We performed a comparison between Check Point Harmony Endpoint and ESET Endpoint Security based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Check Point Harmony Endpoint provides a sophisticated defense against ransomware and phishing attacks. The solution is praised for its forensic analysis and VPN connectivity. ESET Endpoint Security is highly regarded for its encryption capabilities, effortless automatic updates, and intuitive interface. Users say Check Point could improve its endpoint vulnerability management and threat-hunting features. ESET Endpoint Security has room for improvement in terms of faster threat alerts, automation, and ransomware protection.
Service and Support: While several users lauded Check Point support for its problem-solving skills, others said there is room for improvement. ESET's customer service is praised for its helpfulness and quick response.
Ease of Deployment: Setting up Check Point Harmony Endpoint is uncomplicated, and one admin is usually enough for the job. It may take time to configure the solution due to the wide range of available blades. The setup process for ESET Endpoint Security is generally regarded as effortless.
Pricing: Users generally find the price of Check Point Harmony Endpoint to be reasonable and competitive. They perceive it as more cost-effective than other solutions, though some said it could be lower. ESET Endpoint Security is considered to be reasonably priced with various licensing options.
ROI: Check Point Harmony Endpoint provides a comprehensive and economical solution, and customers say the product has helped them grow. Some reported a high ROI from ESET Endpoint Security due to cost savings, while others find it difficult to measure its effectiveness.
"The stability is very good."
"Fortinet FortiEDR's scalability is quite good, and you can add licenses to the solution."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"It is a scalable solution...The initial setup of Fortinet FortiEDR was straightforward."
"The setup is pretty simple."
"Fortinet is very user-friendly for customers."
"The product detects and blocks threats and is more proactive than firewalls."
"Fortinet FortiEDR made our clients feel secure and more at ease, knowing that they had an EDR solution that would close the gap in their security posture."
"We're able to secure all endpoints and manage them from a single console."
"The end-user facilities for managing the tool are good."
"The license plans are also very nice and distributed - allowing for a separation between types of users with more basic or more advanced options."
"It monitors data flow across the networking system to enhance comprehensive workflow infrastructure."
"The most important characteristic of our requirements was the implementation of disk encryption."
"It offers complete endpoint protection for all assets."
"Harmony Endpoint is able to detect, monitor, block, and mitigate attacks on the endpoint and it builds and maintains relevant logs for later inspection."
"Its ease of use is the most valuable feature. We had existing endpoints and it was an easy upgrade process. The interface board is also easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of ESET Endpoint Security is that it is light on resources. It has a very low impact on the system. It uses low memory and the setup size is very low."
"In terms of the current global landscape, it is a great solution."
"The administration is its most valuable feature as I can see all versions in one place."
"This solution has a traditional antivirus, I believe that signature-based detection is most valuable."
"The pricing, if compared to other products, is cheap."
"It rarely gets in the way, and we don't even notice it scanning."
"It's a very user-friendly product."
"The tool protects everything."
"The solution is not stable."
"Once, we had an event that was locked and blocked, but information about it came to us two or three days later."
"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 solution should address emerging threats like SQL injection."
"We find the solution to be a bit expensive."
"The support needs improvement."
"I think cloud security and SASE are areas of concern in the product where improvements are required. The tool's cloud version has to be improved in terms of the security it offers."
"ZTNA can improve latency."
"The solution could improve VPN functionality and the VPN user-interface."
"Improvements are required in two key areas: notifications and setup simplification."
"It gives you an alert for malicious sites, which, after searching on the Google database, don't come out to be the same."
"Support's service and the response times can be improved. The triaging of the tickets takes a long time and the tickets are only resolved with escalations."
"The solution needs more alerts to warn of attacks."
"I would like to see is this same solution being able to link with the services of different corporate networks as if they were a remote access VPN extension and thus not require additional licenses."
"SandBlast Agent had moments in which it had a high load, we escalated it to the CheckPoint support that helped us to stabilize it. We had a problem with the parameterization of the solution. Once corrected by following the CheckPoint instructions, everything worked normally again."
"Tech Support must be better."
"It can be hard to set up if you need to customize it."
"They could improve the solution by adding better ransomware features."
"They should focus more on the offline market as well. Everybody is connected nowadays, and they want to do everything via cloud or fast internet connections, however, that's still not possible in many situations."
"The solution should offer more security surrounding blacklisted websites."
"Its initial setup process could be more straightforward."
"The detection could be better in ESET Endpoint Security. Sometimes it takes time to detect threats and might be because it's not holding all the memory. There are some features that have to mature. More features might be available in the higher-end product."
"In the future, a cloud version of the solution would be great."
"A few times, we have had problems with downloading an agent. We had to try multiple times and multiple uploads."
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Check Point Harmony Endpoint is ranked 8th in EPP (Endpoint Protection for Business) with 99 reviews while ESET Endpoint Protection Platform is ranked 9th in EPP (Endpoint Protection for Business) with 96 reviews. Check Point Harmony Endpoint is rated 8.8, while ESET Endpoint Protection Platform is rated 8.2. 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 ESET Endpoint Protection Platform writes "Easy to set up with good security and rapidly improving capabilities". Check Point Harmony Endpoint is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business and SentinelOne Singularity Complete, whereas ESET Endpoint Protection Platform is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, CrowdStrike Falcon and Fortinet FortiClient. See our Check Point Harmony Endpoint vs. ESET Endpoint Protection Platform report.
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