HP Wolf Security vs Trend Micro Smart Protection comparison

HP and TrendAI are both solutions in the Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) category. HP is ranked #11 with an average rating of 9.0, while TrendAI is ranked #32 with an average rating of 7.8. HP holds a 5.4% mindshare in EPP, compared to TrendAI’s 0.9% mindshare. Additionally, 87% of HP users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 86% of TrendAI users who would recommend it.

HP Wolf Security

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Trend Micro Smart Protection

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86% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 9, 2024

HP Wolf Security and Trend Micro Smart Protection compete in the cybersecurity solution category. Trend Micro Smart Protection has the upper hand for overall features and ROI, while HP Wolf Security excels in deployment and customer service.

Features: HP Wolf Security users benefit from endpoint isolation capabilities, ease of use, and integration with existing security frameworks. Trend Micro Smart Protection offers comprehensive threat detection, advanced machine learning, and robust scalability.

Room for Improvement: HP Wolf Security users seek enhancements in reporting features, update processes, and better third-party tool integration. Trend Micro Smart Protection users desire improvements in reducing false positives, seamless update processes, and enhanced third-party tool integration.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: HP Wolf Security is recognized for its straightforward deployment process and responsive customer service. Trend Micro Smart Protection, though slightly more complex in deployment, receives favorable feedback for its deployment and customer service but is perceived as slightly less responsive than HP Wolf Security.

Pricing and ROI: HP Wolf Security offers good value for its price with favorable setup costs. Trend Micro Smart Protection, despite higher initial costs, is perceived as delivering superior ROI due to its extensive features and robust protection.

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Categories and Ranking

HP Wolf Security

Ranking in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)

11th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

3.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (24th)

Trend Micro Smart Protection

Ranking in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)

32nd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) category, the mindshare of HP Wolf Security is 5.4%, down from 5.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Trend Micro Smart Protection is 0.9%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
HP Wolf Security	5.4%
Trend Micro Smart Protection	0.9%
Other	93.7%

Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)

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Bert Hickman

Owner at Stoneridge Engineering, LLC

Adds a layer of safety, especially for laptops operating in various environments

The tool's deployment is easy. HP Wolf Security's deployment was a swift process since it was initially compatible with Windows 10, the operating system on both machines. However, when I transitioned to Windows 11, I encountered minor issues that prompted me to delve deeper into Wolf Security to fine-tune security settings according to my preferences. While I mostly used default settings, there was an initial adjustment where I disabled the AI function related to malware. Currently, the system is running smoothly with no reported issues. Adjusting some settings raised concerns about compatibility between HP Wolf Security and Norton 360. Specifically, aspects of HP Wolf Security, such as the virtual machine component, intrigued me, but I hesitated due to potential conflicts. During my investigation, Windows 11 raised a flag, questioning the system's security settings with Norton 360 and HP Wolf Security. However, it seems that they coexist well without causing issues.

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reviewer2759025

Information Technology Service Desk Manager at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees

Deep traffic inspection has strengthened threat detection and provides smooth zero day protection

I have been dealing with Deep Discovery that inspects incoming and outgoing traffic, and it is used for packet filtering. The most valuable features and functionalities in Deep Discovery are that it is used for monitoring malicious traffic, and it operates down to the firewall and inspects any malicious traffic. I have used Deep Discovery's sandbox analysis feature. The sandboxing feature helps our threat detection efforts as it internally inspects the malicious data and holds it in the sandbox, and after the analysis, the file is quarantined. I evaluate Deep Discovery's real-time visibility on network traffic as a better solution for inspecting traffic. In incident response, Deep Discovery captures zero-day threats easily and provides the best visibility on the console. I assess the effectiveness of Trend Micro's real-time analysis in my defense strategy as good, as it does not disturb any work and operates very smoothly in the background without any utilization.

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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

"I use HP Wolf Security to add a layer of safety, especially for laptops operating in various environments."

"The most valuable feature is the process isolation because it simply stops malware from infecting the machines."

"We've been able to isolate and prevent malicious code from external email attachments and from downloaded internet files. Those are the two big areas that have really made an impact."

"Now, instead of us having to go through that analysis, they actually give us a monthly report that shows us: "Here's what you got hit with, here's what would have happened, here are the forensics behind the attack," and, obviously, Bromium stopped it."

"Our overall security posture has absolutely improved as a result of adding Bromium to our security stack. We continue to have less user impact through a significantly reduced amount of malware infections. It's become a non-event."

"The feature that stands out the most is that when someone clicks on a link in an email... [if] that link is malicious and it has some malware or keylogger attached to it, when it opens up in that Bromium virtualized browser, there's no chance of it actually being on the machine and running, because as soon as they click that "X" in the upper right-hand side of the browser, everything just vanishes. That is an added plus."

"It has prevented thousands of potential threats by encapsulating them within its own vSentry container, thus providing overall protection and integrity of the operating system."

