the support team and also used a program to deploy it.

Deployment was done in-house. My main thing was that I didn't want to have any computers being missed. It was all done on a one-to-one basis, where the guy would go to every computer and install it. So, installing it would be policy. I know Morphisec would reach out to every single computer, as long as it is joined to the domain. That was my main strategy when rolling it out to everybody. Once it popped up, I made sure the numbers matched up to know whether Morphisec was on every computer on the domain.

It is more of a peace of mind. We know that we have an additional layer of security that is protecting our endpoints, since we are working remotely for certain things. We have the threat prevention platform. 80% of our stuff is based on security materials, because of the data that we work with day-to-day. Having Morphisec made us a little bit more comfortable knowing that our servers are not going to get hacked by any random stuff. However, if it does get hacked, then Morphisec will prevent it.

Morphisec has reduced the amount of time that we spend investigating false positives. It gives me the breakdown of where things originated from. It is easy for me to identify whether it is a false positive or not. Most of the stuff is legitimate. So, I have never had to deal with a false positive block.

The solution has reduced our team’s workload. We don't have to really go in, look at stuff, and monitor a dashboard. There is something we set that will notify us. We just have it getting sent to our mailbox. Therefore, if we get an email, we would know (at that stage) that something is going on.

I know my organization was paying a lot more for the previous software that they used through an MSP. It was charged per user and cost quite a bit to use per endpoint.

I don't have to purchase any additional licenses, unless I go over. I have a license limit of 80. Whenever we renew our contract, if we have gone over that amount, then we will get billed for that amount.

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.

The two main contenders were Carbon Black and Morphisec. We made a decision between those two. We had two trials, where they were trialed them on different machines. Morphisec was more detailed. Morphisec was detecting stuff that was correct versus Carbon Black, which mostly just protecting literally every little thing that you do but not really malicious at all nor causing a memory issue. Morphisec was a little bit more real-time with real stuff versus just a bunch of anomalous stuff. Though, I think Carbon Black learns as it goes. 

Morphisec has helped us to save money on our security stack. Considering other platforms that we have gotten quotes from and other platforms that I have looked into, based on our initial investment into it, it has saved us quite a lot of money on external and internal devices that we would have needed to purchase from other vendors. Right now, it is saving us anywhere between the range of $9,000 to $20,000 per year, because we put a lot of money on security. We house a lot of sensitive information, so we can't afford to go around something. That would put all our clients' information at risk.

We use Morphisec as one of our security artillery platforms. We have other software that we use for security threats, so Morphisec is not the only one. Morphisec is probably around the second stack. We have our main threat prevention software that we rolled out, and after that is Morphisec. After Morphisec is our DNS filtering. 

Read the instructions. They literally tell you everything you need to do. Just make sure that you know what Morphisec is before getting into it, because it is not an antivirus. They have a feature that binds with Windows Defender. Windows Defender is an antivirus and Morphisec is more of unified threat prevention for memory attacks. So, you still need to have an antivirus.

Morphisec is a security platform. The things that it does are better for companies who have sensitive information that they don't want to risk getting out. If they have Morphisec, they can feel safe that their stuff is protected.

I would rate it 10 out of 10. It is a great program. We will definitely be renewing it when our renewal period is closer.

For the most part, it's an install-and-forget until it alerts. When it alerts, if a user has a script or something that runs and that tries to alter a process, a message pops up on the user's device and lets the user know, and then it shuts down the process immediately, preventing further infection.

We recently migrated to their cloud platform, which is hosted on AWS. We had on-prem servers but we're decommissioning them in the next week or so.

We've seen it work successfully in a couple of areas where it helped us stop a problem before it became a problem. A user clicked on something they shouldn't have clicked on, and it was going to do something. Morphisec will kill Internet Explorer, for instance. That's one of the most popular scenarios.

Morphisec has also reduced the amount of time we spend investigating false positives. Before we got it, it would take a couple of hours whenever we did have an alert, to identify the machine. Now it's really fast and simple because Morphisec provides a full report. We can then jump in there and see exactly what process or script kicked off the alert. We can go directly to it to see if it's legitimate or not. Usually, now, it takes a few minutes.

It helps us save money because of the reduced man-hours when it comes to hunting down something that happens. We also haven't looked at adding any other security software to our environment because we've been very happy with Morphisec.

