We performed a comparison between CylancePROTECT and ESET Endpoint Protection Platform 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's initial setup phase is very easy."
"It is a scalable solution...The initial setup of Fortinet FortiEDR was straightforward."
"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."
"Fortinet has helped free up around 20 percent of our staff's time to help us out."
"The stability is very good."
"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."
"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"
"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."
"Even if an endpoint loses connection to the Internet, I know that endpoint is protected against 99.99% of the threats in the wild today."
"Endpoints are protected in real-time without the need of a centralized server."
"The Application Guard and ByteGuard are useful features."
"The most valuable features of CylancePROTECT are its powerful machine-learning capabilities and predictive intelligence."
"The solution’s AI is its most valuable feature."
"The solution is easy to deploy."
"The solution is extremely scalable. It's got the hybrid functionality, it's got the system functionality and cloud functionality as well."
"I rate the tool a ten out of ten when it comes to the ease of use or management part."
"The solution provides good accessibility and is not heavy on resources when there are updates or when it is in operation."
"The ability to push policies and also to restrict an installation or to restrict any form of threat within the policy has been quite useful."
"There are some great features in ESET Endpoint Antivirus when you are browsing on the internet. For example, they have a notification if within your LAN network something is suspected to be a threat. Additionally, the malware features are very good."
"It's a very user-friendly product."
"The product is quite affordable."
"In terms of the current global landscape, it is a great solution."
"Primarily used to protect computers from viruses and ransomware."
"The most valuable features of this solution are, of course, the IPS/IDS, Intrusion Prevention, Intrusion Detection, and Antivirus."
"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."
"The SIEM could be improved."
"Integration with Azure and SaaS provisioning tools could improve Fortinet FortiEDR."
"It takes about two business days for initial support, which is too slow in urgent situations."
"They can include the automation for the realtime updates. We have a network infrastructure with remote sites. Whenever they send updates, they are not automated. We have to go into the console and push those updates. I wish it was more automated. The update file is currently around 31 MB. It could be smaller."
"To improve Fortinet, we need to see more features and technology areas at the endpoint level introduced."
"We'd like to see more one-to-one product presentations for the distribution channels."
"FortiEDR can be improved by providing more detailed reporting."
"Having worked with SentinelOne, Cylance is good, however, it probably needs to add a feature similar to SentinelOne's rollback functionality. With this feature, if you get infected, with a click, you can go back to the pre-infection state. If Cylance could add this functionality to their offering as well, that would be ideal."
"The process of whitelisting a script that you want to be able to run can be a little bit difficult, or awkward."
"It should provide more details about the events that they have detected."
"An area for improvement in CylancePROTECT is its pricing, as it's a bit costly."
"The user interface is outdated."
"CylancePROTECT's dashboard could be more user-friendly."
"The initial deployment was quite complicated."
"The product needs to continue to offer better alerts. In particular, around false positives. It needs to reduce them from happening."
"The tool needs to explore security possibilities to secure iOS and Mac devices."
"The initial setup of ESET Endpoint Security can be complicated when you get involved with encryption."
"It's hard to get support for ESET in Hong Kong and China. There's a number to call that goes nowhere. You can upgrade to the premium service, but there are a few restrictions."
"The stability needs to be improved. There are bugs that you have to deal with."
"They could improve the solution by adding better ransomware features."
"Everything has some kind of room for improvement."
"Data Leak Protection is is what we are searching for at the moment. It is not included with ESET."
"I think that ESET is a little too heavy on the CPU."
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CylancePROTECT is ranked 27th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 39 reviews while ESET Endpoint Protection Platform is ranked 9th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 96 reviews. CylancePROTECT is rated 8.0, while ESET Endpoint Protection Platform is rated 8.2. 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 ESET Endpoint Protection Platform writes "Easy to set up with good security and rapidly improving capabilities". 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 ESET Endpoint Protection Platform is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business, CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne Singularity Complete and Check Point Harmony Endpoint. See our CylancePROTECT vs. ESET Endpoint Protection Platform report.
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