Cisco Secure Endpoint vs OpenText Core Endpoint Protection comparison

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Cisco and OpenText are both solutions in the Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) category. Cisco is ranked #26 with an average rating of 9.0, while OpenText is ranked #32. Cisco holds a 1.3% mindshare in EPP, compared to OpenText’s 1.8% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of Cisco users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of OpenText users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 29, 2026

OpenText Core Endpoint Protection and Cisco Secure Endpoint are competing in endpoint protection. Cisco Secure Endpoint has the upper hand due to its stronger user feedback in aspects like threat prevention, integration, and overall security enhancement.

Features: OpenText Core Endpoint Protection is appreciated for its lightweight nature, ease of deployment, and effective traffic security monitoring. Cisco Secure Endpoint offers comprehensive security measures such as robust threat detection, seamless integration with other Cisco products, and automatic updates, giving it an edge over OpenText.

Room for Improvement: OpenText Core Endpoint Protection could improve in phishing prevention, detailed threat reporting, and faster connection. Cisco Secure Endpoint users suggest enhancements in integration capabilities, reducing false positives, and simplifying deployment processes.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: OpenText Core Endpoint Protection offers a satisfactory deployment experience with generally reliable support, despite some technical assistance delays. Cisco Secure Endpoint provides multiple deployment options, though its initial setup complexity and slow support are noted. Feedback varies for both, but Cisco's integration aids streamlined deployment.

Pricing and ROI: OpenText Core Endpoint Protection is known for its affordability, appealing to budget-conscious buyers. Cisco Secure Endpoint, while more expensive, delivers strong security capabilities that justify its pricing. Users find Cisco's comprehensive features offer a good ROI through enhanced security and performance.

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Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Net...

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) category, the mindshare of Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is 3.8%, up from 3.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Cisco Secure Endpoint is 1.3%, down from 1.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenText Core Endpoint Protection is 1.8%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks	3.8%
Cisco Secure Endpoint	1.3%
OpenText Core Endpoint Protection	1.8%
Other	93.1%

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ABHISHEK_SINGH

Senior Process Expert at A.P. Moller - Maersk

Gained full visibility and streamlined threat detection through behavior-based insights and AI integration

Initially, we got to have a lot of false positives when we onboarded, but nowadays it's quite smooth. We have fine-tuned our security policies and allowed different levels of policies to get rid of those false positives. Currently, we are getting a fairly good amount of incidents that are not false positives or benign, but actionable items. The process is streamlined. In the initial days, the operations used to get involved in a lot of benign and other activities, but now the process is streamlined. We are leveraging the auto-detection and remediation plans. The operations teams are now more involved in other business roles as well, not just looking into the logs and fetching out what's happening there. They have fixed a lot of things. Initially, they didn't have IAC code drift detection, cloud posture management, or security posture management, but they have those now. They purchased different vendors and did a merger with that. They have now Prisma Cloud that gets integrated and now they are working with Cortex Cloud. Everything that was negative has now been addressed, and the product altogether looks to be in a very better and mature shape now. Currently, it's more or less detecting the workloads with AI-based best practices. Since most organizations are consuming AI agents and other things, we are looking forward to seeing what other feature enhancements Palo Alto can support in that.

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JavedHashmi

Chief Technology Officer at Future Point Technologies

Reliable threat protection is achieved while integration and analysis capabilities need refinement

Cisco Secure Endpoint is very good in machine learning, which allows it to secure offline contents even if not connected to the internet. We haven't encountered a single breach after it's deployed. It controls USB devices and has a separate antivirus solution called Tetra, providing security even for real-time, day-zero attacks through its strong Talos threat intelligence platform.

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vCIO At Grove Networks Inc. at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

Improving threat detection is critical for enhanced protection

We use Webroot Business Endpoint Protection as a NextGen antivirus solution for our clients. It's included in the contract we have with our clients as a cost-effective option for antivirus protection Webroot Business Endpoint Protection is cost-effective for rolling it out to all of our clients,…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Cortex XDR alerts us on the dashboard when there's a threat, which allows us to restrict that user and helps secure our infrastructure."

"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."

"Monitoring is most valuable."

"Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks's ability to block sophisticated threats in real time is quite good and is on par with SentinelOne's."

"It's a nice product that's stable and scalable."

"Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks saves time in various ways, although the user interface is fairly standard."

"Its ability to react to cyber data attacks is awesome."

