Morphisec Reviews

Our primary use case is to protect against ransomware.

We had been hit by ransomware and a couple of our servers went down as a result and some staff computers were affected. We locked everything down very quickly. We were able to restore everything and we didn't lose any data. It took us about eight man-hours to restore the servers, restore services, and get everything back up and running, but it could have been a lot worse than it was. So we looked for a solution that bridged the gap because we have antivirus, we use Microsoft ATP and some other network security measures, but none of them caught it.

We were looking for something that we could layer with security, like what we had preexisting. It turns out it works and integrates very well with Microsoft solutions as well. It bridges that little gap of memory protection that we were looking for to help prevent further ransomware attacks and things like that.

Morphisec has enabled us to become a lot less paranoid when it comes to staff clicking on things or accessing things that they shouldn't that could infect the whole system. Our original ransomware attack that happened came from someone's Google drive and then just filtered on through that. It has put our minds at ease a lot more in running it. It's also another layer of security that has been proven to be effective for us.

It makes use of deterministic attack prevention that requires the investigation of security alerts. We can always see those and investigate further. It is pretty self-contained and automated. We have not had to really go in to investigate really.

This has made our security team's operations a lot easier. Ransomware has been the biggest threat for us. Of course, we get little attacks here and there on other threat vectors, viruses, and other malware that we have to go in and disinfect. But ransomware has not been an issue and we've even gone through and run a couple of simulated tests for ransomware from other companies. None of them have been successful like Morphisec. It just stopped it dead in its track and it was not able to do anything.

Morphisec has reduced the amount of time we spend investigating false positives. I would say by about 5% to 10%. That typically is how many ransomware-type attacks that we see. It's a low number but it's a very destructive number.

Our team's overall workload has also been reduced by about 5% to 10%. That's just for normal detection, looking for these threats, and trying to find out what it is.

Now, if we were to be infected again, it would then be reduced by a lot, just because depending on how far the infection gets, how many man-hours that would be, we know that would be very significant. We've only been hit once in the past by this. And luckily it was pretty minimal, but it could have been very severe, and then it would have really impacted us on man-hours.

It helps us to save money on our security stacks. It's priceless just because if we were to lose all of our data from an attack like that, there would be no way to get it back without paying massive amounts for ransomware. And there's no guarantee that if you pay for the decryption key from whoever's holding your data ransom, that that's even going to work or that you'll get everything back at the end. Morphisec has been a real lifesaver.

It makes it super easy for IT teams of any size to prevent breaches of critical systems. They have a way to mass deploy it on all of our Morphisec clients. It's very easy to manage, very easy to deploy, and it's also very easy to maintain.

The fact that it's able to automatically detect and block ransomware attempts is the most valuable feature. 

The dashboard is the area that requires the most improvement. We have about, I would say 5,500 computers currently, and searching through all of those takes some time to filter. So as soon as you apply the filter, it takes a few seconds. It crunches, it thinks, and then it brings up the clients that match.

Our computers are named and they have a serial number in front of their name. To be able to see who is signed in or who has a computer-based on their Microsoft account, that part is cut off unless you have a larger screen on a tablet. But on your cell phone, there's no way that I can find a scroll over to see who owns that device because the username is just cut off. Besides that, it's a simple interface. It's a simple product that's easy to maintain and manage. There's not a lot that we have to do with it. It just does what it needs to do.

I have been using Morphisec for close to a year. 

In terms of stability, so far it's worked great. It's been very stable, with no problems, and it continues to be effective so far. If for any reason, we get ransomware infection in the future, we'll know that there's a problem, but so far it's been good. All of the tests that we've run with ransomware simulated software from other vendors have all failed.

Scalability is very easy. It's not a problem. If you have the means to remotely deploy the client to all of your computers, scalability seems so far infinite, it's not a problem. If you can afford the budget for all your computers then you're good.

We are right around 5,000 or 5,500 users and their roles are anywhere from student to staff members, to administrators, and even our board of directors use it. Everyone has it. All of our computers are deployed by us. So everyone gets a computer, whether it's a student or a staff member, it's not on personal devices.

Every one of our computers is using it. All of our servers are using it. It's pretty extensive in how we're using it in that sense. But it's really just toward the ransomware side.

We used technical support only for the deployment or the migration from on-prem to the cloud. We've been having to deal with them on what steps we need to take and what we need to do to make it work. They made sure that it's a smooth transition, that we don't leave anything exposed as we're moving from one to the other, but that's it.

Support is pretty good for the most part, once in a while though, just because of their accent, it's kind of hard to understand them. We in particular had one tech that we were speaking to about the migration portion of it. There were three of us sitting in on that meeting and none of us could really understand or comprehend what he was trying to convey. It was not an issue with everyone else that we had dealt with.

We were using another solution that wasn't necessarily specific to ransomware. We were using Microsoft ATP in conjunction with Sentinel. We were starting to deploy Sentinel as well, which is also Microsoft's product, and trying to tie everything together, to make it more robust, but they did not have anything that dealt with the memory type encryption that Morphisec uses to help protect against those types of infections that ransomware often exploits. We didn't have anything specific to ransomware other than Microsoft's ATP and it does not catch everything.

But we still run ATP anyway. It ties in with Morphisec very well, even within the Defender dashboard, you can punch in your key and it will bring it up and give you some more information about it, making sure that they play well together. It literally bridges a gap that Microsoft ATP has.

The initial setup was very straightforward, especially for self-hosting. One thing to note is that we're currently looking to move to their cloud-hosted system and move away from the on-prem. That is proving to be so far a little more complicated to move from one to the other, at least from on-prem to the cloud. But not impossible. There are a lot more steps and processes to getting everything migrated over. We have to push out a new client to all of our client computers.

The deployment was a matter of a couple of hours once they provisioned the license and everything for us and provided us with everything. We were able to spin up a virtual machine to install everything on, open up the ports that were necessary, which were very easy. Then we just push out the client to all of our devices. We use a combination of Intune and SmartDeploy for remote imaging to push the software out to everybody. Once that was done, we plugged the license key into our Microsoft ATP, just for the integration of that. And that was it. It was up and running and good to go.

We tested it on just a couple of client computers initially, and then one test virtual machine for our servers. Once everything was looking like it was fine, then we just went ahead and pushed out to everything. There were no conflicts, there were no problems. Nothing came up as a red flag. Nothing got blocked that shouldn't have been. It went nice and smooth.

It took two of us to get this done, and that was our systems admin who deals with our servers and a lot of our client computers and then myself, which I handled the networking side, like opening up ports, making sure all the IP addresses were correct. 

We went directly through Morphisec. I don't think we had a third party or a vendor for the implementation.

We absolutely saw ROI. We did not pay that much for the licensing. It was very affordable. The peace of mind and not having to deal with or worry about as much as we did in the past about ransomware attacks, and just knowing that we're pretty well covered for the most part is ROI.

It is a very cost-effective solution. It's very affordable for what we're having to use Morphisec for.

It's extremely affordable for what it does, at least the product that we're using through Morphisec. I know that they have a few others that we're not using, but we don't need it. They did provide us with educational pricing as well. They were very flexible because we deployed it during COVID times and a lot of people were getting hit more and more with ransomware. And so they were also very flexible in what they were able to provide for the price. They understood that our budget was being cut because we had lost a lot of students as a result of COVID. They really worked with us, which was great. 

The licensing is also very fair. It's per device. So it was also very easy.

It's just a year-to-year license that we are paying for. There's nothing hidden, no extra charges that were unexpected or anything like that. It was very straightforward.

