BlackBerry Cylance Cybersecurity vs OpenText Core Endpoint Protection comparison

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BlackBerry and OpenText are both solutions in the Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) category. BlackBerry is ranked #34, while OpenText is ranked #32. BlackBerry holds a 1.8% mindshare in EPP, compared to OpenText’s 1.9% mindshare. Additionally, 85% of BlackBerry users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of OpenText users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 29, 2026

BlackBerry Cylance Cybersecurity and OpenText Core Endpoint Protection compete in the AI-driven cybersecurity space. BlackBerry Cylance appears to have the upper hand due to its advanced AI in threat detection and minimal system impact.

Features: BlackBerry Cylance offers robust AI-driven threat prevention, ease of deployment, and advanced visibility with CylanceOPTICS. It's efficient in malware detection and has a minimal impact on system resources. OpenText Core Endpoint Protection provides a centralized management console, cloud-based speed and efficiency, and strong malware analysis, making it cost-effective for managing multiple endpoints.

Room for Improvement: BlackBerry Cylance should improve its user interface and reduce false positives. Better integration with existing IT environments and enhanced reporting is needed. OpenText Core Endpoint Protection requires improved post-incident reporting and reduced false positives, alongside enhanced user information accessibility and integration options.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: BlackBerry Cylance suits on-premises and hybrid cloud setups, though technical support could be improved due to noted delays. OpenText Core Endpoint Protection is strong in public and hybrid clouds, providing reliable and knowledgeable customer support.

Pricing and ROI: BlackBerry Cylance is priced competitively with a high ROI, favored for long-term investment despite being seen as costly compared to some competitors. OpenText Core Endpoint Protection is recognized for affordability, offering a good balance of price and features, appealing to those with budget constraints.

To learn more, read our detailed BlackBerry Cylance Cybersecurity vs. OpenText Core Endpoint Protection Report (Updated: September 2026).

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Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) category, the mindshare of Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is 3.8%, up from 3.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of BlackBerry Cylance Cybersecurity is 1.8%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenText Core Endpoint Protection is 1.9%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks	3.8%
OpenText Core Endpoint Protection	1.9%
BlackBerry Cylance Cybersecurity	1.8%
Other	92.5%

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ABHISHEK_SINGH

Senior Process Expert at A.P. Moller - Maersk

Gained full visibility and streamlined threat detection through behavior-based insights and AI integration

Initially, we got to have a lot of false positives when we onboarded, but nowadays it's quite smooth. We have fine-tuned our security policies and allowed different levels of policies to get rid of those false positives. Currently, we are getting a fairly good amount of incidents that are not false positives or benign, but actionable items. The process is streamlined. In the initial days, the operations used to get involved in a lot of benign and other activities, but now the process is streamlined. We are leveraging the auto-detection and remediation plans. The operations teams are now more involved in other business roles as well, not just looking into the logs and fetching out what's happening there. They have fixed a lot of things. Initially, they didn't have IAC code drift detection, cloud posture management, or security posture management, but they have those now. They purchased different vendors and did a merger with that. They have now Prisma Cloud that gets integrated and now they are working with Cortex Cloud. Everything that was negative has now been addressed, and the product altogether looks to be in a very better and mature shape now. Currently, it's more or less detecting the workloads with AI-based best practices. Since most organizations are consuming AI agents and other things, we are looking forward to seeing what other feature enhancements Palo Alto can support in that.

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Sooraj Makkancherrry

Security Operations Manager at Philips

Doesn't have daily updates, which is important for healthcare IT

I face challenges with the exclusion policy - it still scans folders we told it not to, causing issues. When we contact support, they tell us to update the latest agent, but we can't do that immediately due to medical device protocols and validation testing. I wish support would try to understand our issues better instead of giving this standard response. The machine learning feature they use often tells us to upgrade the agent or add things to the exclusion list, which isn't unacceptable. It's a very good and new technology as a tool and antivirus. But sometimes, it doesn't work properly with our medical devices and products, quarantining files it shouldn't even after we add them to exclusions. This is tricky for us.

