Cisco Secure Endpoint vs OpenText Core Endpoint Protection comparison

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Cisco and OpenText are both solutions in the Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) category. Cisco is ranked #28 with an average rating of 9.0, while OpenText is ranked #32. Cisco holds a 1.3% mindshare in EPP, compared to OpenText’s 1.9% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of Cisco 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

OpenText Core Endpoint Protection and Cisco Secure Endpoint are competing in endpoint protection. Cisco Secure Endpoint has the upper hand due to its stronger user feedback in aspects like threat prevention, integration, and overall security enhancement.

Features: OpenText Core Endpoint Protection is appreciated for its lightweight nature, ease of deployment, and effective traffic security monitoring. Cisco Secure Endpoint offers comprehensive security measures such as robust threat detection, seamless integration with other Cisco products, and automatic updates, giving it an edge over OpenText.

Room for Improvement: OpenText Core Endpoint Protection could improve in phishing prevention, detailed threat reporting, and faster connection. Cisco Secure Endpoint users suggest enhancements in integration capabilities, reducing false positives, and simplifying deployment processes.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: OpenText Core Endpoint Protection offers a satisfactory deployment experience with generally reliable support, despite some technical assistance delays. Cisco Secure Endpoint provides multiple deployment options, though its initial setup complexity and slow support are noted. Feedback varies for both, but Cisco's integration aids streamlined deployment.

Pricing and ROI: OpenText Core Endpoint Protection is known for its affordability, appealing to budget-conscious buyers. Cisco Secure Endpoint, while more expensive, delivers strong security capabilities that justify its pricing. Users find Cisco's comprehensive features offer a good ROI through enhanced security and performance.

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Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Net...

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 Cisco Secure Endpoint is 1.3%, down from 1.5% 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%
Cisco Secure Endpoint	1.3%
OpenText Core Endpoint Protection	1.9%
Other	93.0%

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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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JavedHashmi

Chief Technology Officer at Future Point Technologies

Reliable threat protection is achieved while integration and analysis capabilities need refinement

Cisco Secure Endpoint is very good in machine learning, which allows it to secure offline contents even if not connected to the internet. We haven't encountered a single breach after it's deployed. It controls USB devices and has a separate antivirus solution called Tetra, providing security even for real-time, day-zero attacks through its strong Talos threat intelligence platform.

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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

"We use Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks for its ability to detect based on behavior rather than simple virus scan to prevent malicious activities."

"When the pandemic started, Palo Alto came up with many solutions, which helped with the quick shift from on-premises to the cloud."

"The normal protection was really effective, and we detected situations that if we didn't have Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks, it's highly likely that we would have been affected, but it protected the infrastructure."

"I don't have to do much monitoring with it; I don't have to have anybody manually looking at this, it gives us reports, and it lets us know if something needs to be addressed, and we can easily address it."

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

"The solution allows control over the user and his machine through Cortex XDR security policies."

"My advice for anybody who is considering Cortex XDR is that it is a complete solution, and has very good features."

"The main benefit of using Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks while employing Palo Alto Firewall at the internet edge is that it improves security on our endpoint devices, integrating seamlessly with Palo Alto Firewalls to deliver comprehensive network, analyst, and security details all in a single dashboard, which allows us to manage everything from our network devices."

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"The most valuable feature of the solution is its technical support."

"It's quite simple, and the advantage I see is that I get the trajectory of what happened inside the network, how a file has been transmitted to the workstation, and which files have got corrupted."

"Overall, I really liked the product; it was well done."

"appreciate the File Trajectory feature, as it's excellent for an analyst or mobile analyst. I can track everything that happens on our server from my PC or device. Integration with SecureX is a welcome feature because it connects Cisco's integrated security portfolio with our complete infrastructure. Sandboxing is helpful, and integration with the Cisco environment is excellent as we use many of their products, and that's very valuable for us."

"Cisco Secure Endpoint enables us to stop a threat before it spreads across our system, which is a massive improvement for us as we couldn't follow threats and respond to them as rapidly when we used other solutions."

"The solution's integration capabilities are excellent. It's one of the best features."

