We performed a comparison between CylancePROTECT and Fortinet FortiClient 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."NGAV and EDR features are outstanding."
"It is stable and scalable."
"The product detects and blocks threats and is more proactive than firewalls."
"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."
"Additionally, when it comes to EDR, there are more tools available to assist with client work."
"We have FortiEDR installed on all our systems. This protects them from any threats."
"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."
"Fortinet is very user-friendly for customers."
"The solution runs in the background, and I do not need to care about it."
"What I like best about CylancePROTECT is its accuracy, as it doesn't give many false positives."
"It handles situations that the other threat management tools wouldn't find. It has worked well covering the weaker sides of the other products that we're integrating."
"The solution is pretty easy to scale."
"The CylancePROTECT agent is very low on CPU usage, so it has virtually no adverse impact on my servers, desktops, or workstations."
"We are quite security-focused. Blackberry Protect as an endpoint solution for our service really delivers what we are expecting."
"Its setup is simple if you have a Windows device; it is executable."
"Does malware analysis. Blocks WannaCry and other attacks that have come out."
"We find the VPN features valuable."
"When the user gets authenticated, I can assign a different VPN or network to each user."
"The VPN connection is the feature that I like the most."
"It is a feature-rich product that is easy to use and install without sacrificing security."
"It’s easy to use."
"The configuration is the most valuable feature."
"For our clients with remote sites and deployed firewalls, the filtering and authentication features are very helpful."
"The integration of VPN services with endpoint security is valuable."
"The solution is not user-friendly."
"Integration with Azure and SaaS provisioning tools could improve Fortinet FortiEDR."
"We find the solution to be a bit expensive."
"The solution should address emerging threats like SQL injection."
"The solution is not stable."
"Intelligence aspects need improvement"
"Cannot be used on mobile devices with a secure connection."
"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."
"The product needs to continue to offer better alerts. In particular, around false positives. It needs to reduce them from happening."
"I would like to see a better UI in terms of sifting through more specific data and providing analytics. A little bit more would be nice."
"It could have integration with industrial base HMIS or Human Machine Interfaces Solutions. This is the industrial environment where you have a control center for all the automation that's happening, whether it is oil, gas, or chemical manufacturing. They often have to set up a computer at the back and watch the other stuff to get alerts. In these autonomous or on-premises environments, they often don't have access to email readily. Integration with other industrial solutions, such as HMIS, will allow them to communicate and get an alert that something has been found. This way, they can react to it sooner than having somebody watch the screen and keep checking the screen. Rockwell has its own suite. Similarly, Honeywell has its own suite. There's also an independent HMI/historian solution provider out there called VTSCADA. We actually get asked if we can get it to show up on a screen, which is difficult. Getting those alerts to work within an industrial environment would be a huge plus."
"While you are working, you are finding these things that were supposed to be waived have come back to being blocked. That's frustrating."
"Work on the math model. We are catching a lot of false positives, which gets to be a pain at the start of a deployment."
"I'd like them to do software distribution too, but they said that that's architecturally not at the product line."
"We would like to see secure integration and multi-factor authentication to be able to access the administration dashboard."
"An area for improvement in CylancePROTECT is its pricing, as it's a bit costly."
"The connectivity could be improved."
"The features of Fortinet FortiClient could be improved."
"When we change our endpoint, we have to connect again, which means having to enter our credentials and permissions."
"With the lower-end licenses, it tends to kick you out after eight hours. There is a function where it automatically kicks you out after eight hours. They could improve that and not kick you out after eight hours. Other than that, it is already pretty good."
"I think that FortiClient can enhance the multifactor authentication."
"The licensing feature of the product requires improvement since whenever the license expires, the tool logs out its users automatically, irrespective of whether they are on the network or not, which can be problematic for me."
"There is room for improvement by increasing the solution's knowledge base."
"Initially, the support was very poor. It is getting better, but they should continue to improve this."
CylancePROTECT is ranked 23rd in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 41 reviews while Fortinet FortiClient is ranked 15th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 86 reviews. CylancePROTECT is rated 8.0, while Fortinet FortiClient is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of CylancePROTECT writes "Ensures advanced AI-driven threat detection to provide robust endpoint security, effectively preventing both known and unknown threats with minimal impact on system performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiClient writes "Easy to set up and user-friendly with good support ". CylancePROTECT is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks and Symantec Endpoint Security, whereas Fortinet FortiClient is most compared with OpenVPN Access Server, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business, Microsoft Azure VPN Gateway and Ivanti Connect Secure. See our CylancePROTECT vs. Fortinet FortiClient report.
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