Malwarebytes Teams vs Norton Small Business comparison

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Malwarebytes and NortonLifeLock are both solutions in the Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) category. Malwarebytes is ranked #24 with an average rating of 8.5, while NortonLifeLock is ranked #42. Malwarebytes holds a 1.5% mindshare in EPP, compared to NortonLifeLock’s 0.9% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Malwarebytes users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of NortonLifeLock users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 15, 2026

Malwarebytes Teams and Norton Small Business compete in the cybersecurity industry, focusing on digital protection solutions. Malwarebytes Teams seems to have the upper hand in threat detection and malware removal, while Norton Small Business provides more extensive protection with its comprehensive security tools.

Features: Malwarebytes Teams emphasizes features like real-time threat detection, anomaly recognition, and robust malware removal, which provide efficient malware management. Norton Small Business offers antivirus, firewall, backup tools, and integration options, delivering a comprehensive security approach with multiple protective layers.

Room for Improvement: Malwarebytes Teams could enhance its feature variety and improve integration capabilities with third-party applications. User interface design could be more intuitive for facilitating better user experience. Norton Small Business can optimize for simpler management and potentially reduce complexity in its broader feature set, providing streamlined user navigation and management.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Malwarebytes Teams is known for quick deployment with easy setup configurations and proves accessible support services. In contrast, Norton Small Business requires a longer installation process but offers comprehensive installation support and detailed customer service options.

Pricing and ROI: Malwarebytes Teams generally offers lower setup costs, appealing to businesses with budget restrictions while promising strong ROI by focusing on malware threats. Norton Small Business, despite higher costs, provides greater value with extensive security features and integrated solutions aimed at long-term benefits.

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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 Malwarebytes Teams is 1.5%, down from 2.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Norton Small Business is 0.9%, down from 2.1% 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%
Malwarebytes Teams	1.5%
Norton Small Business	0.9%
Other	93.8%

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Featured Reviews

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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reviewer2594097

Chief Executive Officer at a wholesaler/distributor with 11-50 employees

Exceptional malware protection with regular updates and behavior-based detection

There are no built-in backups or integrated backup options, which could be an opportunity. The free version is effective, however, the paid version is pricey compared to it. Other customers have mentioned issues with false positives. It lacks enterprise-level management and more enterprise functionality. CrowdStrike and SentinelOne are much more enterprise-grade solutions. Malwarebytes has limited integration with cybersecurity tools and lacks enterprise integrations because it is not an enterprise product.

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William_Bowers

CEO at Evise.ai

Provides a secure and hassle-free environment

One area where Norton 360 could improve is the constant push for upselling. The notifications urging me to buy additional services, like dark web monitoring or a secure browser, can be overwhelming. It feels like they are trying to sell me more than I actually need. I would prefer a more straightforward approach where essential features are included in the base license without constant prompts to purchase extras. While notifications about actions taken for my security are good, they could be more informative, letting me know exactly what they did to protect me without the upsell pitches. Simplifying the user experience and providing clearer information about the actions taken would make Norton 360 more user-friendly for me.

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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 anti-exploit is impenetrable."

"Cortex is the best solution for avoiding security breaches, malware attacks, and other kinds of security issues."

"The product is very good, it has caught a lot of exploits that most products would not."

"Previously, we had to install endpoint protection per machine and then scan and update, but Cortex XDR basically does that centrally and predictably, so we have more time to do day-to-day work rather than spend time chasing those endpoints."

"They did what they said, and this solution could apply to any scenario."

"I like that the product has behavior-based detection which offers many benefits over signature-based detection."

"If any application performs suspicious activities, such as changing registries or modifying other applications, Cortex XDR detects and blocks the entire application."

"The best feature of Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is that it collects logs from different sections such as the endpoint, the network, and the cloud, making it easy to investigate alerts, collect some of the investigation packages related to the infected machines, and provide live response."

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"Malwarebytes is a comprehensive solution for keeping endpoints safe and secure from intruders, viruses, malware and so on."

"I never have to look at it or do anything with it, and then my system just stays clean."

"The product provides notifications for suspicious events. We have several public access points. The product helps to prevent unauthorized entry. Its most valuable features are pre-installation procedures and a cloud console. The console's interface is simple and can be viewed easily to take action. It covers everything in terms of security threats."