We looked at a couple of solutions and it would have been a full deployment where we would have to install their entire antivirus line on the product. They didn't have anything that just handled what Morphisec does. It would be a full product suite. We'd have to deploy that to everybody. We would have to ditch Microsoft ATP, which, again, we get free because we are Microsoft partners in education so it's included with our licensing of Office 365. And it would have been a lot more expensive to go a different route than what we found in the end.

My advice would be to make sure that if there are a lot of computers, especially if they're remotely distributed, make sure they have some sort of solution to easily push out and deploy it to multiple clients. That's probably the biggest hurdle that I think a lot of people would have. And we had two solutions already in place for us in the past that worked and that were compatible. The nice thing is that they were able to provide a Microsoft MSI Installer so that you can even have it so that it pre deploys it while you're imaging your computers if you're using Microsoft for imaging. It's the same thing if you're using Intune through Microsoft.

We've always been looking for something that would help to protect more against ransomware in our case. And this was it. This is the best solution that we found that worked for us.

I would rate it a ten out of ten. My only complaints are the dashboard and that's not even terrible. It still works. You just have to be a little patient.

Our use case is to augment our antivirus software that's on our endpoints to go in tandem with Microsoft Defender. It's also going on our Windows and Linux servers as well. 

Morphisec has helped us in our deployment strategy of endpoints and keeping a good inventory of our assets. We do that with Defender, but this is another tool to help us know what assets we have deployed, the ones that Defender doesn't always cover. 

If Defender is turned off somehow and Morphisec is on then we can investigate. Or the other way around, if Defender's on and Morphisec is not installed, we can have it installed. It does checks and balances on our deployment so we're not left with an endpoint that's unprotected.

The ability to stop attacks without having to detect or have a signature for the attack is the most valuable feature. It's just a different way of stopping attacks, by defeating it at the endpoint before any damage is done.

Morphisec provides full visibility into security events from Microsoft Defender and Morphisec in one dashboard. Defender and Morphisec are integrated. It's important because it lowers the total cost of maintenance on the engineer's time. The administrative time is dramatically reduced in maintaining the product and saves an engineer around four to five hours a week.

It's extremely easy to deploy. It functions without needing to talk to a server. It's completely silent once you've installed it. It's been really silent behind the scenes and has not conflicted with other software. It's a real set and forget.

We started in the Linux platform and we deployed to Linux. The licensing of that has been confusing between Linux licensing and Windows licensing. The overall simplicity of licensing or offering an enterprise license to cover everything and not needing to count needs improvement.

They've integrated with Defender well, but they should continue maturing that integration so that you can just check boxes with Defender installed to add Morphisec as well. There's licensing and all that, but they should try to make the implementation as easy as possible. It's easy now but they should continue down the path of making it as easy as possible.

I have been using Morphisec for two and a half years with a POC before that. 

From what we've seen it's stable as it can be. If there's such a thing as 100% availability, it's there. I think the architecture of it being deployed and standalone for all desk purposes makes it super stable. The biggest concern was conflicting with the applications on the desktop, and we had not seen that at all. It's been very reliable. We haven't been on the cloud version for very long, but so far it's been very reliable.

It should scale without an issue. It's about the deployment strategy and getting it deployed. Once you have a good deployment strategy, then it can scale to hundreds of thousands of endpoints, if you have them.

We are protecting around 3,000 endpoints. Then when we're all finished, there'll be about five to 6,000.

There is no upgrade that we know of yet, so we're on the latest version. I would anticipate once a year that we would have an upgrade to the endpoints. And it would probably take 10 to 20 hours of information security engineer's time to make that happen.

Their technical support is very good, responsive, and has good follow-through on open tickets. We don't have any issues with them.

The initial setup was relatively straightforward. We first installed Morphisec before they had their cloud server, which was a little bit more complicated. But now we've converted to their cloud server, which has made it much, much easier. You don't have the burden of setting up a server and getting the missing libraries and all the issues of setting up a server. Now with the cloud, it's simple.

It took us three weeks to set up with the server.

We did a proof of concept first, and then we tested it to make sure it would catch known malware with no antivirus on the endpoint. Then we started the deployment strategy and our deployment strategy was laptops first, then virtual desktops, and then servers.

We worked with Morphisec and our own engineers for the deployment.

We had a very good experience with their engineers. They were very knowledgeable about the Microsoft stack, easy to work with, and responsive.

Our ROI is having another level of control. I can't yet identify breaches that Morphisec stopped directly, but it'll pay for itself once it does that. It's really the extra layer of control that we didn't have before.

We've gone through several iterations over renewals. I think it's reasonably priced. I wouldn't say it's cheap, but I also wouldn't say that it's over-the-top pricing. An enterprise agreement would be nice so we don't have to try to count or get an estimate of the number of endpoints. If we go through growth and add 500 laptops, I don't want to have to go back and change our licensing to add that capacity. I'd rather just have that built into the contract.

We haven't seen any additional costs to the standard licensing. 

The options we looked at were more in the antivirus space. Morphisec as a product does not have direct competitors because of its unique architecture. There are other advanced endpoint protections that I looked at, but this one was by far the most unique architecture. It has a unique way of adding another layer of controls on the endpoints.

Morphisec hasn't added to my team's workload. It hasn't reduced it, but it hasn't added to it.

I didn't buy it to save us money. I bought it to add another level of control at the endpoint beyond antivirus. So it's really adding another layer of defense.

My advice would be to understand how Morphisec works from the Bad Actor's perspective, on how a Bad Actor or malware can compromise Windows or Linux. Morphisec gets to the root of those compromises. Rather than trying to detect the compromise, a design in the operating system issues and defeating those there or rather than trying to respond to changes in malware, they're defeating it right at the exploit level.

I'm part of Morphisec's sales team half the time when I'm trying to educate other IT leaders, my peers, or other CISOs on how it's actually working because it takes a little while to understand it. So my advice would be to really try to ask questions about how the architecture works. Because it doesn't really work like another AV. It works much differently than other endpoint protectors.

I would rate Morphisec a nine out of ten. 

We are in healthcare and when the pandemic started we were really getting hammered with phishing attacks. Thankfully, none of them really got through or were successful, but the uptick in the attacks made me really concerned about the potential for the results of a successful ransomware attack. 

The way I've set up our world is as a bunch of different layers, from what I consider to be best-of-breed. We have a gateway with one company, we have endpoint protection with another company, we have firewalls and connectivity to the internet handled by another company. We also have a company that monitors all of our logs. On top of that, the last thing that I saw as a big hole in my defense strategy was all these Zero-day attacks that were getting through some of the other products. They hadn't gotten through to us yet, but I had read that it was more and more of a threat. Morphisec is just another layer on top.

Part of the reason I purchased the product is that we are a very bottom-heavy IT organization, in that we have a really strong help desk group. Anything more complicated than help desk is my problem, and I have a lot of other responsibilities besides IT. I count on being able to bring in vendors that are very useful to me to subsidize that.

They have a new deal where things are controlled by their cloud controller, which is on AWS. I updated to that about two months ago. It used to be on-premises but thankfully it's not anymore.

As far as I can tell, in the year that it's been in, it hasn't stopped a significant attack of any kind. But that's not a negative for me. It is helping me to feel comfortable that all the other layers I've put in place in front of it are doing their jobs. It has definitely increased my comfort level that we are doing the utmost to protect the systems here.

Morphisec saves me from paying for a higher-tier license to get visibility into Defender AV alerts. While it doesn't really save me any money, because I didn't think it was worthwhile to have a product to do that on its own, I love that I get that as a benefit from using Morphisec. But I wouldn't have spent the money on something just to show me the Defender alerts.