"The isolation feature is the most important because it prevents attacks."

"The sandboxing is more proactive and more reliable than any of the other endpoint protection solutions."

"It integrates well with all our tools, including ServiceNow, for fault reporting."

"Trend Micro has consistently been recognized as a leader for endpoint security on Gartner, which has been our top priority. Based on my personal experience, we encountered fewer ransomware attacks for Trend Micro customers in Sri Lanka."

"Helps with vulnerability and patch management, making it easier to provide top-notch services to our customers."

"The most valuable aspect of the solution is that it also protects our smartphones. It's one of the reasons we use Trend Micro specifically."

"What I like the most is the customer pricing because it's a great value."

"Your workstation doesn't slow down, unlike when you use Symantec, for example."

"Product-wise, it is amazing. It includes DLP, vulnerability management, and application whitelisting features. These features are very good and add value in selling this solution to our customers. These features make the key selling point. I recently did a comparison with the FireEye firewall for a customer. They were basically going to replace Trend Micro with their EDR. Because of these features, I could convince the customer that Trend Micro is better than FireEye."

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Cons

"They have always struggled with usability. The protection that it offers you is tremendous, but there's definitely an impact with use of resources on the computer. It's gotten a lot better now with Win 10. But sometimes, when you open up a website, it's going to take longer than it would without Bromium, and it's the same with documents."

"They need to improve the compatibility with other applications and its stability. It works well with attacks, but it doesn't work well with all software on the clients. There is a lot of troubleshooting and a lot of things that need to be tuned to make it work and not break things."

"When you deploy, not only is the user asked to reboot their computer, they are also asked to wait for 20 minutes while it sits there and initializes. It definitely impacts the end-user. It takes time away from their day."

"Room for improvement would be keeping up with the rate of change, specifically on Windows platforms. There are a lot of updates that come out for Microsoft Windows operating systems and the Bromium product needs to be able to keep up quickly with those updates and all the browser updates that are coming out. It's hard to do, but that's really where they need to be more responsive because we end up with problems and then we have to call support to get patches, etc."

"Reporting is one of the shortcomings of the product. We do mine the data that's in there from a forensics perspective... It becomes very difficult because you have to spend a lot of time digging through the volumes of data. Reporting is absolutely the biggest shortcoming."

"After a major release, there's always a lot of "dust settling." You have to work through all those issues and then you're fine for a while. The problem is, it's stable, it's fine, until the next major release comes out. Then you go back into the cycle again of uncertainty, instability, working through issues until they have patched and remediated all the problems that you're having. It's not unlike any other vendor though"

"I did not find this to be an out-of-the-box solution, it required planning and alignment across many groups."

"Initial setup was complex. There were many configurations that needed to be worked out with the vendor. The setup required hands-on assistance from Bromium."

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"The solution should improve its mobile management solution."

"Trend Micro Smart Protection is a very system-intensive product, and it would be better if it could be made less burdensome on the resources."

"It does not provide insights into what is being done."

"Recently our end users are feeling that their system resources are too occupied and slowed because of the Trend Micro agent - that the agent is doing lots and lots of background activities which include that Application Control, Advanced Threat Protection. We raised the complaint with them and are waiting for their technical support. The support could be faster for all the Trend Micro solutions."

"This product would be improved if it had more monitoring capabilities so that it could stop threats before they break into the network and damage it."

"Documentation-wise, they are a disaster. If you want to know something about Trend Micro, you will not find anything useful from Trend Micro themselves. You have to basically dig some blog, or you need to seek some expert to help you understand what they are offering. I have never seen such a good product with such disastrous documentation. Feature-wise, almost all vendors are providing the same features, but it is all about the integration. For example, Trend Micro is promoting their endpoint protection suite, but they never mention about the integration that they are offering with their EDR solution. They are treating each product as a separate island, and you don't know much about their integration. It would be good if they can focus on integration."

"I want the tool to provide the solutions integrated within it to have regular updates. Currently, the solutions integrated with Smart Protection get updates from the cloud. I want to minimize the download from the cloud."

"The web filtering could be improved."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product's pricing is a good value. We only run it on our internet-facing workstations, we don't run it on everything in our environment. We are very selective. Some organizations may want to consider doing something like that to reduce their license count."

"I think the pricing is a good value. All of these security products are always going to be very expensive, but I don't think Bromium is unreasonable. I think Bromium is decently priced. It’s a tiered licensing platform. The more you buy, the cheaper gets per unit, and I think their tiers are very well defined. I think they're fair."

"The pricing is very fair compared to the competition. The licensing is straightforward."

"The product came as a bundle with the machine."

"Pricing is reasonable."

"We pay for the solution on a yearly basis. We pay approximately 100 Euros a year per user. There are no additional fees above this."

"Instead of going for monthly or yearly licensing models, it is better to go ahead with three-year or five-year licensing models as it can be cheaper."

