ConnectWise SIEM vs Kaspersky Next EDR Expert comparison

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ConnectWise and Kaspersky are both solutions in the Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) category. ConnectWise is ranked #53 with an average rating of 6.0, while Kaspersky is ranked #17 with an average rating of 8.3. ConnectWise holds a 0.8% mindshare in EDR, compared to Kaspersky’s 1.3% mindshare. Additionally, 66% of ConnectWise users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Kaspersky users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Apr 9, 2026

Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response Expert and ConnectWise SIEM are competitive offerings in enhancing cybersecurity. Kaspersky appears favorable in pricing and support, while ConnectWise is preferred for its robust feature set.

Features: Kaspersky offers advanced threat detection, automated responses, and file integrity monitoring. ConnectWise provides customizable features, extensive log collection, and advanced analytics.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Kaspersky provides straightforward deployment and responsive customer support. ConnectWise has a more complex deployment but offers extensive documentation and excellent customer service.

Pricing and ROI: Kaspersky is cost-effective with lower setup costs, offering significant ROI. ConnectWise, while more expensive, delivers substantial ROI for businesses utilizing its comprehensive features.

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Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Net...

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) category, the mindshare of Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is 3.7%, down from 3.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ConnectWise SIEM is 0.8%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Kaspersky Next EDR Expert is 1.3%, down from 1.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks	3.7%
Kaspersky Next EDR Expert	1.3%
ConnectWise SIEM	0.8%
Other	94.2%

Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)

Featured Reviews

ABHISHEK_SINGH

Senior Process Expert at A.P. Moller - Maersk

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

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

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reviewer2711757

Cyber Security Software Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Automated alerting and reporting excel while cost and feature limitations remain

I find automation to be one of the best and most valuable features of the product. Machine learning is incorporated into the solution, though AI is a broader term that I wouldn't apply here. I haven't personally explored AI yet, but I will investigate it. Machine learning functions more as automation in my experience, as there's no training involved yet. I want to conduct R&D on another project with Wazuh to determine how to capture usage, for example, tracking user logins and time spent. This is where I need to implement machine learning. Additionally, the extraction of GeoIP adds complexity. The solution is effectively reducing incident response times in operations.

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Ravi-Upadhyay

Founder at Inspira Enterprise

Provides strong threat detection and response through behavior analytics and network isolation

I have found the most valuable features of Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response Expert to be its ability to tackle the biggest challenges customers face when they have to mitigate any kind of a malware, ransomware attack, or online theft scenarios. The solution utilizes its HIPS, which is the host intrusion prevention system, behavior analytics system, and device control mechanism, making the antivirus capabilities of EDR quite strong. It is able to detect zero-day threats as well as historical or legacy malware, providing protection against current threats in the market and legacy malware. My opinion on the advanced threat detection algorithms in Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response Expert is that the ATP functionality is quite strong because it utilizes the behavioral analytics engine in the backend, which employs machine learning mechanisms to identify any kind of vulnerability or exploit running on the operating system level and the network level. If an attack is about to happen on the endpoint, it is able to protect over the network as well and checks for any illegitimate encryption activities. The machine learning capability within Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response Expert has contributed to improving detection accuracy and reducing false positives in my environment by helping me identify malicious activity and differentiate between any malicious activity on the operating system level and on the network level. I have seen customers with in-house developed applications that have no public signatures available. Once I whitelist a particular application, it intelligently whitelists not only the executable but also all the dependent services required to run that application. Furthermore, Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response Expert has successfully blocked network-level attacks on the endpoint. For example, during a recent DoS attack aimed at choking the entire network, Kaspersky detected the attack, isolated the device in a sandbox network, and alerted my SOC team via email for corrective action, thereby proactively helping me detect and protect devices from malicious attacks.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The stability of this product is very good."

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

"Automation and playbooks have helped me significantly, as Cortex Xnor's playbooks predefine the workflow of the automation, such as response processes, alert triggering, and enriching the context, efficiently detecting and blocking malicious attacks with firewalls while eliminating workload and speeding responses for next-generation operations."

"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."

"Their XDR agent and their behavioral indicators of compromise (BIOC) are pretty nice. Their managed threat hunting is also pretty nice. They also have WildFire, which is a service for actively looking for malware. It's quite useful."

"It blocks malicious files, prevents attacks, and doesn't require many updates because it is a very light application."

"Threat identification and detection are the most valuable features of this solution."