It has also reduced workload. When I first started here, we had to remove the computers from a large section of a department to hunt down a problem. Now, it's just automatically shut down and we get an alert and we can go directly to the problem.

The killing of the processes and the alerting are the most valuable features. Where we used to have to wait for either an email to come in and say, "Hey, this has happened," or for a user to call and say, "Hey, this isn't working right," now, the moment it happens, it kicks off an alert to our Microsoft Teams and everybody on my team sees it.

Morphisec also provides full visibility into security events for Microsoft Defender and Morphisec in one dashboard. We purchased that functionality about a year ago. It's important to our organization because we are able to go to one spot to see and follow up on things, and that has been a big help. We're still trying to integrate Windows Defender so that it works with Azure, along with SCCM. If you've worked in SCCM, you know it can be a little bit confusing. When you go into SCCM, you have to do a lot of drill-downs and look for the problem. But 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.

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. It reports on it, but it doesn't let you take any action from there. 

Also, as opposed to when users are on the cloud where it will automatically update the correct agents when they check in, it cannot do that for a VDI client.

I've been using Morphisec for three to four years.

I've had no complaints or concerns about the stability of Morphisec.

Scalability is not an issue. The way it is designed is that it gets installed and pulls up the necessary plan from the server. Even if you shut down the server, it would stay running to push out more. You just need the licenses for it.

Our entire organization is using it, they just don't realize it. At any one time we have between 500 and 600 people using it. There are only two administrators of the solution right now. Up until now, as one of the administrators, I have done all of the maintenance, but now with the move to the cloud, Morphisec is going to handle that. My role will continue to include ensuring that clients are pushed out to the devices and to follow up on any alerts that come up.

We don't have plans to increase usage. Usage is based on the number of devices we have and we don't intend on expanding that at this time. But the goal is to have it on every desktop that exists in the hospital.

Their support has been good. The only problem is that their support lives in Israel, so the time zones are a bit off, but I've never had any complaint beyond that.

We did not have a previous solution for Zero-day protection.

The initial setup was straightforward and simple. I believe we used a command-line PDQ Deploy and pushed it out across the organization. We were licensed for 1,500 machines in the beginning, 300 servers and 1,200 machines. We didn't go to each individual one. We just pushed it out from one spot to all of them, from a list.

A typical install takes about a minute. It may take three to four minutes if it has to uninstall an old version of Morphisec. Across the organization, it took a day to roll out. We have an inventory of everything we have. Our biggest concern, at the time, was what would happen on servers. For instance, I recently pushed it out to the servers, but we left it in alert-only mode for this new version. That way, if it did alert on anything, it would not kill any necessary processes for the organization.

There are two major plans for Windows Defender, and we've chosen plan one. We haven't considered plan two yet because it was more of a cost-savings when we were looking at Microsoft. Going with Morphisec was more for the Zero-day protection that they offer.

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.

The only cost, in addition to the standard licensing fees, is if you want the Windows Defender platform, the integration. That one was between $2,000 and $3,000. It's an add-on feature.

The one I remember that we looked at was Carbon Black. The reason we went with Morphisec was that it was well-reviewed at a conference by one of the members of our leadership.

It's simple, it's easy, and it works. It's a product that actually does what it says it's going to do.

The biggest lesson I've learned from using it is that there are a lot more things in your environment than you want.

When Morphisec first came out, it was on-prem and we used a group policy to deploy it to the endpoints. Working with them was one of the things I did and then obviously when Covid hit I had a large majority of my workforce that started working remotely. And deploying new endpoints remotely using GPO can be a struggle. I talked to them about that and the next day I got a phone call. We're actually moving to their cloud platform that does automatic updates in the cloud now. So that if I have people working remotely, they get the update automatically. It's not signature updates and whatnot, since it's signatureless, but agent updates. If you're 4.1 to 4.15 or 4.16, those will all get deployed automatically from a cloud server, which really opened up a lot of things for us as well.

That was our request. I went in and they started working on it. I worked with them on the development of the dashboard. They're always looking for customer input about what they can do better. They're constantly asking and getting input from their customers about stuff to improve the product, and there are not a lot of organizations that do that either.

Morphisec has reduced the amount of time we spend investigating false positives. We can see what's going on in the dashboard. We're a robotics company so we do a lot of in-house development. And so we see false positives on occasion due to whatever reason. When I see that, I contact them, we'll look at the signatures, the hash and the memory affirmation, and stuff that's provided through the attacks. They analyze that, we look at the application and then they resolve it, or if it's a rare thing, I can just exclude it so that it doesn't get looked at.