"The Cisco suite of security solutions definitely gives us a great deal of comfort that we are doing that."

"The Cisco environment has been perfect."

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"We no longer have to worry about running scans as it is so lightweight and there is no user impact."

"The ease of use of the centralized admin console is its best asset."

"Doesn't consume resources or affect the computer performance at all."

"Customer Service: Top-of-the-line; the busy community as well. Technical Support: Top-of-the-line; the busy community as well."

"Webroot Business Endpoint Protection is easy to use, stable, flexible, and the performance is great."

"To date, I haven't had any malware in my system."

"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the fact that it is a low profile environment as far as overhead on the machines."

"Webroot Business Endpoint Protection is very scalable."

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Cons

"It's not an ideal choice for smaller businesses, as you need a minimum of 200 endpoints to even use the solution at all."

"There are some third-party solutions that are difficult to integrate with, which is something that can be improved."

"There are some false positives."

"The installation should be easier and the Palo Alto pre-sales and sales teams should have more information on the product because they don't know what they are selling."

"If Palo Alto reduces the pricing slightly for their products, it would make them more scalable in markets such as India and globally for cybersecurity."

"In general, the price could be more competitive."

"Limited remote connection."

"The setup is quite easy. We had appropriate support from the manager. One thing that was missing was the integration part."

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"It's pretty good as it is, but its cost could be improved."

"The thing I hate the most, which they have not fixed, is when it creates duplicate entries within a console. If you have a computer and you upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10, or you upgrade your agent from version 6 to 7, it creates a new instance in there instead of updating the information. Instead of paying a license for one computer, I have to license two computers until I manually go in, search for all the duplicate entries, and clean them out myself."

"Logging could be better in terms of sending more logs to Cisco Firepower or Cisco ASA. That's an area where it could be made better."

"We don't have issues. We think that Cisco covers all of the security aspects on the market. They continue to innovate in the right way."

"The pricing policy could be more competitive, similar to Cisco's offerings."

"The user interface is dull."

"...the greatest value of all, would be to make the security into a single pane of glass. Whilst these products are largely integrated from a Talos perspective, they're not integrated from a portal perspective. For example, we have to look at an Umbrella portal and a separate AMP portal. We also have to look at a separate portal for the firewalls. If I could wave a magic wand and have one thing, I would put all the Cisco products into one, simple management portal."

"The room for improvement would be on event notifications. I have mine tuned fairly well. I do feel that if you subscribe to all the event notification types out-of-the-box, or don't really go through and take the time to filter out events, the notifications can become overwhelming with information. Sometimes, when you're overwhelmed with information, you just say, "I'm not going to look at anything because I'm receiving so much." I recommend the vendor come up with a white paper on the best practices for event notifications."

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"I want Webroot to be easier to use and set up. It is not very intuitive."

"Webroot Business Endpoint Protection needs to focus on how they can widen their area of scope by not just being an antivirus tool anymore. The shortcoming in the customization area of the tool needs improvement."

"Areas for improvement would be the reporting system in the admin console."

"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."

"The only complaint I have with Webroot is its inability to prevent UoD phishing and its inability to check against bots or block anti-attacks. Plus the URL server is in zero-definition."

"Usually, when it comes to reliability, McAfee and Norton are at 99 percent. Webroot's percentage is lower."

"An updated UI would be nice, but is not hardly used."

"We need to know more details about how the virus interacted with the computer."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing seems fair, and I do like the licensing model. You use wherever they are, and it is elastic."

"I don't have any issues with the pricing. We are satisfied with the price."

"It has a yearly renewal."

"Very costly product."

"The price was fine."

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

"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."

"This is an expensive solution."

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"We can know if something bad is potentially happening instantaneously and prevent it from happening. We can go to a device and isolate it before it infects other devices. In our environment, that's millions of dollars saved in a matter of seconds."

"The visibility that we have into the endpoint and the forensics that we're able to collect give us value for the price. This is not an overly expensive solution, considering all the things that are provided. You get great performance and value for the cost."

"My company does make annual payments towards the licensing costs of the solution. Cisco Secure Endpoint is a little bit expensive."