"Being able to carry out a full scan on your system."

"I have just discovered it to be exceptionally good at finding that stuff."

"So far, the solution has done a good job of protecting us from malicious items, such as ransomware, among other things."

"The platform is straightforward to install."

"From our experience, it provides 100% visibility and detects hundreds of infections."

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"Norton 360 offers the best defense compared to other low-priced antivirus solutions. Its most valuable feature is storage and automatic backup. You can restore materials from the tool's cloud backup. It is encrypted with authentication."

"The product’s valuable feature is the availability of support services 24/7."

"The solution has good performance."

"The performance is fine."

"The solution detects viruses very, very fast."

"The most valuable feature of Norton 360 has been its robust notification system."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it offers alerts if I get a spam email."

"It offers diverse features, such as antivirus protection, firewall, identity protection, secure VPN, device backup, password management, parental controls, and performance optimization."

Cons

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

"It'll help if customization was easier."

"The downside to the solution is that there are a large number of false positives."

"Although I would say this product is highly-rated, it could probably do more because nothing does everything that you want."

"This is a very costly product."

"It's very time-consuming to log support issues and the people that answer the tickets aren't very knowledgeable."

"In the next release, I would like to see more UI improvements. Their UI is a bit basic. When we are speaking about Palo Alto Networks they are the big company, so they can improve the UI a little bit. The UI, the reports, the log system can all be improved."

"It is an enterprise-level solution. Its price could be less expensive."

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"The interface could be improved. Currently, you need to really dig around to find the elements you need."

"The product could be improved in blocking malicious traffic, such as communication with known malicious IP addresses."

"There is room for improvement in the way it is deployed, in terms of being able to distribute it. Right now we have to get our hands on a machine to deploy it. It would be nice if there was an easier system."

"It's not covering everything as we just started in EDR. In Malwarebytes, there's no response. The response is very limited, and integration is very limited."

"Every once in a while, the product gets clobbered. It's not just one thing. So, it could be a Microsoft update or a Kaspersky update."

"Malwarebytes is too simplistic. From a SOC IR perspective, it doesn't give you very much data around it. It doesn't tie things or provide SHA-1 and SHA-256 detection information, which makes it hard to do an additional investigation."

"If they want to compete with bigger players, they should consider adding items like threat detection and website warnings."

"Every once in a while, it gets clobbered by updates from other places. I don't think this should happen."

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"The updates must be less frequent."

"The solution’s stability could be improved."

"The tool should be easily available in the market and should be cheaper."

"One area where Norton 360 could improve is the constant push for upselling."

"There's a need for enhanced security measures."

"The tool's price is an area of concern where improvements are required."

"The product should be improved with more storage. Though included in its price, the tool's auto VPN doesn't work at times."

"Norton 360’s features for device optimization could be better."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is quite an expensive solution."

"Compared to CrowdStrike, Cortex XDR is an expensive solution."

"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."

"Its pricing is kind of in line with its competitors and everybody else out there."

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

"The cost of Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is $55 to $90 USD per endpoint per month."

"Traps pays for itself within the first 16 months of a three-year subscription. This is attributed to OPEX savings, as security teams spent less time trying to identify and isolate malware for analysis as a result of a reduction in malware incidents, false positives, and breach avoidance."

"Every customer has to pay for a license because it doesn't work with what you get from a managed services provider."

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"I rate the tool's pricing a five out of ten."

"It is really expensive. We've got between 30 and 40 licenses every year, and for the number of licenses that we have, we're finding that Malwarebytes on average costs between $900 and $1,000 more per year than comparable options. We're paying about $3,300 per year for these licenses. There are no additional costs beyond the standard licensing fee."

"The licensing is per seat, with clients being a little less expensive than servers. If we need more licenses, we can accomplish that within a day. As Malwarebytes adds new features to their product, such as DNS filtering and a patching module, they want to charge us more even though we're a premium user, which isn't ideal."

"On a scale of one to ten, where one is a low price and ten is a high price, I rate the product's pricing a seven."

"Its cost is around $60 a machine. The cost of the total solution for 250 people is about $8,500 a year. If we add EDR to it, it will bring that cost up to about $15,000. The cost for Carbon Black is about $25,000, which is $10,000 more, but you get all AI functions with it."