"Monitoring is most valuable."

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"The integration capabilities of ConnectWise SIEM are off the shelf, making it easy to buy and use; you just unpack it and use it."

"One valuable feature of ConnectWise Fortify is the ability to add other teams and receive notifications when customers make changes or remove multi-factor authentication in Microsoft or SAP environments."

"We have found the solution has great functionality and it is easy to use."

"Provides web and DNS protection over https."

"The most valuable feature of Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response is security, as it has better security than other solutions, such as Symantec."

"The most valuable feature is endpoint protection."

"Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response is a stable solution."

"In summary, I think that Kaspersky is a good product to use."

"Endpoint is a good technical solution because it provides granular control over devices."

"The features I have found most valuable in Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response Expert are that it is the first line of defense for my organization, protects every single file from outbound traffic, checks every mail and file through various methods like FTP and cloud, avoids attacks, and provides dashboards to my SOC team for early alerts."

"Kaspersky is one of the best, and we are working with it today."

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Cons

"In an upcoming release, the solution could improve by proving hard disk encryption. If it could support this it would be a complete solution."

"If he is using a smaller company, he can depend on some other tools because Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is a bit expensive."

"Managing the product should be easier."

"Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is a strong tool, but it is true that digesting information sometimes makes the tool go a little bit slower."

"We had a problem with getting our older endpoints up to date, but their newest updates have been really good. I've been pleased with it in terms of what our needs are. It's doing what we want it to do."

"The price could be a little lower."

"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."

"I would like to see improvement in the tool's user interface, particularly in the area of managing alerts and providing more reporting capabilities."

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"The manage portion of the solution is complicated and should be simplified by having different versions to meet the needs of different size companies."

"ConnectWise Fortify could work on covering more areas, like phishing messages, which have become more complicated to detect."

"ConnectWise SIEM is primarily focused on notifications and is limited in that aspect, while Wazuh can automate the elimination process."

"Everything is automatic on Kaspersky but it would be great if they could add a feature for examining suspicious files."

"Kaspersky needs to strengthen its standing in the market."

"The system can be heavy, slowing down performance."

"The solution can improve by providing automatic fixing of vulnerabilities and reducing the resources used in the server component and endpoint agent. They are very bulky and use a lot of CPU, memory, and hard drive resources."

"We'd like to see them improve the automatic response."

"There are some issues with EDR's web policy blocking sites that are marked as exceptions."

"Device control is lacking in EDR."

"The solution is expensive."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is a little high. It is per user per year."

"The pricing seems fair, and I do like the licensing model. You use wherever they are, and it is elastic."

"The return on investment is from the user side because we have seen the performance of it increase the delivery time of the product if we are using too many web-based and on-premise applications. In indirect ways, we saw the return of investment in terms of performance and user satisfaction increase."

"We didn't have to pay any additional fee for the cloud instance. It just came with the renewal, which was nice."

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

"I did PoCs on products called Cylance and CrowdStrike. Although, I consider these products and they were also good, when it come to cost and budgetary factors, Traps has been proven to be better than the other two products. It is quite cost-effective and delivers all the entire solution which we require."

"It has a higher cost than other solutions, like CrowdStrike or Microsoft’s EDR tools, but it reduces the cost of our operations because it’s a new generation antivirus tool."

"I am using the Community edition."

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"The solution is expensive."

"If one is cheap, ten is expensive, I rate the product’s price as a seven out of ten, especially if I compare it with CrowdStrike."

"The solution’s pricing is okay."

"The price of Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response is in the middle range compared to competitors. The pricing model is based on the users using the solutions. The cost for us is approximately 2200 Algerian dinars. The price of the solution could be reduced."

"The solution isn't the cheapest considering what you get. I would rate the pricing as seven out of ten."

"The product has a valuable pricing model. We need to purchase its monthly subscription."

"Pricing for Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response is so-so when you compare it with its competitors. Its pricing isn't cheap nor expensive."

"The solution is expensive in comparison to CheckPoint and Fortinet."

"The pricing is reasonable. Not too cheap, not too expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Comms Service Provider

13%

Outsourcing Company

12%

Construction Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Construction Company

11%

Comms Service Provider

11%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

Outsourcing Company

11%

Construction Company

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	48
Midsize Enterprise	21
Large Enterprise	56

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By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	30
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	18

Questions from the Community

Cortex XDR by Palo Alto vs. Sentinel One

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Comparing CrowdStrike Falcon to Cortex XDR (Palo Alto)

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How is Cortex XDR compared with Microsoft Defender?

