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Categories and Ranking

Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Net...
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Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
112
Ranking in other categories
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (4th), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (6th), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (4th), Ransomware Protection (2nd), AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platforms (1st)
ESET Endpoint Protection Pl...
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
104
Ranking in other categories
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) (11th), Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) (21st), Anti-Malware Tools (9th)
Symantec Norton 360 [EOL]
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

ABHISHEK_SINGH - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
MS
Owner at Online IT
Cloud-based protection has simplified daily client support and keeps threats under control
The problems that we are facing with policy adoption include slow adoption, as it takes more than five minutes to adopt policy on client computers. ESET Network Attack Protection sometimes helps in reducing network-level intrusions, but sometimes it prevents local devices on the network, which are well-known and good devices, from being recognized, treating them as a threat. So it requires more administration than usual. ESET could implement a good solution for remote support in ESET Endpoint Protection Platform for improvement in the future. Since you have the cloud console, ESET could have something similar to AnyDesk or TeamViewer, but from ESET.
RB
President at Transaction Security, Inc
Provides online backup in case of ransomware and hardware failure
I use Symantec Norton 360 on Windows 10 desktop with Edge and Chrome browsers.  Identity protection  Online backup  Virus protection It provides confidence by ensuring software programs are virus free and file integrity through an online backup. Identity Safe offers better password management…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The level of security I get for my endpoints and servers is extremely valuable."
"The policy configuration is great, the granularity of policies that are available is very helpful, it is straightforward to set up, and it has pretty much everything we need and works well within the Palo Alto ecosystem."
"On a scale from one to ten, I would rate Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks a nine."
"The product has an intuitive dashboard."
"When the pandemic started, Palo Alto came up with many solutions, which helped with the quick shift from on-premises to the cloud."
"It is an easy-to-use tool."
"It can automatically correlate events and logs, which is very helpful for an IT administrator. It can correlate different kinds of malware activities over a network, agent, or host system. You do not need to do it manually. It is a good feature. It is also a user-friendly solution. We have deployed it on the cloud because our space does not provide any flexibility for on-premises deployment, but Palo Alto has added some flexibility to install it on-premises. It must be like the same Cortex XDR agent for all the VPN services, web filtering services, and everything else."
"The most valuable for us is the correlation feature."
"The solution provides good accessibility and is not heavy on resources when there are updates or when it is in operation."
"It is pretty easy to deploy. Its update definition file is small, so it can dispatch very quickly within the enterprise. The product itself is very lightweight, so it won't delay your endpoint. You also don't have to do any difficult configuration because it comes with a very good default setting. So, you just install it and forget it."
"It's a very user-friendly product."
"The protection and device control features are the most valuable, and I found its user interface and integration pretty good, as it is very user friendly as compared to other products."
"We use ESET to protect our company from evolving threats, monitor activity in the network, maintain a hardware and software inventory, and automate tasks such as running commands through a console."
"We use ESET, which is pretty much perfect for us; it is also absolutely simple and automatic once setup, absolutely invisible once running, and it has effectively caught unwanted stuff and saved our bacon over many years."
"The most valuable features for me in ESET Endpoint Security are the antivirus feature and detection."
"I feel the solution to be beneficial in respect of features that I cannot find with SSTM's."
"Norton 360 is a real all around application."
"It provides confidence by ensuring software programs are virus free and file integrity through an online backup."
"Norton 360, commonly referred to as all-in-one bundle, combines both total data protection against threats and a backup facility."
"It adds some new features to this popular all-in-one suite including parental controls and better protection and performance."
 

Cons

"Cortex XDR could improve its sales support team, including better commission structures and referral programs."
"Whenever the tool releases a new version when deploying the product across the organization, I feel like there are some disturbances in the CPU usage after upgrading the tool to the latest version."
"They've been having some issues with updating their endpoint agents, and it has been quite frustrating."
"It is a complex solution to implement."
"The only issues that we have are, one the cost, two the dashboard is not very intuitive, even though you can drill down within the dashboard, we usually have to gather information from other sources to determine locations and if its a false positive."
"Being able to filter the events to see those that are related to the actual alert would save time spent by the engineer."
"The solution should enhance the ADR and reporting."
"We had a problem with getting our older endpoints up to date, but their newest updates have been really good. I've been pleased with it in terms of what our needs are. It's doing what we want it to do."
"While we see dangers within our security system, it would help if there were popups that could immediately alert us or the user of the endpoint that something was detected."
"Data Leak Protection is is what we are searching for at the moment. It is not included with ESET."
"After that three-month trial period was extended, but unfortunately, the company was not convinced by the product, and the managers decided to use another solution called SentinelOne."
"I would rate the pricing a three out of five. It is not expensive, but it is also not inexpensive."
"The deployment is complex and not very easy to use for most people; you need to be a well-informed IT person for deployment."
"Its initial setup process could be more straightforward."
"ESET Endpoint Antivirus can improve by having better EDR intelligence and automation. The EDR still needs lots of human interpretation. It can be better if add more intelligence to the EDR part of the endpoint protection."
"It's not a huge thing, because it doesn't happen very often, but I'll notice sometimes, when there's a startup scan, the computer does bog down a little bit. However, this happens rarely."
"Norton uses an enormous amount of memory on your computer and slows the computer down unnecessarily."
"Expiration of the subscription shuts down all the features."
"Norton 360 is still heavy."
"The free online storage capacity is limited."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of the solution is high for the license and in general."
"It's way too expensive, but security is expensive. You pay for your licensing, and then you pay for someone to monitor the stuff."
"The tool's price is moderate."
"Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is quite an expensive solution."
"The price is on the higher side, but it's okay."
"The price of the product is not very economical."
"The cost of Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is $55 to $90 USD per endpoint per month."
"I feel it is fairly priced."
"I rate the product’s pricing a three out of ten. It is neither cheap nor expensive for our clients."
"I'd have to look through my records, however, we paid maybe $600 to $1000 for this product."
"Currently, we are running on a three-year license. The pricing might be around $20,000. There aren't any costs above the standard licensing fee."
"It probably is less expensive than Sophos."
"This is not an expensive solution."
"There is a license needed to use this solution and there is an annual subscription. The price is inexpensive."
"The price of the solution is reasonable compared to the other products out there. It is definitely in line with the competition."
"It is just under $20 a user per year, and there are no additional costs. I would rate it a five out of five in terms of pricing."
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Top Industries

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Construction Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Comms Service Provider
14%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Construction Company
8%
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Company Size

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Small Business46
Midsize Enterprise20
Large Enterprise52
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Small Business69
Midsize Enterprise18
Large Enterprise21
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Also Known As

Cyvera, Cortex XDR, Palo Alto Networks Traps
Smart Security, ESET PROTECT Advanced, ESET LiveGuard Advanced, ESET PROTECT Platform
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