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We performed a comparison between CylanceOPTICS and WatchGuard Threat Detection and Response based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
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Pros
"Forensics is a valuable feature of Fortinet FortiEDR.""Fortinet FortiEDR's scalability is quite good, and you can add licenses to the solution.""The stability is very good.""The solution was relatively easy to deploy.""It is a scalable solution...The initial setup of Fortinet FortiEDR was straightforward.""Ability to get forensics details and also memory exfiltration.""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.""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."

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"It is a bit early in our evaluation process to give proper feedback, although so far, the overall feedback is good.""I would rate the stability a nine out of ten. I would give it a close ten as possible because, like SentinelOne, I've seen incompatibility. Whereas Cylance, I've seen none.""Cylance is not a signature-based protection solution and instead works proactively using AI and ML models to patrol for malicious behavior.""The initial setup was fairly straightforward. To get a large health care organization sorted, we had to create exemptions because some of the scripts and some of the automations were broken.""It automatically blocks the threats, helping us investigate if they harm the environment.""CylanceOPTICS is easy to use.""CylanceOPTICS is pretty stable.""It's pretty unintrusive"

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"The interface is very good.""When you download the executable file from the internet, it automatically sandboxes to make sure it's not doing anything incorrectly.""The analytics are important because if there is an abnormality then it provides that information to us.""WatchGuard is very user-friendly. It provides us with all of the security services we need.""The basic functionality is fantastic. It has been performing well. I generated a report on one machine, using that as the deployment machine. When scanning the network, it discovered machines on the network and deployed the same endpoint protection from that one machine I have on my network.""The protection that it provides from ransomware is valuable. The awareness that it has is also valuable. It didn't have a central console earlier, but now it has a central console, which is pretty good.""WatchGuard Threat Detection and Response is a reliable solution.""The most valuable feature, in my opinion, is the dimension logging platform and the network traffic filtering."

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Cons
"FortiEDR could add a separate scanning dashboard. In incident management, we prefer to remove the endpoint system from the environment and scan the system. We typically use Symantec for that, but if we want to use FortiEDR for that, then we need a scanning tab to clarify things.""The EDR console should have more extensive reporting. You shouldn't need to purchase FortiAnalyzer. It should be included in the EDR part. The security adviser cloud platform could be improved with more options for exclusive or intensive rules for devices.""There's room for improvement in the quick response time and technical support for integration issues, especially when dealing with multiple vendors.""Integration with Azure and SaaS provisioning tools could improve Fortinet FortiEDR.""I would like the solution to extend beyond endpoint protection and include other attack surfaces such as other network components.""FortiEDR can be improved by providing more detailed reporting.""It takes about two business days for initial support, which is too slow in urgent situations.""We've encountered challenges during API deployment, occasionally resulting in unstable environments."

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"Our customers would like to see more automation with respect to how threats are handled once they have been detected.""The reporting is very weak and not very good at all.""The product's technical support is slow.""The product's initial setup process could be easy.""The detection component is something that they have to work on.""The tools are ineffective. It flags a lot of things. To give you an example, it detected Google Chrome and blocked the user's access to it. That it mistook for malicious, which turned out to be a false positive.""One minor issue that somebody mentioned was that they didn't like their management console.""The technical support could be improved although it's probably better than you get with a lot of the other traditional antivirus solutions"

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"I'd like a few extra features, especially around threat severity assessment.""The interface is not the best.""It can have a couple of false positives, but after you add them to your allow list, it works fine. It could have better Mac support. I am pretty sure it doesn't have much support for Mac. It can be installed on a Mac, but it is not that good.""The reporting isn't so good. If they worked to improve this aspect of the solution, it would be much stronger.""The administrative UI/UX could be significantly improved.""The solution is a bit confusing and there are unusual complications with setup.""When it comes to live-monitoring, the user-interface could be improved to make things easier.""The website must provide more information on the product."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "I know it is tough to get big budget additions up front, but I highly recommend deploying environment wide and adding the forensic service."
  • "There are no issues with the pricing."
  • "The price is comprable to other endpoint security solutions."
  • "The pricing is typical for enterprises and fairly priced."
  • "I'm not familiar with pricing, but it looks a bit costly compared to other vendors I think."
  • "The pricing is good."
  • "I would rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten."
  • "The hardware costs about €100,000 and about €20,000 annually for access."
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  • "We pay for the number of endpoints we have and that is about it. On a monthly basis, the licensing cost is $55 per user."
  • "I would rate the pricing a three out of five."
  • "The pricing for CylanceOPTICS is very good; I would rate it around a nine on a scale of one to ten, with ten being the lowest. It's one of the most affordable options I've seen."
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  • "The pricing is competitive."
  • "There is a license required to use the solution and we pay annually. The price could be reduced because it is a bit expensive."
  • "The price of WatchGuard is very good."
  • "The solution is a bit more expensive than other options."
  • "The price is very good."
  • "The price is comparable."
  • "The solution is cheap."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:I suggest Fortinet’s FortiEDR over FortiClient for several reasons. For starters, FortiEDR guarantees solid protection… more »
    Top Answer:The product's initial setup phase is very easy.
    Top Answer:Fortinet FortiEDR is available at a very competitive price compared to the other products in the market. Customers also… more »
    Top Answer:I would rate the stability a nine out of ten. I would give it a close ten as possible because, like SentinelOne, I've… more »
    Top Answer:The pricing for CylanceOPTICS is very good; I would rate it around a nine on a scale of one to ten, with ten being the… more »
    Top Answer:CylanceOPTICS could benefit from more granular control in the timeline-building process. Ideally, users would be able to… more »
    Top Answer:The interface is not the best. I do not like it. The reports must also be improved.
    Top Answer:We use the solution to protect our systems. We also use it for real-time detection.
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    Overview

    Fortinet FortiEDR is a real-time endpoint protection, detection, and automated response solution. Its primary purpose is to detect advanced threats to stop breaches and ransomware damage. It is designed to do so in real time, even on an already compromised device, allowing you to respond and remediate incidents automatically so your data can remain protected.

