We performed a comparison between Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks vs Trend Micro Apex One based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Users of both solutions were satisfied with deployments, features, and technical support. However, users seem to favor Cortex XDR due to its affordable price.
"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."
"The price is low and quite competitive with others."
"We have FortiEDR installed on all our systems. This protects them from any threats."
"The most valuable feature is the analysis, because of the beta structure."
"This is stable and scalable."
"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."
"Having all monitoring, response, tracking, and mitigation tools in one dashboard provides our analysts and SOC team with a comprehensive view at a glance."
"Exceptions are easy to create and the interface is easy to follow with a nice appearance."
"The dashboard is customizable."
"The information the dashboard provides is very clear."
"It's very stable. I've never experienced downtime for the ASM console or ASM core."
"Their XDR agent and their behavioral indicators of compromise (BIOC) are pretty nice. Their managed threat hunting is also pretty nice. They also have WildFire, which is a service for actively looking for malware. It's quite useful."
"The most valuable features are the fact that it was running in the background and it would intercept any weird stuff, and the fact that it would send things directly to the cloud for sandboxing. It's quite practical."
"The product has an intuitive dashboard."
"Being a cloud solution it is very flexible in serving internal and external connections and a broad range of devices."
"From a single pane of glass, you can easily manage all of your endpoints."
"The scalability is perfect."
"The most valuable feature is the behavior monitoring."
"The solution is stable and integrated into the system quite well."
"This is a very stable product and we plan to continue using it."
"Its real-time features are valuable. It is in real-time, and it works fine."
"The cloud-based management portal was okay."
"The product has proven to be very flexible over the years that we have had it."
"I think this is the best solution in the category of endpoint protection, it's really excellent. It's better than McAfee."
"We've encountered challenges during API deployment, occasionally resulting in unstable environments."
"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."
"FortiEDR can be improved by providing more detailed reporting."
"The SIEM could be improved."
"The only minor concern is occasional interference with desired programs."
"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"
"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."
"If they had pulse rate detection, it would be better."
"It should support more mobile operating systems. That is one of the cons of their infrastructure right now."
"We would also like to have advanced tech protection and email scanning."
"The solution could improve by providing better integration with their own products and others."
"It tends to do 99.9% of things. The only thing I'd like is single sign-on authentication into their cloud platform so that my users can be properly authenticated against it."
"Although I would say this product is highly-rated, it could probably do more because nothing does everything that you want."
"In terms of areas of improvement, we have not completed our review of the product. We're also looking at other products. So, it's a little bit hard to tell what could be different because we have not completed the review of this product, but based on our experience so far, its implementation is quite complex."
"The playbooks could be improved to include more functionalities or actions."
"When I was setting this up for one of my clients, I was not able to deploy the DLP."
"I would like to see better reporting."
"I am expecting an Apple featured IDLP solution with OfficeScan, where we have only IDLP. Also, the ADR functionality in our Office Scan solution would be a nice addition. Genrally, the ADR solutions are the only failed ends of the solutions we have found with Trend Micro."
"The policies tend to be a bit more complex to set up, so we do need some expertise in setting up the policies."
"We have received many complaints about how slow the system is on the first day of implementation."
"The reporting can be improved. We'd like to have had broader insights as to what was happening on a machine."
"Apex One has some room for improvement on the agent side. I want to get more from the logs and those kinds of things. I want to see whether the agent has the proper updates or any issues with the machine itself."
"Apex One uses a lot of RAM and other physical resources, and I also don't like the web interface."
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Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is ranked 4th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 80 reviews while Trend Micro Apex One is ranked 6th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 124 reviews. Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is rated 8.4, while Trend Micro Apex One is rated 8.2. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Trend Micro Apex One writes "Good monitoring and server protection with helpful machine learning". Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, Darktrace, Symantec Endpoint Security and SentinelOne Singularity Complete, whereas Trend Micro Apex One is most compared with Trend Micro Deep Security, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Trend Micro Smart Protection, CrowdStrike Falcon and SentinelOne Singularity Complete. See our Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks vs. Trend Micro Apex One report.
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