I really like the integration with Microsoft Defender. In addition to having third-party endpoint protection, we're also enabling Defender, although we haven't rolled it out fully yet; we have had a test environment. I like the reporting that we get from Defender, when it comes in. I like that it's one console showing both Morphisec and Defender where it provides me with full visibility into security events from Defender and Morphisec. With our help desk situation—where it all comes to me, and I'm responsible to make sure that I am seeing anything that could possibly be a problem—having both of those in one location has been very important for me.

Morphisec stops attacks without needing knowledge of the threat type or investigation of security alerts. It absolutely does do that and that's because of the way it looks at an executable when it starts and when it asks for memory. If it asks for a specific piece of memory, then Morphisec says, "Okay, it's over here," but it's not really, and then it watches what it tries to do with that. It knows whether it did something that it shouldn't and it will kill that process in that scenario. It doesn't require foreknowledge of the application to protect you from threats. I've seen it happen because we have some old software that does some squirrely stuff, and we've had to allow it to run anyway. That old software does stuff that you wouldn't expect from modern software. If modern software were to do what that old software does, it would definitely be a threat. So I've seen it in action, but not with a live vulnerability.

We have been using Morphisec for a little over a year, although we purchased it about 15 months ago.

It's been very stable. 

Going back to before I had the cloud controller, I probably had to restart the on-premises controller once a month. I would go in and notice that 50 percent of the machines were reporting as offline. I'd restart the web services and they'd all come back. I got into the habit of regularly restarting my machine. That was definitely a stability issue and I was glad to get out of the on-prem solution, to get rid of that.

Scalability wasn't an issue for me because it took very little effort to get it onto our 1,200 machines. I used a third-party software rollout service and it installed, no problem, and worked. 

I don't think scalability is an issue, especially now that it's in the cloud. The on-prem server was never overwhelmed from a resource standpoint, so I think it would have scaled just fine as an on-premises solution, but in the cloud it obviously has all the resources it needs.

It's on every endpoint we have, but I don't think the users know they're using it. It's just running. As administrator, when there's an alert, I go investigate it. That's pretty much it. I don't have to do any maintenance because we have gone to the cloud solution.

In terms of increasing our usage, I could potentially put it back on those application servers, but it's not worth the fight because the software is relatively old on some of those machines and it gives false positives all the time. It's just easier to not have it on them.

If Morphisec had an integration with those older technologies, I would be interested in using it on them. I'd rather have it on every server, but not having it on those application servers doesn't concern me too much. The end-users really can't do anything but run that specific application on the server. They don't have the freedom to run other processes there.

If anything, tech support might be their weakest link. The process of getting someone involved sometimes takes a little time. It seems to me that they should have all the data they need to let me know whether an alert is legitimate or not, but they tend to need a lot of information from me to get to the bottom of something. It usually takes a little longer than I would expect. The last time they did an investigation, it took about two weeks to decide whether the alert was a false positive or not.

The only thing I was unhappy with was that during the sales process, I thought I was going to be getting a cloud controller. I was very disappointed that I had to build my own controller and operate it. But I don't have to do that anymore. That was the only major issue and they fixed it.

I did not have a previous solution. 

During the process of looking into Morphisec, I sent a couple of the details of some of those Zero-day vulnerabilities to the different companies that I was relying on at the time. I said, "Hey, how does your product protect me from this?" and I got them all to basically admit, "Well, we don't." I got back to Morphisec and they were able to explain how their product would protect us from these types of vulnerabilities, because they were memory attacks, and that's what Morphisec does.

The initial setup, when it was on-prem, was kind of complex. It took half a day of working with someone from Morphisec to get it set up and then four or five follow-up calls to make sure everything was set up right. When we went to the cloud controller, obviously, I had knowledge of how to run the product by then, and it took about an hour to get set up and we were running. It couldn't have been easier. I was very happy with that.

When we rolled it out, we had about 1,200 PCs and endpoints. I put the product on about 50 of them to make sure that everything was fine. We do application publishing and I put it on the application publishing servers immediately but that was not a great idea. Those are the servers that were running that old software that I mentioned, the software that was getting false positives all the time. We ended up not putting it onto those servers, but after those 50 machines ran for a couple of weeks with no issues, we rolled it out to the rest of the endpoints.

We were fully running within a month.

The only third party was the reseller, Softchoice, but they didn't do any of the work, they just sold me the product.

They charge per endpoint, per year. For 1,200 endpoints and another 60 servers, with the cloud subscription included, it was just under $43,000 for the year.

I think there are competing companies now, but I don't think there were when I was first introduced to Morphisec. I was looking for a solution and Morphisec was the one that I found. I didn't find anyone else of consequence advertising they were doing the same kind of process that Morphisec does. And I'm not looking at any competitors right now because I'm happy with Morphisec.

I don't want to think that everything I have put in place is perfect, but we haven't been hacked. I know we are being attacked. I see the logs that show we're probed every day and that we have phishing attacks that come through every day. But we haven't been attacked to a point where Morphisec has been hit as the last line of defense. It's a big deal for me just to have that visibility.

We've had lots of reports of potential threats that Morphisec has handled, but we haven't had a single one, yet, that was a legitimate vulnerability that Morphisec stopped. I don't look at that as a negative at all. I look at it as a positive, that the systems that I have in place are doing their jobs. I really consider Morphisec the last line of defense. That's the way it is set up. Nothing should get to Morphisec if everything else is working. It doesn't bother me at all that we haven't had a significant threat make it to Morphisec. But it's great to know that if one of those was to get through, we have it as an additional line of defense.

When we had it on-premises, it didn't send alerts out, so I would go into it on a regular basis to see if anything needed to be checked out. Now, as of the installation of the cloud version, it actually sends alerts. If I get an alert, I go investigate it.

It also has the potential to save money on my security stack. I'm seriously considering getting rid of our standalone third-party AV scanner, when it's time to renew that next year, and just going with Defender and Morphisec alone. I haven't made that decision yet.

I wouldn't say that Morphisec has reduced the amount of time we spend investigating false positives, because every product I use has the capability of throwing false positives at me. Morphisec does as well and I've had to investigate false positives with it.

I'd be reluctant to give it a 10 out of 10, just because it has never done anything significant. But as far as everything that they've promised and put in place, I would give it a nine. They have followed through on everything they promised. The product is working and supporting me, and like I said, even if it's just proving that everything else I have in front of it is doing its job, that's good enough for me.

If someone has the same kind of systems in place that I had before Morphisec, I would almost say it's a luxury, but it's not really because it helps me sleep at night. If someone has had an attack, that means their current systems aren't cutting it and Morphisec is a great product to have in-house. Morphisec as the last line of defense is as good as you can get. Overall, I'm very happy with the product.

Morphisec is deployed to our desktops and servers, and we're running a server for it. We're switching to their cloud server and then it will be managed through that.

When I started at my company five years ago, they did not have a lot of protection in place. I ran across Morphisec at a technology show that I was at, got to really speaking with them and understanding the technology. I felt that this would be one cheaper way to help block anything from actually running in memory or execute against anything we had running in-memory on our endpoints.

We're not only using Microsoft Defender we also use Sophos. Morphisec plays well with Sophos also, which was another selling feature, because we wanted to make sure we had a traditional anti-malware and antivirus platforms also.

Prior to me starting with using it, we had infections and machines that were taken down. We have not had one machine that has been taken down due to malware now in almost four and a half years. That's huge. We have 600 machines right now that we don't have routine infections because nothing can execute.

It has definitely affected our team's productivity. 

Morphisec has reduced the amount of time we spend investigating false positives. It doesn't allow anything false to execute against anything. So if something does get triggered to an alert, it was definitely a problem that was resolved and isolated immediately. We have Morphisec as a base layer and we have Sophos as a secondary layer. Between those three tools or those three levels of security, nothing is getting run on those machines.