It's very quick and easy to do, so it's not like I'm waiting weeks for them to analyze data. We send them the logs or they get the logs automatically, depending on how I have stuff set up, they review them, call me the next day, and tell me what we need to do. And it's over with. It has reduced my team's workload by 30 to 40%.

Morphisec absolutely helps us to save money on our security stack. Budgets were tight during COVID and we had some companies that were jumping. Their prices were going up and up and taking advantage of what was going on in the industry. Morphisec didn't do that. They stuck to their guns and said, "This is the cost of our product and we're not going to take advantage of the customer." That economic side was huge for them as well. Compared to other products, their pricing is very good and very competitive.

The product has absolutely worked flawlessly. We have had basically no issues, either with the product or with any type of virus or zero-day attacks, ransomware, nothing. It has caught everything. And the one thing that's been unique about them is I read a lot and do a lot of research on the products that are out there, and there have been some products that are widely used like CCleaner and such that had been packaged in some of these programs that Morphisec has caught. They've contacted the manufacturers of those programs to say, "This is what we found." And rather than just letting it go on, they're contacting other manufacturers saying, "You just deployed something and it's got some adware." And so they can fix their product and then redeploy the fixed version out to the public. They're looking out for themselves, but they're also looking out for other organizations as well.

There are two primary valuable features. 

It works without the end-user having to do anything. It just works. 

Second, the fact that it's signatureless is valuable. It's very light on the endpoint and does not have any performance hindrance on the endpoint. That is a huge plus as well. We've used some other products in the past that just really bogged down the machine. If we do scans in the background, and I get a request that someone wants to do scans at night, it's fine. You can take your computers home and turn them off in the evening. I don't have any of those kinds of issues with Morphisec.

Morphisec's approach to using deterministic attack prevention is a big deal for us with all the zero-day attacks and ransomware that's going on in the industry. What we've seen is quite a downturn in the virus or signature-based attacks on the endpoints and even malware. The zero-day attacks are really at the forefront industry-wide, whether it be my company or financial companies. 

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.

We're getting ready to deploy the cloud platform. I've already got the cloud portal and everything available to me. There are some nice additional features in there that were some of the things that I had requested previously. Those are some of the features that I was looking for on my on-prem platform that they've already instituted in the cloud and that I'm sure will be instituting on their on-prem platform as well. Having to have an on-prem server required a lot of administration. Being able to push that to the cloud and have it managed up there for us is a real nice addition.

We've been using Morphisec since the inception of the product. We were really one of the first commercial organizations in the United States to use it in production. So, we started with a version 1 product, which was several years ago. We were looking to complement our stack of endpoint security products. I then went out and started doing research for primarily zero-day signatureless software that we could utilize on our endpoints. Doing my research, I came across the Morphisec product, placed a call to them, ended up talking to one of their founding members of the product. We also looked at CrowdStrike, Carbon Black, SentinelOne and some of the other similar types of software out there. We decided that Morphisec would definitely be the best solution for us.

As far as scalability, you can put it on a couple of endpoints or you can put it on thousands of endpoints. The initial installation is very fast. It's a minute and a half, two minutes, and you're done. You walk away.

The machine connects to the domain, the application's installed and it shows up in the dashboard and you move on. We put it into the group policy, there's the script, send it out, install it on the endpoint and we don't have to touch it.

Whereas with a lot of the other applications, you have to touch every single machine and make sure that it gets installed correctly, and that it's loading correctly. We just don't have to do that.

It's so fast that the end-user doesn't even really know that it's happening. For the end user's experience, it's absolutely over the top. We've had other products in the past that we've used and we've had complaints. The CPU could be dragging because their thing is doing some big scan in the background, or the application or agent itself is, for lack of a better term, very heavy so it uses a lot of memory and uses a lot of CPU, and drags down the machines. I have a company of engineers and scientists and they want all the horsepower they can have on their machines and don't want something running in the background that's dragging down what they're trying to, where they're trying to work.

We're doing between six and seven hundred nodes.

I have several people that monitor this stuff but it really takes one person to set it up and let it go. It takes a very small piece of one person's time to do this. I have multiple people because I want them to be able to have experience and understand what's going on in the environment.

