We performed a comparison between ESET Endpoint Security and Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: ESET Endpoint Security is highly regarded for its encryption capabilities, effortless automatic updates, and intuitive interface. Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business is commended for its extensive cross-platform protection, user-friendly interface, and compatibility with third-party software. ESET Endpoint Security has room for improvement in terms of faster threat alerts, automation, and ransomware protection. Kaspersky users requested improvements in security and stability. They also want better documentation, faster malware scanning, enhanced encryption, and improved remote management.
Service and Support: ESET's customer service is praised for its helpfulness and quick response. Users say that Kaspersky’s support is helpful and responsive, whether it comes from resellers, partners, or the vendor.
Ease of Deployment: The setup process for ESET Endpoint Security is generally regarded as effortless. Some reported that Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business is straightforward to set up, while others find it more complex and time-consuming.
Pricing: ESET Endpoint Security is considered to be reasonably priced with various licensing options. Users gave mixed feedback on the price of Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business. Some found it reasonable while others thought it was expensive.
ROI: Some reported a high ROI from ESET Endpoint Security due to cost savings, while others find it difficult to measure its effectiveness. Our reviewers said that Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business has proven to be a solid investment.
"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 product detects and blocks threats and is more proactive than firewalls."
"The stability is very good."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the analysis, because of the beta structure."
"The console is easy to read. I also like the scanning part and the ability to move assets from one to the other."
"It is stable and scalable."
"Fortinet FortiEDR's firewalling, rule creation, monitoring, and inspection profiles are great."
"The tool offers great detection. You need time only to setup the environment. After that, it is just plug-and-play to get the solution up and running. We can also control the PC remotely from the cloud and get all the information in one place."
"The solution offers impressive advanced protection."
"ESET has regular updates, and it gives me good feedback. It's not too onerous like some of the products I've used in the past."
"The pricing is good."
"They do a program where you can renew for three years. It's very reasonable, as far as the cost per year, because you can renew for three years. They will also do multiple computers, so I actually protect all my family computers, as well as my work computers, all under one license. This means I only have to deal with re-upping my license once every three years. That's the big thing for me."
"ESET Endpoint Security's best feature is that it's invisible until it detects a problem."
"The dashboard is useful for management, and its cost for the features is hard to beat."
"In terms of the current global landscape, it is a great solution."
"It has many features, like deploying a package to many clients, an MDM solution, etc."
"We have had no troubles installing, maintaining, or deploying the product for our clients."
"The solution has been quite stable. The performance is good."
"I like how it protects the network and all the endpoints."
"The initial setup was fairly simple, taking only a few minutes."
"The product is quite scalable."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the daily updates and protection from virus attacks."
"The centralized management is a nice features. It gives us the leeway to deal with other things as protection is being carried on in the background. We do not have to keep on watching as long as we have the right updates. It also saves us time."
"ZTNA can improve latency."
"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 find the solution to be a bit expensive."
"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."
"Once, we had an event that was locked and blocked, but information about it came to us two or three days later."
"The solution is not stable."
"I would like the solution to extend beyond endpoint protection and include other attack surfaces such as other network components."
"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."
"Data Leak Protection is is what we are searching for at the moment. It is not included with ESET."
"The feature is somewhat lacking in security protection."
"It would be nice to have more features in vulnerability scanning, which I believe will happen eventually."
"It can be hard to set up if you need to customize it."
"Its initial setup process could be more straightforward."
"In terms of areas for improvement, I didn't see any from ESET Endpoint Security because what's important is that it works as an antivirus solution. I do find its pricing expensive here in Hungary, so if the price could be lower, that would be good. ESET Endpoint Security is an antivirus, so it only needs to stop the virus. If it had other features, I wouldn't need it. Every program or solution has specific functions and in this case, ESET Endpoint Security is worth it as an antivirus, though in the next release of the solution, it would be better if there's some improvement in its antivirus database."
"They need to improve licensing for VMs. When ESET is uninstalled from a VM, the seat stays on the license management server. We have to manually delete the seat from that server because it doesn't know how to handle it. I contacted exclusive ESET support here in Croatia and they told me there is no solution for this yet."
"We'd like the solution to be a next generation antivirus with some sort of artificial intelligence or machine learning angle."
"The solution needs to lower its pricing."
"The solution sometimes slows down the computers of our clients, the performance needs to improve."
"It would be nice if it was less expensive."
"It would be preferable if the product were more proactive and more modern in its approach to security and protection."
"We would like it so that if a user uses it on-premises, the server should use fewer hardware resources."
"They're restricted to endpoint protection for now, I'd like to see some additional products."
"Reaching their support team can be difficult."
"Currently, it doesn't have a cloud option. This is something that they should look into going forward."
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ESET Endpoint Protection Platform is ranked 9th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 96 reviews while Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business is ranked 11th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 110 reviews. ESET Endpoint Protection Platform is rated 8.2, while Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of ESET Endpoint Protection Platform writes "Easy to set up with good security and rapidly improving capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business writes "Easy to setup, stable and good security use cases". ESET Endpoint Protection Platform is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, Check Point Harmony Endpoint and Fortinet FortiClient, whereas Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, Fortinet FortiClient, Check Point Harmony Endpoint and Bitdefender GravityZone Enterprise Security. See our ESET Endpoint Protection Platform vs. Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business report.
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