It has also reduced my team's workload. They're not rebuilding machines and reformatting and remediating problems as nearly what we were when we first started. We were dealing with a ton of infections. The company was much smaller then. We were 300 employees and we're at 600 now. I don't have anything to quantify that because we have grown so much and we don't have the problems as I did a couple of months ago before we put that in place.

Morphisec helps us to save money on our security stack. First and foremost it helps by preventing infections which prevents my technicians from having to re-image machines or remediate the problem itself. That rate right off the bat is savings. I cannot quantify that because I don't have a number compared from four and a half years ago to now.

The biggest feature is that it hides everything from your operating system that's running in-memory from anything to try to run against it. That's the most unique thing that's on the market. There's nothing else out there that's quite like that. That's a big selling point and why we went with it. It does exactly what the design does. If you can't find it, you can't execute against it.

Automating reports needs improvement. I would like to have better reporting capabilities within it or automated reporting to be a little bit more dynamic. That's something I know they're working on. We literally are in the process. We started the process a week and a half ago of going to their latest version, so I've not seen their latest one up and running yet.

I have been using Morphisec for about four and a half years. We're a couple of releases behind, but we're in the process of doing a cloud migration right now.

The stability is great. We don't have problems with it. We have not had a problem with it where it's gone down, not functioned or anything else in the four and a half years we've been using it.

We have not encountered any issues with scalability. We've been able to put it on whatever server we wanted with however many endpoints. We've grown from 300 to 600 since we started that process and there was no hiccup with adding additional machines or anything else.

There are about 600 users using it right now. We are a construction company. So, the roles are from admin, accounting, HR, IT, project management, field staff, supervisors, and superintendents. It's installed everywhere possible that we can as far as an endpoint.

There are two people on the infrastructure team who deal with it.

We do have plans to increase usage.

The support has been very nice. We've had zero issues. They're very helpful. They're easy to get ahold of any time we've had questions. Their deployment team is the same way.

Previously Malwarebytes was in place. I would not put it in the same category as this at all. Morphisec is a unique tool, one of the most unique ones on the market.

I had seen the demonstration. I was really impressed with what it did. My systems manager went through multiple demos, scenarios, and everything, and it really helped us out. Our rep made us 100% comfortable with the platform. So, that was really the selling part right there.

The initial setup was pretty straightforward. I had my systems manager at the time just work with them and get it loaded up with no major issues.

The initial deployment was about two and a half to three weeks because we were going across multiple machines and servers.

Our strategy was to protect our endpoints right away, which we were able to create a deployment for that to get that up and running and work on what servers we could because we could not do every server. That's a very invasive process and it took us a little bit of time to get that worked out.

We worked with Morphisec. 

I have seen ROI. The way I gauge that is the lack of tickets, the lack of machines not having to be imaged, the lack of the employees' time, which we could try to break down an hourly salary of around $40,000 a year. If they have to spend two days working on a machine versus what it costs me for that license, there is no comparison.

It is an inexpensive platform. It gives us good threat protection prevention. The cost per user is significantly less than most of the other competitive products on the market.

We are still using a separate tool. I know for our 600 or I think we're actually licensed for up to 700 users, it runs me 23 or $24,000 a year. When you're talking to that many users plus servers being protected, that's well worth the investment for that dollar amount.

There are no additional charges to the standard license.

It's very straightforward. It's basically a flat-rate model. It is a scalable model. Contract-wise, it was simple. It was a one-page document and done.

We have not delved into deterministic attack prevention. It has those tools in there. We have not delved into that because between that tool and our other tool, we really don't have any infections happening.

My advice would be to sit there and get a demo of it, understand it. I've actually spoken on their behalf before because I was a satisfied customer. It's a product that just works. You put it in place and you could forget it at that point. It protects against the unknowns.

Some of the other things were that they found stuff in a tool called CCleaner. They found a virus that was embedded in their code that they were submitting out themselves. As far as finding things and stopping things that are unknown, that's the biggest takeaway you can get from it.

They were thinking outside the box when they developed it, to put a tool like this in place that blocks the unknown, blocks things, executing against anything in-memory. 

I would rate Morphisec a ten out of ten. 

We purchased Morphisec primarily to help mitigate and protect us against Ryuk ransomware back in December when that was running really rampant. The antivirus that we were using at that point was outdated. We were looking to move to a new vendor, and we needed something as a stopgap to supplement our current antivirus. Morphisec fit that bill perfectly. It had features that our antivirus did not. It had an immediate deployment and immediate return on investment that we just would not be able to get if we were to turn around and try to deploy a full-blown antivirus across the entire environment. Morphisec was quick, simple, and did not conflict with anything that we already had. It also did not cause any additional delays in our virtualized environment, which was a huge concern for our infrastructure team. It just fit perfectly.

We've detected things that our antivirus was not picking up. We had no visibility or control over anything that was running in process memory. Morphisec immediately started blocking things that should not have been running in process memory. It also gave us visibility into the Windows Defender antivirus that we did not have without increasing our Microsoft licensing and gave us some basic control over Defender as well. We previously used McAfee.

The fact that Morphisec uses deterministic attack prevention that does not require human intervention has affected our security team's operations by making things much simpler. We don't have to really track down various alerts anymore, they've just stopped. At that point, we can go in and we can clean up whatever needs to be cleaned up. There are some things that Morphisec detects that we can't really remove, it's parts of Internet Explorer, but it's being blocked anyway. So we're happy with that.

It's very important to us that it offers visibility into and control over Windows 10, native device control, disc encryption, and personal firewall. We're actually in the process now of deploying the control over the firewall so that we can consolidate to a single pane of glass for our antivirus and controls. It will help us through leveraging group policy, which can fail, especially if the machine drops off of the domain, we have a significantly larger remote than we did a year ago. We have machines that don't necessarily get the policies they need to get when they need to get them. Morphisec fixed that.

The level of control from Morphisec Guard compared to Windows 10 Native Security tools is a bit more basic than the Windows 10 Native Controls. You basically enable the firewall or you disable it, based on the various profiles. I have not yet seen a way to create exceptions in the firewall or rules and things like that but those can be pushed through group policy, regardless. As long as the firewall is enabled, it's functioning and it's doing better than if there was no policy applied at all.

Morphisec Guard enabled us to see at a glance whether our users have device control and disk encryption enabled properly. It is especially important with our remote workforce. Disc encryption is an absolute must. And the device control, USB devices, is also an absolute must.

It has reduced the amount of time we spend investigating false positives. It reduced our amount of chasing antivirus alerts by about 80% a week.

Our team's overall workload has also been reduced by about 30% on a weekly basis of our workload, we would spend a lot of time tracking alerts.

It has enabled us to take Morphisec and leverage one product where we would have had to have had at least two previously. I don't really have numbers for what that would look like. We didn't really investigate too many other vendors in that space, but it's probably at least 50% savings over what we would have needed. So it has helped us to save money on our security stack.

Some of the filters for the console need improvement. There are alerts that show up and just being able to acknowledge that we've seen those and not turn them off, but dismiss them, would be a huge benefit.

We've been using Morphisec for about six months now. It is installed on our endpoints and servers. We have a SaaS version of the console.

I've had 100% availability anytime I've needed to go look. I have not had any issues in any of our environments with the agents.

Scalability is very easy. We can just call and say that we need more licenses and they give us more licenses and we can push that agent out. It's the same executable file we have on our file shares. We just expand however many we need, to as large as we want to go.

We have about 8,000 endpoints, 2,500 servers, and 4,000 virtualized desktops.

Our next step would be to purchase the Linux agent and get that on the few Linux servers and appliances that we have.

The technical support has been fantastic. Any feature requests I've had, any issues I've run into, which have been very minimal, they've had an immediate response. Turnaround for feature requests is really, really fast. I've seen it within the next update which they do monthly. They provide great technical support. 

