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We performed a comparison between Symantec Norton 360 [EOL] and ZoneAlarm based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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"It is stable and scalable.""The stability is very good.""The setup is pretty simple.""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.""The main thing is that I feel safe. Because the processes that have been used to get a handle on the attackers are much better than other competitors""The product detects and blocks threats and is more proactive than firewalls.""Ability to get forensics details and also memory exfiltration.""Fortinet has helped free up around 20 percent of our staff's time to help us out."

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"It provides confidence by ensuring software programs are virus free and file integrity through an online backup."

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"It gives us security for the users' mobiles and ends up protecting us in a significant way.""It is easy to use through interfaces and easy to configure each of the customizations we created based on the characteristics that we wanted.""The solution maintains reasonable scalability.""This antivirus is regularly updated, and the updates can be scheduled.""The solution really focused on giving more security than an antivirus.""ZoneAlarm protects all computers from viruses, spyware, and hackers.""It is quick and easy to configure.""Personally, I find the Game Mode of the Firewall very useful."

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Cons
"Integration with Azure and SaaS provisioning tools could improve Fortinet FortiEDR.""Cannot be used on mobile devices with a secure connection.""The support needs improvement.""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.""Making the portal mobile friendly would be helpful when I am out of office.""We'd like to see more one-to-one product presentations for the distribution channels.""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.""I would like the solution to extend beyond endpoint protection and include other attack surfaces such as other network components."

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"The free online storage capacity is limited."

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"ZoneAlarm should be a light application that does not take too much memory in mobile phones.""Some of our users say that the interface is a little bit outdated for 2020, and want it to be more modern and cozy.""I would like it to be integrated with the Check Point centralization solution like Infinity Portal. It would be great to be able to manage it through the same website.""The support is not always so effective.""Perhaps the primary area for potential enhancement is to make it faster, ensuring a more seamless experience while maintaining robust security features.""They should release a single update with all the necessary characteristics to avoid being in a cycle of consecutive updates.""We'd like better performance of the network equipment. There are high-speed environments where an immediate response is required.""Currently, the client is only available for the Windows Operating System but it would be good if it were released for Mac OS as well."

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  • "I know it is tough to get big budget additions up front, but I highly recommend deploying environment wide and adding the forensic service."
  • "There are no issues with the pricing."
  • "The price is comprable to other endpoint security solutions."
  • "The pricing is typical for enterprises and fairly priced."
  • "I'm not familiar with pricing, but it looks a bit costly compared to other vendors I think."
  • "The pricing is good."
  • "I would rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten."
  • "The hardware costs about €100,000 and about €20,000 annually for access."
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  • "We use the free version of the software, but it can be upgraded to the paid Extreme Security edition."
  • "This is a freeware product and I recommend using it."
  • "We have to pay a yearly licensing fee for ZoneAlarm, which is cheap."
  • "The pricing is reasonable, with a yearly renewal license costing seventy dollars."
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    Also Known As
    enSilo, FortiEDR
    Norton 360
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    Overview

    Fortinet FortiEDR is a real-time endpoint protection, detection, and automated response solution. Its primary purpose is to detect advanced threats to stop breaches and ransomware damage. It is designed to do so in real time, even on an already compromised device, allowing you to respond and remediate incidents automatically so your data can remain protected.

    Fortinet FortiEDR Features

    Fortinet FortiEDR has many valuable key features, including:

    • Easily customizable
    • Real-time proactive risk mitigation & IoT security
    • Pre-infection protection
    • Post-infection protection
    • Track applications and ratings
    • Reduce the attack surface with risk-based proactive policies
    • Achieve analysis of entire log history
    • Optional managed detection and response (MDR) service

    Fortinet FortiEDR Benefits

    Some of the key benefits of using Fortinet FortiEDR include:

    • Protection: Fortinet FortiEDR provides proactive, real-time, automated endpoint protection with the orchestrated incident response across platforms. It stops the breach with real-time postinfection blocking to protect data from exfiltration and ransomware encryption.

