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.
"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."
"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."
"We have FortiEDR installed on all our systems. This protects them from any threats."
"Fortinet FortiEDR's firewalling, rule creation, monitoring, and inspection profiles are great."
"It is a scalable solution...The initial setup of Fortinet FortiEDR was straightforward."
"This is stable and scalable."
"The price is low and quite competitive with others."
"Fortinet is very user-friendly for customers."
"It's easy to scale as needed."
"The most important characteristic of our requirements was the implementation of disk encryption."
"The most useful feature so far has been having a functioning and up-to-date anti-malware scanner."
"With the prevention blade, Harmony scales higher than many other solutions."
"It is a stable solution. My company has not received any complaints regarding the product's stability from our customers who use the solution."
"It is quite easy to use and deploy the agent on endpoints to protect them from bad actors."
"The license plans are also very nice and distributed - allowing for a separation between types of users with more basic or more advanced options."
"Check Point Harmony Endpoint can be easily deployed and is cost effective and more secure."
"The initial setup is easy."
"I like the centralized console and the predictive analysis it does of malware. It is very stable and also scalable."
"Its ability to react to cyber data attacks is awesome. That is pretty much the use of it. What blows your mind is the ability to access your assets remotely and see what is actually going on with them. You can not only see them in a console. You can also react very rapidly to your assets that are compromised."
"Best solution for avoiding security breaches, malware attacks, and other kinds of security issues."
"The dashboard is customizable."
"Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is easy to use and does not consume a lot of hardware resources."
"The product has an intuitive dashboard."
"Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks should be a stable solution."
"FortiEDR can be improved by providing more detailed reporting."
"To improve Fortinet, we need to see more features and technology areas at the endpoint level introduced."
"I would like the solution to extend beyond endpoint protection and include other attack surfaces such as other network components."
"Making the portal mobile friendly would be helpful when I am out of office."
"The solution should address emerging threats like SQL injection."
"Detections could be improved."
"The dashboard isn't easy to access and manage."
"It takes about two business days for initial support, which is too slow in urgent situations."
"We have observed some policies are not working as expected."
"I would like to see support for a policy in the appliance that will refuse to create a connection if it does not detect an active virus scanner."
"We use a couple of Check Point products, like SmartEvent, and SandBlast Agent is not really integrated into that. We haven't gotten the reports working yet. We are working with the account team and trying. As I said, it's still relatively new in terms of what we're trying to achieve."
"An additional feature I would like to see involves the VPN."
"Check Point Harmony Endpoint could improve mobile device management (MDM)."
"They should provide bandwidth regulation, so we can monitor and regulate bandwidth."
"The next release should consider a strong threat detection mechanism that can categorize various levels of attacks for faster analysis."
"Specifically, there are gaps when it comes to security."
"We have found that there are times Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks does not detect some of the viruses, we have to use another protection solution called Kaspersky."
"The solution should force customers to integrate with network traffic to see the full benefits of XDR."
"It is not very strong in terms of endpoint management. It should have additional features like DLP, encryption, or advanced device control. Currently, Cortex is good in terms of the security of the endpoints, but it is not as good as other vendors in terms of the management of the endpoint."
"Cortex XDR should have a lightweight agent, and the agent size should not be heavy."
"I would like to see better protection, specifically to protect email applications."
"In the next release, I would like to see more UI improvements. Their UI is a bit basic. When we are speaking about Palo Alto Networks they are the big company, so they can improve the UI a little bit. The UI, the reports, the log system can all be improved."
"Being able to filter the events to see those that are related to the actual alert would save time spent by the engineer."
"In an upcoming release, the solution could improve by proving hard disk encryption. If it could support this it would be a complete solution."
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Check Point Harmony Endpoint is ranked 8th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 102 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 "Perfect correlation and XDR capabilities for network traffic plus endpoint security". 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 Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business. See our Check Point Harmony Endpoint vs. Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks report.
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