We looked at Bitdefender, Trend Micro, and Microsoft Defender. We are still using Microsoft Defender in conjunction with Morphisec in a small pilot group. We're still evaluating where we want to go for a true antivirus solution. So, we still have a small deployment of Defender.

Deployment was the biggest difference between Morphisec and the other solutions. It was far simpler to deploy Morphisec without having to remove another antivirus, without having to make a large-scale project, or look for compatibility. It works on all supported operating systems. It works in conjunction with other antiviruses. We didn't have to create exceptions and there were no conflicts with the antivirus we were running and Morphisec. So that really helped us make that decision, purchase this, roll it out, and have it supplement our existing technologies. And it gave us an almost immediate return on investment.

The initial setup was very straightforward. We deployed it via group policy. We had it deployed across the entire environment in about three days.

There are no additional costs to standard licensing. We've had full support. I get biweekly calls with my technical account manager and we purchased the licenses for everything we needed for a single cost.

If you have the ability to get Morphisec into their environment, it's going to be a hundred percent return on investment. I would recommend it every time.

If you can, get it and run with it, because it's great. It's been eye-opening, the things that other antiviruses were missing, and we've seen it protect against zero days. We've seen it protect against ransomware that other antiviruses have not even seen.

I would rate Morphisec a ten out of ten. 

We do a multi-layered security approach. Morphisec is really our last layer of defense. It is our insurance policy. So, if a vulnerability gets through the user, network security layer, and antivirus, then Morphisec will then come into the fight.

We have it deployed across all of our workstations and server environments. We have 800 workstation licenses and 75 server licenses. 

Right now, we are using 100% on-prem. We have just converted to Office 365. With that, we will be doing cloud hosting as well

In the last month, we have had two instances that Morphisec stopped, one with Internet Explorer (IE) and the second with another update. We don't know the specific vulnerability that was exploited. We shouldn't be using Internet Explorer here. So, it notified us:

1. We had a user using IE.
2. It prevented something. 

I don't know what vulnerability within IE that it was attacking, but it did go to attack a vulnerability, and Morphisec prevented that.

Morphisec makes use of deterministic attack prevention that doesn’t require investigation of security alerts. It changes the memory locations of where certain applications run. If you think of Excel, opening a PDF, running an Excel macro, or opening a web page and clicking on a link, all of those actions run in a certain area of memory. Morphisec changes the memory locations of where those run. 

If an attack comes in and the hackers are doing a vulnerability on an Excel macro, for example, they know macros are always deployed in a certain area of memory. They write their hacks to that area of memory. Morphisec removes that area of memory and deploys all macros into a different place. When the macro goes to run, it runs in that old area of memory, which no longer is running Excel macros. It basically goes to deploy and blows up, so nothing happens. By morphing the memory location, the hack still gets through, i.e., it doesn't stop the hack from getting through. However, when it goes to run, it doesn't do anything. From that standpoint, it's really looking at: If something happens, it is the last line of defense. 

We have a number of other applications that are more forward-thinking where we are looking at logs and training people as well as doing network security. But if a hacker actually gets through all of those different protocols and goes to deploy a vulnerability or malicious piece of code, it will deploy but not do anything. The reason it won't do anything is because Morphisec has moved that process to a different area. So, it is really after the fact. 

Morphisec is really good about sending us alerts of security incidents that have happened in the world, saying, "Okay, here is an incident that is happening. It is a zero-day and Morphisec protected it in our labs." They send those out as they come up. I usually get one a week. 

We heard there was a company that had deployed Morphisec on most of their servers, but not all of their servers. They actually got hit by a hacker. All of their servers that had Morphisec running were 100% protected. All of the servers that did not have Morphisec got hit. From my standpoint, we have Morphisec across the board. We are acquiring a few other companies, and one of the first things that we are doing is deploying Morpiesec to all the servers and workstations in those other companies.

What it does is valuable. A vulnerability might be able to potentially get through and still not be able to run. This is not a question of "If," but a question of "When" someone will get through. If they do get through into our environment, we are comfortable knowing that our last line of defense is Morphisec. A lot of times, without Morphisec, we wouldn't know until we knew. You either get the encryption or it could take a long time to understand. This solution is more of a peace of mind for us.

Morphisec stops attacks without needing knowledge of the threat type or reliance on indicators of compromise. Their development team has developed the security capabilities over a large number of different vulnerabilities, e.g., Adobe Acrobat or Excel macros. We don't have to be experts on any of these. More importantly, the zero-days concern me. All our other security software says that they can stop zero-day threats, but hackers are really good and this is really profitable for them. When the zero-day threats actually get used, it's nice knowing that we have Morphisec. 

We don't have false positives with Morphisec.

From a company standpoint, a little more interaction with the customers throughout the year might be beneficial. I would like check-ins from the Morphisec account executives about any type of Morphisec news as well as a bit more interaction with customers throughout the year to know if anything new is coming out with Morphisec, e.g., what they are working on in regards to their development roadmap. We tend not to get that up until the time that we go for a yearly renewal. So, we end up talking to people from Morphisec once a year, but it is usually at renewal time.

I tried to sign up for something, but I am still not getting any alerts when Morphisec releases a new version or when our console has been updated. So, I would like to be cognizant when any changes are being made or feature enhancements are added. It would just be helpful to be alerted when that stuff comes out.

Until we migrated to their cloud platform, I wasn't even aware that some of the updates were being pushed out. Then, I came to find out that we were two iterations behind a major release. So, getting those updates or bulletins are very helpful.

If I look at the dashboard, I can see one or two applications hit every once in a while for things like Internet Explorer or some Visual Basic Scripts. I can see that stuff is being prevented, but I don't know exactly if it is securing us in any way that we wouldn't have already had in place. Overall, I don't know 100% if it's increasing our security posture, but it does give us a nice peace of mind.

We have been using it for two years.

It seems very stable and rock-solid because it is not causing any issues.

I don't require any maintenance on our side.

There haven't been any issues with scalability since we have been on the cloud platform. We do not have to maintain the on-premises servers anymore. It is hosted in an AWS environment, which should be pretty easy to deploy once we add more employees.

Our technical resource is the solo admin at this current time. Two other people have access, but there is not much that we look at or review on it. We just make sure it gets deployed on all our endpoints. That is the only thing we really monitor. As for looking at the console, unless there is something that we need to look at, we are not really reviewing it.

We get security bulletins and an email that says, "Hey, this vulnerability just took down whatever company." So, we get technical bulletins that say, "This new zero-day vulnerability just came out, we have tested and stopped it."

The technical support is pretty solid. I did have some issues after we migrated from versions, switching to the cloud version. I ran into a few deployment issues that turned out to be a bad package. They were able to help me with that. They have been pretty good. Anytime I have an issue or question, they are pretty responsive.

Before Morphisec, we did not use anything greater than our normal antivirus or malware protection.

The initial deployment was pretty straightforward. It was basically just following the included documentation and working with the admin at the time. We set up a package to push the install out to all our machines. Then, anything that was outside the default library. I added to the protector plan. Certain applications, like Notepad, weren't included in the original deployment. This is stuff that is specific to our environment, like Power BI.

Our deployment took about two weeks.

My technical resource was the one who implemented Morphisec.

It has given us peace of mind that we won't be on the news. We do a good job with backups, but if we don't have to use them, that is much better. If the federal government and major corporations who have full-on security teams can get hacked and are vulnerable, then I am not going to say we are not vulnerable. So, for us, it is just a question of when. With Morphisec, at least when it does happen, I feel confident that we have in place solutions that will not only prevent it, but also let us know when something has happened.

