We compared CylancePROTECT and Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business based on our users reviews in five parameters. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: After reviewing both CylancePROTECT and Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business, it is clear that CylancePROTECT stands out for its easy deployment, accurate threat detection, and powerful machine-learning capabilities. However, it does receive criticism for its pricing, lack of user-friendliness, and inadequate support. On the other hand, Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business offers a user-friendly interface, efficient management, and strong overall performance. Areas of improvement for Kaspersky include pricing, deployment efficiency, and support. Despite mixed reviews on pricing and support for both products, CylancePROTECT places a greater emphasis on AI-based threat detection, while Kaspersky prioritizes user-friendliness and control.
"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."
"NGAV and EDR features are outstanding."
"It is a scalable solution...The initial setup of Fortinet FortiEDR was straightforward."
"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."
"It is stable and scalable."
"The setup is pretty simple."
"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."
"Exceptions are easy to create and the interface is easy to follow with a nice appearance."
"Endpoints are protected in real-time without the need of a centralized server."
"The solution is very quick at easily changing the levels of protection for each computer and the server."
"What's most valuable in CylancePROTECT is the optics feature. I also like its easy-to-use and user-friendly dashboard and monitoring system."
"The solution is pretty easy to scale."
"The Application Guard and ByteGuard are useful features."
"What I like best about CylancePROTECT is its accuracy, as it doesn't give many false positives."
"In most cases, the solution's ability to detect in the MITRE framework, and its ability to be able to detect attacks in any one of seven or eight different areas of the life cycle of an attack is very useful."
"Very easy to deploy. It can be done one by one or deployed by customizing an MSI file for GPO push."
"Ability to specify the level of protection on devices,"
"It has many features, like deploying a package to many clients, an MDM solution, etc."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is its deployment. It is easy to centrally deploy. You can deploy it on the Administration Console then deploy it to the different endpoint machines without specifically deploying it manually on each machine. Its deployment is really user friendly."
"It allows for a solid form of risk management as well as a measure of remote device management."
"The stability has been good."
"This solution is stable."
"When comparing Kaspersky Endpoint Security to any other solution, Our customers like mostly the reliability, and the ability to defend against viruses, worms, and attacks. It is easy to use and very light on the end-user machine's resources."
"Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business's most valuable feature is the ease of management."
"The security should be strong for the cloud. Some applications are on-prem and some are on the cloud. Fortinet should also have strong security for the cloud. There should be more security for the cloud."
"Everything with Fortinet having to do with their cloud services. They need to invest more in their internal infrastructure that they are running in the cloud. One of the things I find with their cloud environment compared to others' is that they go cheap on the equipment. So it causes some performance degradation."
"We'd like to see more one-to-one product presentations for the distribution channels."
"The dashboard isn't easy to access and manage."
"To improve Fortinet, we need to see more features and technology areas at the endpoint level introduced."
"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."
"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."
"Making the portal mobile friendly would be helpful when I am out of office."
"It was not effective. There were a lot of false positives, even when we use Adobe, and everybody uses Adobe, which is not a threat."
"The user interface is outdated."
"The high price of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required. The product's price should be more competitive."
"Reporting is an area with shortcomings in CylancePROTECT that needs to be improved."
"It is hard to manage."
"I would like to see them fix the alerting system so that the endpoint reporting is a bit more streamlined."
"The OPTICS component could be made more user-friendly with respect to giving people more information."
"The management console needs a little maturity in how it presents data and allows the administrator to drill down or search across systems."
"The stability could be better."
"There are times when Microsoft Windows's antivirus called Defender interferes with the functionality of Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business. There should be better integration with Windows."
"I would like to see better-enhanced features, such as protection against ransomware and different types of malicious malware."
"The installation is technical. You need to be certified."
"Kaspersky Endpoint Security could have more visibility and threat hunting. Right now, if it detects a file, it's quarantined, and then we can't find more details other than the path and the file name. We don't see what process it's warning off and how the virus got in. So, the reporting on the quarantined items, why were they quarantined, etc., could be improved."
"The reports aren't so good. To make it a perfect ten they should improve the reports and web interface."
"We have zero-day detection of malware but it cannot detect other types of unknown intrusions."
"The company needs to keep developing more security measures to help keep its customers safe. If they could keep adding to security features, it would be ideal."
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CylancePROTECT is ranked 27th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 39 reviews while Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business is ranked 11th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 110 reviews. CylancePROTECT is rated 8.0, while Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business 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 Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business writes "Easy to setup, stable and good security use cases". CylancePROTECT is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks and Trellix Endpoint Security, whereas Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, Fortinet FortiClient, ESET Endpoint Protection Platform and Bitdefender GravityZone Enterprise Security. See our CylancePROTECT vs. Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business report.
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