TrendAI Vision One Reviews

We primarily use Trend Vision One for its XDR capabilities, email security features, and MDR services offered through ServiceOne. Leveraging these Trend Vision One products allows us to provide robust security solutions to our customers.

My customers range from small non-profits with 40 endpoints to large enterprises with over 2,000 endpoints across diverse sectors, including energy, manufacturing, finance, and software.

Vision One possesses machine learning predictive capabilities that have already proven effective. In the past week alone, it detected and blocked two scans for unknown threats. This capability is crucial, especially since our predominantly Canadian customer base faces an elevated risk of cyberattacks from China due to the recent government-level ban on TikTok. Consequently, we anticipate an increase in attacks. Trend Vision One boasts the largest zero-day initiative, renowned for its proficiency in detecting such threats.

The single console in Vision One streamlines cross-layer detection, threat hunting, and investigation, incorporating sandbox analysis and log search capabilities. It allows for endpoint isolation, remote shell establishment, and integration with tools like Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID. Automated playbooks enable actions such as endpoint isolation, custom script execution, forensic investigations, user lockouts, and password resets, all of which are customizable. This automation is crucial for containing threats outside of working hours, as playbooks can be configured to automatically execute actions based on specific criteria, mitigating damage before staff return.

The single console provides comprehensive visibility across the entire IT security environment, including endpoints, cloud activity, workflow protection, email protection, and mobile device management, all within a single, unified platform.

Trend Vision One integrates with a range of security products, including various SIEM solutions, vulnerability management tools, and select firewalls. A comprehensive list of compatible products is available on Trend Micro's website.

Trend Vision One is relatively easy to learn for those with some security background. While first-time users may find it initially confusing, abundant learning resources such as YouTube videos and comprehensive documentation are available to help users quickly familiarize themselves with the platform.

Some of my customers maintain hybrid environments, and Trend Vision One enhances visibility by consolidating all systems into a single platform.

Trend Vision One has malware scanning capabilities, allowing it to detect, quarantine, and block malware effectively.

Trend's Managed Detection and Response service provides continuous 24/7 monitoring, effectively reducing staff workloads by eliminating the need for in-house security monitoring.

Trend Vision One improves my organization's visibility by consolidating security functions into a single console. These capabilities enhance our security operations, making it easier to manage threats.

Trend Vision One's most valuable feature is its centralized console, which provides comprehensive security features, including attack surface risk management. This allows for benchmarking our risk score against similar organizations based on size, industry, and location. Additionally, it offers endpoint vulnerability assessment, user behavior analytics, and standard XDR detection capabilities.

An area for improvement is integrating more tools with Trend Micro's SIEM. Expanding compatibility to include currently unsupported security tools, such as firewalls, would be beneficial.

I have been using Trend Vision One for approximately four months.

Trend Vision One is scalable.

To improve support, the company should streamline communication and reduce response times. Specifically, support tickets often require customers to provide redundant information, creating unnecessary extra steps in the process.

Overall, I rate Trend Vision One a ten out of ten as I am extremely happy with Trend Micro's capabilities and their platform's strength.

Trend Vision One is easy to maintain.

A common use case for TrendAI Vision One is ransomware detection and response, and we also use it for business email compromise. Our SOC team uses it for advanced threat hunting and insider threat detections.

Recently, my team used TrendAI Vision One for ransomware detection and response when a user executed a malicious attachment, leading to the detection of suspicious process executions. TrendAI Vision One helps us by correlating emails with endpoints, identifying host details, network activity, user device activity, and infected sources, allowing for quick resolution of threats in the organization.

We have also been using TrendAI Vision One for identifying suspicious or compromised emails and insider threat detections, which aids us in quickly identifying and investigating malicious emails.

TrendAI Vision One offers excellent extended detection and response capabilities through EDR and XDR solutions, as it is a complete package for organizational threat protection across email, endpoints, cloud networks, servers, and data centers. It helps us quickly identify attacks and provides deep insights into attacker movements as well as a centralized investigation workbench from a single dashboard.

Having everything in one dashboard allows our SOC team to quickly identify details across the network or organization level, such as the number of created tickets, false positives, true positives, actions taken, SLAs, threat metrics, and attack path details. It reduces alert fatigue for SOC analysts by providing a consolidated view of all details across the organization.

TrendAI Vision One has positively impacted our organization by identifying real-time threats and proactively isolating threats while alerting the SOC team for further investigations and remediation actions.