Morphisec has 100% enabled our team to focus on other responsibilities or affected productivity. It has reduced our workload by one full-time employee. 

Our return on investment is that we haven't needed to have a full-time employee manage it. It hasn't taken away from our other initiatives. Efficiency is really where the savings is. We are getting peace of mind at a decent cost. We can see it working, and it doesn't take full-time resources to manage it.

It is priced correctly for what it does. They end up doing a good deal of discounting, but I think it is priced appropriately.

Through the years, we looked at Darktrace as well as two or three others. They came with astronomical price tags, while I think Morphisec hit the better price point.

It was not just the initial price tag, but the number of people required to manage the solution. On some of the other solutions, we were able to knock down the pricing considerably, but we needed one to two full-time employees, which we don't have, just to manage the solution. With Morphisec, our technical resource is the main person who works on it. He spends less than two percent of his time managing Morphisec. It is plug and play. It doesn't take a lot of resources, which gives us more time savings as well as being more efficient.

Ease of implementation and ongoing management of the solution were the two top priorities. Our secondary priority would have been cost.

Make sure you implement it on all machines, workstations, and servers. Don't buy it and miss some machines.

Morphisec says they haven't been hacked. From the instances that I have seen when doing research, I find that to be true. Time will tell, but so far it has been working for us.

We will be implementing the Morphisec Guard probably next month. We are just rolling out Microsoft Defender right now. We are evaluating it now. I think we have also started replacing our former antivirus. 

Windows Defender and Morphisec go hand in hand, at least from an antivirus standpoint. Morphisec was built to work with Defender, and Defender is a pretty good product. So, that is what we will be using moving forward. From an antivirus standpoint, we just switched our antivirus to Defender within the last month. Between Defender and Morphisec, we don't really have another antivirus need after that.

I would rate this solution as a seven or eight out of 10.

We use Morphisec in conjunction with our other endpoint tools to be a type of fail-safe. If something can get through Trend Micro or CrowdStrike, Morphisec is the secret weapon, because if it sees anything it will stop it. We have a defense-in-depth model, and Morphisec caps it off for us.

The solution is hosted by the vendor.

Often, it's very hard to get the vendors of the biomedical devices we use to allow us to install security software on their devices for monitoring. Morphisec is the first one that we've gotten the vendors to potentially buy-in on. They're taking a look at it to see what it does and allow us to start distributing it across some biomedical PCs. That's a big deal for us.

Another benefit is that, while Morphisec hasn't necessarily reduced the number of false positives we get, it makes it easy to determine whether something is real or false. We don't have to spend a lot of time trying to figure that out. We get a lot more false positives from CrowdStrike. When it comes to investigating something like that with Morphisec, we don't have a lot of occurrences. We may have gotten three false positives from it in the last year, and that was when an application got upgraded and changed.

The simplicity of the solution, how easy it is to deploy and how small it is when deployed as an agent on a device, is probably the biggest aspect, given what it can do.

It's a set-and-forget, unless somebody says something or we get an alert. It is not something you have to manage every day, that's for sure.

The only area that really needs improvement is the reporting functionality. Gathering the detailed information that is in the system for an executive, or for me as a director, could be better. Some of the interface and reporting aspects are a little bit dated. They're working on it.

We have been using Morphisec Breach Prevention Platform for just about four years.

I've never had a problem with its stability.

In terms of scalability, it's easy to push out. It will go on pretty much any Windows device, which is great. We have it on every endpoint our organization owns. That includes servers and workstations. The only thing it probably does not touch is anything that is biomedical. We've adopted it 100 percent. Obviously, we'll add licenses as we add devices.

We are also looking at some of Morphisec's other product lines that they have recently come out with.

I would rate their technical support very highly. If we need technical support, which we haven't needed much, they're quick to respond.

Aside from that, I would say that working with Morphisec, from the business development and partnership points of view, has been tremendous. They're always willing to listen to new ideas. And they come to us and say, "Hey, we have these things that are going on. Are you interested in looking at it and giving your opinion on it?" They're very in tune with customers and communicate well, which is rare.

Positive

We did not have a solution to do what Morphisec specifically does. We don't use Microsoft Defender. I know Morphisec has the capability to pull all that together, but we are not a Defender customer. Currently, we use CrowdStrike.

With our testing process and our change process, it took us about a month to deploy the solution. It was very short compared to what our processes normally take.

We deployed it to the IT department, and then to another group as a testbed. After dealing with any small issues, and by that I mean there were a couple of applications we had to whitelist, we started deploying it across our fleet to all 6,000 devices.

It's simple to push it out through SCCM because it's a very small, lightweight application that does not affect the users in any way. It does not slow down their machines or have dependencies that need to be installed, and it runs on pretty much everything.

The financial savings are unknown, but the risks that Morphisec offsets, and the dollar amounts tied to those risks, are tremendous. We're potentially saving millions of dollars from a breach because we have Morphisec in place.

The pricing is definitely fair for what it does.

Before we got Morphisec we evaluated solutions that claim to do similar things, and we have done additional evaluations since we started using it, but I don't think anything can truly touch what Morphisec does and the way it does it.

A lot of the solutions out there are basic antivirus tools and they add on EDR capabilities. They're usually trying to compare EDR to Morphisec. A lot of the competition says they're similar, but they're rooted in old ways of doing things. Morphisec is just a different process.

My advice is to get to know the individuals at Morphisec. Lay out your infrastructure and where you need to put it and let them help you do that. Also, be open to new ways of tackling security problems.

Our use case is for memory protection of our desktop and VDI computers beyond traditional antivirus capabilities.

We are on the most recent release.

We have seen it successfully block attacks that a traditional antivirus did not pick up.

Morphisec has reduced the amount of time that we spend investigating false positives by four to eight hours a month.

Memory morphing and the central console are the most valuable features. Most traditional antivirus solutions don't come with these features, so you need a tool, like Morphisec, to add this functionality.

It would be nice if they could integrate Morphisec with other traditional antivirus solutions beyond Microsoft Defender. That is probably my biggest gripe.

I have been using it for three and a half years.

It has been very stable. We haven't had any unintended consequences. Usually with security solutions, they introduce a lot of chaos and false positives in an environment, but that has not been the case in Morphisec. It has been uneventful, luckily.

We don't really have a lot of maintenance that goes on day to day. A lot of it is kind of set it and forget it. We have one admin who works on it, but they probably only touch it once a week unless they get an email alert that tells them to look at something.

Our environment isn't particularly large. We only have around 500 endpoints in our environment.

I would rate the customer/technical support as 10 out of 10. They are all very competent, motivated people who are very helpful.

We did previously use another solution before Morphisec. The company was acquired by VMware and discontinued.

We started it on a very small subset of computers. We tested on those for an extended period, then we pushed it out to the entire environment.

The deployment took 30 minutes at most.

The solution is very easy to deploy. They have excellent trained staff who can assist with a deployment as well as upgrades. They make it as easy as possible.

We haven't had any cybersecurity incidents on machines running Morphisec. We also haven't seen a large number of false positives on machines running Morphisec. I guess you could argue that there is a return on investment there because it has obviously decreased the amount of time that we spend looking at false positive events and remediating cybersecurity incidents. In general, it is always harder to build business cases on security tools.

Morphisec makes use of deterministic attack prevention that doesn’t require investigation of security alerts. There is less overhead because it is more focused on the protect versus remediation, removing additional steps that you need to do associated with remediation.

Morphisec has reduced our team’s workload by four to eight hours a month.

It is a little bit more expensive than other security products that we use, but it does provide us good protection. So, it is a trade-off.

There aren't too many players in this market. It is very niche. Morphisec is in an interesting niche that a lot of companies might touch on, but not at the depth and breadth that Morphisec does.