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is a cloud-delivered endpoint security solution. The tool reduces the attack surface,...

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What needs improvement with ConnectWise Fortify?

I haven't utilized the advanced threat intelligence capabilities with ConnectWise SIEM. Advanced threat intelligence ...

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What is your primary use case for ConnectWise Fortify?

I do not have experience with ConnectWise SIEM for RMM, as I mostly work on Wazuh, and I have a team that handles Con...

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What advice do you have for others considering ConnectWise Fortify?

The review can be made anonymous if just my name and not the company name is used. I would assess the real-time visib...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response Expert?

The price of the solution is economical.

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What needs improvement with Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response Expert?

The user interface of Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response Expert could be more intuitive, and I would appreciat...

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What is your primary use case for Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response Expert?

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Also Known As

Cyvera, Cortex XDR, Palo Alto Networks Traps

ConnectWise Security Management, ConnectWise Fortify, Continuum Fortify, ConnectWise SIEM, ConnectWise SASE

Kaspersky EDR

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

ConnectWise SIEM is a cybersecurity platform designed to enhance threat detection and response capabilities, integrating seamlessly into sophisticated IT infrastructures.

Developed to address complex cybersecurity challenges, ConnectWise SIEM offers robust monitoring and analytics, enabling businesses to detect threats faster and with greater accuracy. It combines security information and event management with advanced intelligence to create a comprehensive security solution that supports real-time analysis and immediate action.

What are the most important features of ConnectWise SIEM?

Advanced Threat Detection: Leverages machine learning to identify potential threats quickly.
Real-Time Alerts: Provides instant notifications to ensure swift response to incidents.
Comprehensive Reporting: Delivers detailed insights to inform decision-making.
Scalability: Adapts to the growing needs of any organization.
Seamless Integration: Connects effortlessly with existing IT tools and platforms.

What benefits or ROI should users look for in reviews?

Reduced Downtime: Minimizes disruptions with proactive threat management.
Cost Efficiency: Lowers overall security expenditure through strategic resource allocation.
Improved Compliance: Assists in meeting industry regulations with comprehensive logs and reports.
Enhanced Security Posture: Strengthens defenses with continuous monitoring and analysis.

ConnectWise SIEM is widely implemented in industries such as finance, healthcare, and retail, where data security is crucial. These sectors benefit from its capability to handle large volumes of data while maintaining regulatory compliance. Its flexibility allows customization to meet specific industry requirements, providing targeted security solutions to protect sensitive information.

ConnectWise

Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response Expert is a robust cybersecurity tool that delivers protection against cyberthreats while enhancing visibility and response capabilities for IT security teams.

This comprehensive solution integrates with Endpoint Protection Platform to block and detect cyberthreats while providing tools for IT security professionals. Backed by 30 years of experience, it is trusted by over 600 enterprise customers, safeguarding more than 2.5 million endpoints across the globe. The system is built with a powerful set of detection engines, enabling proactive threat investigation with clear visualization. It features an open architecture supporting broad integration capabilities, making it versatile for diverse IT environments.

What are the key features of Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response Expert?

Advanced Threat Detection: Uses machine learning and behavior analytics to identify sophisticated threats.
Comprehensive Endpoint Protection: Provides robust security measures, including intrusion prevention and firewall capabilities.
Open Integration: Seamlessly integrates with Kaspersky SIEM, Endpoint Security, and third-party workflows.
Embedded Sandbox: Analyzes suspicious files in depth to determine threat levels.
Centralized Management: Facilitates encryption and reporting for enhanced usability.

What benefits can users expect when using Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response Expert?

Effective Security: Offers reliable protection against malware and ransomware.
Scalability: Designed to support expanding infrastructures.
Ease of Use: Simplifies security management with centralized control.
Responsive Support: Provides swift assistance for technical issues.

In industries such as finance, healthcare, and corporate IT, Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response Expert is employed for network and endpoint security, shielding against malware, zero-day threats, and unauthorized access. It empowers these sectors with enhanced threat intelligence, secure data protection, and effective patch management, facilitating robust protection across diverse ecosystems.

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Sample Customers

CBI Health Group, University Honda, VakifBank

Techvera, Syrex, Clark Integrated Technologies

Ferrari, Insolar, Tael, Republic of Serbia

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