To administer it, it takes less than an hour of my time a day. I get reports sent to me. I can review reports. If I need to go into the dashboard, I can pop into the dashboard very quickly, see what's going on, see if there's anything that needs tending to, and then move on about my day.

I have absolutely without a doubt seen ROI. It's the cost savings compared to other products, the performance of the product, and the amount of time saved by my team on issues that were happening before we installed Morphisec and utilized their product. I got a return on investment in less than a year.

I do not have to pay extra for anything. We're an Office 365 shop but we do not use the MS3 E3. If we would turn around and use that product in the cloud as far as Office 365, then the integration is instantaneous all the way through into Office 365. But that's not dependent on Morphisec. That's a dependence on my licensing with Microsoft.

If you don't have that integration, Morphisec integrates with just the Defender on the desktop. It's built-in. You're not paying extra for something to have that feature set.

One of the things we looked at was to see how the solutions affect the endpoint performance. Because when you start stacking up products on top of each other, on the endpoints, you can run into performance issues, memory consumption, CPU consumption, and whatnot. Morphisec was very light and does not consume hardly any CPU or memory. It runs in the background unknown to the user. It doesn't do a bunch of alerts and stuff to the end-user. It just works in the background. Then you have a dashboard and a portal that you can manage and see what's going on. Morphisec was a really good fit for us.

In the early days, on a Windows platform especially, you had third-party virus protection applications. McAfee, Kaspersky, Norton Symantec, and those types of things, and we've used several over the course of the years. When we finally migrated fully to Windows 10 platform, Windows Defender was much better at what it did. And one of the things that came up the pipe was Microsoft integration with Morphisec so that I can see what Defender's doing as well as what Morphisec's doing in our dashboard or portal. That was very unique and this worked out very well.

The other solutions at the time did not provide those things, and so that was a big plus for us too. It was nice to be able to see what's going on with Defender endpoints as well. It has been a great product for us. It definitely does what it says. Their support is second to none. If I have an issue with a false positive or something, I can place a service request and they're on it right away. We review it and they resolve it. I really can't say enough about the product and the team that supports the product. They've been great. They've treated me like kid gloves since the very beginning.

I've used their product since its infancy, if they're looking for a product that is reasonably priced, does what it says it's going to do, requires very little administration and deployment effort, then this is the product I would be looking at.

Compared to what I've seen out there right now, I'd rate Morphisec a 10 out of 10. I really can't say enough about the product.

There may be some other products coming out there that are going to compete, and that's fine. And if you look at those other products, you better take a really good, hard look at Morphisec and see what they can do. Look at the whole entire package, the support groups, and what type of support they get that you're getting, that you may not get with other products. That's an important piece for us, if something does go wrong, you know you've got someone you can call, you know you've got a support portal to put in a ticket that you're going to get a very quick response from. You look at the whole package, not just one piece of it.

Since the beginning, their deployment strategies and everything has continued to improve and get better and better. You can't do that if you're just sitting in a room, a bunch of engineers and say this is what we're going to do and this is how the customer has to do it. 

They treat me with kid gloves and I really can't say enough about the product and how it's performed for us and the support we continue to get, even years later. I get the same amount of support that I did in the early days.

We are using it for endpoint and Windows Server protection. We have other tools as well, but we took this service as a second line of defense.

It's a cloud-based service.

If you take, for example, threats from email phishing campaigns, other vendors do not alert on them, but Morphisec shows the alerts for any phishing activities. If any user has clicked a phishing link, Morphisec takes the necessary action. It does not allow that.

We use a defense-in-depth strategy to harden our attack surface and Morphisec is our second defense line at the endpoint protection level, for all servers, including Linux. It evaluates scripts or any utilities that are not genuine, and running on a Linux server, and it blocks them. Our Linux platform is also becoming secure now. Morphisec is quite an important tool for us in terms of security and InfoSec because of the malware protection. It is quite a good security platform in comparison with its competitors.

It also helps close the security gap of device memory at run time. Closing this security gap means when we can trust this solution. It gives us the required output. This is the kind of technology that is required more by financial organizations like ours.

Another benefit is that Morphisec has reduced the amount of time we spend investigating false positives. On a daily basis, our SOC analysts review all the tickets that have been raised by the solution. If there is a false positive, we need to check the scanning limits that have been set and why it is creating that alert. If it is a false positive, we point it out to the Morphisec team as well.