    • Single unified console: Fortinet FortiEDR has a single unified console with an intuitive interface, which makes management easier. The solution automates mundane endpoint security tasks so your employees don’t need to do it.

    • Cost savings: With Fortinet FortiEDR you can eliminate post-breach operational expenses and breach damage costs.

    • Flexibility: Fortinet FortiEDR can be deployed on premises or on a secure cloud instance. With Fortinet FortiEDR, endpoints are protected both on- and off-line.

    • Scalability: Because Fortinet can be deployed quickly and has a small footprint, it is easy to scale up to protect hundreds of thousand endpoints.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by Fortinet FortiEDR users.

    An Owner at a security firm says, "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 customer has literally about 800 cash registers. That was the use case for Fortinet FortiEDR - to get that down into a tiny space. The only way to do that was to use this product because it had that ability to unbundle services that were a surplus.”

    Chandan M., Chief Technical Officer at Provision Technologies LLP, mentions, “The ease of deployment and configuration is valuable. It's very easy compared to other vendors like Sophos. Sophos' configuration is complex. Fortinet is a lot easier to understand. You don't need a lot of admin knowledge to do the configuration.” He also adds, “The security is also very good and the firewall response is good.”

    Harpreet S., Information Technology Support Specialist at Chemtrade Logistics, explains, "It notifies us if there's any suspicious file on any PC. If any execution or similar kind of thing is happening, it just alerts us. It doesn't only alert. It also blocks the execution until we allow it. We check whether the execution is legitimate or not, and then approve it or keep it blocked. This gives us a little bit of control over this mechanism. Fortinet FortiEDR is also very straightforward and easy to maintain."

    DeAndre V., Senior Network Administrator at a financial services firm, states, “The dashboard is easy to follow and use. The deployment and uninstalling were easy. I like the detailed information about the path of a file that might be suspicious. Being able to check that out was easy to follow. Exceptions are easy to create and the interface is easy to follow with a nice appearance.

    In order to better protect you, we have substantially enhanced our security services. We took everything you loved about Norton 360, and added better protection, improved performance and superior design to create Norton Security with Backup. It's the best of Norton for your PCs, Macs, smartphones and tablets.

    ZoneAlarm protects you by preventing hackers from remotely accessing and controlling your device, and lets you know which apps have excessive permissions so you can decide whether they threaten your privacy.

    Sample Customers
    Financial, Healthcare, Legal, Technology, Enterprise, Manufacturing ... 
    Swisscom
    Terma, Optix, Samsung Research Amercia, SF Police Credit Union, Independence Care System, Mattias Thomsen, Carmel Partners, Desert Research Institute, CRIF, FXCM Inc, US State Agency
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm21%
    Comms Service Provider11%
    Manufacturing Company11%
    Educational Organization5%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company16%
    Government8%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Financial Services Firm8%
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    REVIEWERS
    Security Firm43%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Cloud Provider14%
    Logistics Company14%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Comms Service Provider20%
    Security Firm16%
    Computer Software Company9%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business50%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise34%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business31%
    Midsize Enterprise19%
    Large Enterprise50%
    No Data Available
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business72%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise17%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business41%
    Midsize Enterprise19%
    Large Enterprise41%
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    Symantec Norton 360 [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in EPP (Endpoint Protection for Business) while ZoneAlarm is ranked 15th in Anti-Malware Tools with 7 reviews. Symantec Norton 360 [EOL] is rated 8.6, while ZoneAlarm is rated 8.2. On the other hand, the top reviewer of ZoneAlarm writes "Maintains continuity, prevents malicious attacks, and offers helpful configuration capabilities". Symantec Norton 360 [EOL] is most compared with , whereas ZoneAlarm is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Check Point Harmony Endpoint, Malwarebytes, Bitdefender GravityZone EDR and F-Secure Total.

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