We performed a comparison between Check Point Harmony Endpoint and Trend Micro Apex One 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. Trend Micro Apex One stands out for its centralized reporting, efficient policy implementation, and a diverse array of features including DLP, encryption, and patch management. Users say Check Point could improve its endpoint vulnerability management and threat-hunting features. Trend Micro Apex One users say the platform should improve its compatibility with different operating systems and address performance issues. Users also say the reporting, forensic analysis, and ransomware features could use some work.
Service and Support: While several users lauded Check Point support for its problem-solving skills, others said there is room for improvement. Trend Micro support generally earned positive reviews, but some said that support could be more proactive and respond faster.
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. Most users thought Trend Micro Apex One was easy to set up, but a few said that it’s more complex than competing solutions.
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. Some considered the price of Trend Micro Apex One to be fair, while others found it expensive.
ROI: Check Point Harmony Endpoint provides a comprehensive and economical solution, and customers say the product has helped them grow. Trend Micro Apex One provides extra cost-effective advantages and safeguards vital information.
Comparison Results: Our users prefer Check Point Harmony Endpoint over Trend Micro Apex One . Check Point Harmony Endpoint provides a robust defense against ransomware and phishing attacks. While Trend Micro Apex One receives praise for its DLP, encryption, and patch management, users say it needs to address sluggish performance and expand compatibility with various operating systems.
"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 product detects and blocks threats and is more proactive than firewalls."
"Having all monitoring, response, tracking, and mitigation tools in one dashboard provides our analysts and SOC team with a comprehensive view at a glance."
"Exceptions are easy to create and the interface is easy to follow with a nice appearance."
"Ability to get forensics details and also memory exfiltration."
"Fortinet FortiEDR's firewalling, rule creation, monitoring, and inspection profiles are great."
"Fortinet is very user-friendly for customers."
"It is a scalable solution...The initial setup of Fortinet FortiEDR was straightforward."
"The zero-day threat prevention is excellent."
"Data security analytics enable us to prepare and take suitable precautions before landing in trouble and exposing confidential information."
"The tool minimizes the impact of a breach with autonomous detection and response."
"In terms of network usage, it actually reduced the amount of malicious attacks that we had. Before, we really didn't have a secure network. Each endpoint had to protect itself and probably most of them were not actually protected. Now, it's an entire process in which we've been able to cut down significantly the amount of malicious attacks by 60 percent that we get in the organization. It helps us to adequately monitor what has been going on with our network traffic and stopping individual attacks from accessing certain sites where we want to have restrictions or limitations."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature of Check Point Harmony Endpoint is centralized management."
"I found the fact of working across multiple attack vectors easy and more beneficial."
"The dashboard is user-friendly and easy to understand."
"Apex One is flexible and offers a lot of visibility on the agent."
"The solution can scale."
"I believe that optimization is a really good feature on the front side."
"It's reduced administrative overhead overall thanks to its centralized dashboard and single network administrator."
"The number of accessories included is the most valuable feature."
"It has the ability to share, which is not available in other products."
"The management console is pretty good. We have a dashboard that shows us what stuff to log, different malicious links that people are trying to access and also if somebody was trying to connect something to the computer, to a USB port or something like that, and if this person is on the under control management. It shows that he tried and he got blocked."
"Apex One is effective at catching malicious activity. It has multiple modules that improve threat prevention across hundreds of networks."
"Detections could be improved."
"We'd like to see more one-to-one product presentations for the distribution channels."
"Making the portal mobile friendly would be helpful when I am out of office."
"The dashboard isn't easy to access and manage."
"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."
"Cannot be used on mobile devices with a secure connection."
"The SIEM could be improved."
"FortiEDR could add a separate scanning dashboard. In incident management, we prefer to remove the endpoint system from the environment and scan the system. We typically use Symantec for that, but if we want to use FortiEDR for that, then we need a scanning tab to clarify things."
"Check Point Harmony Endpoint could improve by allowing it to work on older systems by reducing the system requirements. Since our systems are dated we can only use the antivirus module features."
"Sometimes, the Cloud Management Portal can become unresponsive or take a long time to process a query. This in turn will cause the browser to freeze, which will require closing and reopening of your browser."
"Tech Support must be better."
"The only thing that our customers want, is lower prices."
"There needs to be compatibility with the most recent versions of the various operating systems."
"The price of the product could be more friendly."
"Its customer support services and user interface could be improved."
"Technical support can be a bit slow at times."
"The product can be a bit heavy."
"The CPU usage when scanning is too high and we have run into bottlenecks were it consumes a lot of CPU time."
"Some of the updates still require a complete reboot of the system."
"In the next release, I would like to see IBS included in OfficeScan."
"The integration is lacking in Trend Micro Apex One. It does not integrate well with Microsoft p solutions. For example, with Office 365, we have to buy another solution for mail protection. That's why we are assessing Microsoft Defender 365 because we have an email from Microsoft, an endpoint from Microsoft, and we use Windows systems."
"It would be better if it was easier to administer Apex One."
"Apex One's threat and vulnerability management has room for improvement."
"The reports are not eye-catching from the customer's point of view, which is something that should be improved."
Check Point Harmony Endpoint is ranked 8th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 103 reviews while Trend Micro Apex One is ranked 6th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 125 reviews. Check Point Harmony Endpoint is rated 8.8, while Trend Micro Apex One 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 Trend Micro Apex One writes "We can get consolidated logs of suspicious objects and malware attacks in a single console". Check Point Harmony Endpoint is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business and SentinelOne Singularity Complete, whereas Trend Micro Apex One is most compared with Trend Micro Deep Security, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike Falcon and Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business. See our Check Point Harmony Endpoint vs. Trend Micro Apex One report.
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