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.
"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."
"Ability to get forensics details and also memory exfiltration."
"Forensics is a valuable feature of Fortinet FortiEDR."
"It is stable and scalable."
"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."
"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."
"The product detects and blocks threats and is more proactive than firewalls."
"This is stable and scalable."
"It offers complete endpoint protection for all assets."
"The dashboard is user-friendly and easy to understand."
"The product improved the overall security of our organization with the features like sandboxing and phishing prevention."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the VPN."
"There's the possibility of being able to do the administration from the Check Point portal, maintaining control and visibility of the different security events at all times."
"The main advantage of the solution is the ability to implement complete security policies for the terminals in order to address how apps are installed on corporate devices."
"We're able to secure all endpoints and manage them from a single console."
"It has a great ability to detect threats and keep us safe."
"The maintenance is easy."
"Advanced level endpoint firewall, which helps to block unwanted and malicious traffic."
"We do not have a domain structure yet but we can manage our client stations via this solution's managing interface. This means that we don't need to have any extra management platforms."
"The solution has a very good endpoint feature."
"A feature we like is setting the GUI of ESET Endpoint Security/ESET File Security to silent mode because some servers and clients can have performance issues."
"It hasn't crashed a single time, so it is stable in that sense."
"We use ESET, which is pretty much perfect for us. It is also absolutely simple and automatic once setup."
"The solution is very lightweight and does not consume that much processor in terms of CPU utilization. The centralized management system is very good."
"Integration with Azure and SaaS provisioning tools could improve Fortinet FortiEDR."
"There's room for improvement in the quick response time and technical support for integration issues, especially when dealing with multiple vendors."
"The EDR console should have more extensive reporting. You shouldn't need to purchase FortiAnalyzer. It should be included in the EDR part. The security adviser cloud platform could be improved with more options for exclusive or intensive rules for devices."
"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."
"We find the solution to be a bit expensive."
"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."
"To improve Fortinet, we need to see more features and technology areas at the endpoint level introduced."
"The support needs improvement."
"Check Point needs to work in areas like branding and other value propositions to make products stand out in the market despite the solutions being more affordable than the ones offered by competitors."
"They could be focused on the analysis of USB devices."
"We know that Check Point has a very good database about threats even Check Point tries to make this EDR stable still there are some issues we were facing after upgrading or taking TAC to help its got resolved but Check Point really needs to work on metadata."
"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 should also add new functions such as threat hunting."
"I have a few issues when attempting to install Harmony on some of the machines."
"The web filter service could be improved."
"The application control and URL filtering features are not very strong."
"It would be nice to have more features in vulnerability scanning, which I believe will happen eventually."
"The solution could have a more user-friendly interface."
"The scalability could be better."
"There are no areas for improvement. It does everything the consumer needs."
"If I were in an environment that required a large-scale deployment then I would choose another solution over ESET."
"It's not a huge thing, because it doesn't happen very often, but I'll notice sometimes, when there's a startup scan, the computer does bog down a little bit. However, this happens rarely."
"ESET Endpoint Antivirus could improve the mobile device experience by having more coverage."
"It would be useful if they could automate the deployment more."
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Check Point Harmony Endpoint is ranked 8th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 101 reviews while ESET Endpoint Protection Platform is ranked 9th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) 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, CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne Singularity Complete and Fortinet FortiClient. See our Check Point Harmony Endpoint vs. ESET Endpoint Protection Platform report.
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