We performed a comparison between Bitdefender GravityZone EDR and Symantec Endpoint Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) 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."
"I get alerts when scripts are detected in the environment."
"Fortinet FortiEDR made our clients feel secure and more at ease, knowing that they had an EDR solution that would close the gap in their security posture."
"Additionally, when it comes to EDR, there are more tools available to assist with client work."
"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."
"Ability to get forensics details and also memory exfiltration."
"Impressive detection capabilities"
"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."
"Sandbox Analyzer, HyperDetect, and EDR are valuable to our customers."
"Useful for the day-to-day analysis of the security infrastructure."
"The best feature for our customers is the ransomware feature. It is very fresh and powerful. Bitdefender also has a feature called Ransomware Vaccine. With this feature, when a file from the ransomware is encrypted Bitdefender can revert it back to the original file. It automatically decrypts the file and puts the ransom in quarantine."
"I haven't had a problem with its stability yet. Since we deployed it, we haven't had one computer instance where we had to reimage the computer due to the virus."
"I like that you can manage all the time and you can uninstall and install everything via the web console."
"It is a good anti-malware product that is highly stable."
"The solution's deployment is very easy and flexible."
"The product is stable. It has a small footprint, but it does a lot of heavy lifting."
"Some important features that are included are the built-in firewall and device control."
"Symantec End-User Endpoint Security is easy to use."
"It is very easy to use and keeps us secure."
"I think the key thing for me, is interoperability, in that you can deploy it to Windows, Mac, and Linux. That's been a really important feature in the last two years. Now there's one management console to cover all three OSs."
"It's a good proxy to control the user's access to the website."
"The solution is completely scalable."
"Symantec's detection capabilities are strong. It involves run protection and behavioral analysis."
"Managing SEP is very easy, and also troubleshooting part is easily managed."
"We'd like to see more one-to-one product presentations for the distribution channels."
"To improve Fortinet, we need to see more features and technology areas at the endpoint level introduced."
"Detections could be improved."
"The only minor concern is occasional interference with desired programs."
"The solution should address emerging threats like SQL injection."
"FortiEDR can be improved by providing more detailed reporting."
"There's room for improvement in the quick response time and technical support for integration issues, especially when dealing with multiple vendors."
"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."
"We find it's making the machines run slow."
"There's room for improvement in terms of protection. That's my primary concern."
"They should improve the solution's patch management feature."
"The product can be improved by identifying errors."
"Using this product requires quite a bit of training, which is hard to get."
"This solution would be improved if it included antivirus functionality. You currently need to install a plug-in to Outlook for each email to be scanned."
"If we could directly push the agent to the script, it'll be very good."
"In the future, maybe this will need to morph into AI threat intelligence."
"If a machine is infected by ransomware, it's hard to recover the data. We don't have any data on the client, so we're not overly concerned about that. Still, it would be nice to have this feature if there are any future problems."
"They are lacking the visibility that you get in a heuristical, next-generation AI product."
"Symantec has not properly promoted Symantec Endpoint Security in the market. In my opinion, the product should be properly promoted."
"The solution could improve by adding encryption. If it had encryption along with antivirus it would be better."
"Must push to EXE files to the endpoints."
"There are limitations because everyone these days has hybrid working; however, the endpoint does not work for us unless we are connected to a VPN, which is a major limitation."
"Managements' number one item on the "Wish List" would have to do with the real-time scan of external media inserted into any client."
"It seems that its not working very well with VMWare."
Bitdefender GravityZone EDR is ranked 13th in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) with 56 reviews while Symantec Endpoint Security is ranked 5th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 140 reviews. Bitdefender GravityZone EDR is rated 8.6, while Symantec Endpoint Security is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Bitdefender GravityZone EDR writes "High-quality threat intelligence, including encryption and mobile device protection". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Endpoint Security writes "The solution has given us visibility into compliance within our whole system and helped us ensure everything is updated". Bitdefender GravityZone EDR is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, CrowdStrike Falcon, Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business and Panda Adaptive Defense 360, whereas Symantec Endpoint Security is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, Trend Micro Deep Security and Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks. See our Bitdefender GravityZone EDR vs. Symantec Endpoint Security report.
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