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vCIO At Grove Networks Inc. at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

Improving threat detection is critical for enhanced protection

We use Webroot Business Endpoint Protection as a NextGen antivirus solution for our clients. It's included in the contract we have with our clients as a cost-effective option for antivirus protection Webroot Business Endpoint Protection is cost-effective for rolling it out to all of our clients,…

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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

"Cortex XDR is stable, offering high quality and reliable performance."

"The solution helps find bugs, and it is safe to use to prevent attacks by hackers."

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

"The most valuable feature of Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is the low consumption of system resources. The solution uses a lot of AI and machine learning."

"Its interface and pricing are most valuable, and it is better than other vendors in terms of security."

"Cortex XDR is a very capable solution for protecting large networks and a lot of endpoints. It's very useful because the automation is very high, and if you combine it with the features on Palo Alto firewalls, it provides very strong protection."

"The anti-exploit is impenetrable. We chose Traps because it is the only product that we were not able to get anything past."

"The solution allows us to gain remote access without the user's knowledge and take the necessary actions on the device."

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"It secures different entry points into the network."

"The ROI is immense, particularly in less dedicated labor hours, and much more in terms of security, particularly when new security flaws have recently appeared."

"CylancePROTECT is going to tell you if there are any issues and you are going to be able to see everything from one single dashboard."

"With Cylance AI and Machine Learning, it's ensuring that all types of malware, PUP (Potential Unwanted Programs) and Memory Protection your endpoint devices are fully protected, even with day zero threats."

"The most valuable features are script blocking and macros within Word documents for stopping unwanted applications from running in the background."

"It handles situations that the other threat management tools wouldn't find. It has worked well covering the weaker sides of the other products that we're integrating."

"We have been trained to learn how to use the product and now we have a very good experience with it."

"It works well and covers a good number of the bases you need covered for general cybersecurity and vulnerability management."

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"Low performance requirements."

"The solution is very simple and straightforward to use."

"Auto-Remediation"

"Valuable features include good scanning, very light footprint and management console that the client can access and (just as important) in which I can see status of groups of computers (I am a consultant, IT role)."

"I rate the initial setup phase a ten on a scale of one to ten, where one is difficult, and ten is easy."

"The main reason we had Webroot is that it was cost-effective for our clients."

"Previously, we used a mix of Trend/Sophos/Symantec. Webroot has all their best bits combined into one solution."

"Working as part of our security stack, it has protected us from countless attacks."

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Cons

"Limited remote connection."

"Traps doesn't work with McAfee. You need to remove McAfee to install Traps. This is very common, and its nothing that should be an issue. Some antivirus engines recognize Traps as an threat component, so maybe they need to shake hands somewhere."

"I would like to see improvement in the tool's user interface, particularly in the area of managing alerts and providing more reporting capabilities."

"On the pricing aspect, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks needs to have a more reasonable rate, particularly for customers in Sri Lanka and Asian countries."

"There's room for improvement with Mac device installations, which can be challenging."

"This is a very costly product."

"When it comes to core analysis, and security analysis, Cortex needs to provide more information."

"The solution lacks real-time, on-demand antivirus."

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"I find the price for Blackberry Protect expensive, so that's an area for improvement."

"The high price of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required. The product's price should be more competitive."

"Reporting is an area with shortcomings in CylancePROTECT that needs to be improved."

"The product must make the interface a little more user-friendly."

"I would say one thing that they might need to bring in is protection for mobile devices."

"I would like to see them fix the alerting system so that the endpoint reporting is a bit more streamlined."

"The solution should implement AI in the product."

"Work on the math model. We are catching a lot of false positives, which gets to be a pain at the start of a deployment."

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"Technical support is not the best. It's hard to get a hold of them if we need help. It's something that definitely needs improvement."

"I think the one bad point about this product is that we did not find a way for Webroot to generate reports or schedule automatic reports to be sent to clients."