Since implementing TrendAI Vision One, it has reduced noise from false positive alerts by 80% and enabled the SOC team to focus on true positives, thus improving incident response and operational efficiency. TrendAI Vision One is highly reliable; it provides centralized visibility across protection layers and is stable and scalable, making it a suitable solution for organizations looking for thorough threat detection and response capabilities.

I believe that if the reporting features of TrendAI Vision One could be improved, it would help SOC analysts retrieve comprehensive reports detailing true positive incidents, top email threats, quarantined emails, and common malware, enhancing our analytics capabilities.

The TrendAI Vision One support system is not very good. They charge extra for premium support, while basic support does not adequately assist with investigations and troubleshooting. Improvements in this area are needed, and there should also be enhancements in third-party integrations to reduce alert noise and false positives.

TrendAI Vision One's governance and security capabilities are excellent, and while the security is always very good, they can still improve on compliance and regulations.

If they fix automated root cause analysis reports and AI-generated incident summaries, it can enhance capabilities further and reduce investigation times.

I have been using TrendAI Vision One for more than two years.

TrendAI Vision One is stable.

TrendAI Vision One is highly scalable as per our requirements, as user licenses can be improved if we have a greater number of users.

The customer support is not very good, and they need to improve their premium license support.

Previously we were using a different endpoint solution due to setup cost and support issues, so we switched to TrendAI Vision One for better SOC capabilities for threat detection.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was very good. The top leadership is engaged in identifying pricing and licensing features, although licensing renewal is challenging and the setup cost can be high, but it remains manageable for quality solutions.

We evaluated other options such as FireEye Helix, Symantec, and Microsoft Sentinel during our assessment process.

My advice to others looking into using TrendAI Vision One is to definitely proceed with this solution as it is a complete package for SOC teams regarding threat identification and remediation, although there is room for improvement in support. This review has a rating of 9.

The primary use of Trend Vision One is for its Endpoint Detection and Response and Extended Detection and Response solutions.

To address challenges with our attack surface management, we implemented Trend Vision One.

Trend Vision One's most valuable feature is its endpoint firewall rules.

The centralized visibility and management have been very important to us, as it allows for an effective EDR or XDR solution with central management. Without such solutions, I cannot imagine dealing with problems efficiently. The executive dashboards are used for main reporting and central management, improving readability.

Trend Vision One's attack surface management capabilities are a critical feature that we utilize.

Integration with other tools and deploying in hybrid environments need improvement. The deployment can be complex, and we'd like an easier process, especially when integrating with on-prem and cloud environments.

The high number of false positives in Trend Vision One presents a challenge. Reducing these requires extensive exclusion and allow lists, which are difficult to manage effectively.

I have been using Trend Micro Vision One for one year.

Trend Vision One is scalable.

The technical support is not good. We have to purchase support separately and the engineers are not readily available.

Neutral

We previously used Sophos and Microsoft Defender. For hybrid, we switched to Microsoft Defender due to easier integration with on-prem and cloud. I would recommend Trend Micro for Linux and mixed environments.

The standard deployment of Trend Vision One was straightforward and took approximately 24 hours to complete with two people involved.

Trend Vision One offers a competitive price-to-value ratio.

We evaluated Microsoft Defender and Sophos before switching. Microsoft offers more options for attack surface reduction rules compared to Trend Vision One.

I would rate Trend Vision One eight out of ten.

We have 400 users of Trend Vision One in our organization.

Two administrators are required to manage Vision One.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

As a security architect, I design solutions for our end customers. In previous projects, we've successfully implemented Trend Vision One for customers with cloud-based assets and email servers, enabling them to extend security coverage to their remote clients.

The current market trend in email security solutions focuses on mitigating threats like phishing attacks. These widespread attacks occur across various points in the cyber kill chain process. Whether initiated from the perimeter or targeting cloud-based assets, monitoring all north-south and east-west traffic is challenging. Trend Vision One helps by providing a comprehensive analysis of these email phishing attacks, identifying the attack origin, parameters, and information extracted from attack patterns.

Trend Vision One offers centralized visibility and management across all protection layers. This comprehensive view provides valuable information for CISO/CIO presentations, including attack patterns, threat actors, and areas for predictive analysis. Such insights are crucial for informing policy changes and other security enhancements. The visibility also helps with efficiency.

