We performed a comparison between Trend Micro Apex One and Cynet based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Trend Micro Apex One stands out for its centralized reporting, efficient policy implementation, and a diverse array of features including DLP, encryption, and patch management. Cynet offers strong ransomware protection and an intuitive interface. Trend Micro Apex One users say the platform should improve its compatibility with different operating systems and address performance issues. Users also say the reporting, forensic analysis, and ransomware features could use some work. Cynet needs to expand device support and add customization options. Users suggest improving network monitoring and strengthening integration with other tools.
Service and Support: Trend Micro support generally earned positive reviews, but some said that support could be more proactive and respond faster. Cynet's customer service is consistently lauded for its excellence. They have a dedicated support team that is available round the clock, and they also have a contingency plan for urgent incidents.
Ease of Deployment: Most users thought Trend Micro Apex One was easy to set up, but a few said that it’s more complex than competing solutions. Cynet’s setup is highly efficient, with the ability to configure thousands of devices quickly.
Pricing: Some considered the price of Trend Micro Apex One to be fair, while others found it expensive. Customers generally think Cynet is affordable and a good value for its features.
ROI: Trend Micro Apex One provides extra cost-effective advantages and safeguards vital information. Cynet yields an excellent ROI by preventing cyberattacks and safeguarding sensitive data.
Comparison Results: Our users prefer Trend Micro Apex One over Cynet. Users praised Apex One's advanced features like centralized reporting and cloud-based solutions for remote work, while they said Cynet's integration and network monitoring capabilities have room for improvement.
"It is a scalable solution...The initial setup of Fortinet FortiEDR was straightforward."
"The setup is pretty simple."
"This is stable and scalable."
"Fortinet has helped free up around 20 percent of our staff's time to help us out."
"Ability to get forensics details and also memory exfiltration."
"The most valuable feature is the analysis, because of the beta structure."
"Additionally, when it comes to EDR, there are more tools available to assist with client work."
"Fortinet FortiEDR's firewalling, rule creation, monitoring, and inspection profiles are great."
"We are very satisfied with the level of performance we get."
"Cynet's most valuable features are laptop and server performance, internal network monitoring, and external firewall lock management."
"It provides good protection from ransomware and malware attacks. It is very good as compared to other products. If any threat is there, their support is very good. They immediately respond to the users and do a follow-up. They call us and also provide email support."
"I like that you can implement it in the managed service portfolio."
"It is quite stable. I would rate the stability of the solution a nine out of ten."
"The initial setup is simple and user-friendly."
"We are protecting all our workstations."
"The visibility it gives is excellent."
"The ease of deployment is one of its most valuable features."
"This solution protects us from virus attacks before they affect the organization."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the endpoint security with the zero-day vulnerability. They have an on-premise sandboxing solution which prevents any of those zero-day vulnerability issues."
"The most valuable features are reporting and where we have the ability to report back and provide information when an item is quarantined or not quarantined."
"This is a very stable product and we plan to continue using it."
"The main benefit is the threat intelligence network of Trend Micro."
"It provides comprehensive visibility into all client logs and seamlessly integrates with other products, such as CM."
"Trend Micro Apex One has good features and is lightweight."
"To improve Fortinet, we need to see more features and technology areas at the endpoint level introduced."
"Once, we had an event that was locked and blocked, but information about it came to us two or three days later."
"The dashboard isn't easy to access and manage."
"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."
"There's room for improvement in the quick response time and technical support for integration issues, especially when dealing with multiple vendors."
"The solution's installation from a central installation server could be improved because the engineers had a little bit of trouble getting it installed from a central location."
"The amount of usage, the number of details we get, or the number of options that can be tweaked is limited in comparison to that with other EDR solutions"
"We've had a lot of false positives; things incorrectly flagged that require manual configuration to allow. Even worse, after we allow a legitimate program, it sometimes gets flagged again after an update. This has caused a lot of extra work for my team."
"A support center in Asia is needed."
"There could be more customization options and detailed information provided in the reports."
"The command line interface could be improved."
"Automation could be improved, and orchestration could be added to the features."
"I would like to see more emphasis on building the data lake and storing all endpoint data in the enterprise data lake so that data mining can be performed"
"Increased application for SOAR abilities across interconnected devices would be a welcome improvement."
"It is an endpoint agent, but they don't have a probe for checking the network traffic. They could improve from this point of view."
"There are some shortcomings in Cynet's integration capabilities that need improvement."
"The reporting can be improved. We'd like to have had broader insights as to what was happening on a machine."
"The role-based access control needs improvement."
"The solution could be improved by providing better training to the vendors."
"This software could affect the performance of your device negatively, particularly causing slow performance after installation."
"Apex One uses a lot of RAM and other physical resources, and I also don't like the web interface."
"Could channel video more efficiently."
"We are completely satisfied with the functionality of the product, but the reporting should be more granular."
"We have received many complaints about how slow the system is on the first day of implementation."
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Cynet is ranked 16th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 35 reviews while Trend Vision One Endpoint Security is ranked 6th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 125 reviews. Cynet is rated 8.8, while Trend Vision One Endpoint Security is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cynet writes "Provides memory protection, device control, and vulnerability management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Trend Vision One Endpoint Security writes "We can get consolidated logs of suspicious objects and malware attacks in a single console". Cynet is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, ESET Endpoint Protection Platform, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Check Point Harmony Endpoint, whereas Trend Vision One Endpoint Security is most compared with Trend Micro Deep Security, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Trend Vision One and Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks. See our Cynet vs. Trend Vision One Endpoint Security report.
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