"Webroot is very reactionary. It waits until the threat is active within memory to try and detect it. They need better pre-execution detection and prevention."

"Their customer support should be better. We started having some issues with it, and we didn't get the required support."

"There is one thing that is deplorable with the product that I would change as soon as I found a better one. However, the reports are worthless."

"I did notice that my OS slowed down, but I don't know if that's due to Webroot."

"One of the biggest pain points is that it's not really ransomware-oriented. They will be able to catch some, but that's where Sentinel One is a better player compared to Webroot."

"Since they're dealing with multi-core environments now, the best option would be for them to enhance the product so that the product can automatically do an assessment on the machine."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I am using the Community edition."

"The price of the product is not very economical."

"It's the most expensive solution, but features-wise, it's quite strong. It's very good for protection, so the results are very good in the case of protection. I would rate it a two out of ten in terms of pricing."

"It has a higher cost than other solutions, like CrowdStrike or Microsoft’s EDR tools, but it reduces the cost of our operations because it’s a new generation antivirus tool."

"Our license will require renewal in August, after which the maintenance will continue as usual."

"It's about $55 per license on a yearly basis."

"It's way too expensive, but security is expensive. You pay for your licensing, and then you pay for someone to monitor the stuff."

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

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"The initial end-point cost may seem a little high (~$55/device/year) but when you look at the total peace of mind that the solution provides, with no reboots for updates, and negligible performance impact, it is well worth it."

"The product cost is about $5, per user, per month."

"CylancePROTECT is worth the money, but I'm not sure of its exact price. I can't remember off the top of my head."

"Currently, we have competitive pricing for Cylance, which is affordable enough to consider."

"The licensing part of the product is too expensive compared to other solutions in the market."

"The license price for this solution could be better. It's on the expensive side."

"Do not get hung up on price. You pay for what you get and expensive will hurt one time, where cheap will hurt forever, especially if you fall victim to a ransom attack, etc."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten."

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"Work on a price tier plan."

"Get a trial, then a multi-year license."

"I rate the product's pricing a three on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive. There are no costs in addition to the product's standard licensing fees."

"The solution is very cost-effective."

"We evaluate other options using multiple choices, best value, management and functionality."

"Our strategy was to overestimate the complexity and cost. It turned out that Webroot's assurance was justified."

"The solution doesn't cost too much. It's about 30 Euros a year for each endpoint. It's pretty affordable for us and for many other companies."

"I think the price is fairly reasonable. I was really prepared to pay more, but the price is fine."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Comms Service Provider

14%

Outsourcing Company

12%

Construction Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Outsourcing Company

12%

Construction Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Construction Company

11%

Outsourcing Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

10%

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Small Business

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Small Business	50
Midsize Enterprise	21
Large Enterprise	57

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Small Business	33
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	14

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Small Business	35
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	2

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Also Known As

Cyvera, Cortex XDR, Palo Alto Networks Traps

Blackberry Protect

Webroot SecureAnywhere Business Endpoint Protection

Overview

Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks provides advanced threat detection with AI-driven endpoint protection and seamless integration, ensuring multi-layered security and automatic threat response.

Cortex XDR is designed to safeguard endpoints against malware and suspicious activities. It offers advanced threat detection and response capabilities using behavioral analysis, AI, and machine learning. It seamlessly integrates with security infrastructures, providing endpoint security, firewall integration, and enhanced visibility in both cloud-based and on-premises environments.

What are the key features of Cortex XDR?

Advanced Threat Detection: Uses AI and machine learning for proactive threat identification.
Multi-layered Security: Combines various security measures for comprehensive protection.
Endpoint Protection: Safeguards against malware and exploits.
Behavioral Analysis: Monitors suspicious activity for early detection.
Automatic Threat Response: Automates responses to neutralize threats.

What benefits should users expect?

Ease of Use: Simplifies security management with intuitive design.
Resource Efficiency: Minimizes impact on system resources.
Integration Capabilities: Works well with existing security setups.
Reduced Analyst Workload: Automates processes to decrease manual intervention.