We can summarize any technical information we receive using widgets and then present it to executives in a dashboard format.

Our customers adapt the risk index feature to align with the specific needs and conditions of their individual environments.

We have used Trend Vision One in several projects where our customers consolidated security across hybrid environments. The consolidation effort, particularly utilizing Vision One's AI-driven features, streamlined investigative analytics. Furthermore, merging multiple solutions into Vision One provided comprehensive insights, which proved invaluable for policy development.

The ability to manage risk and maintain visibility has improved by approximately 20 to 30 percent, significantly simplifying our tasks. Operationally, this has led to a 20 percent reduction in effort.

Trend Vision One has helped reduce detection and response times by 30 and 40 percent, respectively.

Trend Vision One has saved more than a week's worth of effort in investigating false positives.

Trend Vision One's automation capabilities have helped us save between 60 and 100 hours monthly. 

The most important features of Vision One include visibility, AI integration, attack pattern analysis, predictive analytics, and centralized visibility and management across protection layers. These features are very important to us. 

There should be improvements in risk quantification, where the risk is displayed in a quantified manner, showing the dollar value loss. The integration with third-party OEM solutions also needs enhancement, particularly in UEBA integration with Trend. Sometimes, there are blind spot discoveries that are not completely successful. Improving automation to avoid manual triaging and providing more insights on dashboards is desirable.

While Trend Vision One's attack surface risk management helped identify some vulnerabilities in our environment, the feature needs improvement. Specifically, the blind spot discovery is unreliable; for example, a missed blind spot in one environment led to an attack and subsequent investigation.

Automation should be improved to eliminate the need for manual effort in initial L1 triaging. Additionally, dashboards should provide more insightful analysis, including various mappings to the MITRE ATT&CK framework and Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures.

I have been working with Vision One for almost almost two years.

The support in Trend Micro is good.

Positive

I have worked on Exchange servers, and we are using Palo Alto to a certain extent. These were not from the XDR or EDR point of view.

The analysis shows that Trend Vision One has improved our ROI by 30 percent.

Competitors offer comparable solutions at slightly lower prices, so Vision One has room to reduce its pricing by 15 percent, given that Trend Vision One charges approximately $10 per endpoint.

We evaluated other options but not to the same extent as Trend Micro because I was more familiar with Trend Micro solutions.

I would rate Trend Vision One nine out of ten.

In terms of the VDR, we are doing the Sophos entire solutions. We are doing the firewall, as well as endpoint, as well as email security.

When it comes to SophosLabs Intelix or Sophos Cloud Optix, basically, we are working with Sophos XDR and MDR right now.

As a partner, we have so many clients who are serving the Extended Detection and Response, and some users are just selling the Sophos Managed Detection and Response services. Basically, it's XDR, it's a tool, and MDR is managed by the Sophos security team 24/7. So, we are selling the Sophos MDR.

On the firewall side, we are doing the Sophos firewall, SonicWall firewall, and FortiGate.

We are dealing with Trend Micro for EDR and XDR.

We have been doing this product for the last 10 years, actually. Ten plus years we have been doing this product—Sophos entire solution and Trend Micro entire solution. Trend Micro has so many products, including anti-APT and IDS, IPS device.

For TrendAI Vision One, I have many corporate users who are using it for their servers' security, as well as the IDS, IPS device and TippingPoint, SMS gateway, and so on.

TrendAI Vision One has core features, such as endpoint, email, identity, servers, cloud workloads, and networks. When we talk about endpoint security, it includes anti-malware, anti-ransomware, behavioral analysis, exploit protections, device control, application control, post firewall, and EDR capabilities for the threat investigation and response. These are the TrendAI Vision One features.

Regarding TrendAI CReM capabilities, the threat hunting includes searching across telemetry data, IOC sweeping, root cause analysis, and advanced investigation tools. When we talk about the CReM features, they provide visibility into endpoints, server, cloud workloads, and identities. They help to identify unknown or exposed assets in the environment, then asset discovery, vulnerability management, and attack surface management.

My impressions of TrendAI Vision One include risk prioritization analysis, security posture, and assessment. Right now, I am working with Sophos in Sophos XDR.

I just appreciate the Sophos server protection and its lockdown features. When I whitelisted some applications, other executable files or any files do not run in the environment. I compare Sophos EDR with Sophos XDR, Endpoint Detection and Response, and Extended Detection and Response. When we're going with Sophos XDR, they have email, identity, firewall, cloud, and any third-party integrations.

