We performed a comparison between Check Point Harmony Endpoint and Trend Micro Smart Protection 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."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."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the ability to customize it and to reduce its size. It lets you run in a very small window in terms of memory and resources on legacy cash registers."
"Fortinet has helped free up around 20 percent of our staff's time to help us out."
"I like FortiClient EMS. FortiEDR has a lot of great features like lockdown mode, remote wipes, and encryption. I can set malware outbreak policies and controls for detecting abnormalities. You can also simulate phishing attacks."
"Fortinet FortiEDR's firewalling, rule creation, monitoring, and inspection profiles are great."
"Having all monitoring, response, tracking, and mitigation tools in one dashboard provides our analysts and SOC team with a comprehensive view at a glance."
"Fortinet FortiEDR's scalability is quite good, and you can add licenses to the solution."
"The most valuable feature is the analysis, because of the beta structure."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"They have a great knowledge base that you can leverage as a user."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"It is a stable solution. My company has not received any complaints regarding the product's stability from our customers who use the solution."
"The end-user facilities for managing the tool are good."
"Before we used this solution, our mail was blacklisted. Now we are white listed by all organizations, including Google. Also the security of our institution has really improved."
"Its most valuable feature is being able to integrate cloud services and centralize the protection policy from a single administration dashboard."
"The most important characteristic of our requirements was the implementation of disk encryption."
"Smart Protection is great for monitoring traffic, particularly email, and protecting the endpoints. Both are valuable."
"The solution has multiple modules within a single agent deployment."
"Helps with vulnerability and patch management, making it easier to provide top-notch services to our customers."
"The solution is easy to use, flexible, and secure."
"The scalability works well."
"What I like the most is the customer pricing because it's a great value."
"The most valuable feature of Trend Micro Smart Protection is automatic scanning."
"The stability is good and I like the level of performance I can get."
"Cannot be used on mobile devices with a secure connection."
"The dashboard isn't easy to access and manage."
"I would like the solution to extend beyond endpoint protection and include other attack surfaces such as other network components."
"It takes about two business days for initial support, which is too slow in urgent situations."
"ZTNA can improve latency."
"Making the portal mobile friendly would be helpful when I am out of office."
"The support needs improvement."
"Integration with Azure and SaaS provisioning tools could improve Fortinet FortiEDR."
"It's not easy to investigate an incident that you find in the company. Users often face trouble when downloading files, so it is very slow in terms of how it works."
"A couple of times, we experienced some sales issues."
"They could be focused on the analysis of USB devices."
"I think some work needs to be done to improve the integration with other third-party products, namely SIEM solutions."
"Check Point Harmony Endpoint's agent is a bit heavy."
"The solution can be made lightweight in order to keep the systems more effective during the background operations of the scanning and security checks."
"From an improvement perspective, the major challenge we've faced with Harmony is the support."
"Configuration with some applications did not take place effectively due to setup complications."
"It could be faster in responding to new threats like ransomware."
"The solution's device control options are not too beneficial."
"Sometimes, the tool bases its actions on behaviour, and we lack a policy learning mechanism. If Trend Micro Smart Protection introduced an AI model, its protection capabilities would be enhanced. I used a different browser once, which may have prevented protection. Another time, our own ISP was added to the blacklist, and it took the support team two business days to resolve it."
"Trend Micro Smart Protection is a very system-intensive product, and it would be better if it could be made less burdensome on the resources."
"This product is not very simple and in fact, kind of hard for some people to understand."
"It is onsite. It does have its challenges in terms of scalability."
"The solution should improve its mobile management solution."
"The solution could be more stable and secure."
Check Point Harmony Endpoint is ranked 8th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 105 reviews while Trend Micro Smart Protection is ranked 30th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 40 reviews. Check Point Harmony Endpoint is rated 8.8, while Trend Micro Smart Protection is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Check Point Harmony Endpoint writes "Excellent anti-ransomware protection, zero-day phishing protection, and web browsing filtering". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Trend Micro Smart Protection writes "Offers strong, all-around cybersecurity but is expensive". Check Point Harmony Endpoint is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business and Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks, whereas Trend Micro Smart Protection is most compared with Trend Vision One Endpoint Security, HP Wolf Security, CrowdStrike Falcon and Symantec Endpoint Security. See our Check Point Harmony Endpoint vs. Trend Micro Smart Protection report.
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