Organizations in diverse sectors deploy Cortex XDR to protect against malware, leveraging its advanced threat detection capabilities. Its integration with existing security infrastructures appeals to those seeking comprehensive protection in both cloud and on-premises environments, providing enhanced visibility and threat intelligence.

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BlackBerry Cylance Cybersecurity leverages AI and machine learning for efficient malware detection and zero-day threat protection, offering robust endpoint security with high detection accuracy and low false positive rates.

BlackBerry Cylance Cybersecurity delivers advanced threat protection with AI-driven algorithms and machine learning. Its lightweight design ensures low system resource usage, making it both efficient and effective. It's recognized for centralized management, easy deployment, and a clean interface, providing comprehensive endpoint protection against diverse threats. The integration of features like CylanceOPTICS and behavioral monitoring enhances security insights. While the system excels in malware detection, enhancements are needed in areas like user interface design, reporting, deeper threat analysis, and integration with third-party systems. Support and pricing improvements could also increase competitiveness.

What are the key features of BlackBerry Cylance Cybersecurity?

AI and Machine Learning: Utilizes cutting-edge technology for malware and threat detection.
Zero-Day Protection: Safeguards against emerging threats without the need for constant updates.
Centralized Management: Simplifies deployment and management across devices.
CylanceOPTICS: Provides advanced security insights and behavioral monitoring.
Low Resource Usage: Ensures efficient operation with minimal system impact.

What benefits should users expect from BlackBerry Cylance Cybersecurity?

High Detection Accuracy: Reduces risk with minimal false positives.
Efficient Resource Management: Enhances performance with its lightweight design.
Proactive Threat Defense: Protects against a wide range of threats with centralized management.
Advanced Insights: Offers unique features for detailed security analysis.

Organizations deploy BlackBerry Cylance Cybersecurity for threat analytics, log management, and endpoint protection. As an antivirus replacement, it protects against zero-day malware, ransomware, and various threats. Its AI algorithms detect anomalies, minimizing risks in both internet-connected and isolated environments. Many businesses incorporate it into wider security strategies, appreciating its centralized management and proactive defense capabilities.

BlackBerry

OpenText Core Endpoint Protection offers cloud-managed endpoint security with AI integration, providing real-time protection and lightweight performance. It ensures low system impact, seamless cloud integration, and cost-effective security solutions for various devices.

OpenText Core Endpoint Protection is a comprehensive endpoint security platform utilized by managed-service providers for antivirus and firewall functionality across servers, workstations, and mobile devices. It employs AI for robust threat detection, integrating with cloud applications for real-time updates. Multi-layered security features include malware protection, network defense, and DNS protection. Although connectivity and threat reporting need improvement, this platform extensively supports remote device management and integrates efficiently with Active Directory policies.

What are the key features of OpenText Core Endpoint Protection?

Cloud Management: Centralized admin console for easy oversight
AI Integration: Enhanced threat detection capabilities
Lightweight Performance: Minimal impact on system resources
Real-time Threat Database: Constant updates for effective protection
Web Control Interface: Monitors and controls web traffic

What benefits are associated with OpenText Core Endpoint Protection?

Ease of Setup and Maintenance: Facilitates quick deployment and upkeep
Seamless Cloud Integration: Simplifies scalability and operation
Cost-Effectiveness: Affordable pricing with comprehensive features
Mobile Security Capabilities: Supports remote device management

OpenText Core Endpoint Protection finds application in industries requiring stringent data protection and peace of mind over device security. Managed-service providers implement this for comprehensive antivirus and firewall features, safeguarding multi-device networks. It is particularly useful for DNS protection and integrating with Active Directory policies, enabling secure yet flexible operations across sectors.

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Sample Customers

CBI Health Group, University Honda, VakifBank

Panasonic, Noble Energy, Apria Healthcare Group Inc., Charles River Laboratories, Rovi Corporation, Toyota, Kiewit

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