"It collects and caches and the knowledge of machine learning from different customers to take to the cloud, it makes it better to use for everybody, it allows for quick learning and updates and can, therefore, offer zero-day malware security, and this sharing of metadata helps make the solution very safe."

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"I like that this program is very light on the computer and very powerful."

"The biggest lesson that I have learned from using this product is that there is a lot more malware slipping through my email filters than I expected."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is its technical support."

"There are several valuable features including strong prevention and exceptional reporting capabilities."

"Real-time threat prevention using sandboxing, file trajectory, and retrospective security."

"We have seen a measurable decrease in the mean time to detect or respond to threats by 90 percent, blocking a vast majority of threats."

"It used to take us a month to find out that something is infected, we now know that same day, as soon it is infected."

"With Cisco AMP, Threat Response, and Orbital, we are 100 percent certain that we got every trace of malicious software."

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"Low performance requirements."

"The ease of use of the centralized admin console is its best asset."

"I rate the initial setup phase a ten on a scale of one to ten, where one is difficult, and ten is easy."

"I like that Webroot is very lightweight. It didn't bog down the machine, and more importantly, it had heuristics artificial intelligence to some degree. It wasn't like full-blown artificial intelligence, but something where you have one endpoint recognizing issues because it maintains a cloud database. If one client recognizes a threat, it would add it to the database, and almost immediately, every agent in the world would also know about that threat. That was very appealing to us. However, now it's becoming commonplace, whereas ventures like Symantec and McAfee were based more on the traditional model of definition and updates, and we were always falling behind. Webroot also has pretty good technical support."

"The ability to generate profiles specific to both business groups and organizations has made managing nearly 1000 endpoints very simple."

"It is pretty unintrusive. It doesn't take over the system like McAfee or Norton. It doesn't use a whole lot of resources. McAfee and Norton use a lot of resources."

"Customer Service: Top-of-the-line; the busy community as well. Technical Support: Top-of-the-line; the busy community as well."

"Previously, we used a mix of Trend/Sophos/Symantec. Webroot has all their best bits combined into one solution."

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Cons

"If Palo Alto reduces the pricing slightly for their products, it would make them more scalable in markets such as India and globally for cybersecurity."

"Currently, we are monitoring all USB drives and ports but we would like to improve our device control capabilities."

"Cortex XDR could improve its sales support team, including better commission structures and referral programs."

"It's more focused on network communication. If a customer wants to increase the level of protection and start working with documents, it's impossible to integrate these features into the system. It's more of a communication-oriented system than a content security-oriented system."

"There is a severe gap in functionality between Windows, Linux, and Mac versions. For example all folder restriction settings are Windows only. Traps 5.0+ does not have SAML / LDAP integration."

"They have the worst support, as a company, that I have ever worked with, as they are difficult to get a hold of and keep on the phone. They don't know what they are talking about when you get them on the phone. They don't like to respond to messages when you send them to them. They like to "research problems" for weeks on end, then pass you off to somebody else."

"There is also no recovery feature; if some endpoint is under attack there must be the possibility of recovering it or restoring it to a normal state."

"The solution should force customers to integrate with network traffic to see the full benefits of XDR."

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"An easier way to do deduplication of machines, or be alerted to the fact that there's more than one instance of a machine, would be useful... That way you could get a more accurate device count, so you're not having an inflated number."

"I would like more seamless integration, because I have a security solution based on Cisco and I'm looking at integration for the old solution."

"The GUI needs improvement, it's not good."

"You need a certain level of technical experience because the console is not the easiest thing to look at."

"It does not include encryption and decryption of local file shares."

"The integration of the Cisco products for security could be better in the sense that not everything is integrated, and they aren't working together. In addition, not all products are multi-tenant, so you can't separate different customer environments from each other, which makes it a little bit hard for a managed service provider to deliver services to the customers."

"Maybe there is room for improvement in some of the automated remediation."

"The product does not provide options like tunnel creation or virtual appliances."

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"An updated UI would be nice, but is not hardly used."

"The platform is mostly stable, however there are hiccups with the cloud from time-to-time that impact the ability to get to the portal."

"We were attacked by CryptoLock. It didn't protect us in the way we needed to and an attack was able to get through their defenses."

"The solution could improve by providing better ransomware protection."

"The console spins up relatively slowly, and some of the configuration items are obscure (e.g., reporting back one time per day is a default setting) and need to be tweaked."