Morphisec has also reduced our team's workload, without question, because the solution is quite simple to use. And if there are any alerts on the dashboard, you get all the information and can easily address or investigate them. Everything is displayed on the Morphisec console and that is the best part of the tool. It has also saved us money on our security stack.

Their scanning analysis engines are quite good compared to other solutions. It scans for malware attacks and enables blocking. It immediately takes action by itself, from the Morphisec console.

All the alerts are on the dashboard, which is quite simple and useful for us. You can easily check all the alerts that are being blocked or allowed, or whatever the action is. You can easily see that and you can take the necessary actions. You can add a PowerShell extension or any activities for blocking at your network level or for endpoints. You can easily do the configuration.

We also use the Moving Target Defense feature. If you are using another endpoint protection and Morphisec is compatible with it, you will also have this second line of defense. If there is a Zero-day attack that is not blocked by your endpoint protection tool, it will be blocked by Morphisec. That is quite an important feature.

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.

We have been using Morphisec Breach Prevention Platform for more than two years.

The stability is quite good. The agent does not consume much memory or processing, so it's quite a stable product. Until now, we haven't faced any issues with this product.

The tool is scalable too in terms of the cyber security attacks that are happening globally. In the pandemic situation, these attacks are more inclusive, but Morphisec is scalable in terms of cyber security and second-level defense.

We have deployed it to between 700 and 800 endpoints and we have a large SOC team with seven to eight members who are closely monitoring everything.

We have contacted their technical support many times. We get prompt support from their team. Their support is on time for any query and we get support for investigations. We even get proactive emails from Morphisec for any version upgrade or new features.

Positive

We didn't have a solution prior to Morphisec, other than endpoint protection.

We did a PoC for almost a month, but deployment is very easy. You just deploy the agent and it gets started. We took our time, doing different PoC use cases and then we finalized the product. We used a patch management tool to automatically deploy it to all our systems.

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.

So far, we haven't been subject to attacks or incidents. But from what I have seen globally, Morphisec has prevented many attacks. I have registered for Morphisec's articles and they have articles on what they're blocking currently. 

It is a useful tool as an InfoSec and cyber security platform for all IT members, giving them more in-depth knowledge about every alert, including the exact process that generated the alert.

We are using Morphisec on 100% of our endpoints.  The Morphisec protector installation is pretty straightforward, currently using the scripting capabilities of ConnectWise Automate.

Previously, we had a mix of AV and EDR solutions that required a fair amount of management.  Policy management was more complex, and reviewing exception reports was very time-consuming.  Even with this extra effort, we still encountered viruses on a somewhat regular basis. At least once or tiwce a month we would have to work on a machine to remediate it. Since we started using Morphisec, that hasn't happened even once. 

This alone has definitely reduced our team's workload. I would estimate we save between four and ten hours a month previously spent on remediation.

The attack prevention doesn't require investigation into security alerts, although we do periodically look and see what types of things are taking place. Even so, we don't spend a lot of time doing those investigations because the attack has been prevented and we don't see it occur again.

Another benefit, something that is important to me, is that Morphisec Guard enables us to see at a glance whether users have device control and disk encryption enabled properly. We want to make sure that we're properly secured and following best practices. Prior to that information being made available to us through Morphisec, we didn't really have a great way of confirming whether a machine had an encrypted disk or other security features enabled.

The solution also saves us from paying for a higher-tier license to get visibility into our Defender AV alerts. 

The primary feature, of course, is the prevention of Zero-day attacks and other related issues.

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.

We are now beginning to use Morphisec Scout, which provides vulnerability information. At this time, it is able to recognize vulnerabilities and reporting them to us, but it's not actually resolving them. There's still a separate manual process to resolve those vulnerabilities, primarily through upgrades, which are done outside of Morphisec. It might be a bit much to ask, but if Morphisec could somehow have that capability, either natively or through interactions with an RMM system, that would be very effective.

We have been using the Morphisec Breach Prevention Platform for a little over two years.

It's been very stable, both in terms of Morphisec Guard and the administrative console.

We have one primary, default protection plan that applies to all of our machines, and it does the job very well. It's pretty easy to use the administrative console to check on the status of the protectors. For us, it has been very scalable -- we have 1,200 employees, and Morphisec is on every machine.

I can imagine with more complex environments there might be a need for more varied protection plans, and any limitations of the administrative user interface might be exposed. However, that's not something that has impacted us at all.

I know Morphisec is continuing to evolve and to look for additional ways to be of value to its customers, but in our case, the specific items that we are currently using from Morphisec have already provided great value.

