We performed a comparison between BigFix and Trend Micro Apex One based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is stable and scalable."
"This is stable and scalable."
"Additionally, when it comes to EDR, there are more tools available to assist with client work."
"The product detects and blocks threats and is more proactive than firewalls."
"Fortinet FortiEDR's firewalling, rule creation, monitoring, and inspection profiles are great."
"Forensics is a valuable feature of Fortinet FortiEDR."
"The setup is pretty simple."
"NGAV and EDR features are outstanding."
"It allows for visibility into the OT, the industrial environments, that didn't exist before which is a big piece and has benefited my organization. Second, the speed at which people can patch is night and day versus SCCM scan or another similar solution."
"BigFix has always been easier to use when managing servers, especially when you deal with so many servers. We have 7,000. That's a lot of services to manage, and it's convenient to patch them all at once."
"It has plugins development options, which are great."
"It is a one-stop tool that allows you to do everything. It supports reporting, vulnerability management, patch management, and configuration. All things can be done in one tool."
"BigFix helped us to identify the compliance of devices and has also improved the way that we manage our software inventory for reporting to vendors."
"BigFix is easy to use."
"Before we had BigFix, we had problems with some malware. BigFix allows us to immediately patch all instances of endpoints that were vulnerable to antivirus and initiate scans. That's key."
"It is for multiple use cases. A lot of people are looking at it just for security, and that's really endpoint security. The endpoint management part of it in terms of being able to constantly do patching for Windows, Unix, macOS, Cloud, Raspberry, VMware, and all Linux flavors is important, and they are very good at that. They have support for virtually every OS on the market."
"I use Trend Micro Apex One for work control, application control, firewall, whitelist and blocklist filtration, analysis, monitoring, deep security for the servers, major monitoring, and IPS modules."
"I'm using the cloud solution, which I really like. I like being able to update policies on the cloud so that when users who are working from home connect to the internet, their laptops will be updated automatically. I also like that this solution is easy to use and is stable and scalable"
"It has the ability to share, which is not available in other products."
"Stability-wise, it is a good product, and I rate it a ten out of ten."
"The ransomware protection and behavior monitoring features of Trend Micro Apex One are actually good."
"It provides comprehensive visibility into all client logs and seamlessly integrates with other products, such as CM."
"The most valuable aspect is achieving zero attacks and zero data compromise."
"I like Apex One's DLP capabilities. You can scan and control data leakage on the user system level. Our previous solution would look at things from the user desktop level, and you had to have an agent deployed to collect that. The solution offers different levels of protection that you can invest in."
"Cannot be used on mobile devices with a secure connection."
"I haven't seen the use of AI in the solution."
"To improve Fortinet, we need to see more features and technology areas at the endpoint level introduced."
"They can include the automation for the realtime updates. We have a network infrastructure with remote sites. Whenever they send updates, they are not automated. We have to go into the console and push those updates. I wish it was more automated. The update file is currently around 31 MB. It could be smaller."
"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."
"Once, we had an event that was locked and blocked, but information about it came to us two or three days later."
"Making the portal mobile friendly would be helpful when I am out of office."
"We find the solution to be a bit expensive."
"I would like to see more integration with external data."
"Sometimes there is a lag time for our users."
"The sub-capacity licensing was a challenge for some of it. We had trouble getting it to calculate right."
"The new EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response) feature, Detect, is new and still needs a few updates."
"I'd like to see better API integration with BigFix. We have some tremendous API capability inside of CyFIR and the ability to take textual search results, for example, and bring that back into the BigFix dashboard. This would be of extreme interest to us and our customers."
"I'm looking for them to make big web UI improvements."
"The self-service application seems to need some work to replace the client UI. There are a lot of pop-ups if you use a baseline as the object that you're setting to a workstation. Unless you're using web UI, the message is not customizable in the user notification."
"IBM has not focused on the Web Reports capabilities."
"The reporting can be improved. We'd like to have had broader insights as to what was happening on a machine."
"We are completely satisfied with the functionality of the product, but the reporting should be more granular."
"Trend Micro Apex One could improve by making the user interface more user-friendly."
"Whether the license is monthly or annual depends on the deal of the company."
"The cost could be improved."
"We cover many things, but there is something called ATP, advanced threat prevention. I think they need to invest in this technology."
"Sometimes HTTPS sites are not blocked properly."
"The alert, or warning function, needs to be improved."
BigFix is ranked 14th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 91 reviews while Trend Micro Apex One is ranked 6th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 124 reviews. BigFix is rated 8.6, while Trend Micro Apex One is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of BigFix writes "Very stable and easy to deploy with excellent patch compliance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Trend Micro Apex One writes "Good monitoring and server protection with helpful machine learning". BigFix is most compared with Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Configuration Manager, Microsoft Windows Server Update Services, Tanium and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, whereas Trend Micro Apex One is most compared with Trend Micro Deep Security, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks, Trend Micro Smart Protection and CrowdStrike Falcon. See our BigFix vs. Trend Micro Apex One report.
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