"Whether something is affordable or pricy, is relative. It depends on the value an institution has attached to a capability. For us, security is a premium requirement, I can't say a solution is pricey if we are able to afford it and run it for seven years, I would say it's affordable."

"Our organization has paid licensing for three years, which averaged about $4.00 USD per user. We've been satisfied with the licensing. It's quite reasonable."

"The licensing is on a yearly basis and I believe our organization paid about $2,000/year. However, it's been a while since I looked at the pricing and we no longer use the solution."

"The price of Trend Micro Smart Protection is reasonable."

"The product is not very expensive."

"In terms of licensing cost, it falls within the average range compared to competitors, almost 7 out of 10."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Comms Service Provider

10%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Government

Manufacturing Company

12%

Performing Arts

11%

Computer Software Company

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Large Enterprise	5

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	16
Midsize Enterprise	14
Large Enterprise	17

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for HP Wolf Security?

The product came as a bundle with the machine.

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What needs improvement with HP Wolf Security?

The tool behaves differently when I ported to Windows 11.

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What is your primary use case for HP Wolf Security?

I use HP Wolf Security to add a layer of safety, especially for laptops operating in various environments.

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What do you like most about Trend Micro Smart Protection?

The tool offers centralized security management. The tool's deployment is flexible.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Trend Micro Smart Protection?

I find that Trend Micro Smart Protection is affordable; I don't think it can be quite expensive.

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What needs improvement with Trend Micro Smart Protection?

Technical support needs to be improved. We had a customer move from Trend Micro because they didn't the support. Both response time and ownership are the problems with support. Trend Micro Smart Pr...

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Overview

HP Wolf Security is a comprehensive cybersecurity solution that bolsters your organization's cyber-resilience on multiple fronts. With its full-stack security approach, it ensures layered protection from hardware to the cloud, providing a robust defense against cyber threats. HP Wolf Security introduces endpoint isolation, a cutting-edge feature that effectively halts threats that may go unnoticed by Next-Generation Antivirus (NGAV) and Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) systems. Moreover, it extends its security coverage to printers, equipping them with advanced detection and self-healing capabilities to further safeguard your digital ecosystem. This integrated solution streamlines IT and security risk management, resulting in fewer alerts and false positives, and reduces the time and effort required for endpoint incident analysis and remediation. Notably, HP Wolf Security prioritizes productivity, allowing you to manage risk without disrupting the user experience, enabling worry-free work from anywhere, and offering rapid IT disaster recovery at scale.

Trend Micro Smart Protection is a comprehensive security solution designed to safeguard enterprises from a wide array of threats, including malware, ransomware, and advanced persistent threats (APTs). This solution combines multiple layers of protection and real-time threat intelligence to deliver robust security across networks, endpoints, and cloud environments.

Trend Micro Smart Protection utilizes advanced machine learning, behavioral analysis, and automated threat detection to identify and mitigate threats before they can cause harm. The solution integrates seamlessly with existing security infrastructure and provides centralized management through a user-friendly console. Its cloud-based architecture ensures continuous updates and real-time protection against the latest threats.

What are the critical features of Trend Micro Smart Protection?

Multi-Layered Security: Protects endpoints, networks, and cloud environments with a combination of machine learning, behavior analysis, and automated threat detection.
Real-Time Threat Intelligence: Leverages global threat intelligence to identify and block new and emerging threats quickly.
Centralized Management: Simplifies security management with a single console for monitoring and controlling security across the organization.
Seamless Integration: Easily integrates with existing security systems and infrastructure, enhancing overall protection without requiring significant changes.
Automated Threat Response: Automatically responds to and mitigates threats, reducing the need for manual intervention and minimizing potential damage.

What benefits should users look for in reviews when evaluating Trend Micro Smart Protection?

Improved Security Posture: Enhanced protection across all enterprise environments, reducing the risk of breaches.
Reduced Operational Costs: Automated threat detection and response lower the need for extensive manual security management.
Scalability: Ability to scale protection as the organization grows, ensuring continuous and comprehensive security.
User-Friendly Management: Ease of use and centralized management enable IT teams to efficiently monitor and control security measures.
Real-Time Protection: Continuous updates and real-time threat intelligence ensure the organization is protected against the latest threats.

Trend Micro Smart Protection is implemented across various industries, including finance, healthcare, and retail, providing customized security solutions to meet specific regulatory and operational needs. Its ability to adapt to different environments and integrate with existing systems makes it a versatile choice for enterprises.

Pricing and licensing for Trend Micro Smart Protection are typically based on the number of users and endpoints, with flexible options available to suit different organizational needs. Customer support includes comprehensive service packages with 24/7 assistance and dedicated account managers for enterprise clients.

In summary, Trend Micro Smart Protection offers robust, multi-layered security with real-time threat intelligence and centralized management, making it a reliable solution for safeguarding enterprise environments.

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