I am focusing on the Sophos product, but as per the client requirement, I recommend Sophos because the clients are using a parameter gateway with a Sophos firewall. I pitch Sophos because they enable Heartbeat security, so the firewall and endpoint communicate effectively. It's a good bundle when combining Sophos firewall with Sophos endpoint.

Some users using Sophos require on-premises solutions and do not move to the cloud. So many reasons exist for this, which is why we pitch server solutions. Trend Micro server protection is a really good product, but my query always relates to support; I cannot get immediate support from Trend Micro.

For TrendAI Vision One, I have many corporate users who are using it for their servers' security, as well as the IDS, IPS device and TippingPoint, SMS gateway, and so on.

TrendAI Vision One has core features, such as endpoint, email, identity, servers, cloud workloads, and networks. When we talk about endpoint security, it includes anti-malware, anti-ransomware, behavioral analysis, exploit protections, device control, application control, post firewall, and EDR capabilities for the threat investigation and response. These are the TrendAI Vision One features.

Regarding TrendAI CReM capabilities, the threat hunting includes searching across telemetry data, IOC sweeping, root cause analysis, and advanced investigation tools. When we talk about the CReM features, they provide visibility into endpoints, server, cloud workloads, and identities. They help to identify unknown or exposed assets in the environment, then asset discovery, vulnerability management, and attack surface management.

I appreciate the Sophos server protection and its lockdown features. When I whitelisted some applications, other executable files or any files do not run in the environment. I compare Sophos EDR with Sophos XDR, Endpoint Detection and Response, and Extended Detection and Response. When we're going with Sophos XDR, they have email, identity, firewall, cloud, and any third-party integrations.

I am focusing on the Sophos product, but as per the client requirement, I recommend Sophos because the clients are using a parameter gateway with a Sophos firewall. I pitch Sophos because they enable Heartbeat security, so the firewall and endpoint communicate effectively. It's a good bundle when combining Sophos firewall with Sophos endpoint.

From my perspective, the only disadvantage in TrendAI Vision One is the support size.

The support takes too much time. When I email, I have to collect logs and submit them to the engineer, then wait for their reply. It takes too much time. The product is really good, but the support is not good in my perspective since it takes too long to receive help, especially when all the devices are in production.

The price is high when compared to the features. After installing the product, support is always required. Whenever we deploy any product, we need support, especially if an issue arises, support is a must.

We face lots of challenges, but the product itself is good. The main issues arise from support.

Some users using Sophos require on-premises solutions and do not move to the cloud. So many reasons exist for this, which is why we pitch server solutions. Trend Micro server protection is a really good product, but my query always relates to support; I cannot get immediate support from Trend Micro.

Trend Micro is a really good product, but I face challenges when not getting proper support; hence I feel helpless at times. The product itself is really good; I have no doubts about that.

We have been doing this product for the last 10 years. Ten plus years we have been doing this product—Sophos entire solution and Trend Micro entire solution.

The support takes too much time. When I email, I have to collect logs and submit them to the engineer, then wait for their reply. It takes too much time. The product is really good, but the support is not good in my perspective since it takes too long to receive help, especially when all the devices are in production.

From my perspective, the only disadvantage in TrendAI Vision One is the support size. Sophos support is really good, but when I require immediate support from Trend Micro, it is a challenge.

TrendAI Vision One is easy; deployment is not a problem.

We are dealing with Trend Micro for EDR and XDR.

My impressions of TrendAI Vision One include risk prioritization analysis, security posture, and assessment. Right now, I am working with Sophos in Sophos XDR.

When we talk about the CReM features, they provide visibility into endpoints.

I would rate Trend Micro support a six to seven, possibly seven to eight.

The interface and everything are good; my only query is on the support, which is not good from my perspective.

Some limited corporate users and some government users choose Trend Micro instead of Sophos.

Trend Micro is a really good product, but I face challenges when not getting proper support; hence I feel helpless at times. The product itself is really good; I have no doubts about that.

I would rate this review an eight overall.

Vision One access supports multiple modules, including endpoint protection, the XDR module, and the Cloud One module, which are the ones that particularly caught our interest.

