Microsoft Defender XDR vs. Sophos Intercept X for Server

Microsoft Defender XDR

Microsoft Defender XDR

153 Reviews and Ratings

Sophos Intercept X for Server

Sophos Intercept X for Server

46 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Microsoft Defender XDR	Score 8.9 out of 10	N/A	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
Sophos Intercept X for Server	Score 7.3 out of 10	N/A	Sophos now offers Intercept X for Server, as a server-specific version of its popular endpoint security solution, featuring advanced malware detection and prevention, ransomware protection, and hacker deterrents.	N/A

Pricing

Microsoft Defender XDR

Sophos Intercept X for Server

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Microsoft Defender XDR	Sophos Intercept X for Server
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup Fee

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Community Pulse
	Microsoft Defender XDR	Sophos Intercept X for Server
Considered Both Products	Microsoft Defender XDR LL Lian Lopreiato Manager Chose Microsoft Defender XDR We saw CrowdStrike but Microsoft Defender XDR was already in our computer. It was cheaper too cause we had Micrsoft license. CrowdStrike look cool but had many buttons and hard to read. My team like Microsoft Defender XDR because it looks same like other Microsoft thing. We … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Defender XDR Our product in that area, for instance as a security platform and for us it is for the moment really bad point. We started to move in that direction that there is that disconnect from the client management. So if there is some action that needs to be executed detected by … Incentivized Helpful? NS Nikhil Sharma Account Manager Chose Microsoft Defender XDR As a business already using Microsoft 365 and Azure, the seamless integration with Microsoft Defender XDR provided a unified security approach, streamlining management and operations. Incentivized Helpful? HP Hemant Patel Manager Chose Microsoft Defender XDR Avast had very limited capabilities, especially in terms of automation. We had to have some employees available 24/7 to monitor and take necessary actions. Microsoft Defender is so much more advanced. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Defender XDR We have a microsoft ecosystem and we can easily implement Microsoft Defender XDR in a breeze. Using few option, we can actually start logging and managing all the data. Incentivized Helpful? Alfiya Mukadam Software Engineer Chose Microsoft Defender XDR CrowdStrike Falcon Incentivized Helpful? Harshit Lal security consultant Chose Microsoft Defender XDR Microsoft Defender XDR deployment process is seamless as compared to proofpoint Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Defender XDR I've used Trend Micro, but it's not exactly the same because Trend Micro is equivalent to one of the parts of Defender XDR, which is Defender for Endpoint. But Trend Micro has also a portal that combines all the incidents like Defender XDR, but I think the Microsoft one is much … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Defender XDR Microsoft Defender XDR is more seamless than Sophos Intercept X as it is better integrated into the Microsoft 365 suite. Sophos Intercept X is a little bit cheaper per year than Microsoft Defender XDR though, and definitely worth looking into if you are looking for a security … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Defender XDR Well, we're actually evaluating the other products now. We had selected Defender XDR because at the time we just got a good deal on it. Incentivized Helpful? JH Jany Harber System Engineer Chose Microsoft Defender XDR Azure AI Vision Incentivized Helpful? Shubham Jurail IT Consultant Chose Microsoft Defender XDR It was easy to implement in comparison to Palo Alto, and cost-saving can integrate well with Windows products. Incentivized Helpful? Mario Urrutia CITO (Chief Information Technology Officer) Chose Microsoft Defender XDR It really was the first and most logical option since it is an integral part of the platform that we want to protect and so far the results have been optimal. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Defender XDR We used the MS XDR as this is a bundle that we bought when we subscribed to the M365 platform, so having it was a bonus as we stated earlier, but due to limitation on licenses in Sentinelone, having this is just a blessing for us, so we can reduce around 200 licenses and can … Incentivized Helpful? CB Caridad Buenaventura Senior Financial Analyst Chose Microsoft Defender XDR The Microsoft 365 Defender is a product that has a lot of advantages over other similar products. This is because Microsoft 365 Defender integrates seamlessly with both Microsoft 365 services, is capable of detecting threats in real time, and has the capability of automating … Incentivized Helpful? Abdrhman Arar . Systems Engineer Chose Microsoft Defender XDR For the Identity Protection, Microsoft 365 Defender helps me to have fewer headaches from resetting passwords and securing the hacked account, it forces the security layers that help to achieve this solution.For the Endpoint, I have bought too many apps to secure endpoints but … Incentivized Helpful? Rudy Fulmer System Engineer Chose Microsoft Defender XDR We use sophos endpoint protection and xg firewalls in conjunction with microsoft 365 defender. We dont believe defender is robust enough to be our only security solution but it works well as another line of defense from threats to our organization especially our ever growing … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Defender XDR beats cylance protect, crowstrike is solid but at a costly product cannot use kapersky due to embargo norton not good enough now Incentivized Helpful? WP William Press Cloud Project Manager Chose Microsoft Defender XDR We have used and find great value with competitors to Microsoft 365 Defender. Many of these services were utilized before customers began the total cloud shift that has been seen with certain industries. It is difficult to compare these products apples to apples. What I will … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Defender XDR As already stated, the main advantage of Defender is being able to use a single console to manage it and all the other 365 applications. I can state that it provides a more effective protection than Bitdefender MDR and Trend Micro Apex One while I consider CrowdStrike on the … Incentivized Helpful? Anirudh Srinivas Lead Enterprise Architect Chose Microsoft Defender XDR The integration into our office suite and email system is really a breeze with the Microsoft 365 Defender Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Defender XDR Trend Micro Vision One is much more expensive and there is so much more to configure. For our use case it was to big. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Defender XDR We use Microsoft products and have a large group of users. It works easily with our system. There is a great deal of knowledge base out there, often a little overwhelming. But we feel it's the best tool for our network to use parallel to the rest of our back-end. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Defender XDR Firstly Microsoft 365 Defender offers effortless integration with other Microsoft solutions over the products evaluated. Compared to Microsoft 365 Defender the evaluated products should improve the integration and its web interfaces. Few challenges were encountered when … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Defender XDR Microsoft is a known leader in the cyber security space and the trust microsoft has is greater than any other product. The pricing though bit on the higher side , but it ensures a proper support with using the product which makes it more preferred in our organisation.it is … Incentivized Helpful?	Sophos Intercept X for Server Verified User Anonymous Chose Sophos Intercept X for Server Does a great job protecting our systems. Email security has more features and easy to manage. You don't have to have your own server to run the endpoint security. Auto updates the endpoint and servers. With a Managed detect response team that does human threat hunting. Overall … Incentivized Helpful? MC Mehak Chawla Marketing Associate Chose Sophos Intercept X for Server Sophos Intercept X has proven to be a valuable (XDR) tool. It stacks up against its competitors due to its ability to work across all devices and understand network issues. Sophos Intercept X provides a single console from which you can manage all your security applications … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Sophos Intercept X for Server Sophos Intercept X for Server's centralized management is installed in the cloud vs ESET which is installed locally. Having the system in the cloud allows admins the ability to troubleshoot and work with the system from anywhere without having to connect in. Sophos uses … Incentivized Helpful? Christopher Fritz Senior IT Supporter Chose Sophos Intercept X for Server We aleady had few of the applications from Sophos, so it was a natural decision to try out Sophos Intercept X for Server. So for this specific case we went for the trial to check the performance and found that it did an amazing job. That's also why we didn't evaluate any other … Incentivized Helpful? MA Morgan Anderson Network Administrator Chose Sophos Intercept X for Server We have been utilizing Sophos Intercept X for Server for many years now, but previously we used Symantec. This was before a push for everything into the cloud - so I feel a fair comparison of the products is not possible. Symantec worked for us at the time, but I'm not fluent … Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	Microsoft Defender XDR	Sophos Intercept X for Server
Likelihood to Recommend	8.6 (0 ratings)	8.1 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	7.7 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.0 (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
In-Person Training	9.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Online Training	9.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Microsoft Defender XDR	Sophos Intercept X for Server
Likelihood to Recommend	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 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	We recently had a malware incident in our organization where we lost some of our files from the system and we were not able to detect the threat. That's when we deployed Sophos. Sophos Intercept X ticks all the boxes. It has helped prevent unauthorized programs from running and provides a managed threat response. The best part is its ability to recover files automatically. Incentivized MC Mehak Chawla Marketing Associate Read full review
Pros	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. Incentivized CB Caridad Buenaventura Senior Financial Analyst Read full review	Baseline policies Central management Secure Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Reporting isn't as detailed as it could be. The wait times for support are very long. There is no way to push the installer out. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	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 . Incentivized Anirudh Srinivas Lead Enterprise Architect Read full review	No answers on this topic
Usability	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. MK Molka Kouki vice prsidente de la Confdration Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	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 Incentivized Morgan Thompson Account Executive Read full review	No answers on this topic
In-Person Training	Good and hard to find someonme who can explain everything for you beside Microsoft they provide you everything you need. Incentivized Abdrhman Arar . Systems Engineer Read full review	No answers on this topic
Online Training	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. Incentivized Abdrhman Arar . Systems Engineer Read full review	No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating	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 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	We have been utilizing Sophos Intercept X for Server for many years now, but previously we used Symantec. This was before a push for everything into the cloud - so I feel a fair comparison of the products is not possible. Symantec worked for us at the time, but I'm not fluent in current offerings from them. Incentivized MA Morgan Anderson Network Administrator Read full review
Return on Investment	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 Incentivized SH stephen Hobson scrm Read full review	Prevented virus/hacker attacks on our servers Have blocked applications that we do not allow Saved time on tracking virus, ransomware etc. Incentivized Christopher Fritz Senior IT Supporter Read full review
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