Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office vs Microsoft Defender for Endpoint comparison

Acronis and Microsoft are both solutions in the Anti-Malware Tools category. Acronis is ranked #24 with an average rating of 8.8, while Microsoft is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.4. Acronis holds a 0.8% mindshare in Anti-Malware Tools, compared to Microsoft’s 8.1% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Acronis users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 3, 2024

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office are competitors in the cybersecurity solutions category. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint leads in pricing and customer support, while Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office excels in comprehensive features and holistic protection.

Features: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint provides robust threat detection, seamless integration into Windows environments, and enhances security management. Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office offers an all-in-one solution with backup, anti-malware features, and a wider range of data protection functionalities.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint allows straightforward deployment within Windows ecosystems with excellent support resources. Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office offers flexible deployment across various platforms and accessible customer service with high response quality.

Pricing and ROI: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint presents competitive pricing and efficient cost structures, offering strong ROI potential. Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office, despite higher setup costs, provides substantial value with its comprehensive features, justifying the investment for extensive data protection solutions.

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Categories and Ranking

Acronis Cyber Protect Home ...

Ranking in Anti-Malware Tools

24th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (41st)

Microsoft Defender for Endp...

Ranking in Anti-Malware Tools

1st

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

210

Ranking in other categories

Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (2nd), Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) (3rd), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (3rd), Microsoft Security Suite (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Anti-Malware Tools category, the mindshare of Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office is 0.8%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is 8.1%, down from 17.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Anti-Malware Tools Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint	8.1%
Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office	0.8%
Other	91.1%

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Featured Reviews

Gerald Rodrigues

General Manager at Tilaknagar Industries Ltd

Reliable backups have protected our manufacturing data and now provide confident disaster recovery

Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office is used to take care of the data for our manufacturing company and its users. I work with CrowdStrike only for antivirus. We have antivirus products, but not as a main solution. The antiviruses we are using are from another vendor. For antiviruses, we are using Falcon CrowdStrike. My main experience is with CrowdStrike antivirus and Palo Alto firewall. These are the two things for security, and we are exploring other software solutions that will be beneficial for us. I track two levels of ransomware protection: one from Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office and one from CrowdStrike. I do not work with Cortex cloud by Palo Alto; I have the hardware on-premise at my location. I do not work with WildFire, Prisma Access, or Prisma SD-WAN, but I will be looking forward to it. This is the only firewall I am using, but very soon, I will be opting for another Palo Alto firewall of the same model that will be working on high availability. I am not knowledgeable about the CN-Series firewall; I can only talk about the one I have. We have acquired one particular brand, a company called Pernod Ricard, which manufactures products like Chivas Regal whisky and Beefeater. Endpoint Detection and Response is something we will explore after a certain period of time and we are looking for it very soon. I would rate this review an overall eight out of ten.

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Robert Arbuckle

Security Analyst III at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

Automatically isolates threats and integrates with logging to reduce response time

Overall, I would evaluate the Microsoft support level that I receive at probably about a seven, but that depends on the day. It has been spotty. We have had issues where the urgency level of the Microsoft support is not as high as ours, especially during a data breach or potential data breach situation. We have had issues with some of the offshore support being lackluster. One specific thing that comes to mind is we were on a support call with our CISO on the call, and the Microsoft agent, who did not actually work for Microsoft, is one of the vendors that Microsoft uses for support, said, "Just to set expectations, my lunch break is in an hour and I am going to go away then." For us, it was already ten o'clock at night and we had been working on this for a couple of hours, trying to get a security engineer on with us. For him to tell us that he was going to go away and have lunch, it was, "Okay, but go find somebody else if you need to." It was just the lackluster approach, and it seemed like he did not really care. We seem to get a lot of this when we get non-Microsoft support. I can identify areas for improvement with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, as it is kind of a convoluted mess to try to take care of false positives. Especially when they have been identified as false positives but they keep going off over and over again. It is great for my pocketbook because it generates a lot of on-call action, but I would really prefer more sleep at two o'clock in the morning than dealing with false positives. I would say that the unified portal for managing Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is suitable for both teams as they are all in there. It would be great if they would stop moving things around and renaming things, which makes sense. The new XDR portal is pretty nice. Being able to have it central again inside of the regular Security Center without having to open up two windows is helpful. Overall, I think it is pretty good. There is always going to be something that could be improved, such as alerting and the ability to modify alerts would be a little bit helpful to have. Being able to add more data into the alerts and turn off alerts that are not as useful would be beneficial. It is hard to say what the quantitative impact the security exposure management feature has had on our company's security, because a lot of it is kind of subjective. I think we are sitting at around a fifty percent score still, and a lot of it is just kind of unusual circumstances that we cannot really implement without breaking the organization.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The reliable tool allows for quick restoration from backup copies, meaning I do not have to reload Windows or programs."