We have been doing a proof of concept for Trend Vision One to assess its capabilities as a cybersecurity solution. Vodafone is partnering with Trend Micro to offer security services and products to our customers to secure their environments, similar to a SaaS solution. We are exploring it as a partnership opportunity to provide enhanced security solutions to our customers.

We conducted a POC and tested multiple use cases by downloading malicious files and observing their behavior. Trend Vision One successfully detected and blocked all threats, including malicious files, scripts, and even dormant scripts that later became active. All these threats were stopped at the endpoint level, demonstrating that Trend Vision One effectively defends against malware, ransomware, and malicious scripts.

Trend Vision One incorporates a machine learning agent designed to defend against advanced threats, such as zero-day attacks. This agent monitors endpoints for malicious activity and, if detected, automatically quarantines the affected machine to conduct further analysis.

It employs machine learning to quarantine devices during ransomware attacks, however, this functionality has not yet been tested.

Trend Vision One provides a single console with a unified dashboard that consolidates information from our entire environment.

The single console provides end-to-end visibility into our IT security environment. We tested the endpoint security, and the SDR performed exceptionally well, providing a clear topology and metrics of our environment. This allows us to monitor the status of each node within our network.

The Trend Vision One platform was integrated with a Linux-based Service Engine to facilitate integration with third-party IT security solutions.

Learning to use Trend Vision One was straightforward, thanks to the helpful courses available on their portal and the excellent support provided during product introduction.

Administering Vision One endpoint security is easy through the single console.

We successfully tested Trend Vision One in a hybrid environment, with components deployed both on-premises and in the cloud.

Trend Vision One offers virtual patching to protect against vulnerabilities while vendors develop permanent patches. This is crucial because vendor patches can be delayed, leaving systems exposed. Virtual patching provides immediate protection, acting as a temporary shield until the official fix is released.

Since we are still in the testing phase, we have not yet seen a reduction in viruses or malware. However, we anticipate potential improvements in security operations across hybrid environments if implemented fully.

Trend Vision One's greatest assets are its cloud-based platform and credit-based purchasing system, which eliminate the need for traditional licensing and procurement processes, enabling quick product acquisition within one or two days. Trend Micro's strong reputation and excellent threat intelligence further enhance the platform's value. The analytics are also good, particularly the XDR and cloud assessment tools, which correlate logs and information to consolidate alerts for the SOC team.

One area that requires improvement is the installation process of the agents, as it is not seamless. The installation sometimes requires multiple troubleshooting steps and is not straightforward.

We have been conducting the POC of Trend Vision One for approximately three to four months.

There were no major issues with stability, no bugs, glitches, or errors, except for the challenges faced with agent installation. I rate the stability of Trend Vision One eight out of ten.

I rate the scalability of Trend Vision One ten out of ten.

We did not engage with customer support during the POC phase, so we cannot provide feedback on that aspect at this time.

Positive

For endpoint protection, we have used Microsoft Defender and Cortex XDR. We encountered issues with those solutions, but Trend Vision One seemed to address these concerns effectively.

The initial setup was not complex. The prerequisites were set first, allowing integration to be completed in about a week.

The pricing is mid-range, neither cheap nor overly expensive. The cost is considered fairly priced.

I would rate Trend Vision One nine out of ten.

Our team from our organization includes three members involved in the POC testing.

I recommend Trend Vision One to other users based on our experience during the POC phase.

We use it for analytics. We check all the maps and communications when there is an incident or an issue. It is very helpful for analytics.

Trend Vision gives a lot of visibility. If you have a big environment, you can use it to see logs or events. It gives more visibility into what is going on in your infrastructure.

Last year, we experienced an attack attempt, and it gave us a lot of visibility. We were able to track the source and all the processes that were involved during the attack. For security, it is very good.

Trend Vision One has helped reduce our time to detect and respond to threats by 30% to 40%.

I find the maps particularly helpful. The object list, specifically the suspicious object list, is also quite valuable. You can simply add one object to that list to manage it from another solution.

It gives comprehensive visibility. It is very good. It gives a lot of visibility into all layers such as layer three or layer seven. It helps with monitoring the endpoints, including all the desktops and processes or communication between servers.

I believe that the interface could be more user-friendly. At times, it is challenging to locate certain features, and they need to reorganize the user interfaces.

I have been using the solution for one year.

I would rate their customer support a five out of ten. They sometimes do not give enough attention to the tickets. Even when I update a ticket or a case, they ask the same questions that I have already answered. I explain my problem, and they respond as if not paying enough attention.