We've only had a few instances where it's been necessary to contact their technical support, but when we have engaged them the support has been very good. We've had good responsiveness and the people we've worked with have been very knowledgeable.

Positive

We previously used more familiar EDR tools like Carbon Black and Sophos.  We still use SentinelOne on a portion of our machines, but we found that Morphisec is so effective that those EDR tools rarely have the opportunity to do the work that they would normally do before Morphisec has already prevented the attack.

Every one of those other solutions required more hands-on management and more direct involvement. With Morphisec, we just make sure it's installed.  With the default policies we have in place, things work well without much additional oversight

There were two factors that occurred simultaneously that drove us to make our initial decision about Morphisec. One was that we were in the middle of a transition from Carbon Black to SentinelOne, and I was concerned that we might encounter circumstances during that transition where we were not fully protected. I considered Morphisec to be a good additional layer. We always strive to have layers of security, and in this case, the additional layer did not negatively impact any of the other security processes we had in place. Since that time, it has been a layer that has proved to be very effective at what it does.

The second factor was that we recognized that Morphisec has a different, complementary approach to how secures our endpoints.  That approach has been very effective in dealing with unknown vulnerabilities.

The setup was fairly straightforward. We were one of the first to use the hosted  cloud instance, so there were some small discrepancies in the documentation that didn't properly recognize our scenario. But I perceive the number of clients using cloud instances has increased dramatically—it may be the norm now for Morphisec customers.  The documentation has definitely improved.

Our implementation strategy was to install it on roughly 10 percent of our environment to assess whether there were any unintended consequences,  such as performance issues. Once we validated both the effectiveness and the low impact on performance, we then deployed it across our entire environment.

The deployment didn't take long, and it went very smoothly. The reporting it provides is very good, giving you a sense of the progress. There was nothing of concern. 

I would note that there have been two different instances where we've had to manually push out significant version updates. We're now working with a version where the agent, the protector, will update itself.  We are interested to see how well this works with the next significant update.

In terms of staff requirements for deployment and maintenance, somebody has to initiate the solution, but it's not a primary role for anybody among our IT employees. We have our basic processes in place to make sure the Morphisec Protector is on every new machine that we deploy. Beyond that, we don't really spend much time looking at any of the incidents that have taken place, or managing the security policies. There is very minimal overhead.

We implemented in-house.  The documentation and the onboarding support made the process very easy to manage.

It is definitely a tool that has saved us enough time and reduced our risk enough that the cost is well-justified.

That elimination of instances where we had to manually remediate machines that were affected by a virus has saved us time. We also don't feel it's quite as necessary to use more expensive EDR solutions on every single machine, and we're just better protected. We haven't had issues where we've had data loss or exfiltration.

I'm not sure if we were an early adopter or not, but we enjoyed very competitive pricing when we began working with Morphisec a couple of years ago.  We've been very happy with the value the service provides.

This is the first year that we've had Morphisec Scout in addition to Morphisec Guard. We are eager to take advantage of the additional capabilities it offers. Of course there is an additional cost associated with Scout, but we feel the value will definitely justify the costs.

We evaluated other next-generation EDR antivirus options, but not any other options like Morphisec. I don't know if there are any security solutions quite like Morphisec.

Defender does well with known vulnerabilities, whereas Morphisec does a job that others can't, with unknown vulnerabilities. The other tools that we have in place, such as our file sharing and email services, do a pretty good job of eliminating the known vulnerabilities from even entering into our environments. But if unknown vulnerabilities are somehow used in an attack, Morphisec has done an excellent job with those attacks.

It just works and it's very easy both to install and manage. I definitely recommend evaluating it. I'm confident that anyone would see the same benefits that we have.

There are two things I've learned from using the solution. One is that their Moving Target Defense is a very unique approach and very effective. It's pretty novel.

The second lesson is the benefit of having that layering. Having Defender and Morphisec has been a really good tandem approach to things. There are a lot of companies out there that may not be comfortable relying on Defender alone, even though it's very effective at managing known attacks. Even in the instances where we're using an EDR, in our case SentinelOne, those Defender and Morphisec layers work really well. We've had good success.

Morphisec does a good job of helping us make sure our endpoints are secure. We've definitely benefited from that. The Morphisec protectors have absolutely done their job. We have not had any instances with viruses, and I would even go so far as to say the EDR tools we have in place have been largely underutilized. They're just sitting there because there really hasn't been much for them to take action on.