"Acronis schedules in the background and does incremental images so it doesn’t take forever to backup."

"The malware feature is most valuable."

"When it comes to backup, the biggest benefits of Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office are its reliability and the assurance it provides, which we have specifically tried and tested during disasters as it saved us from losing data."

"The customer service and support are excellent."

"I find the entire Microsoft Defender for Endpoint valuable because it finds not just definition-based threats but also behaviors."

"It performs well. The stability is seamless."

"The solution has good performance, I have not seen a problem."

"I am using it for very simple purposes. It is perfect and quite effective. I have been using it for a while, and I have never had any virus infection, data leak, or other security breaches. It works fine for standalone purposes. If you log on to OneDrive, it has ransomware protection."

"I like that it's easy to deploy because it already comes with Windows 10. Overall, it has all the features that we need. Easy to deploy, comes with updates, and comes with Windows updates. You don't have to really manage or update the signature."

"The main thing I like about Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is that you can integrate it with or deploy it with Intune, so it's really easy to deploy without needing to bring in any third-party solution."

"Microsoft Defender for Endpoint has helped free up the SOC team to work on other projects and tasks."

"The solution provides protections and reports about strange behavior and automatically blocks some of it. I love the way that statuses are represented."

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Cons

"I originally intended to use Acronis for cloud backup, however, the cloud backup had major problems."

"The configuration needs improvement."

"I originally intended to use Acronis for cloud backup, however, the cloud backup had major problems. After struggling with it for about two years, I switched to Carbonite and have not gone back."

"Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office needs to improve their reporting part, and the support provided is sometimes inadequate, which causes issues for customers."

"I had a couple of false positives, but that’s it."

"I don't think it's scalable at this moment. It is doing what it's supposed to do, but Microsoft Defender for Endpoint isn't there yet."

"I want Microsoft Defender to have the ability to deal with some issues automatically, so I don't need to address that issue manually."

"Defender for Endpoint is complex, and the documentation is detailed. At the same time, it's hard to navigate sometimes. You have to go through tons of documentation to find what you want."

"I would like to see online updates for patches for this solution. I would also like to see online information about what is trending in the market in terms of spams, viruses, or trojans. It takes some time to understand how this solution works. A few things are unclear at the beginning, such as whether it actually restricts the virus or spam at the initial stage, or when there is a security update, how will we come to know and how will it get synchronized. It would be really helpful if there is some kind of knowledge base in the form of video, audio, or document that can explain in a user-friendly way the setup, features, risks, and process to mitigate the risks. Currently, I have installed endpoint security for every individual system. I could not install it like other endpoint solutions where we have a server and a client. It would be really helpful if Microsoft Windows Defender has a server-client based model so that I can save some bandwidth when it downloads or uploads features. It will be helpful if we have a LAN-based or WAN-based controlling system."

"Microsoft Defender for Endpoint could improve by providing more user-friendly dashboards. They may be complicated for some."

"It could be easier when it comes to managing exceptions."

"The GUI is very complex and could be more user friendly."

"What I think can be improved on Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is that the whitelisting abilities are pitiful, and the understanding of how you go about doing that by the support techs that you speak with is really bad, so that I think is an area where Microsoft Defender for Endpoint needs improvement; the understanding and support of that and what actually works is pretty buggy."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The normal, standalone model, is not expensive, but the enterprise model that includes the bundle with email and some web protection, is a bit more expensive."

"Most people don't realize M365/E5 licenses are an amazing deal. They think "Oh, it's expensive," and I'll ask, "Compared to what?" If you don't have it you will have to buy licenses for multiple products to fill the same security space that you would have gotten with the Microsoft product. Go figure out how much it costs you per product, per user, and then come back and tell me how things add up financially."

"Compared to ESET, the pricing for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is on the higher side."

"If we are acquiring everything in a single place, the front end becomes cost-effective."

"They are now doing it on an endpoint basis. It is based on the number of endpoints, which is good."

"The product is free of charge and comes integrated into Windows."