Neutral

Previously, we used another solution. We observed that Trend is trying to move all the solutions to Vision One. That is why we decided to transition, and it is working very well. 

It gives more visibility. The other solution was focused only on the server or endpoint protection. It did not provide any tracks, just the basics. With Vision One, we can see all the information correlated in one place, which I find very helpful.

The initial setup is very easy. It is not very complicated. Sometimes, the documentation is not updated, but the processes are very intuitive, so it is not that hard.

In terms of the implementation strategy, we first focus on non-critical servers or appliances, and then we move on to critical ones.

It is being used in an enterprise environment at a data center.

The implementation may require two people, depending on the infrastructure and scale. You might need an engineer or an administrator.

For maintenance, there are two people. One person scans and reviews all the information and the other one is from the backup. It requires minimal maintenance.

Overall, the visibility and security that it provides are our returns on the investments.

I feel that Vision One is a bit expensive. As for the pricing or licensing, I would rate it a seven out of ten.

I would rate Vision One an eight out of ten.

We use Vision One XDR to provide managed security services to our clients by correlating logs from various Trend Micro products like Apex One, Cloud One, and Deep Security. Vision One acts as a central monitoring platform, providing a single pane of glass view of our clients' security posture. This simplifies monitoring and allows us to easily create playbooks and analyze alerts. While our EDR solutions, Apex One, Cloud One, and Deep Security provide robust security features like anti-malware, web reputation, and intrusion prevention, Vision One enhances this by correlating logs and leveraging threat intelligence to identify incidents missed by these individual products. Essentially, Vision One functions like a level three SOC analyst, providing an additional layer of protection and ensuring comprehensive security coverage.

Trend Vision One's centralized visibility and management are crucial for our managed security services because they reduce the overhead required for monitoring. As an XDR solution, it performs many of the tasks an analyst would typically handle, streamlining our workflow and allowing us to focus on in-depth analysis when needed. This reduction in workload is a significant benefit, enabling us to efficiently provide comprehensive security services to our clients.

The executive dashboard is a valuable tool for analyzing the threat level of specific assets, particularly for generating end-of-month reports that detail threat and alert volumes, and highlight high-security risks. This comprehensive analysis helps customers understand their security posture and take appropriate action to strengthen their defenses. However, it's important to note that the dashboard's usefulness may vary depending on the individual customer's needs and priorities.

The risk index is a useful tool that provides benefits, but its value depends on the specific needs of the customer. Some customers may utilize the risk index to identify assets with high-security risks, allowing them to address vulnerabilities and implement necessary patching. However, other customers may rely on alternative sources for vulnerability visibility and, therefore, may not prioritize the risk index. While not always a primary focus, the risk index remains a valuable resource.

Trend Vision One provides immediate benefits upon deployment. Its built-in XDR, which includes EDR functionality and integrates with existing security models like Apex One, Cloud One, or Workload Security, allows for seamless provisioning of endpoints and workloads. Rigorous testing confirms that Vision One effectively identifies and correlates alerts, including those missed by other EDR solutions. This enhanced detection capability is evident during post-deployment testing, as Vision One Workbench alerts are generated immediately.

We use Trend Vision One to consolidate security across hybrid environments.

We use attack surface risk management and often customize it in our reports to meet client needs. This service helps identify vulnerabilities and blind spots in their environments. For instance, we assisted a customer experiencing recurring attacks due to unknown vulnerabilities. Our attack surface management analysis provided the data to identify and patch these critical vulnerabilities, ultimately enhancing their security posture.

Vision One XDR significantly reduces threat detection and response time by automating the analysis typically done by a level two or three analyst. It provides a comprehensive view of the environment, incorporating behavioral analysis and intelligence sources to quickly identify unusual activity. This eliminates the need for manual investigation of logs and data, allowing analysts to focus on addressing actual threats. The XDR's automated workbench triggers alerts with a high degree of accuracy, minimizing false positives and further streamlining the security process.

We use security playbooks for certain low-level security alerts because many of these alerts, despite the large volume of data they represent, do not require significant time or attention. Playbooks are particularly useful in these situations as they automate the process of blocking the source or IP address associated with the alert.

Vision One offers several features I value. 

The threat intelligence sources enable it to automatically block domains known for command-and-control callbacks, effectively preventing attacks from those sources. 

