Oh, so those are the companies that bought their way into the leaders quadrant. Yes, some are legitimate but there’s a lot of schmoozing going on with Gartner’s lists. More on reddit.com

Crowdstrike is just an amazing tool to use, it made my life so much better. SentinelOne would the brother to CS that cost less and requires more attention More on reddit.com

Anything from Kaseya (who bought Datto) is going to be a nightmare for many reasons (security, cost, contract support, etc), and should be avoided for your sanity. Datto RMM was an excellent product... Regarding the technical side of the security products, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (that's the P2 license version) is excellent. In our extensive penetration testing and live use across tens of thousands of endpoints, Defender alone will catch around 85% of the threat incidents. The remaining 15% is why we also layer it with another EDR solution. Combined, you get full coverage of the endpoint. After much trial and error, we landed on Elastic EDR. Specifically the version developed by Todyl (who also has modules for SASE, SIEM, MXDR, SOAR and GRC). Defender monitoring is integrated into this platform, so we can manage and monitor everything security in one place. TLDR; Defender for Endpoint is excellent once tuned, and sufficient for most organizations. Layered with another EDR solution enhances the endpoint protection. Security is like ogres and ogres and like onions. They all need to have layers. More on reddit.com

Among techies, Gartner is the equivalent of credit ratings agencies. Just read/see The Big Short for an understanding of the analogy. Gartner data is basically waved by management to management as part of a perverse mating ritual More on reddit.com