We have looked at other vendors, but they don't necessarily overlap with Morphisec. 

While the solution provides full visibility into security events from Microsoft Defender and Morphisec in one dashboard, we are not using that function right now.

The best thing would be to first understand the difference between traditional AV solutions and the Morphisec product. After that, it is just so easy to implement and install. I would recommend running an evaluation of it, because there is no reason not to.

I would rate Morphisec as eight out of 10.

We use version 4. It's not the absolute leading edge, but it was the first version that they supported with Linux.

We use both environments to protect our corporate Windows assets and we also use them to protect our production Linux servers. We're using an on-prem option where we installed the Morphisec server on one of our own pieces.

Our primary use case of Morphisec is to prevent in-memory attacks that would be conducted from ransomware. It's used for frontline and back-end protection. We have it installed on our front-facing web servers and on the backend database servers as well.

Morphisec has given me a lot more visibility into if my employees are actually encountering ransomware. Luckily, to date, we have not actually had any positives come through. We have had false positives, but at least it has given me the peace of mind that upon the investigation that we have not been exploited or have had ransomware, for that matter.

In the future, it'll help me with ensuring that viruses are not inundating our machines as well. Right now I have to go through a separate interface for that.

Morphisec makes use of deterministic attack prevention that doesn't require the investigation of security alerts. Anything that's suspected gets blocked immediately on the machine, which is nice. It allowed us to go back and see what was going on in that situation. And if it was in fact a false positive, then either we figure out a different way to execute whatever the person was trying to do or we can whitelist the event.

Morphisec does not save us at this point from paying for a higher-tier license to get visibility into Defender AV alerts. I'm sure once we get upgraded, absolutely it will, from what I've seen.

It reduced the amount of time we spend investigating false positives. In the past, we haven't had any legitimate ransomware attacks, all we have had is a false positives pop-up. But knowing that ransomware, once it's on a machine, pretty much tanks it, I'd say it saves me hours upon hours of having to recover individual machines, and of course, it could become exponential requirements if there was more than one machine affected. At the very least when it could be one server, it would definitely save me hours of labor up the scale if I had 80 machines that I had to fix. But, that would be a serious time issue. The protection itself saves me potentially an exponential number of hours trying to recover the organization.

Morphisec reduced our team's workload. Instead of having to go to multiple UIs, or instead of having to do manual investigations, I should say rather. It's at least put stuff to the forefront. More so, after we do the upgrade. 

Morphisec has absolutely helped save money on our security stack. The ransomware at the end of the day can cost organizations millions upon millions of dollars. Investing in tools like Morphisec is a great reduction in that cost. If I can spend $10,000 in a year to protect assets that could be ransomed for $20,000,000, that's definitely a bet that one should pursue. Morphisec absolutely it's worth the investment.

It gives us 99% peace of mind in terms of knowing our systems are not being ransomwared. Once we get the upgrade, I'm sure it'll give me much more peace of mind in terms of the antivirus functionalities, knowing that there are no viruses on our machines, as well. But, for now, the only thing I can definitively say is that it gives me confidence that in terms of ransomware attacks, we are not going to be susceptible.

The in-memory attack features have been the most valuable. As we transition to a newer version, I'm excited to see the antivirus reporting functionality search come into effect. We are planning on updating and renewing our contract with them.

My company offers online and mobile banking services. Much like your own bank or credit union, the company has apps and a web interface and provides that to various credit unions and banks. As such, we have direct connections into the various financial institutions' banking courses. We see our environment as a prime area, or vector of attack against this course. We've installed Morphisec over two different production data centers, and it's hooked into our workstations. 

Morphisec's new version provides full visibility into security events from Microsoft Defender and Morphisec in one dashboard. The version that we're on right now does not. That's one of the things I'm excited about getting in the upgrade.

This is extremely important to my work. My team is very small. We have four guys across two data centers. Our data centers are through Rackspace, but we are the primary people that interface it. We have a team of four people that own those two data centers and make sure services are functional. We have a small team and having as much information in one basic user interface is critical.

The ease of use is great. It's a basic UI. It clearly tells us how many of our agents are checked in and how many are not. It gives us a very simple UI to be able to see attacks over time-series data, and to be able to drill down very quickly to see which assets or computers are affected. We can see what user was on there and what application was at play. So, in terms of being able to drill down really quickly, they're great.

It would be useful for them if they had some kind of network discovery. That kind of functionality I think would give IT administrators a little bit more confidence that they have 100 percent coverage, and it gives them something to audit against. Network discovery would be one area I would definitely suggest that they put some effort into.

I have been using Morphisec for around a year and a half. 

So far it's been extremely stable. Their UI has never crashed once. The agents do check in regularly. Overall, I have not had a single issue with them which is the way it should be.

We have the Ansible playbook for doing the automated install on Linux. At this point, we tell it what server to install to and it does it. In terms of scalability, it's really easy. It's pretty straightforward.

There are four users using this solution including the director of DevOps, the director of Software Engineering, and we have a DevOps Engineer and a Corporate IT Engineer.

The DevOps side folks and the software engineering guy are focused mainly on what our production systems are saying through the UI here, while the corporate IT guy is focusing much more on the Windows workstations. That said, if we do notice an attack, all four of us come together to analyze what we're seeing there.

We don't require any staff for deployment and maintenance.

At this point, we have to do the installations of any updates to the Morphisec server, or the Morphisec clients. But for that one person is enough to handle that. It's either me or the IT administrator, but it's really not that painful. 

The Windows corporate machine is the weakest spot because we don't have automation configuration managers for the Windows side. But, on the Linux side, as far as running updates, it's very straightforward. A couple of commands and run through the Samson playbook and off it all goes.

We do have plans to increase usage. So, as we transitioned to AWS, we're planning on having them with us right off the bat. 

It's critical to our security portfolio. 

We contacted technical support a couple of times towards the start, and just had to do with installation. When we first started working with them, it was using a release candidate of their latest stuff. So, it was just a couple of back and forth exchanges, but they were very attentive and forthcoming.

The setup was straightforward. With our Linux environment, our production Linux environments, we were able to deploy using Ansible playbooks to automate, and then on the windows side, they have a number of options available to us. However, because we don't have, on the corporate side, any kind of configuration management tool or whatever, I did have to have my IT admins go in and run a PowerShell script that made the appropriate calls for set up scripts so that they're set up. In terms of our own windows deployment, it was more of a manual process. But, I can tell you from experience with larger organizations and all as well, that the packages that were provided to us could have easily been loaded into a configuration management tool and pushed out much more automatedly.

Once we had things going, I mean, we had everything installed I think, in a total of 10 minutes. That's running these installations concurrently of course, or in parallel. And on the windows side, I'd say over the course of a week, we are able to manually go into all of our workstations and get this installed. Being the COVID environment that it is right now, a lot of our employees are working remotely. A lot of that overhead in that week was simply negotiating when we can actually have the employee make their machine available, remotely.

Our first and foremost deployment was on our Linux front-end servers. We're thinking, get our production environment for a layer of protection right off the bat. So, we protected our web front end as most attackers would be coming through the front door, essentially, aka those web boxes. So, we figured that if we deployed there first that we'd get a nice level of protection.

From there, we did the installations of the windows front end or the endpoints of the window on the corporate side, just to make sure that employees that would be interfacing our source code, or our production environments, would have protection in place, not only to protect their own assets but to also protect the rest of the network that they'd be interfacing with. From there, we went back and upgraded or installed the backend Morphisec agents.

We did our own deployment.

If there was a valid attack one could easily say that they could have tried to ransom us 20 million dollars.

We pay per year, and per endpoint. So, if it's a Windows server, it has its own skew. Versus, a Linux server has its own skew. Pricing is a little bit different between those.