"There is also the Cisco annual subscription plus my management time in terms of what I do with the Cisco product. I spend a minimal amount of time on it though, just rolling out updates as they need them and monitoring the console a couple of times a day to ensure nothing is out of control. Cost-wise, we are quite happy with it."

"It can always be cheaper."

"Pricing is a big issue."

"It is quite cost-effective. I would rate it ten out of ten."

"...the licensing needs to be improved. All the product features we need are there. It's just a matter of the complexity and the different offerings and trying to figure things out."

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"Webroot is less expensive than SentinelOne."

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

"Its cost is not much per month. Our price is a couple of bucks a user."

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

"With Webroot Business Endpoint Protection, I can select a yearly billing cycle."

"The solution is very cost-effective."

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

"Webroot Business Endpoint Protection is not too expensive. My licenses cost me between $300 and $400. It is really good price wise."

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Top Industries

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Comms Service Provider

14%

Outsourcing Company

12%

Construction Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Outsourcing Company

Financial Services Firm

Construction Company

11%

Outsourcing Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	50
Midsize Enterprise	21
Large Enterprise	57

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Small Business	21
Midsize Enterprise	15
Large Enterprise	21

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Small Business	35
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	2

Questions from the Community

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How is Cortex XDR compared with Microsoft Defender?

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cisco Secure Endpoint?

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What needs improvement with Cisco Secure Endpoint?

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What is your primary use case for Cisco Secure Endpoint?

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Webroot Business Endpoint Protection?

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What needs improvement with Webroot Business Endpoint Protection?

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Comparisons

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Compared 47% of the time

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Compared 4% of the time

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Also Known As

Cyvera, Cortex XDR, Palo Alto Networks Traps

Cisco AMP for Endpoints

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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Cisco Secure Endpoint offers robust endpoint security with real-time threat prevention and cloud-based management. It is designed for seamless integration with Cisco products, delivering comprehensive protection and ease of use.

Cisco Secure Endpoint provides real-time threat detection, analytics, and rapid response capabilities. Its ease of use, integrated features like sandboxing and Device and File Trajectory, and its incorporation with Talos make it effective for threat hunting and endpoint protection. With strong machine learning and seamless integration with other tools, it addresses threat prevention and network visibility. However, there is room for improvement in AI features, SIEM API integration, user interface simplification, and cost reduction. Enhanced dashboards, reporting, and support are also areas for potential enhancement.

What are the primary features of Cisco Secure Endpoint?

Integration with Cisco Products: Seamlessly connects with Cisco's offerings like Umbrella and Firepower, providing extended security measures.
Real-Time Threat Prevention: Delivers live threat detection and rapid response, ensuring immediate protection against threats.
Cloud-Based Management: Offers ease of deployment and management through cloud infrastructure, enhancing accessibility and efficiency.
Sandboxing: Provides an isolated environment to safely execute and monitor untrusted applications, preventing potential threats.
Device and File Trajectory: Tracks the actions of devices and files over time, offering valuable insight into their behavior and impact.
Talos Integration: Leverages intelligence from Cisco Talos for enhanced threat intelligence and response capabilities.

What benefits are highlighted in reviews of Cisco Secure Endpoint?

Improved Threat Detection: Users highlight its powerful analytics for identifying and neutralizing threats promptly.
Enhanced Network Visibility: Allows for comprehensive monitoring of network activities, benefiting security operations.
User-Friendly Interface: Valued for its intuitive navigation and ease of use, streamlining security management.
Scalable Integration: Reviews emphasize the ease of integrating with existing tools and platforms, providing flexibility.
Rapid Threat Response: Known for its quick reaction to threats, minimizing potential damage and downtime.

In industries such as finance, healthcare, and manufacturing, Cisco Secure Endpoint is vital for maintaining endpoint security and malware protection. Organizations use it within managed security services, integrating with tools like Umbrella for DNS security. It provides visibility into malware activities and supports threat hunting for devices beyond corporate networks. Deployed on workstations, servers, and laptops, it efficiently logs and blocks malicious actions, ensuring a secure environment.

Cisco

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

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