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Top 10 Alternatives to Microsoft Defender for Identity Recently Reviewed By G2 Community

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CrowdStrike Falcon Endpoint Protection Platform
By CrowdStrike
4.6/5
(420)
Product Description
CrowdStrike Falcon endpoint protection unifies the technologies required to successfully stop breaches: next-generation antivirus, endpoint detection and response, IT hygiene, 24/7 threat hunting and threat intelligence. They combine to provide continuous breach prevention in a single agent.
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Reviewers say compared to Microsoft Defender for Identity, CrowdStrike Falcon Endpoint Protection Platform is:
Easier to set up
More expensive
Easier to do business with
Categories in common with Microsoft Defender for...:
Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR)
User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)

Falcon Identity protection
By CrowdStrike
4.1/5
(13)
Product Description
CrowdStrike Falcon® Identity Protection is a comprehensive security solution designed to prevent, detect, and respond to identity-based threats in real time. By integrating endpoint and identity security into a unified platform, it offers organizations robust protection against adversaries who exploit credentials to infiltrate systems. This solution ensures continuous monitoring and defense across both on-premises and cloud environments, effectively mitigating risks associated with identity compromises. Key Features and Functionality: - Unified Endpoint and Identity Security: Combines endpoint protection with identity threat detection, providing a holistic defense mechanism against sophisticated attacks. - Comprehensive Visibility: Offers full visibility across traditional Active Directory (AD and cloud identity providers like Microsoft Entra ID and Okta, enabling organizations to monitor and secure all identity assets. - AI-Powered Threat Detection: Utilizes artificial intelligence to establish behavioral baselines, swiftly identifying anomalies and potential threats to prevent lateral movement and credential abuse. - Real-Time Response and Risk-Based Access: Implements dynamic, risk-based multi-factor authentication (MFA to enforce security measures without disrupting user productivity. - Proactive Identity Security Posture Management: Identifies and rectifies misconfigurations and vulnerabilities, ensuring continuous compliance and reducing the attack surface. Primary Value and Problem Solved: Falcon Identity Protection addresses the critical challenge of identity-based attacks, which have become a prevalent method for adversaries to gain unauthorized access. By unifying endpoint and identity security, it provides organizations with a streamlined approach to detect and prevent unauthorized access, lateral movement, and privilege escalation. This integration not only enhances security but also simplifies management, reduces operational complexity, and accelerates response times, thereby significantly lowering the risk of breaches and ensuring the integrity of organizational identities.
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Reviewers say compared to Microsoft Defender for Identity, Falcon Identity protection is:
More expensive
Better at support
Easier to set up
Categories in common with Microsoft Defender for...:
Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR)

SentinelOne Singularity Endpoint
By SentinelOne
4.7/5
(201)
Product Description
Stop known and unknown threats on all platforms using sophisticated machine learning and intelligent automation. SentinelOne predicts malicious behavior across all vectors, rapidly eliminates threats with a fully-automated incident response protocol, and adapts defenses against the most advanced cyber attacks.
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Reviewers say compared to Microsoft Defender for Identity, SentinelOne Singularity Endpoint is:
Slower to reach roi
Easier to set up
Easier to do business with
Categories in common with Microsoft Defender for...:
Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR)

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IBM QRadar SIEM
By IBM
4.4/5
(335)
Product Description
IBM QRadar is designed to collect logs, events, network flows and user behavior across your entire enterprise, correlates that against threat intelligence and vulnerability data to detect known threats, and applies advanced analytics to identify anomalies that may signal unknown threats. The solution then uniquely connects the end-to-end chain of activity associated with a single potential incident, and provides prioritized alerts based on severity, helping quickly uncover critical threats while reducing false positives.
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Reviewers say compared to Microsoft Defender for Identity, IBM QRadar SIEM is:
Slower to reach roi
More expensive
Better at support
Categories in common with Microsoft Defender for...:
User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)

ActivTrak
By Birch Grove Software, Inc.
4.3/5
(333)
Product Description
ActivTrak is a cloud-native workforce intelligence platform that transforms work activity data into actionable insights for employee monitoring, productivity and performance management, and workforce planning capabilities that deliver measurable ROI. Deployment is quick and easy — start collecting data in minutes.
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Reviewers say compared to Microsoft Defender for Identity, ActivTrak is:
Easier to set up
Better at support
Easier to admin
Categories in common with Microsoft Defender for...:
User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)

CyberArk Workforce Identity
By CyberArk
4.5/5
(130)
Product Description
Today’s new reality requires a new kind of access platform. Built on Zero Trust, CyberArk Identity is creating a new era -secure access everywhere- that uniquely combines leading capabilities to seamlessly integrate SSO, MFA, EMM and UBA. Using our proven technologies, we’re ushering in a new generation of access technology that not only protects companies, but also leads to happier customers, better products and more valuable organizations.
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Reviewers say compared to Microsoft Defender for Identity, CyberArk Workforce Identity is:
Slower to reach roi
Better at support
Easier to do business with
Categories in common with Microsoft Defender for...:
Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR)
User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)

Cynet
By Cynet
4.7/5
(251)
Product Description
AutoXDR™ converges multiple technologies (EPP, EDR, UBA, Deception, Network Analytics and vulnerability management), with a 24/7 cyber SWAT team, to provide unparalleled visibility and defend all domains of your internal network: endpoints, network, files and users, from all types of attacks.
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Reviewers say compared to Microsoft Defender for Identity, Cynet is:
Easier to set up
Better at support
Easier to do business with
Categories in common with Microsoft Defender for...:
User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)

IBM MaaS360
By IBM
4.2/5
(203)
Product Description
Keep your business moving with mobile device management and security
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Reviewers say compared to Microsoft Defender for Identity, IBM MaaS360 is:
Better at support
Easier to set up
Easier to admin
Categories in common with Microsoft Defender for...:
Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR)

Safetica
By Safetica
4.6/5
(202)
Product Description
Safetica is an integrated Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and Insider Risk Management (IRM) solution, which helps companies to identify, classify, and protect sensitive data as well as detect, analyze, and mitigate risks posed by insiders within an organization. Safetica covers the following data security solutions: Data Classification - Safetica offers complete data visibility across endpoints, networks, and cloud environments. It classifies sensitive data using its Safetica Unified Classification, which combines analysis of file content, file origin and file properties. Data Loss Prevention - With Safetica, you can protect sensitive business- or customer-related data, source codes, or blueprints from accidental or intentional exposure through instant notifications and policy enforcement. Insider Risk Management - With Safetica, you can analyze insider risks, detect threats, and mitigate them swiftly. Notifications about how to treat sensitive data can help raise awareness around data security and educate your users. - Workspace and behavior analysis provides an extra level of detail to detect internal risks. It also helps understand how employees work, print, and use hardware and software assets, thus enabling organizations to optimize costs and increase operational efficiency. Cloud Data Protection - Safetica can monitor and classify files directly during user operations, such as exports, uploads and downloads, opening files, copying files to a different path, uploading files via web browsers, sending files via email or IM apps, and others. Regulatory compliance - Safetica helps organizations detect violations and comply with key regulations and data protection standards including GDPR, HIPAA, SOX, PCI-DSS, GLBA, ISO/IEC 27001, SOC2 or CCPA.
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Reviewers say compared to Microsoft Defender for Identity, Safetica is:
Better at support
More usable
Easier to set up
Categories in common with Microsoft Defender for...:
User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)