We performed a comparison between Darktrace and Fortinet FortiOS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Cisco, TitanHQ and others in Email Security."Some of the valuable features on the email side are anti-phishing, anti-malware, and Safe Links."
"It also gives me good visibility because, with Defender, I'm using a Microsoft product to defend Microsoft products. The integration was really seamless and I have wide visibility because it picks up almost everything. Literally, I can see almost every activity that happens, from the e-mail to the workstation itself."
"The product is not resource-intensive."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is a stable solution."
"The benefit that stands out to me is the ability for multiple individuals to collaborate simultaneously within the same document. Additionally, there is the option to save the document directly in the integrated OneDrive or SharePoint."
"I like its investigation capabilities, as that is what is most important to me. It is fairly simple with a user-friendly interface."
"The deployment capability is a great feature."
"The product's scalability is good."
"We allow customers to access our Wi-Fi as guests, and some of them were going to restricted sites. Darktrace showed us what they were doing so we could block them."
"The most valuable feature of Darktrace and the most valuable feature is the artificial intelligence module because that is the tool that determines automatically if there is any risk or not in the network."
"It is a stable solution without downtime."
"The Dynamic Threat Dashboard is very nice, as it lists all of your threats and rates them, and then you can choose whether to investigate further."
"Technical support is helpful and responsive."
"Darktrace's most valuable features are that it understands the network environment and is able to trace the traffic and alert on anomalies."
"The most valuable features of Darktrace are its full capabilities. You have visibility of everything."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that it does not require human intervention to eliminate a threat."
"We've been happy with the pricing."
"The initial setup is straightforward, and it is very customer friendly."
"Performance-wise, I think FortiOS is much better than its Juniper counterpart. Based on our actual experience and performance metrics, FortiOS-based products are much better than Juniper."
"The solution provides good firewall and antivirus protection."
"I have found the most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiOS is the low maintenance."
"What I like about this solution, is that it is the only solution that currently offers VPN for clients."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiOS are user-friendliness, ease of use, and threat prevention."
"I personally think the site-to-site VPN is the most useful feature. A lot of firewalls have that, but to me, that's one of the features that's essential."
"The visibility for the weaknesses in the system and unauthorized access can be improved."
"You should be able to deploy Defender for every subscription without the need to add servers."
"The GUI is sometimes slow to fetch the device report and could be improved."
"One area for improvement is support, in terms of being able to reach them and, especially, technical support for configuration."
"We are always looking for others tools to increase automation on tasks. There can be better integration with other solutions, such as PowerPoint and email."
"Too many false positives and lacks an accurate capability to detect malicious SharePoint sites."
"The pre-sales cost calculations could be more transparent."
"There is room for improvement with the UI."
"The module can improve so that every time it's more intelligent."
"The pricing model is a little too high and could be more flexible."
"It should be easier to access the Darktrace portal and its documentation. Only the customer can access their portal and support. It could be cheaper."
"The interface and dashboards could be improved for ease-of-use."
"The product doesn't have an endpoint agent that can react to triggers set on the device,"
"The solution could be easier to use."
"I would like to see a feature where the tool ingests information from an anti-malware product that is present at the endpoint."
"I would like for the product to work on the endpoints as well. I would like to see enhanced visibility into the endpoints and network but this solution only sits on the network itself."
"We had assistance from one person from our local vendor for the implementation."
"Real-time threat monitoring is not there."
"Fortinet FortiOS's integration could be improved."
"The reporting for this solution could be improved. It could also be more stable and offer better pricing."
"FortiOS could provide a more detailed analysis of the network and connected devices."
"It should also manage the local DSCP network."
"Their first-level support is often poorly trained."
"I can only compare it with SonicWall, and it is missing many advanced features that SonicWall has."
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Darktrace is ranked 11th in Email Security with 65 reviews while Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews. Darktrace is rated 8.2, while Fortinet FortiOS is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Darktrace writes "Great autonomous support, offers an easy setup, and has responsive support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiOS writes "Provides effective filtering features, good stability but initial setup is moderately challenging". Darktrace is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon, Vectra AI, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks and Cisco Secure Network Analytics, whereas Fortinet FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiWeb, Fortinet FortiGate-VM and Cisco Secure Firewall.
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