Microsoft Defender for Endpoint vs VIPRE Endpoint Security comparison

Microsoft and VIPRE Security are both solutions in the Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) category. Microsoft is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.3, while VIPRE Security is ranked #62. Microsoft holds a 10.8% mindshare in EPP, compared to VIPRE Security’s 0.2% mindshare. Additionally, 94% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 50% of VIPRE Security users who would recommend it.

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50% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 9, 2024

VIPRE Endpoint Security and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint compete in the endpoint security solutions category. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint appears to have the upper hand due to its comprehensive features and higher user satisfaction.

Features: VIPRE Endpoint Security is known for its robust malware detection, ease of use, and low system impact. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint stands out for its advanced threat protection, integration with Microsoft products, and automation capabilities. Users favor Microsoft Defender due to its more extensive and sophisticated feature set.

Room for Improvement: VIPRE Endpoint Security could improve its reporting capabilities, provide more frequent updates, and offer better real-time alerts. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint users suggest enhancements in real-time alerts, user-guidance documentation, and a more user-friendly interface. Microsoft Defender requires fewer significant improvements.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: VIPRE Endpoint Security receives positive feedback for its straightforward deployment and responsive customer support. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is noted for a complex deployment process but offers comprehensive support resources. Users find Microsoft's extensive support network offsets its intricate setup.

Pricing and ROI: VIPRE Endpoint Security is recognized for its competitive pricing and favorable ROI, especially for small to medium-sized businesses. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, perceived as more expensive, provides exceptional ROI due to its robust feature set and extensive protection capabilities. Users find Microsoft Defender worth the higher cost.

To learn more, read our detailed Microsoft Defender for Endpoint vs. VIPRE Endpoint Security Report (Updated: April 2025).

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Defender for Endp...

Ranking in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)

1st

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

197

Ranking in other categories

Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) (2nd), Anti-Malware Tools (1st), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (3rd), Microsoft Security Suite (5th)

VIPRE Endpoint Security

Ranking in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)

62nd

Average Rating

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) category, the mindshare of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is 10.8%, down from 14.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VIPRE Endpoint Security is 0.2%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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AnuragSrivastava

Information Security Engineering Lead at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

Provides detailed visibility into threats but the ability to add exceptions needs improvement

One major item for improvement is the ability to add exceptions. We can add some exceptions, but not at the level we need to. The second major area for improvement involves enhanced capabilities for different operating systems or platforms. That is, even though we have coverage for different operating systems or platforms such as Linux, we don't get all of the controls and enhanced capabilities that are available with Windows devices. Reporting could also be improved because, at present, we get limited results at times. For example, in an environment with more than 100,000 devices, you may just get 10,000 results when you run a report.

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Jeremy Tew

Information Technology Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Easy to deploy, good price, low overhead, and keeps our Servers and PC's free of virus'

Their management interface is a little buggy as it will hang up and crash from time to time. Although It requires more system resources than the desktop client, adding additional resources' ex. CPU and Memory don't seem to improve it. Its reporting can also be improved as the executive and patching reports are missing the ability to provide what groups of PC's are included in the reports. Also, It's great they patch some third-party software, but it is a limited list expanding this would be a huge improvement. I'm yet to see it properly handle USB Device control.

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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

"Microsoft Defender is always running. It is doing its job, so it is fine. I don't have any issues with the way it was implemented or how we are running it. We have been upgrading IT throughout the years, but there have been no issues."

"DFE organizational security posture has been a positive experience. We're a Microsoft house. It works. Once it's deployed and once it's configured, it works and our clients tend to be happy with it. I haven't really experienced anyone who has been so unsatisfied with the platform that they wanted to go a couple of different directions, that has never happened to me."

"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is that it is embedded into the Windows system. Additionally, the performance is good and simple to maintain."

"The features of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint that I prefer most are the detections. It just works."

"The whole bundle of the product, which is similar to other Microsoft products, is valuable. Ten years ago, you had third-party stuff for different things. You had one solution for email archiving and another third-party one for something else. Nowadays, Microsoft Office covers all the stuff that was formerly covered by third-party solutions. It is the same with antivirus. The functionality is just basic. You have the scanning, and then you also have a kind of cloud-based protection and reporting about your environment. With Microsoft Security Center, you have a complete overview of your environment. You know the software inventory, and you have security recommendations. You can not only see that the antivirus is up to date; you can also see where are the vulnerabilities in your system. Microsoft Security Center tells you where you have old, deprecated software and what kind of CVEs are addressed. It's really cool stuff."

"Defender should be fine for home use. It has all the basic functionality you need. I can't speak to how well it works as an enterprise solution because I'm not in the space."

