We performed a comparison between ESET Endpoint Protection Platform and Microsoft BitLocker based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, SentinelOne, CrowdStrike and others in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)."Fortinet FortiEDR's firewalling, rule creation, monitoring, and inspection profiles are great."
"Impressive detection capabilities"
"Fortinet has helped free up around 20 percent of our staff's time to help us out."
"Fortinet is very user-friendly for customers."
"The product detects and blocks threats and is more proactive than firewalls."
"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"
"Additionally, when it comes to EDR, there are more tools available to assist with client work."
"It is very easy to set up. I would rate my experience with the initial setup a ten out of ten, with ten being very easy to set up."
"It is pretty easy to deploy. Its update definition file is small, so it can dispatch very quickly within the enterprise. The product itself is very lightweight, so it won't delay your endpoint. You also don't have to do any difficult configuration because it comes with a very good default setting. So, you just install it and forget it."
"It has a clean and clear interface."
"We do not have a domain structure yet but we can manage our client stations via this solution's managing interface. This means that we don't need to have any extra management platforms."
"The overall security capability of the product is pretty reliable."
"It hasn't crashed a single time, so it is stable in that sense."
"It rarely gets in the way, and we don't even notice it scanning."
"I have found ESET Endpoint Antivirus is light on system resources compared with other antivirus solutions that tend to be very heavy on the computers system resources. Additionally, the solution is very secure."
"The solution is stable."
"Integration with System Center Configuration Manager (C: and D: logical drives are encrypted before installing Windows via SCCM)."
"It is free and native to the OS. We don't have to worry about upgrades or maintaining the product. You encrypt the disk, and you save the recovery key. That's it. The person puts their password in, and after that, it is up to them. If they forget their password, they have to bring it in to get it unlocked."
"You can do a silent remote deployment very fast."
"BitLocker is completely stable."
"It's a straightforward solution for encryption."
"I like the fact that you can get a BitLocker encryption key out of OneDrive."
"The tool is stable."
"The ease of use is the most valuable feature. The ability to import data to build your frontend on top of the data is very simple and very useable."
"We've had a lot of false positives; things incorrectly flagged that require manual configuration to allow. Even worse, after we allow a legitimate program, it sometimes gets flagged again after an update. This has caused a lot of extra work for my team."
"It takes about two business days for initial support, which is too slow in urgent situations."
"Intelligence aspects need improvement"
"Once, we had an event that was locked and blocked, but information about it came to us two or three days later."
"ZTNA can improve latency."
"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."
"Cannot be used on mobile devices with a secure connection."
"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."
"In terms of areas for improvement, I didn't see any from ESET Endpoint Security because what's important is that it works as an antivirus solution. I do find its pricing expensive here in Hungary, so if the price could be lower, that would be good. ESET Endpoint Security is an antivirus, so it only needs to stop the virus. If it had other features, I wouldn't need it. Every program or solution has specific functions and in this case, ESET Endpoint Security is worth it as an antivirus, though in the next release of the solution, it would be better if there's some improvement in its antivirus database."
"It can be hard to set up if you need to customize it."
"The integration capabilities might be lacking a bit."
"The scalability could be better."
"We'd like the solution to be a next generation antivirus with some sort of artificial intelligence or machine learning angle."
"Data Leak Protection is is what we are searching for at the moment. It is not included with ESET."
"There are some complexities if you want to manipulate the software."
"The stability needs to be improved. There are bugs that you have to deal with."
"The biggest one for us is revoking access. So, even though someone downloads something to a device, we want the ability to cloak that device or data and bring it back or make that data unusable for that person. Currently, BitLocker doesn't give us that ability. It basically encrypts it. We're seeing if identity management or IAM allows us to do that. We're kind of looking at third-party software that does that for us."
"The deployment process regarding prerequisites and automation could be easy to understand."
"There are options which could be implemented to make it a little more like PGP Whole Disk Encryption."
"They can improve the security of the application and include an encryption disk in the next feature."
"Microsoft BitLocker needs to be an all-inclusive solution. For example, a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) cryptoprocessor is required to use Bitlocker with your computer which keeps Bitlocker from adoption beyond Windows."
"The reporting in Microsoft is very minimal."
"I would like to be able to encrypt our cloud tenancy."
"It is not good for cross-compatibility, so our Mac users are not able to use it."
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ESET Endpoint Protection Platform is ranked 11th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 99 reviews while Microsoft BitLocker is ranked 1st in Endpoint Encryption with 61 reviews. ESET Endpoint Protection Platform is rated 8.2, while Microsoft BitLocker is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of ESET Endpoint Protection Platform writes "Easy to set up with good security and rapidly improving capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft BitLocker writes "User-friendly, easy to set up, and offers real-time machine status updates". ESET Endpoint Protection Platform is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business, CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne Singularity Complete and Fortinet FortiClient, whereas Microsoft BitLocker is most compared with ESET Endpoint Encryption, McAfee Complete Data Protection, Symantec Endpoint Encryption, Trend Micro Endpoint Encryption and WinMagic SecureDoc.
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Are you in a regulated industry? If so using the native BitLocker is not enough to prove compliance. You will need to use something like BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM) which is part of MDOP (Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack) or another tool that will manage Bitlocker and give you proof the device is encrypted in the event of a lost or stolen device. You also need to enforce secure password management, user training on passwords and regular password changes.
If you have Microsoft 365 Business premium you have additional controls over Bitlocker; or, M365 E3/E5, Windows Enterprise E3/E5 all have MDOP...
Other Bitlocker management can be found with SOPHOS and I believe TrendMicro as well.
Another tool to consider, especially for laptops, is ABSOLUTE software. It is built into the BIOS of the major laptop brands and just needs the key to activate it...
Also, ESET is a quality product for encryption. It gives you additional options for less than some of the Microsoft alternatives.
BitLocker is just not FREE if you are in a regulated industry since it needs management to truly be secure the device and prove compliance.
I hope some of this helps.
I guess the solution depends upon a couple of things for us and how we currently approach this for our clients.
We have both in place around a variety of small clients. As 99% of our systems have Windows Pro, they have BitLocker, therefore this would now be the first choice.
However, if the client requires centralised management and control we would then advise ESET. And that is the core to this for us, if they need central management, control, recovery - ESET every time.
If it is just encryption and there is no need to control/recover and a simple reformat would work (and loss of history/data is not an issue), then BitLocker is ok.