To cover 100 Windows endpoints we're at $5,699. It all comes with the annual maintenance and support crew.

We had looked at a couple of options, but none of them actually seemed to be really what we were looking for because Morphisec handles everything in-memory as things are going. Whereas it seems like a lot of those other tools out there, like Kaspersky and the like seem to be more reactive.

My advice would be to really consider the reality. It's not a question of if you're going to get attacked by ransomware, it's a question of when. And while this seems like something that would be easy to kick down the road, in terms of evaluating the overall battlefield if you will, a ransomware attack will take down your organization. There's no doubt about it.

I would advise you to realize that with that inevitability and how much of your environment it can takedown or render useless. This would probably be one of the higher, first choices, and first endeavors you should make as you go into your source of security portfolio.

The biggest takeaway from this that I've had is, never underestimate would-be attackers. You have something on the internet, they're going to go for it. The other lesson I've learned is that sometimes users of computers do weird things, or do things differently than others would normally. That leaves the door open for would-be attackers of having tools like this in place. It will help you avoid headaches down the road.

I would rate Morphisec a nine out of ten.

We've been using Morphisec as a layered defense in our security plan. We have beefy firewalls and another antivirus; Morphisec isn't technically an antivirus. It's a protection agent. It's one of the layers of our security plan. We use it to defend ourselves from any sort of CryptoLocker attacks or ransomware drive-bys, and it should catch auto-executes that come from ads. We haven't been breached, as far as I'm aware.

We started with it on-prem and we had no complaints. It made sense. A cost analysis was done and on-premises cost less than the cloud, which is how things normally are. We used our own network so the cost was cut because they didn't have to use any of the load on their servers or network. It was all on us. But about a year ago they approached us and we were torn away from the on-premises solution. They made such a compelling cost-savings case for us to go to the cloud that it made sense to go to the cloud. We also got another service from them along with the protector, some sort of BI.

We're using it on all of our endpoints, servers and desktops that users touch. For servers that don't get touched by users, we don't have Morphisec on them because we just don't need it.

I wouldn't be doing Morphisec any favors saying, "Well I can't tell if it's working because the rest of our security posture seems to be taking care of anything else that gets through." Maybe it's not working at all. I can't tell. It would be useful to set up a virtual machine—and this is something I should bring up with our Morphisec person—and get some triggers that are actually on our dashboard so we can prove to management that Morphisec is doing what they said it was going to do. Worst case scenario, we have an infected virtual machine that I just blow away. The short answer is that we haven't seen it protect us from something yet. 

It hasn't taken anything off my plate. It's just a "gun under my pillow at night". It's something that we can tell our cyber-insurance people, "We have this, and this was used." In "Pretend-Land," where we got compromised, we can say, "We have all these layers of security and it managed to get through all of them, so we did our due diligence. Now please pay us for our losses."

What's valuable is really the whole kit and caboodle of the Morphisec agent. What it does is genius, in a way, until the bad guys get wise to it. You set it up and then you watch the dashboard. There isn't really much tinkering. As long as you did the install correctly, it should be pointing at your server and it will tell you a bunch of information on each client.

We have only had four attacks in the last year, "attacks" being some benign PDF from a vendor that, for some reason, were triggered. There were no actual attacks. They were just four false positives, or something lowly like adware. There have been false positives with both the on-premises solution and the cloud solution.

I'd rather see false positives than not seeing anything. If I see nothing then I literally cannot tell if it's working or not. But there are some false positives that are ambiguous enough to be caught.

We have been using Morphisec for about two years.

I don't look at the dashboard every day, but the on-premises solution was flawless. If the network was down between the clients and the server in our local area, we would be in trouble. But Morphisec's AWS implementation has been stable as a rock.

I believe it's scalable. I don't know what the upper limit is. Our company is a medium-sized business, with about 100 end-users and 500 employees in total. Morphisec easily holds those 100 users.

All the end-users are using the solution, meaning the solution is attempting to protect them from the silly mistakes that they make. But there are only two of us who actually look at the dashboard.

The business is growing so we do increase the number of clients. Whenever we add a new computer, we add Morphisec to it. Once we get to version 5, we'll revisit the ATP integration.

We didn't have a solution before Morphisec for this specific layer of defense, for the CryptoLocker/ransomware niche. We had an antivirus.

The demos worked great. They would open a bad file on a virtual machine and we watched the CryptoLocker being stopped in real time. It's hard to compare with that.

The initial setup was definitely straightforward. It has to go on every computer. There's a different installer for desktops versus servers. You just choose which one is which. We use PDQ Deploy, and a script that the onboarding technician helped us with, and it worked. It ran perfectly. We even have scripts for uninstalling it and installing the newer version, and Morphisec assisted us with that. It was definitely easy to do.

Before I saw the version 5 update and the notes on that, about how it's going to update automatically, I'd say the implementation was a slight pain. It wasn't a huge pain but you can't really get away from how you have to install this on all your computers. However, they actually made that process very easy, and I can do it with just a couple clicks to almost an entire organization, as long as computers are online.

Over the course of a day, it took about two hours to get the script going and select all the computers for each kind of installer. I kept running it over the course of the day because certain computers would be turned off or they were restarting. I had to do a good couple of runs of it, but it was very simple and quick.

Since there was nothing already doing what Morphisec does, on the computers, and Morphisec plays well with the current antivirus that we are using, we just installed on each computer remotely and it started working. We watched the dashboard fill right up in a matter of minutes.

We're not on the latest version but I'm actually excited for the latest version because it will do away with the manual updating process. The clients will start to update themselves. We will have to wait until one of our Morphisec representatives reaches out to us so that we can get the installer for the newest version. Version 5 is where it begins self-updating. Until now, I've had to manually update each time we wanted to do an update. The new one will mean I won't need to be worrying about updating or if the versions are out of date.

In terms of working with the solution, if Morphisec says, "Hey you're going over the number of licenses," we look to see how many are offline and we look at the versions. We look at it just to make sure that everything is going okay. We have alerts for when there's a threat. We get emailed saying, "Hey, look at this. There's a threat going on on XYZ computer."

I haven't seen ROI because I haven't seen a threat that it has protected against, exactly. If you're always wearing a bulletproof vest and you never get shot, was the vest worth it? I'd rather have it than not have it.

We looked across the rest of the security field and we spent more money on Morphisec than other solutions that do a similar thing, but the demos that we've seen were impressive enough to sway management. The technology behind it is clever enough for us to think it's cutting edge. It didn't save us money but we spent money on it because we thought it would be a good product.

The way that they explained how their solution works was more in-depth than other solutions that we were looking at. It looks cleaner. It has a good UI for the dashboard. It's not overbearing with security tabs and a lot of other stuff. It tells you, "Here's the list of all of your protectors. Here are all the threats. Here's the dashboard that gives you a little bit of everything," but not in an overwhelming way.

It sells itself, honestly. My advice to others looking into implementing Morphisec would be to use PDQ Deploy. The hardest part was getting all of the endpoints protected in a timely manner, but Morphisec assisted us with that. They suggested PDQ Deploy, which is a great tool. Implementation went so smoothly because of that.

Morphisec provides full visibility into security events from Microsoft Defender and Morphisec in one dashboard, although we're not currently utilizing that feature. We're definitely interested in it. The reason we're not using it is because you have to purchase the upgraded version of Defender for Microsoft. We thought it was the regular Defender that each one comes with, but it's actually ATP, Advanced Threat Protection. That's what integrates with Morphisec. We're just waiting for the CFO to say, "All right, who wants a bigger budget?" and we'll say, "Yes, us, please: ATP." We would do it if we could bend our CFO's arm to get that kind of protection.