We performed a comparison between Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks and FortiXDR based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Wazuh and others in Extended Detection and Response (XDR)."I like that it's stable. It's been stable for a long time, and Microsoft Defender has done a good job there."
"Defender XDR has a feature called the timeline that lets you track all activities. It helps a lot with investigations."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft 365 Defender are the combination of all the capabilities and centralized management."
"The integration, visibility, vulnerability management, and device identification are valuable."
"The solution is well integrated with applications. It is easy to maintain and administer."
"I like that it's fully integrated with Windows, Microsoft 365 Exchange Online, and Outlook. It is better than other antivirus solutions because it's fully integrated with all Microsoft products. It's easy to integrate them and onboard all Windows devices from SCCM."
"We are able to consolidate licences and make use of many Microsoft products using this solution. If we have any Microsoft customers, we encourage them to use this solution for enterprise defence."
"Among the most valuable features are the alert timeline, the alert story, which is pretty detailed. It gives us complete insight into what exactly happened on the endpoint. It doesn't just say, "Malware detected." It tells us what caused that malware to be detected and how it was detected. It gives us a complete timeline from beginning to end."
"If there are multiple alerts, the app will automatically create and rate an event instead of going through each one."
"It'll not slow down your system when compared to others."
"The solution is a new generation XDR that has a lot of artificial intelligence modules."
"The management capabilities, allow an IT organization to get quite a good picture of attempted cyber attacks."
"The ability to kind of stitch everything together and see the actual complete picture is very useful. I guess you'd call it a playbook. Some people call it the forensics analysis of what was happening on particular endpoints when they detected some malicious behavior, and what transpired before that to cause that. It is also very user friendly. The way they have done everything and integrated all the solutions that they've purchased over the years to make it a very seamless, effective product is very good. One thing about Palo Alto is that they take the products or services that they purchase and make them seamless for the end user as compared to some companies that purchase other companies and then just kind of have their products off to the side or keep different interfaces. Palo Alto doesn't do that."
"They have a new GUI which is just fantastic."
"The solution allows control over the user and his machine through Cortex XDR security policies."
"Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks should be a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature of FortiXDR is it integrates well with other Fortinet solutions, such as Fortinet firewall, FortiMail, FortiSandbox, Forti Fabric, switches, and access points. Whatever the flow of the traffic comes in or goes out, the entire traffic can be managed and monitored properly."
"I personally have not seen much evidence of how Defender can enhance the story of zero trust for enterprises."
"The user interface of Microsoft 365 Defender could improve. They could make it simpler."
"Because of the training model, Defender XDR's automatic response sometimes blocks legitimate users and activities. Also, the UI sometimes responds slowly."
"The web filtering solution needs to be improved because currently, it is very simple."
"Offboarding latency should be reduced. Even after a device has been successfully offboarded using a particular offboarding script, it still shows up as onboarded."
"I would like more of the features in Defender for 365 to be included in the smaller licenses. Even if I buy a small license and don't need everything, security shouldn't be a question. Security is one of the main aspects of all projects from our side, so it would be nice to have more features in the smaller licenses."
"Microsoft frequently changes the names of its products, sometimes even renaming entire portals or features."
"I'd like to see a wider solution that includes not only desktop devices but also other devices, such as servers, storage cabinets, switching equipment, et cetera."
"There's an overall lack of features."
"The licensing model is complex to understand. It requires expertise to explain how the licensing works. You need expertise to guide you through the subscription plan."
"The tool needs to be improved in terms of integration and interface."
"Dashboards do not allow everyone to see what's happening."
"The product's pricing could be better."
"We have found that there are times Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks does not detect some of the viruses, we have to use another protection solution called Kaspersky."
"The playbooks could be improved to include more functionalities or actions."
"The connection to the internet has not performed as expected."
"Many of the solutions, such as CrowdStrike have an MDR solution where remediation can be provided by the vendor. For example, if there is any zero data threat found, a new threat that the customer is not able to recognize, fix, or understand what needs to be done this feature has to be added in FortiXDR so that the customer feels comfortable."
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Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is ranked 4th in Extended Detection and Response (XDR) with 80 reviews while FortiXDR is ranked 30th in Extended Detection and Response (XDR) with 1 review. Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is rated 8.4, while FortiXDR is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks writes "Perfect correlation and XDR capabilities for network traffic plus endpoint security". On the other hand, the top reviewer of FortiXDR writes "Effective traffic monitoring, integrates well, but stability could improve". Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, Darktrace, Symantec Endpoint Security and Trellix Endpoint Security, whereas FortiXDR is most compared with Trend Vision One, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, CrowdStrike Falcon and Cisco SecureX.
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Hi Augusto,
The answer depends on what you are looking for and your current infrastructure. If you have Fortinet security infrastructure, it will "make sense" to go with them, if you have palo alto firewalls "then" Cortex XDR PRO.
However, As I am not completely familiar with FortiXDR, I am going to showcase why I will select Cortex XDR PRO:
0- Security: Cortex XDR PRO does really well compared to other endpoint products (NSS labs showed this, not sure what happened to them). Look info at MITRE.
1- More time and expertise on the XDR market: Cortex XDR was the first XDR platform out there to integrate, endpoint, network and cloud.
2- Integrations with other firewalls: Cortex XDR can integrate checkpoint, fortigate and cisco ASA logs.
3- Licensing model: You can start with EPP (Prevent), PRO for endpoint (EDR + other features), and PRO for network (integrate fw/cloud) using the same cloud platform.
I believe that the best way is to see both product by yourself. Let me know if you are interested to see Cortex XDR PRO, we can schedule a call. We have some clients in Brazil (assuming that based in your title).
Regards,
Edwardo