"I want Webroot to be easier to use and set up. It is not very intuitive."

"Webroot used to be really good when they first came out, but now they've completely fallen behind, sadly."

"Its detection capability for certain attacks should be improved. It should have better and wider detection for certain malware attacks. It could also have some sort of RMN."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"It has reasonable pricing for the use cases it provides to the company."

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

"It is "expensive" and flexible."

"It is cost-effective compared to similar solutions. It fits for the small businesses through to the big businesses."

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

"I don't have any issues with the pricing. We are satisfied with the price."

"It has a yearly renewal."

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"The solution is highly affordable; I believe we pay $2 or $3 per endpoint. It's significantly cheaper than the competitors on the market."

"Pricing can be more expensive than similar software that does less functionality, but not recognized by customers."

"Cisco's pricing is reasonable. We also do not need to opt for niche players, which would have charged us significantly more than Cisco for ecosystem solutions. We are highly satisfied with the pricing structure of Cisco's solutions they are reasonable."

"Licensing fees are on a yearly basis and I am happy with the pricing."

"There is also the Cisco annual subscription plus my management time in terms of what I do with the Cisco product. I spend a minimal amount of time on it though, just rolling out updates as they need them and monitoring the console a couple of times a day to ensure nothing is out of control. Cost-wise, we are quite happy with it."

"The pricing and licensing of the security solutions of Cisco are very good in comparison with the competitors, but sometimes, it's difficult to see all the discounts and other kinds of things. So, you have to be careful, but the pricing is good."

"The costs of 50 licenses of AMP for three years is around $9,360."

"We had faced some license issues, but it has been improved. At the beginning of the implementation, we faced a lot of licensing issues, but now, we have EA licensing, which gives us an opportunity to grow."

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"Webroot Business Endpoint Protection is not too expensive. My licenses cost me between $300 and $400. It is really good price wise."

"The solution is very cost-effective."

"From a pricing standpoint, I would rate it a four out of five."

"Our strategy was to overestimate the complexity and cost. It turned out that Webroot's assurance was justified."

"Work on a price tier plan."

"We evaluate other options using multiple choices, best value, management and functionality."

"The pricing is high."

"We are on an annual subscription for the use of Webroot Business Endpoint Protection."

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Top Industries

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Comms Service Provider

13%

Outsourcing Company

12%

Construction Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

Outsourcing Company

Construction Company

11%

Outsourcing Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

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Company Size

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Large Enterprise

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Small Business

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Small Business	48
Midsize Enterprise	21
Large Enterprise	56

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Small Business	21
Midsize Enterprise	15
Large Enterprise	21

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Small Business	35
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	2

Questions from the Community

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How is Cortex XDR compared with Microsoft Defender?

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cisco Secure Endpoint?

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What needs improvement with Cisco Secure Endpoint?

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What is your primary use case for Cisco Secure Endpoint?

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Webroot Business Endpoint Protection?

Webroot Business Endpoint Protection is probably on the cheaper side, so I would rate their pricing a one or a two ou...

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What needs improvement with Webroot Business Endpoint Protection?

Webroot Business Endpoint Protection needs to improve its ability to detect threats. It does not do what it's adverti...

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Comparisons

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Compared 47% of the time

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Compared 4% of the time

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Compared 4% of the time

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Also Known As

Cyvera, Cortex XDR, Palo Alto Networks Traps

Cisco AMP for Endpoints

Webroot SecureAnywhere Business Endpoint Protection

Overview

Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks provides advanced threat detection with AI-driven endpoint protection and seamless integration, ensuring multi-layered security and automatic threat response.

Cortex XDR is designed to safeguard endpoints against malware and suspicious activities. It offers advanced threat detection and response capabilities using behavioral analysis, AI, and machine learning. It seamlessly integrates with security infrastructures, providing endpoint security, firewall integration, and enhanced visibility in both cloud-based and on-premises environments.

What are the key features of Cortex XDR?

Advanced Threat Detection: Uses AI and machine learning for proactive threat identification.
Multi-layered Security: Combines various security measures for comprehensive protection.
Endpoint Protection: Safeguards against malware and exploits.
Behavioral Analysis: Monitors suspicious activity for early detection.
Automatic Threat Response: Automates responses to neutralize threats.

What benefits should users expect?