"Even if you are not registered as a not-for-profit, the offering that they have is definitely worth consideration. This is in the sense that the E5 stack just gives you so many benefits. You get your entire productivity suite through Microsoft 365 apps. You get all your security and identity protection. You get the Defender for Endpoint and Defender for Identity. You get the cloud access security broker as well. You get Azure Active Directory Premium P2, which gives you so many good things that you can configure and deploy. You don't have to configure them on day one, but you have access to so many different tools that will protect your data, security, endpoints, and identities that you could build out a security strategy 18 months long, and slowly work your way through it, based on what you have available to you through your license."

"You just pay Windows 10 prices, then you have antivirus software. As a price comparison, Defender's costs are very low."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Comms Service Provider

34%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

No data available

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	80
Midsize Enterprise	40
Large Enterprise	92

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office?

The malware feature is most valuable.

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What needs improvement with Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office?

Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office needs to improve their reporting part, and the support provided is sometimes inadequate, which causes issues for customers. The technical support from the third pa...

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What is your primary use case for Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office?

Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office is used to take care of the data for our manufacturing company and its users. We are just exploring ourselves in cybersecurity, and it will take time for us to mat...

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How is Cortex XDR compared with Microsoft Defender?

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is a cloud-delivered endpoint security solution. The tool reduces the attack surface, applies behavioral-based endpoint protection and response, and includes risk-ba...

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Which offers better endpoint security - Symantec or Microsoft Defender?

We use Symantec because we do not use MS Enterprise products, but in my opinion, Microsoft Defender is a superior solution. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is a cloud-delivered endpoint security s...

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How does Microsoft Defender for Endpoint compare with Crowdstrike Falcon?

The CrowdStrike solution delivers a lot of information about incidents. It has a very light sensor that will never push your machine hardware to "test", you don't have the usual "scan now" feature ...

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Also Known As

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Microsoft Defender ATP, Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection, MS Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Defender Antivirus

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Overview

Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office is used primarily for data backup and recovery. Highlights include effective malware protection, ransomware defense, ease of use, and cloud storage integration.

Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office offers robust backup and recovery, advanced ransomware protection, and anti-malware features. Integrated tools such as disk cloning, image backup, and cloud storage enhance its functionality. Users benefit from automatic backups, flexible scheduling, intuitive operation, and hybrid cloud-local protection. Regular updates ensure threat detection and reliability.

What are the main features of Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office?

Backup and Recovery: Comprehensive options for safeguarding data.
Ransomware Protection: Advanced defenses against ransomware threats.
Anti-Malware: Strong malware detection and removal capabilities.
Disk Cloning: Efficient disk cloning tools for data migration.
Cloud Storage: Seamless integration with cloud storage solutions.
Automatic Backups: Convenient scheduling for regular backups.
Hybrid Protection: Combines cloud and local backups for added security.
Regular Updates: Ensures the latest threat protection and features.

What benefits and ROI should users expect?

Data Security: Ensured through comprehensive backup and recovery.
Reliability: Consistent performance with quick restoration processes.
Ease of Use: Simplified operation with intuitive tools and interfaces.
Cross-Platform Support: Compatible with multiple systems and devices.
Customer Support: Dependable assistance and regular software updates.

In specific industries such as healthcare, finance, and education, Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office is implemented to secure sensitive data and ensure business continuity. Its encryption capabilities and cross-platform support make it a versatile choice for handling large volumes of critical information while providing seamless integration with existing IT infrastructures.

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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is a comprehensive security solution that provides advanced threat protection for organizations. It offers real-time protection against various types of cyber threats, including malware, viruses, ransomware, and phishing attacks.

With its powerful machine-learning capabilities, it can detect and block sophisticated attacks before they can cause any harm. The solution also includes endpoint detection and response (EDR) capabilities, allowing organizations to quickly investigate and respond to security incidents. It provides detailed insights into the attack timeline, enabling security teams to understand the scope and impact of an incident.

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint also offers proactive threat hunting, allowing organizations to proactively search for and identify potential threats within their network. It integrates seamlessly with other Microsoft security solutions, such as Microsoft Defender XDR, to provide a unified and holistic security approach. With its centralized management console, organizations can easily deploy, configure, and monitor the security solution across their entire network.

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is a robust and scalable security solution that helps organizations protect their endpoints and data from evolving cyber threats.

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Sample Customers

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Petrofrac, Metro CSG, Christus Health

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