We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiClient and Trend Micro Apex One 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."The product detects and blocks threats and is more proactive than firewalls."
"Forensics is a valuable feature of Fortinet FortiEDR."
"The console is easy to read. I also like the scanning part and the ability to move assets from one to the other."
"It is stable and scalable."
"Having all monitoring, response, tracking, and mitigation tools in one dashboard provides our analysts and SOC team with a comprehensive view at a glance."
"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."
"Exceptions are easy to create and the interface is easy to follow with a nice appearance."
"This is stable and scalable."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiClient is dual authentication and the VPN is secure."
"We find the VPN features valuable."
"The solution offers great stability."
"Fortinet FortiClient's scalability is very good because it has no limitations."
"The integration of the vulnerability scan, mobile detection, and VPN client."
"It's pretty stable, and I don't have any problems with it."
"This solution is very stable."
"Fortinet FortiClient can be used with FortiManager to observe all actions that are happening."
"Using the product as a service on the cloud has helped reduced employee workloads."
"Trend Micro Apex One has good features and is lightweight."
"The most valuable features of Trend Micro Apex One are it has its own machine learning and it is quite fast, compared with the other solutions. When you're comparing the other solutions, each has pros and cons, you cannot claim one is 100 percent suitable for you. None of the solutions dominate in all areas."
"We have found the reports to be most valuable."
"The XDR feature which provides us with real visibility into our environment is the most valuable."
"It is available on our OS platform and will automatically scan our machines daily or weekly."
"The main features that are useful are application control, vulnerability protection, and XDR Vision One which we have recently started using. Additionally, the solution is easy to use."
"We've been able to integrate the solution with other security products."
"We've encountered challenges during API deployment, occasionally resulting in unstable environments."
"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 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."
"Cannot be used on mobile devices with a secure connection."
"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."
"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."
"ZTNA can improve latency."
"Detections could be improved."
"The only thing that is lacking in this product is the support. Their support can be improved."
"There should be more frequent releases or updates."
"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."
"We would like Fortinet to add the function or the possibility to use all FortiClient features for free."
"We'd like to see a deployment wizard to help implementation become streamlined."
"The solution could improve by providing analytics or detailed reports."
"Fortinet FortiClient should improve its visibility of the consumption of traffic and end-user action, which is very low."
"The pricing could use improvement."
"The EDR feature is difficult to use and could be made more user-friendly."
"It could be more customizable."
"One of Trend Micro's weaknesses is its high resource utilization."
"It has good signature-based capabilities, but features like “shape detection” can be improved upon."
"I would like to see better reporting."
"Trend Micro Apex One could include more in-depth endpoint protection."
"There is a need for enhancement in certain reporting formats."
"We have found that this product is a bit heavy on the endpoints."
Fortinet FortiClient is ranked 15th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 85 reviews while Trend Micro Apex One is ranked 6th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 125 reviews. Fortinet FortiClient is rated 8.0, while Trend Micro Apex One is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiClient writes "Easy to set up and user-friendly with good support ". 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". Fortinet FortiClient is most compared with OpenVPN Access Server, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Azure VPN Gateway, Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business and Ivanti Connect Secure, 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 ESET Endpoint Protection Platform. See our Fortinet FortiClient vs. Trend Micro Apex One report.
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