We performed a comparison between BigFix and Sophos EPP Suite based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."NGAV and EDR features are outstanding."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"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."
"he solution is an anti-malware product that integrates well with other vendor products such as firewalls, SIEM, etc. It captures threat intelligence and gives you better visibility. The product also has sandboxing features."
"Ability to get forensics details and also memory exfiltration."
"The price is low and quite competitive with others."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the ability to customize it and to reduce its size. It lets you run in a very small window in terms of memory and resources on legacy cash registers."
"Fortinet FortiEDR's firewalling, rule creation, monitoring, and inspection profiles are great."
"We found the implementation partner to be very supportive in terms of explaining and training the in-house resources and deploying the solution."
"The most valuable feature is patch management, a must have, even for Linux and iOS."
"This has very much improved our organization by saving time to deploy thousands of endpoints to our customers."
"It has improved my organization because we can automate a lot of tasks. We went from manually patching machines or doing our best and having very little visibility into it to us being able to set it and forget it and getting really good results on first-pass patching."
"It is pretty secure, and it gives extensive vulnerability features as compared to other applications. It supports multiple languages, and the security checks are pretty high as compared to other tools in the market."
"One of the biggest benefits BigFix has had for our organization is the ease and efficiency to perform many different tasks, across pillars and platforms, all from one pane of glass."
"What I like most is that it is a powerful solution."
"The use of fast query has been extremely valuable providing insight in real time of the endpoints."
"It is one of the good solutions that provides a single well-rounded protection for endpoints and internet security."
"The protection that this solution offers us is strong."
"The web control and the application control are two good features."
"The most valuable feature is endpoint detection and response."
"The product interacts well with other Sophos products we have."
"Sophos EPP Suite's best feature is that the endpoints and firewalls remain synced."
"Our experience with Sophos has been notable; it's database-driven and efficiently integrates to inspect and protect us against biases, malware, and attacks."
"With Sophos, the scanning of viruses and scanning of the disk is done silently in the background."
"It takes about two business days for initial support, which is too slow in urgent situations."
"The solution is not stable."
"I would like the solution to extend beyond endpoint protection and include other attack surfaces such as other network components."
"Intelligence aspects need improvement"
"The only minor concern is occasional interference with desired programs."
"Once, we had an event that was locked and blocked, but information about it came to us two or three days later."
"Detections could be improved."
"FortiEDR can be improved by providing more detailed reporting."
"I want to see a solution for being able to deploy automated software to a Mac running OS X 10.13, something that's going to deal with kernel exceptions and answering prompts for user permissions for data folders and whatnot. They need to really streamline and automate the Mac software deployment."
"There is no support for patch management on SLES on IBM pSeries (only the Intel platform is supported)."
"BigFix can improve the way machines report back to the console. In the external relay management environment, it has become more of a hybrid environment with most of the machines not being on-site. The need of having public-facing reporting items interconnected is becoming more and more crucial. In general, the reporting could use some enhancement."
"I would like to see a web UI SDK so we could take what is provided currently and be able to build our own customized web UI for particular customers that want to sell service."
"We need a much better multi-tenant option."
"One aspect that could be improved is the speed of the console. Sometimes it can be slow, which is something that needs to be addressed."
"I'd definitely like to see additional feature parody in the web UI versus the console. There are certain things that you can only do in the console and they're very cumbersome to do, like secure parameters, for example. That's definitely something that has a wide degree of utility but it needs to be easier to surface. At this particular juncture between the transition, between the legacy console and the web UI, it's hard to justify dealing with the cumbersome aspects of the legacy console when theoretically everything's been through the web UI."
"I would like to see more integration with external data."
"I would like to see more integration with different platforms."
"Sophos EPP Suite could improve by decreasing the number of resources it uses. There are other solutions that use one-fifth of the resources."
"More integration options could be included in Sophos EPP Suite."
"Sophos EPP Suite's support services need improvement."
"The product is not secured and doesn't offer a fast connection."
"In the next release, I would like to see the phishing attached included in the firewall."
"Lacks delegated administration privileges for large organizations, and differential permissions for admins."
"We use cloud services quite a bit. Therefore, I would like to see integration with other security tools besides endpoint so that I'm not managing different tools separately. I would prefer to have a single security solution for my laptop and for managing other security things like passwords."
BigFix is ranked 14th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 91 reviews while Sophos EPP Suite is ranked 27th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 55 reviews. BigFix is rated 8.6, while Sophos EPP Suite is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of BigFix writes "Very stable and easy to deploy with excellent patch compliance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos EPP Suite writes "The solution provides endpoint detection and response with a nice-looking dashboard". BigFix is most compared with Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Configuration Manager, Microsoft Windows Server Update Services, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Tanium, whereas Sophos EPP Suite is most compared with Seqrite Endpoint Security, Trend Micro Deep Security, Trellix Endpoint Security, Coro and WithSecure Elements Endpoint Protection. See our BigFix vs. Sophos EPP Suite report.
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