Microsoft Defender for Business vs. Microsoft Defender XDR

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Microsoft Defender for Business
Score 8.6 out of 10
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Microsoft Defender for Business is an enterprise-grade endpoint security that is designed especially for businesses with up to 300 employees. It is used to deploy security across devices, and use automated built-in intelligence to rapidly protect, detect, and respond to threats.N/A
Microsoft Defender XDR
Score 8.9 out of 10
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Microsoft 365 Defender combines SIEM and XDR capabilities for Microsoft 365 environments, encompassing threat detection, post-breach detection, automated investigation, and response for endpoints. Additionally, it protects cloud apps, emails and documents, and employee identities.N/A
Pricing
Microsoft Defender for BusinessMicrosoft Defender XDR
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Microsoft Defender for BusinessMicrosoft Defender XDR
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
Microsoft Defender for BusinessMicrosoft Defender XDR
Endpoint Security
Comparison of Endpoint Security features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Defender for Business
9.9
Ratings
14% above category average
Microsoft Defender XDR
-
Ratings
Anti-Exploit Technology10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Centralized Management10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Hybrid Deployment Support9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Infection Remediation10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Vulnerability Management10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Malware Detection10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Microsoft Defender for BusinessMicrosoft Defender XDR
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
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8.6
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Likelihood to Renew
-
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7.7
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Usability
8.0
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9.0
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Support Rating
-
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9.0
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In-Person Training
-
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9.1
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Online Training
-
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9.1
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Implementation Rating
-
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9.0
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User Testimonials
Microsoft Defender for BusinessMicrosoft Defender XDR
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft Defender for Business is well suited for any size organization using the Microsoft 365 Suite. As an included feature in the mid and upper tiers of the 365 suites, it can quickly address antivirus protection for any sized company. It's compliance and security dashboards can help guide sole proprietorship owners in better understanding their security standing. The software also scales to give mid-sized and enterprise originations the in-depth information needed for compliance.
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Suit Really in everything, what is modern cloud work especially really if you work in a global company where your IT team is not always operational hour of the business users so that everything is really in the cloud can be managed from everywhere, but we do not access to local resources anymore. That's really a good point. What is always a little bit the pressure point is that general things in cloud things are moving fast so it's always difficult to keep the teams that is using these words up to date
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Pros
  • Monitors the health of endpoints
  • Protects endpoints with antivirus
  • Allows for policy configurations that can be deployed to endpoints
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  • The software uses advanced AI and machine learning algorithms to monitor activities and detect any anomalies immediately, protecting our financial data.
  • Automated responses to known threats reduce the impact of possible incidents and improve our security posture.
  • Microsoft 365 Defender easily combines with other Microsoft 365 services and external security solutions, providing a complete and unified security solution.
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Cons
  • Finding blocked programs in the UI is not intuitive if the alert message is dismissed.
  • The admin portal changes often with features coming and going.
  • Admin portal interface is cluttered and sometimes not intuitive.
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  • Microsoft 365 Defenders risk assessment and remediation tool can be improved while tackling and preventing the attack.
  • As there are multiple new attacks are getting discovered to prevent and remediate those attacks the Microsoft 365 Defenders database should be keep updated and ready.
  • The Microsoft 365 Defenders capability to identify the insider attacker can be improved.
  • Automate response generated to remediate the attack can be strengthen.
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Likelihood to Renew
So far we have found no alternative that would overall offer us more than we are getting from Microsoft Defender for Business!
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All though most of the features are upto mark, there are certain times where there have been misses to detect spam, phising emails. this might be due to the subject and content of the email being more sophisticated than standard .
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Usability
Microsoft Defender for Business is user friendly but requires some IT knowledge to adapt to its full potential. Microsoft 365 business will likely be more adaptable and have less of a learning curve than new users when configuring settings or security policies. Overall, I would say that strengths outweigh weaknesses and the unknowns can be learned
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The product is easy to deploy and very customisable.
Available if a simple UI and seamless software implementation process.
Microsoft Defender XDR integrates well with various security systems.
Software compatibility and scalability.
Ability of the software in efficiently analysing and detecting threats in both the system and Website.
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Support Rating
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Their support throughout our onboarding of the product was fabulous. They not only took the time to carefully explain to teams not as well equipped with the lingo but explained to the tech team how to teach the other teams to be successful. They never once seemed impatient or annoyed with basic questions and didn’t pretend to know something when they needed to research an answer
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In-Person Training
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Good and hard to find someonme who can explain everything for you beside Microsoft they provide you everything you need.
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Online Training
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Microsoft Provides a good training for the Microsoft 365 Defender and has a good learning paths to learn and take the exams and get your Certifications.
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Implementation Rating
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seemless and almost transparent. can be deployed by script if needed so every endpoint on our system get's it. if you have intune it gets dumped on the the endpoint by policy so nothing escapes it
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft Defender for Business, I believe, is a "light" version of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. While they both have some of the same features, Microsoft Defender for Business has far less, and the more complex you want to get with your configurations, you may need to dip your toe into the InTune Admin Center to deploy certain policies.
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We chose Microsoft Defender XDR for the ability to correlament the dangers in the Microsoft Ecosystem, Strong Automation, and email, Identification, Estruction, Establishment Points and Cloud Apps in the same platform. This gave us the end-to-end visibility without the need to sew several devices simultaneously.
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Return on Investment
  • Improved cybersecurity
  • Learning curve
  • Resource consumption
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  • Cost-Efficiency: Microsoft Defender XDR often proves cost-effective compared to implementing multiple standalone security solutions, consolidating threat detection and response capabilities.
  • Time Savings: Its centralized dashboard and automated features can save time for security teams, allowing them to focus on critical tasks
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ScreenShots

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