Additionally, the security playbooks provide templates to block URLs or scripts, enhancing endpoint protection. 

Finally, the console allows for remote connection to endpoints, enabling direct investigation and remediation within the customer's environment. This flexibility and comprehensive functionality make Vision One a valuable tool.

Trend Micro is making many improvements, including addressing some of our feature requests. However, their reporting functionality needs improvement. The reports lack detail and customization options, particularly for XDR, which hinders our ability to provide tailored reports to clients. For example, we cannot generate reports on threat intelligence data from XDR, making it difficult to assess the protection received from external sources. This limitation also prevents clients from seeing the total value of XDR, including external factors contributing to their security posture. Threat intelligence is crucial, and clients want to understand its impact. Therefore, enhancing report customization, especially for XDR, would be a significant improvement.

I have been using Trend Vision One XDR for one and a half years.

Lagging does happen in Trend Vision One but it is infrequent and does not significantly disrupt operations. This is typical for many SaaS platforms and not a major issue.

Trend Vision One is scalable, allowing for flexibility from four licenses to a hundred or more, depending on how much or how fast scaling is needed.

The experience with customer service can vary depending on the case. Simple issues might involve referring to KB articles for resolution, while more complex issues might need backend support, which can take time. Overall, my experience has been positive.

Neutral

Trend Vision One is easy to set up and can potentially be handled by one person. However, teamwork is preferred to ensure accuracy, catch potential errors, and maintain a high standard of service.

Trend Micro's licensing is outsourced to third-party vendors, resulting in price variations depending on the vendor. Since Trend Micro doesn't directly handle pricing, I cannot provide specific cost details.

Trend Vision One XDR is an excellent security product that deserves a ten out of ten rating. It's surprising that more companies haven't adopted XDR, given its advantages over traditional SIEM solutions. XDR automates tasks like configuration, signature creation, and rule implementation, significantly reducing the manual workload required with SIEM. While I expect a shift towards XDR, many companies still rely on SIEM, which seems inefficient in comparison.

Vision One is the primary endpoint security product we use to protect our Macs and PCs. We also use the server product version, so it runs on my servers as well. We exclusively purchase Trend Micro's endpoint products. They have network and firewall products. We were using their email product until last month, and I ended up selecting a different provider. We stayed with them for the endpoint, but I moved off of them for the email product.

Vision One was a big deal to us immediately because we did not have context-aware before. We saw everything we had no idea was happening. It was a big deal three years ago. 

It certainly reduces time to detect because a lot of the time, I didn't have it before. I didn't have that information until it gave it to me. The speed of response helps me know much more about what's happening quicker. They have some improvement to do in terms of automated remediation. It probably makes investigations 30 percent faster because of what it puts together. 

When we purchased Vision One, what set it apart was that it wasn't a traditional signature-based antivirus. It's a process-aware solution that provides real-time protection. That was a big differentiator three years ago, but now it's a given that every AV provider should be doing that. It combines signature-based telemetry with behavioral awareness and a detection-based solution, making it a good solution for us.

When we bought it three years ago, it was separate. Apex One handled cloud and web app security, and Vision One handled cloud and server workload protection. Now, they call it Vision One. The server stuff is still separate, but it is the same now. When we purchased it, they told us we'd have a single console, but that took about two and a half years. Finally, there is a single pane of glass. 

One of the things that made me the craziest was that we had too many tools or one tool that I had to log into five different ways. One of the frustrations is you have both legacy and newer detection methods. Not being able to fully investigate it in a single portal was a huge pain.

They need to stop changing Vision One once a week. They're in a hurry to change things so badly and so fast that I can't find where stuff is half the time, which is a challenge sometimes.

I've given one piece of feedback to their product guys. One thing that they're trying to make is a SIEM. It's a product where you input all the logs from your tools, and it creates additional insights into how things look. They've been kind of playing the "me too" game on that, even though that's not what I bought the product for.

They have a new gateway where I can take my firewall of email logs and send it over there. In theory, it's supposed to do a more comprehensive evaluation of all my stuff to improve that risk index score. I'm not impressed with it, and I've told them as much. I feel if you're good at something, you should keep working on that and not try to be all the things to all the people. 

I bought a different email solution even though it would have been 10 times easier to just stay with their email solution because they aren't great at it. They are great at other things, but they're playing the "me too" game with some of their products. Their competitors do this, so they should be doing this, too. They need to pick a product and keep being good at that. If they're going to roll new things out, they should do it but do it right. 

