We performed a comparison between Check Point Harmony Endpoint and Symantec Endpoint Detection and Response based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"Fortinet has helped free up around 20 percent of our staff's time to help us out."
"I like FortiClient EMS. FortiEDR has a lot of great features like lockdown mode, remote wipes, and encryption. I can set malware outbreak policies and controls for detecting abnormalities. You can also simulate phishing attacks."
"The solution was relatively easy to deploy."
"Fortinet is very user-friendly for customers."
"The product detects and blocks threats and is more proactive than firewalls."
"This is stable and scalable."
"Impressive detection capabilities"
"Check Point Harmony Endpoint features different types of features but one of the most useful is an up-to-date and working anti-malware scanner."
"Before we used this solution, our mail was blacklisted. Now we are white listed by all organizations, including Google. Also the security of our institution has really improved."
"Resource overheads have been reduced and we are overall more secure as a business."
"Forensic Analysis provides a complete analysis of threats via detailed reports."
"It offers complete endpoint protection for all assets."
"Its ability to rollback anti-ransomware once an attack has started is the most valuable feature."
"Harmony Endpoint is able to detect, monitor, block, and mitigate attacks on the endpoint and it builds and maintains relevant logs for later inspection."
"The best thing is that it fits into all environments, which gives any organization a chance to use it intuitively without worrying about the nature of their industry."
"The pricing is pretty reasonable."
"It is mostly used for malware detection and antivirus purposes."
"I like Symantec EDR's device control and USB security features."
"The most valuable feature is that the same agent can act as the endpoint detection and response agent."
"There are times when Symantec Endpoint Detection and Response tags an executable as malicious when it is trying to get executed on the machine. In this case, it prevents the execution and it gives you a process view of things where you can look into what has happened and whether it is a genuine process trying to access some system activities, or it's a malicious one. Depending upon the process, it gives you a clear identification, and we can do the containment from the interface itself and isolate the machine from the network. The process review on network isolation is good."
"Symantec Endpoint Detection and Response is stable."
"The most valuable features of Symantec Endpoint Detection and Response are its immediate response and investigation."
"The solution does its job with no issues."
"The solution is not stable."
"The security should be strong for the cloud. Some applications are on-prem and some are on the cloud. Fortinet should also have strong security for the cloud. There should be more security for the cloud."
"The solution should address emerging threats like SQL injection."
"Integration with Azure and SaaS provisioning tools could improve Fortinet FortiEDR."
"The solution is not user-friendly."
"Everything with Fortinet having to do with their cloud services. They need to invest more in their internal infrastructure that they are running in the cloud. One of the things I find with their cloud environment compared to others' is that they go cheap on the equipment. So it causes some performance degradation."
"The SIEM could be improved."
"Once, we had an event that was locked and blocked, but information about it came to us two or three days later."
"We would like to have the ability to stop and restart the service remotely, which is something that we can do easily with Symantec but have a hard time with when using Check Point."
"They could improve memory consumption."
"If the IT department is used to "cloning" endpoints (making images) you are going to have a hard time trying to install the product and you are going to end up reading a lot of Check Point documents."
"The response from the tool's support team, which starts with L1, is something my company doesn't find helpful, especially when compared to the other solutions that we use."
"The solution can be made lightweight in order to keep the systems more effective during the background operations of the scanning and security checks."
"The software requires considerable resources and can strain less powerful computers."
"Sometimes, with a lot of clients (1,000) the UI is a bit sluggish."
"There needs to be compatibility with the most recent versions of the various operating systems."
"The product doesn’t offer MDM functionality under its current licensing model."
"Reporting is a major issue, as it is not user friendly."
"It would be beneficial to have more integration and compatibility with other platforms."
"In the future, it would be nice to have playbooks in the tool, to allow for some of the common activities to be automated. For example, some of the scannings of the malware can be too manual for a specific device. Additionally, a vulnerability manager would be beneficial."
"A significant deterioration in customer support."
"It would be good if it can anticipate zero-day attacks. I don't know how it can be done and if it is even a feature of this product."
"They do need to minimize the number of agents installed on a server."
"While they are quite dynamic, they need to ensure they are detecting threats faster in the future to keep people safer."
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Check Point Harmony Endpoint is ranked 8th in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) with 105 reviews while Symantec Endpoint Detection and Response is ranked 24th in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) with 28 reviews. Check Point Harmony Endpoint is rated 8.8, while Symantec Endpoint Detection and Response is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Check Point Harmony Endpoint writes "Excellent anti-ransomware protection, zero-day phishing protection, and web browsing filtering". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Endpoint Detection and Response writes "A highly stable and affordable solution for detecting and preventing security threats". Check Point Harmony Endpoint is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business and Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks, whereas Symantec Endpoint Detection and Response is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Trend Vision One, Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response Expert, Bitdefender GravityZone EDR and CrowdStrike Falcon. See our Check Point Harmony Endpoint vs. Symantec Endpoint Detection and Response report.
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