I am a consultant for a cybersecurity company and I'm active as CSO for several customers. 

We use this product to provide protection against viruses and other threats.

This solution automatically blocks threats, which is important to us because we're a small team. We don't have a lot of incidents and we don't do any investigation into them.

I can't say whether using Morphisec has reduced our team's workload, although I can say that it hasn't increased it. That's a good point.

The most important point for me is to have technology that does not require any interaction. We don't have a need to understand the way in which Morphisec detects threats. We have a small security team and we want a solution that we can set and forget. This product makes it easy to prevent breaches, even with a small team.

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. It blocks the behavior automatically but it is quite difficult to check the reason for this, and it is something that we are discussing with Morphisec.

We need to have better reporting features that are able to produce KPIs that we can show to management. Improved analytics reports would help us to understand what type of attack it is and how it was able to reach a particular computer.

I have been working with the Morphisec Breach Prevention Platform for approximately four years.

The stability is perfect. We have never had any issues.

The size of our perimeter is quite stable and is limited to between 3,000 and 4,000 computers. As such, it's hard for me to say how easy it is to scale. For example, I wouldn't know how well it works for 10,000 or 100,000 computers, although I don't think that it's an issue with Morphisec.

We are considering expanding the use of this product by installing it on our servers. However, that plan is not active for the moment.

There are five people in charge of using the solution for security analysis and configuration.

We have a good relationship with Morphisec. The product is working well and we don't need a lot of support but when we have a specific question or when we want new features, they answer us quickly and well.

Overall, we are very satisfied with the support.

We were using another antivirus technology prior to this, and we switched because we wanted to have better coverage. We met Morphisec during a technology trip and we decided to deploy it, giving us better coverage against the attacks.

In my role as CSO for several customers, I have used different solutions. These include SentinelOne and CrowdStrike, and we currently use Trend Micro.

I don't think that these are competitors because they do things differently, but we can compare the results and the interfaces. Morphisec is a straightforward solution that is efficient and very stable. It probably covers fewer attacks and is less technical than competitors but what they do, they do perfectly. The workload on our staff is very low compared to a product like CrowdStrike when we need to have our experts analyze the results so that we can understand them.

The initial setup was straightforward. It is really easy to deploy and configure.

Our deployment took perhaps three months, although the delay was not due to Morphisec. Rather, it was a result of the time it took to deploy things on our computers. We were able to get the service running in one or two days.

As part of our implementation, we tried a number of different tasks. We worked mainly with the business teams to ensure that we weren't getting any false positives.

We worked directly with the Morphisec team. They had a small team, four years ago.

On our side, there was me and one of my engineers. For me, there is no workload due to Morphisec. The only time that I work on it is when we are deploying it for a new client. 

We did a pilot with the product and we tested it with certain attacks from within our team. We could tell from these tests that the solution was able to block the types of attacks that we wanted to protect ourselves against.

This product provides us with full visibility into security events with Microsoft Defender and Morphisec in a single dashboard, although this is not a focal point for us because we do not use Defender. We use Trend Micro for protection.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

We use it for ransomware protection.

It is the first product that we are using globally. Beside that, it is a good security solution. It is good for centralizing our IT, the way we think about security, people, and processes.

Morphisec Guard enables us to see at a glance whether our users have device control and disk encryption enabled properly. This is important because we are a global company operating with multiple entities. Previously, we didn't have that visibility. Now, we have visibility so we can pinpoint some locations where there are machines that are not really protected, offline, etc. It gives us visibility, which is good.

It easily prevents breaches of critical systems. It stops them before you detect them, then you don't have to delve into an attack since it was stopped.

There is no performance degradation on remote working. We work on PDIs at home without any performance degradation, which is great.

The solution provides full visibility into security events from Microsoft Defender and Morphisec in one dashboard. This is important because it is always good to have less dashboards and panes of glass. If it is all in one, then it is so easy to manage, see, and report on it. This makes the world a much easier place. We use this in our South African entity. However, at our HQ and other entities, we do not use Windows Defender. We have another antivirus or endpoint security tool, so that is not in one dashboard, though we are probably going to move to Windows Defender. The single dashboard is a factor in our consideration for moving to Microsoft Defender as well as cost.

