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."Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is a stable solution."
"The product's scalability is good."
"The most valuable feature is the integration. It's a single console, so we don't have to switch around between multiple products. Another valuable feature is the ease of operations and maintenance."
"It also gives the vulnerability status according to the versions you have selected. Let's say you have Google Chrome. It mentions the versions it has, and it updates. Within two hours of an update, it is reflected in the dashboard. That's really nice to have."
"Does a thorough job of examining email and URLs for malicious content."
"I would say that 90% of the spam and phishing attack emails get blocked right off the bat."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is the ease of use."
"Defender enables us to secure all 365-related activity from a single place. It gives us visibility into everything happening in Outlook, protecting us against phishing and other email-based threats. Defender helps us detect any suspicious behaviors."
"The most valuable feature is that it works autonomously."
"The initial setup is simple."
"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."
"A simple, powerful AI solution that just does all the work for you when you turn it on."
"AI analytics are built directly into the product."
"I find the complete portfolio to be excellent."
"We have found the product to be stable and issue-free."
"It's a very stable product."
"A good network security system for medium-sized businesses with an excellent GUI interface that gives a graphic view of network status."
"FortiGate as a product is very easy to configure."
"The technical support on offer has always been quite good."
"What I like about this solution, is that it is the only solution that currently offers VPN for clients."
"I have found the most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiOS is the low maintenance."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiOS are user-friendliness, ease of use, and threat prevention."
"The information security features are the most valuable."
"The solution is very easy to configure and has a good interface, plus it offers more configuration options than other vendors."
"The product must provide better malware detection."
"The visibility for the weaknesses in the system and unauthorized access can be improved."
"One area for improvement is support, in terms of being able to reach them and, especially, technical support for configuration."
"In some situations, it has not been able to pick impersonated emails having no attachments. Technical support definitely has a scope for improvement."
"The only thing they should improve is the licensing model. They should stop changing it. A year ago, the five features I mentioned were included in one product. Now, three of them are bundled into one product, and you have to pay extra for the other two. I don't mind paying extra, but I don't want them to change it every year or every six months. I need to know what I'm looking at and not worry about it next year."
"Microsoft security solutions work as expected. They are constantly updating the solutions to make them better. At the same time, the changes can impact a customer's environment, and we need to adjust settings. Sometimes we aren't aware of the changes, and nothing is pushed from the backend automatically."
"You should be able to deploy Defender for every subscription without the need to add servers."
"Microsoft should provide more documentation for users so they can self-educate. I would like to see more documentation for advanced security features."
"One thing I would like is for Darktrace to flag SMB traffic more accurately. Currently, it only flags that SMB traffic has occurred, but it doesn't specify which file was being transferred. This makes it difficult to investigate incidents involving SMB traffic, as we don't have concrete evidence of what was being sent."
"It would be useful if there was a way to check to see if there are certain devices that are not in sync with the solution. I'm not sure if this is an option or not."
"Darktrace is a closed technology, meaning we know very little about how it works, including the architecture, which is significant. As a result, when we implement the system and find we're getting many false positives, we have minimal insight into why it's happening and what we can do to fix it. We don't know how the solution is configured, the criteria for threats to be determined, or the product's inner workings. We understand that they have to ensure privacy and their copyright, but we want to see some documentation or public research into the security Darktrace provides."
"Darktrace needs to automate the reports of false positives, botnets and everything."
"The interface is too mathematical and it should be simplified."
"Darkforce could be improved in the range of the interface; how to interact with the actions it's taking or not taking."
"Needs to improve its collaboration with local partners."
"The price point for the product was too high for what our possible use case could be."
"Fortinet needs to make this solution even more robust. Sometimes when we get a DDoS attack, the cannot withstand it. We can run out of sessions very easily. That said, I suppose if you want more a robust system, then you could purchase higher-end solutions, which are more expensive. Still, I would like to see more protection from even in the low-end version."
"For monitoring purposes, we don't have any option to monitor the ISP link."
"The reporting for this solution could be improved. It could also be more stable and offer better pricing."
"While it is a solid solution, there are some product limitations which exclude it from deployment in some situations."
"Right now, it's very trendy to integrate everything into the cloud. This solution would be more effective if they did more integration in that regard."
"The solution's firmware updates have significant bugs and issues."
"The signature discs, compared to Palo Alto, aren't as good. It takes more time to get the signature updates."
"The report and policy optimization tools can be improved in the next release."
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Darktrace is ranked 11th in Email Security with 66 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 Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection.
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