They have a button to isolate an endpoint because it looks bad, but it doesn't usually work. I've had no chance to argue with the product guys to show them examples of how their button doesn't work. You think it does, but it doesn't work in a real environment. That can be a challenge sometimes.

I can see in the data showing what is a false positive. But it doesn't save me time helping them figure out how to fix the problem in their engine. It can help me identify it as a false positive, but it doesn't apply that consistently. It will ignore the false positive for that device, but if they start detecting a false positive on Apple devices, I have eight thousand Apple devices and get 8,000 alerts. I can tell that specific false positive, but it doesn't learn from that particularly well.

We use the executive dashboards, but I don't find them particularly useful. One is the ability to customize. That has gotten a little better, and it'll be better in the future. Most of what they have on there are data points that are generic and not particularly actionable. That's why it's called an executive dashboard. Executives want to see if we are secure, but it's hard for me to find out why our attack surface risk went down by x percentage. I don't know. It says that on the dashboard, but it doesn't give me specific details about why.

I find it confuses my executives, and it's not useful for me because it doesn't give me things to work on. It will give me generic things on the executive dashboard like you have a thousand accounts with an old password. Those are big generic things, but I also can't tell it that our password policy is different from what your automatic detection model means, and I don't have a problem with that, so quit lowering my risk score. 

The risk score is useless. In theory, it's based on the random intelligence they're getting from their various customers. I'm in K-12 education, so they have a decent amount of K-12 customers, but it's a subset, and the baseline of what's common in K-12 education is not the same. There's not enough data to make that particularly clean or useful. Vision One is not custom, and that's part of my beef. That index score is based on whatever random report they're looking at from their data sources at any given moment in time. It's nice, but I'd rather have one that's based on your particular circumstances. Instead, it's saying that the number one attack threat surface for school districts is email phishing. It's too generic.

I have used Trend Vision One for three and a half years.

Vision One has been less impactful toward my endpoints when scanning than the previous solution. 

Vision One's resource usage is starting to creep up compared to three years ago. They used to focus on making their agent lightweight. I don't necessarily think all of this is their fault, but their agents are starting to suck more resources than they used to. Part of it is that the threat landscape has changed, and you need to look at it in additional ways, and it is a strain on the servers. They've gotten really bad about that on the servers.

I rate Trend Micro support three out of 10. Their technical support is challenging. The support's good once you get to the second layer, but they don't read what you write. They auto-respond by telling us to give them the logs. 

Every time, I need to send them a written statement with my product license ID and that I'm the contact authorized to do a support ticket. About 75 percent of the time when I open a support ticket, I immediately email my customer service satisfaction manager person with the ticket number so they can help move it along.

Negative

I was using Sophos three years ago. I've looked at many of the feature sets out there, and they might be 80 percent of what Vision One has, and some might be better, but Vision One is price-competitive.

Deploying Vision One was a pain because of the automated removal tool. In the antivirus world, they try to make it difficult to uninstall people's defenses because that's what an attacker would do. However, all the competitors are making tools to uninstall their competitors' tools when they win business. That's directly counterintuitive to the whole point of the antivirus. 

We went through a process of trying to do this in an automated fashion to replace the old product, and Trend didn't quite do it right. Trend had a real struggle toget their own tool to fix it. 

We use it as a SaaS, so we have a gateway integrator on the server on-site, but the product sits on all my endpoints. In that aspect, it's on-prem, but all the processing, reporting, and everything else happens in the cloud. We had it 75 percent deployed in 45 days. That last 25 percent took us another four months.

I work at an underfunded public school district. I need a whole team, but there is only me. I used to have a security analyst until that position moved around, and
my ability to use the product has been drastically reduced. I miss much of the value of what I'm paying for because I don't have enough staff to use it. I wouldn't need more than one if that was their whole job. 

It's not a totally elegant solution that always feeds and cares for itself. We have to check if it's doing its updates properly. It doesn't tell us, for example, that 2,000 devices haven't been updated or checked in. I have to go proactively looking at it.

Vision One's pricing is extremely competitive. They're probably the lowest-cost provider that has this feature set. 

I rate Vision One seven out of 10. Make sure you learn the 90 percent of stuff in there that you didn't know you bought and preestablish an escalation contact for support tickets.