We use Morphisec Guard for antivirus first. It offers visibility into and control over Windows 10-native device control, disk encryption, and personal firewalls. It is one of the key features for why we are using it since we are all Windows 10 users. Morphisec Guard is very important.

We wanted to have multi-tenants in their cloud platform, so every entity can look into their own systems and not see other systems in other entities. I have a beta version on that now. I would like them to incorporate that in the cloud solution.

I have been using Morphisec for a year.

It has been very stable.

There are two dedicated IT maintenance, and that's it. We also have other people who are now engaged with the implementation of Morphisec. We also train them on administration tasks, e.g., how to look at the dashboard and see if there are any problems.

Not much maintenance is required. Upgrading and pushing the upgrades to the endpoints is done by Morphisec. We only have to look to see if it works on all our machines. If not, then we contact Morphisec.

It is very scalable.

My company has multiple entities, i.e., multiple suborganizations and locations. One entity can be a location or a geographically dispersed organization.

There are about 3,000 end users who have their own endpoints. We have a large number of servers and are a logistics company. Administrators, operations staff, and clerks all do the same types of tasks.

Morphisec is used for every system in the organization. It is on every system, server, and endpoint. Everybody is using it, not actively, but they have it on their machines.

Every week. I speak with someone from Morphisec. If there is something wrong, I can immediately tell them. Then, in the next meeting, they will provide me with a solution.

Their tech support is very good, understanding, and flexible. They know exactly how to work with different people and cultures. 

Positive

There wasn't a solution like this one, previously. We only had the endpoint security, endpoint protection platforms, EDRs, XDRs, and MDRs, but they don't really have the stuff that Morphisec is doing.

Previously, we didn't investigate false positives. Our company was security immature. If something happened, we didn't investigate it deeply. We just reacted to the fact that something didn't work, then we recovered it and it worked again. Now, we are seeing less false positives using Morphisec.

Our organization is complex and the network is complex, so the initial setup was complex. There was some friction with GPO. We technically implemented it the right way, but it didn't go in automatically. They had to rewrite and recode some parts of it before it could be done automatically.

We are still deploying it. In the end, it has taken more than a year.

We started at HQ and another entity (South Africa), then we wanted to move forward to entities who were in the same network domain as the HQ. We are now in phrase three. It is a global program. We are now implementing, during phase three, in the entities who have their own network structure. 

We worked with Morphisec for deployment and implementation. We worked side by side with Morphisec for many of the problems that we encountered during implementation.

Morphisec has given our security team's operations peace of mind and more time for patching.

In the end, it saves us money on our security stack because we use a very expensive endpoint protection platform. We are planning on moving towards Office 365, then having Windows Defender integrated into that so we can save money on our endpoint protection.

We are paying per endpoint/machine. We have a two-year contract with Morphisec.

We have had some additional costs because of their cloud. We have needed to make some changes within the cloud environment of the Morphisec tooling, which have added some additional costs.

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.

We evaluated other solutions, but they were quite expensive nor did they do what Morphisec does.

Morphisec Guard has more control than Windows 10-native security tools. For example, with Windows Defender, you can configure it, but you don't have a dashboard. Monitoring with it is a bit difficult. It is better with Morphisec Guard. However, Morphisec combines well with Windows Defender.

I am quite happy with the way they perform, providing us with information, new possibilities, and new features. My advice, "Just do it," if you are looking at implementing this solution.

Morphisec makes use of deterministic attack prevention that doesn’t require investigation of security alerts. If you want, you can deep dive into an attack, but you don't need to. In the future, we may have more security personnel and want to deep dive into an attack to see where it happened, what happened, and learn from it. Then, maybe we can have some other controls in place in other areas of our IP environments. Because of the deep dive and benefit analysis, it is good. However, we don't do that now.

The solution has added some workload because there previously wasn't a security team in place. Now, with the focus on security getting higher, the board of directors wanted to have some more security in place. One of the first tools that we bought was Morphisec, besides endpoint protection, antivirus, and firewalls. Our dedicated security tooling was Morphisec. It added focus in the company on security. Also, some people are busy with security now, besides their normal jobs. 

If we have more machines, then we will definitely increase usage. Also, Linux is now out of scope because they don't have it in their suite yet. If this is added into their suite, then we could have Linux protection as well.

Biggest lesson learnt: It is quite difficult to have an organization with a lot of complexity in their networking as well as differences in the way the network is architectured. It is always more difficult than you think. 

I would rate this solution as nine out of 10.