"It is expensive."

"The cost may be something in the ballpark of $20-25 a year per computer."

"Malwarebytes is a cost-effective product."

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"On a scale of one to ten, if ten is the most expensive and one is the cheapest, I rate the price as nine."

"The solution is cost-effective."

"The tool has a yearly licensing."

"The price is fairly acceptable."

"It is an inexpensive product. We purchase its yearly license."

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Top Industries

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Comms Service Provider

14%

Outsourcing Company

12%

Construction Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

12%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Construction Company

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

12%

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Company Size

By reviewers

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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Company Size	Count
Small Business	22
Midsize Enterprise	8
Large Enterprise	6

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Large Enterprise	2

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What needs improvement with Malwarebytes?

It takes up too much space when it's trying to run in the background.

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Also Known As

Cyvera, Cortex XDR, Palo Alto Networks Traps

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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.

Palo Alto Networks

Malwarebytes Teams provides advanced threat protection and efficient detection and removal capabilities, featuring cloud-based management and robust endpoint security. It operates on Windows and Mac, emphasizing threat interception and the cloud-management interface.

Offering comprehensive protection, Malwarebytes Teams is recognized for its customizable and user-friendly interface. The anti-exploit feature effectively intercepts threats in Office applications, while frequent updates maintain security standards. Efficient scanning, threat response, and rollback features are highly valued, as is its ability to integrate seamlessly into diverse environments. Remote accessibility and cloud management enhance its robust endpoint protection.

What are the key features of Malwarebytes Teams?

Comprehensive Threat Protection: Advanced detection and removal for malware.
Cloud-Based Management: Manage security conveniently from the cloud.
Anti-Exploit Feature: Protects against threats in Office applications.
Efficient Scanning: Quick and effective threat detection.
Threat Response and Rollback: Swift response with rollback capabilities.

What benefits and ROI should users look for?

Enhanced Security: Continuous updates and strong endpoint protection.
Integration Flexibility: Works well with existing environments.
Reporting Capabilities: Offers effective reporting and monitoring.
Remote Accessibility: Manage security from any location.

Malwarebytes Teams is widely implemented in cybersecurity across industries for endpoint security. Organizations deploy it for malware detection, intrusion protection, and compliance scanning, relying on its antivirus capabilities and ransomware rollback. It serves as a secondary tool alongside primary systems to enhance security on both Windows and Mac environments, particularly valued for monitoring usage behaviors without controlling endpoints.

Malwarebytes

Norton Small Business provides comprehensive security with reliability for small enterprises, ensuring robust protection and easy management.

Norton Small Business delivers superior security services tailored for small businesses. With rapid issue resolution and constant support, it offers powerful antivirus protection, a reliable firewall, identity protection, secure VPN, and password management. Automatic encrypted backup, parental controls, and spam email alerts further enhance its utility. Users appreciate its seamless integration with dashboards, offering a more consistent and efficient user experience. Although improvements in device optimization and security measures are needed, it stands as a robust option for those seeking reliable security solutions. Some challenges include frequent pop-up ads, pricing concerns, and stability issues.

What are the key features of Norton Small Business?

24/7 Support: Provides immediate assistance whenever required.
Antivirus and Firewall: Offers continuous device protection against threats.
Secure VPN: Ensures safe and encrypted internet browsing.
Password Management: Protects and simplifies password organization.
Automatic Encrypted Backup: Safeguards critical data with secure storage solutions.
Parental Controls: Filters harmful content to protect younger users.
Performance Optimization: Enhances system efficiency by managing resources effectively.

Why should users consider Norton Small Business?

Comprehensive Security Coverage: Encompasses a broad range of security features for total peace of mind.
User Convenience: Easy integration with business management tools contributes to streamlined operations.
Support Assurance: 24/7 support mitigates downtime and enhances reliability.
Cost Efficiency: Delivers robustness expected by smaller enterprises without significant expenses.

Norton Small Business thrives in industries that require a seamless blend of robust security and management simplicity. It supports antivirus protection, identity protection, and seamless data backups, making it ideal for businesses focusing on protecting customer information and ensuring operational continuity.

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