"Coming from an organization where the EDR wasn't strong, it has always been a case of basically searching through the information you already have and looking for something. It was basically trying to find the needle in a haystack. What the Defender platform does is that it reduces the size of the haystack, and it'll say that the needle is over here. Minutes matter, and it certainly zeros you in on the events that are concerning. It also simplifies the effort of trying to get some kind of correlation of behaviors or actions you see in the environment and confirming if something is benign or a threat."

"Microsoft Defender for Endpoint's WCS function, a content filtering solution, has proven to be the most useful, stable, and reliable option for our current needs."

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"In general, it was pretty easy to manage."

"It has low overhead as far as machine resources are concerned. Everything runs faster with VIPRE installed versus some of the competitors. It has also been pretty easy to use. It just runs and gives us reports. It also sends us alerts when there is something that we need to look at. It does its job, and you just look at the reports. In other ways, you just forget that it is there."

Cons

"Microsoft Defender for Endpoint should have more transparency. In the latest edition of Windows, Windows 11, it is a compulsory requirement to connect to a Microsoft account, which in turn has implications for Defender. This should be removed."

"Microsoft Windows Defender doesn't have a game mode."

"The price, in general, could always be a little bit cheaper."

"They should come up with pre-built inner workflows."

"There are likely some technical improvements or features that could be added, however, I cannot say, off the top of my head, what they would be."

"Microsoft Defender in the basic form is not very useful for managing the security environment. The free version is not capable of covering the needs of centralized management, EDR, and behavioral analysis. If you don't have the commercial version, you can't have centralized management and set up the policies and other things. Each client is a standalone installation, which is not useful for security in an enterprise model."

"I would like to have additional features such as DNS lookup, which would help for detecting malicious sites."

"It should support non-Windows products better. Microsoft is now one of the leading vendors in the security area. So, they should be product-independent."

More Microsoft Defender for Endpoint cons

"Their management interface is a little buggy. It requires a few system resources on the management interface. Its reporting can also be better. Overall, the reports are pretty good. They patch some third-party software, but if they can expand what they do for reporting and patch enterprise software, it would be handy."

"We would get a lot of false positives and instead of them fixing the false positive, they would just want us to put in an exception, which I didn't care for."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's all pretty easy. For some clients, it's an easier sell because it's just an add-on to their existing Microsoft licensing and Office 365 licensing."

"Licensing fees are paid annually through a partner."

"Given our extensive Microsoft licensing, transitioning to Defender for Endpoint did not affect licensing costs."

"The price was a problem for me three years ago, but they improved their E3, E5, and a la carte licensing. In other words, you have to get all of E5. That used to be a problem because you had E3, Defender, and guardrails, but you needed an E5 license to get the management suite and the analytics. It's more flexible now. You can switch from a la carte to the entire suite when it starts to make sense. It's becoming more economically competitive to go that route."

"The license cost is around $35 per machine, which is not expensive compared to other products."

"We are using the free version."

"We have a bundle where the price includes all Microsoft products."

"AV solutions are pretty expensive because they are necessary, not just for protection, but many businesses need them to comply with regulatory bodies and receive accreditation. We recently purchased an E5 license, which gives us access to the entire Microsoft suite. I would say the pricing is competitive; most tools of this kind are similarly priced. There are minor differences between the competitors, but they aren't spectacularly different. Defender for Endpoint makes sense because all our solutions are in the same place, paid for with a single license. The subscription price is around £50 per user per month, though it may have increased slightly."

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"Its price point has been phenomenal. Our previous solution from Trend Micro was triple the cost of it."

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Top Industries

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Educational Organization

24%

Computer Software Company

12%

Government

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

19%

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Also Known As

Microsoft Defender ATP, Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection, MS Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Defender Antivirus

VIPRE Cloud, VIPRE Endpoint Security Cloud Edition, VIPRE Endpoint Security Server Edition

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Overview

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is a comprehensive security solution that provides advanced threat protection for organizations. It offers real-time protection against various types of cyber threats, including malware, viruses, ransomware, and phishing attacks.

With its powerful machine-learning capabilities, it can detect and block sophisticated attacks before they can cause any harm. The solution also includes endpoint detection and response (EDR) capabilities, allowing organizations to quickly investigate and respond to security incidents. It provides detailed insights into the attack timeline, enabling security teams to understand the scope and impact of an incident.

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint also offers proactive threat hunting, allowing organizations to proactively search for and identify potential threats within their network. It integrates seamlessly with other Microsoft security solutions, such as Microsoft Defender XDR, to provide a unified and holistic security approach. With its centralized management console, organizations can easily deploy, configure, and monitor the security solution across their entire network.

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is a robust and scalable security solution that helps organizations protect their endpoints and data from evolving cyber threats.

Microsoft

VIPRE Endpoint Security provides fast, powerful and easy-to-manage endpoint protection for businesses of all sizes, with a small footprint that won't slow you down.

VIPRE Security

Sample Customers

Petrofrac, Metro CSG, Christus Health

College Station ISD, Mid-West Companies, Guardian Network Solutions

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