Ease of Use: Simplifies security management with intuitive design.
Resource Efficiency: Minimizes impact on system resources.
Integration Capabilities: Works well with existing security setups.
Reduced Analyst Workload: Automates processes to decrease manual intervention.

Organizations in diverse sectors deploy Cortex XDR to protect against malware, leveraging its advanced threat detection capabilities. Its integration with existing security infrastructures appeals to those seeking comprehensive protection in both cloud and on-premises environments, providing enhanced visibility and threat intelligence.

Palo Alto Networks

Cisco Secure Endpoint offers robust endpoint security with real-time threat prevention and cloud-based management. It is designed for seamless integration with Cisco products, delivering comprehensive protection and ease of use.

Cisco Secure Endpoint provides real-time threat detection, analytics, and rapid response capabilities. Its ease of use, integrated features like sandboxing and Device and File Trajectory, and its incorporation with Talos make it effective for threat hunting and endpoint protection. With strong machine learning and seamless integration with other tools, it addresses threat prevention and network visibility. However, there is room for improvement in AI features, SIEM API integration, user interface simplification, and cost reduction. Enhanced dashboards, reporting, and support are also areas for potential enhancement.

What are the primary features of Cisco Secure Endpoint?

Integration with Cisco Products: Seamlessly connects with Cisco's offerings like Umbrella and Firepower, providing extended security measures.
Real-Time Threat Prevention: Delivers live threat detection and rapid response, ensuring immediate protection against threats.
Cloud-Based Management: Offers ease of deployment and management through cloud infrastructure, enhancing accessibility and efficiency.
Sandboxing: Provides an isolated environment to safely execute and monitor untrusted applications, preventing potential threats.
Device and File Trajectory: Tracks the actions of devices and files over time, offering valuable insight into their behavior and impact.
Talos Integration: Leverages intelligence from Cisco Talos for enhanced threat intelligence and response capabilities.

What benefits are highlighted in reviews of Cisco Secure Endpoint?

Improved Threat Detection: Users highlight its powerful analytics for identifying and neutralizing threats promptly.
Enhanced Network Visibility: Allows for comprehensive monitoring of network activities, benefiting security operations.
User-Friendly Interface: Valued for its intuitive navigation and ease of use, streamlining security management.
Scalable Integration: Reviews emphasize the ease of integrating with existing tools and platforms, providing flexibility.
Rapid Threat Response: Known for its quick reaction to threats, minimizing potential damage and downtime.

In industries such as finance, healthcare, and manufacturing, Cisco Secure Endpoint is vital for maintaining endpoint security and malware protection. Organizations use it within managed security services, integrating with tools like Umbrella for DNS security. It provides visibility into malware activities and supports threat hunting for devices beyond corporate networks. Deployed on workstations, servers, and laptops, it efficiently logs and blocks malicious actions, ensuring a secure environment.

Cisco

OpenText Core Endpoint Protection offers cloud-managed endpoint security with AI integration, providing real-time protection and lightweight performance. It ensures low system impact, seamless cloud integration, and cost-effective security solutions for various devices.

OpenText Core Endpoint Protection is a comprehensive endpoint security platform utilized by managed-service providers for antivirus and firewall functionality across servers, workstations, and mobile devices. It employs AI for robust threat detection, integrating with cloud applications for real-time updates. Multi-layered security features include malware protection, network defense, and DNS protection. Although connectivity and threat reporting need improvement, this platform extensively supports remote device management and integrates efficiently with Active Directory policies.

What are the key features of OpenText Core Endpoint Protection?

Cloud Management: Centralized admin console for easy oversight
AI Integration: Enhanced threat detection capabilities
Lightweight Performance: Minimal impact on system resources
Real-time Threat Database: Constant updates for effective protection
Web Control Interface: Monitors and controls web traffic

What benefits are associated with OpenText Core Endpoint Protection?

Ease of Setup and Maintenance: Facilitates quick deployment and upkeep
Seamless Cloud Integration: Simplifies scalability and operation
Cost-Effectiveness: Affordable pricing with comprehensive features
Mobile Security Capabilities: Supports remote device management

OpenText Core Endpoint Protection finds application in industries requiring stringent data protection and peace of mind over device security. Managed-service providers implement this for comprehensive antivirus and firewall features, safeguarding multi-device networks. It is particularly useful for DNS protection and integrating with Active Directory policies, enabling secure yet flexible operations across sectors.

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Sample Customers

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