We performed a comparison between ESET Endpoint Protection Platform and Malwarebytes based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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."
"The most valuable feature is the analysis, because of the beta structure."
"Fortinet has helped free up around 20 percent of our staff's time to help us out."
"It is a scalable solution...The initial setup of Fortinet FortiEDR was straightforward."
"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 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 price is low and quite competitive with others."
"It is stable and scalable."
"It hasn't crashed a single time, so it is stable in that sense."
"The solution is very lightweight and does not consume that much processor in terms of CPU utilization. The centralized management system is very good."
"The tools and the features available with this solution are very competitive. It is always updated to prevent upcoming attacks."
"ESET is the fastest solution on the market. It's also highly reliable. On top of the base configuration, you can set it to respond to events such as ransomware detection with network isolation and other automatic tasks. Our customers prefer ESET because it's reliable, fast, and light on system resources."
"I like everything about ESET Endpoint Security, and as an installer, it's very easy to install the solution, but the most important feature is that it helps defend against any virus. When the virus comes, ESET Endpoint Security stops it."
"Advanced level endpoint firewall, which helps to block unwanted and malicious traffic."
"I have found ESET Endpoint Antivirus is light on system resources compared with other antivirus solutions that tend to be very heavy on the computers system resources. Additionally, the solution is very secure."
"The software and hardware inventory that you can create by using the console is valuable. It is also very light on hardware resources."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that I can use it wherever I want, be it at the office, at home, or even outside."
"The solution is very good at scanning."
"The product provides notifications for suspicious events. We have several public access points. The product helps to prevent unauthorized entry. Its most valuable features are pre-installation procedures and a cloud console. The console's interface is simple and can be viewed easily to take action. It covers everything in terms of security threats."
"It's very versatile and thorough."
"The installation process is very easy, especially since it is on the cloud."
"Provides successful ransomware shut down operations."
"The most valuable features of Malwarebytes are the agents, user experience, efficiency of the findings, and MDR features."
"The most valuable features of Malwarebytes are the EDR and the complete feature set provided."
"I haven't seen the use of AI in the solution."
"Cannot be used on mobile devices with a secure connection."
"The solution is not stable."
"The support needs improvement."
"We've encountered challenges during API deployment, occasionally resulting in unstable environments."
"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."
"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."
"ZTNA can improve latency."
"ESET Endpoint Antivirus could improve the mobile device experience by having more coverage."
"We do get false positives."
"I used Avira previously and ESET lacks certain aspects in comparison to Avira."
"We would like to see more options in the help menu for users."
"They can improve ransomware protection, and there should be cloud sandboxing for Mac."
"The solution includes only Intrusion Detection and not IPS, which is an important feature that is missing in my version."
"I would like for ESET to create a central management solution. This would make it practical to use the internet for medium-sized networks."
"We have experienced some problems with the actualization of some endpoints. We then have to manually reinstall the version on these endpoints."
"It would be better if updates could be downloaded, and deployed, on-premises to avoid low bandwidth causing issues."
"Notifications are lacking."
"Malwarebytes should improve its mobile compatibility."
"Malwarebytes can improve its network database. Malwarebytes can scan the files and registry. It can scan the system with a light agent. It will not impact the performance of your PC. You can do the full scan and database scan using the EDR, and the RAM and CPU consumption will not increase."
"I would like to see integration with other vendors going forward."
"They could come up with better reporting capabilities."
"The online reporting needs to be improved. Currently, we have to look at it online, and if we want to download a report, it just downloads as an Excel file. It's just raw information. There needs to be some way to better display it when it's downloaded."
"The product is a little bit more expensive than the other brands."
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ESET Endpoint Protection Platform is ranked 9th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 96 reviews while Malwarebytes is ranked 28th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 33 reviews. ESET Endpoint Protection Platform is rated 8.2, while Malwarebytes 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 Malwarebytes writes "Intuitive, easy to use, and does a good job of catching and stopping things for the most part and has a unique rollback feature". ESET Endpoint Protection Platform is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business, CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne Singularity Complete and Fortinet FortiClient, whereas Malwarebytes is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, HP Wolf Security and Huntress. See our ESET Endpoint Protection Platform vs. Malwarebytes report.
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