    Fortinet FortiEDR Features

    Fortinet FortiEDR has many valuable key features, including:

    • Easily customizable
    • Real-time proactive risk mitigation & IoT security
    • Pre-infection protection
    • Post-infection protection
    • Track applications and ratings
    • Reduce the attack surface with risk-based proactive policies
    • Achieve analysis of entire log history
    • Optional managed detection and response (MDR) service

    Fortinet FortiEDR Benefits

    Some of the key benefits of using Fortinet FortiEDR include:

    • Protection: Fortinet FortiEDR provides proactive, real-time, automated endpoint protection with the orchestrated incident response across platforms. It stops the breach with real-time postinfection blocking to protect data from exfiltration and ransomware encryption.

    • Single unified console: Fortinet FortiEDR has a single unified console with an intuitive interface, which makes management easier. The solution automates mundane endpoint security tasks so your employees don’t need to do it.

    • Cost savings: With Fortinet FortiEDR you can eliminate post-breach operational expenses and breach damage costs.

    • Flexibility: Fortinet FortiEDR can be deployed on premises or on a secure cloud instance. With Fortinet FortiEDR, endpoints are protected both on- and off-line.

    • Scalability: Because Fortinet can be deployed quickly and has a small footprint, it is easy to scale up to protect hundreds of thousand endpoints.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by Fortinet FortiEDR users.

    An Owner at a security firm says, "The features that I have found most valuable are the ability to customize it and to reduce its size. It lets you run in a very small window in terms of memory and resources on legacy cash registers. The customer has literally about 800 cash registers. That was the use case for Fortinet FortiEDR - to get that down into a tiny space. The only way to do that was to use this product because it had that ability to unbundle services that were a surplus.”

    Chandan M., Chief Technical Officer at Provision Technologies LLP, mentions, “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.” He also adds, “The security is also very good and the firewall response is good.”

    Harpreet S., Information Technology Support Specialist at Chemtrade Logistics, explains, "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."

    DeAndre V., Senior Network Administrator at a financial services firm, states, “The dashboard is easy to follow and use. The deployment and uninstalling were easy. I like the detailed information about the path of a file that might be suspicious. Being able to check that out was easy to follow. Exceptions are easy to create and the interface is easy to follow with a nice appearance.

    Our cloud-native BlackBerry® Optics provide visibility, on-device threat detection and remediation across your organization. In milliseconds. And our EDR approach effectively and efficiently hunts threats while eliminating response latency. It’s the difference between a minor security event—and one that’s widespread and uncontrolled.

    Hackers are designing malware to be more sophisticated than ever. Through packing, encryption, and polymorphism, cyber criminals are able to disguise their attacks to avoid detection. Zero day threats and advanced malware easily slip by antivirus solutions that are simply too slow to respond to the constant stream of emerging threats. Organizations of all sizes need a solution that leverages a holistic approach to security from the network to the endpoint. WatchGuard Threat Detection and Response (TDR) is a powerful collection of advanced malware defense tools that correlate threat indicators from Firebox appliances and Host Sensors to stop known, unknown and evasive malware threats.

    Sample Customers
    Financial, Healthcare, Legal, Technology, Enterprise, Manufacturing ... 
    Cerdant, Washoe County School District
    Goodwill New York / New Jersey, F4 IT, Café Comunicação Integrada
    Top Industries
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    Financial Services Firm21%
    Comms Service Provider11%
    Manufacturing Company11%
    Pharma/Biotech Company5%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company16%
    Government8%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Financial Services Firm8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Manufacturing Company19%
    Computer Software Company15%
    University8%
    Financial Services Firm8%
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    Computer Software Company19%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Comms Service Provider9%
    Construction Company7%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business50%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise34%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business31%
    Midsize Enterprise19%
    Large Enterprise50%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business50%
    Midsize Enterprise20%
    Large Enterprise30%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business21%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise66%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business75%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business39%
    Midsize Enterprise21%
    Large Enterprise40%
    Buyer's Guide
    CylanceOPTICS vs. WatchGuard Threat Detection and Response
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about CylanceOPTICS vs. WatchGuard Threat Detection and Response and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    CylanceOPTICS is ranked 34th in EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response) with 10 reviews while WatchGuard Threat Detection and Response is ranked 29th in EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response) with 12 reviews. CylanceOPTICS is rated 7.6, while WatchGuard Threat Detection and Response is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of CylanceOPTICS writes "Enables the isolation and inoculation of infected machines, offering a practical solution for dealing with threats and preventing their spread within the environment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WatchGuard Threat Detection and Response writes "Offers deployment simplicity, especially for firewalls and firewall configuration and good documentation available ". CylanceOPTICS is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, whereas WatchGuard Threat Detection and Response is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, Intercept X Endpoint, Darktrace and Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks. See our CylanceOPTICS vs. WatchGuard Threat Detection and Response report.

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