We performed a comparison between Check Point Harmony Endpoint and Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Because Check Point Harmony can require more resources to run, making Cortex XDR the ultimate winner in this comparison.
"The setup is pretty simple."
"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."
"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."
"Forensics is a valuable feature of Fortinet FortiEDR."
"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."
"It is a scalable solution...The initial setup of Fortinet FortiEDR was straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is the analysis, because of the beta structure."
"Having all monitoring, response, tracking, and mitigation tools in one dashboard provides our analysts and SOC team with a comprehensive view at a glance."
"We have found the stability to be very reliable."
"SandBlast Agent is always working in the background collecting sensitive data, forensics, and notifying users whenever there is a chance of a brute-force attack into our systems. Otherwise, it has been protecting our data at various geographies along with the endpoints that we set up on the cloud. They have been able to filter out or thwart any attacks from the very word, "Go," and make our work very safe and smooth."
"It is minimally invasive. From a single installer, the equipment is protected and secured."
"We're able to secure all endpoints and manage them from a single console."
"We love that we don't have to upgrade it anymore. They take care of that."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The most important characteristic of our requirements was the implementation of disk encryption."
"It's a scalable product as it is a cloud offering."
"The stability of this product is very good."
"We've had a significant increase in blocking with a decrease in false positives, because it's looking at how the files work, not just a list of files that it's been told to look for."
"The initial setup is easy."
"Threat identification and detection are the most valuable features of this solution."
"One of the main benefits of the solution is its intelligence to correlate the events into an incident."
"The product has an intuitive dashboard."
"I like the centralized console and the predictive analysis it does of malware. It is very stable and also scalable."
"The user interface of the solution is sophisticated and straightforward."
"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."
"The amount of usage, the number of details we get, or the number of options that can be tweaked is limited in comparison to that with other EDR solutions"
"The SIEM could be improved."
"I would like the solution to extend beyond endpoint protection and include other attack surfaces such as other network components."
"I haven't seen the use of AI in the solution."
"We'd like to see more one-to-one product presentations for the distribution channels."
"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."
"ZTNA can improve latency."
"Some of the less tech-savvy users sometimes find it difficult in adjusting and learning how to use the platform."
"I would like to see them add features where we can use this license for mobile browsers, too."
"The solution has limitations if it's hosted on-prem or as a SaaS."
"An additional feature I would like to see involves the VPN."
"The price of the product could be more friendly."
"Endpoint vulnerability management is one of the modules I believe is missing and it is something that is required."
"As of now, product-wise, we haven't found any major concern that needs to improve, although it does not support full MDM and this is something that should be there."
"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."
"There is a severe gap in functionality between Windows, Linux, and Mac versions. For example all folder restriction settings are Windows only. Traps 5.0+ does not have SAML / LDAP integration."
"It should support more mobile operating systems. That is one of the cons of their infrastructure right now."
"There's an overall lack of features."
"Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks could improve by adding a sandbox feature to better compete with their competitors which have it."
"The solution could improve by providing better integration with their own products and others."
"In reporting they should have a customizable dashboard due to the fact that C-level people don't like reporting to the IT department. They prefer to have a real-time dashboard. That kind of dashboard needs to have various customizations."
"They've been having some issues with updating their endpoint agents, and it has been quite frustrating."
"If they had pulse rate detection, it would be better."
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Check Point Harmony Endpoint is ranked 8th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 101 reviews while Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is ranked 4th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 80 reviews. Check Point Harmony Endpoint is rated 8.8, while Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is rated 8.4. 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 Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks writes "It provides a whole new level of visibility and integrates with most other vendors". Check Point Harmony Endpoint is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business and SentinelOne Singularity Complete, whereas Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, Darktrace, Symantec Endpoint Security and SentinelOne Singularity Complete. See our Check Point Harmony Endpoint vs. Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks report.
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