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Executive Summary
Updated on Sep 28, 2023

We compared Huntress and Webroot Business Endpoint Protection based on our users reviews.
Our conclusion is that Huntress and Webroot Business Endpoint Protection have simple and convenient setup processes. Huntress is known for its expertise in threat-hunting and its 24/7 SOC, while Webroot is praised for its user-friendly interface. Huntress could improve its reporting and integration with other solutions, while Webroot could enhance its reporting system and integrate better with reliable OTXs. Huntress has generally favorable pricing, while Webroot is considered affordable and cost-effective. Customer support for both products has received mixed feedback, with some users finding it responsive and others experiencing issues.


We primarily focused on the topics below:

  • Features: Huntress is highly regarded for its expertise in identifying threats, constant monitoring and response capabilities, automated problem-solving, and user-friendly interface. On the other hand, Webroot Business Endpoint Protection is appreciated for its simplicity, minimal resource usage, faster scanning, and cloud-based detection capabilities.
  • Pricing and ROI: Based on user feedback, the setup cost for Huntress is generally rated highly, with one user suggesting it may not be the most inexpensive option available. In contrast, Webroot Business Endpoint Protection is considered affordable and cost-effective, with users mentioning annual license costs ranging from $300 to $400. Users generally view the pricing for Webroot positively, with some noting it is cheaper than comparable solutions. Huntress has proven to be a cost-effective and efficient solution for user training, effectively preventing potential issues and delivering a positive return on investment. On the other hand, Webroot Business Endpoint Protection has led to financial benefits for its users.
  • Room for Improvement: For Huntress, users suggest improving reporting by offering more detailed device information and better integration with other antivirus solutions. They also desire more intuitive dashboards and an included antivirus solution. The UI could use some enhancements. As for Webroot Business Endpoint Protection, users recommend enhancements in the reporting system, such as the ability to run comments and take remote control. They also want better integration with reliable OTXs and multi-core architecture. The product should address issues with slowing down in Microsoft Access and provide proactive scanning and journaling features. The reports generated are criticized for lacking details. Other areas for improvement include reliability, customer support, phishing prevention, and expanding beyond just an antivirus tool.
  • Ease of Deployment and Service and Support: The setup for Huntress is reported to be a simple and direct process, requiring approximately four hours with one person. In contrast, Webroot Business Endpoint Protection is described as a fast procedure that only takes a few minutes. It also includes self-updating capabilities and can be integrated with remote management software. Huntress' customer service has been highly praised for its prompt and efficient assistance, receiving a perfect rating. On the other hand, Webroot Business Endpoint Protection has received mixed feedback. Some users have found the support to be responsive, but others have mentioned the need for a live chat feature and have experienced unresponsiveness in resolving issues.

The summary above is based on 15 interviews we conducted with Huntress and Webroot Business Endpoint Protection users. To access the interviews' full transcripts, download our report.


To learn more, read our detailed Huntress vs. Webroot Business Endpoint Protection Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Quotes From Members
We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use.
Here are some excerpts of what they said:
Pros
"Fortinet has helped free up around 20 percent of our staff's time to help us out.""The stability is very good.""I like FortiClient EMS. FortiEDR has a lot of great features like lockdown mode, remote wipes, and encryption. I can set malware outbreak policies and controls for detecting abnormalities. You can also simulate phishing attacks.""The main thing is that I feel safe. Because the processes that have been used to get a handle on the attackers are much better than other competitors""Ability to get forensics details and also memory exfiltration.""We have FortiEDR installed on all our systems. This protects them from any threats.""NGAV and EDR features are outstanding.""The price is low and quite competitive with others."

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"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten...I rate the technical support a ten out of ten.""While threat hunting is undoubtedly the most valuable feature, the combination of IP scanning, foothold identification, and canary monitoring has also proven to be incredibly beneficial.""Huntress' best feature is the threat-hunting expertise that is part of their 24/7 SOC.""Foothold detection is a valuable feature, acting as a valuable second set of eyes for both us and our clients.""I have found it valuable that this solution is always there and always armed.""The EDR product is simple to install. It is low maintenance. All the alerts go to Huntress first, and their analyst team reviews them and sends actionable things our way.""We don’t have the required staff to watch the issues that are happening. It is good to have a team from Huntress who can watch the logs 24/7. The tool’s automatic remediation is also fantastic. The solution’s interface is also nice and easy to use. The Huntress team saves us time by going through the issues.""It is incredibly efficient for our engineering team because Huntress provides all the information needed to fix issues, not just flag them."

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"They have a lot of features integrated from way back, which shows that the product developers know exactly what they're doing.""It monitors traffic and keeps us from getting ransomware or other viruses.""I like that Webroot is very lightweight. It didn't bog down the machine, and more importantly, it had heuristics artificial intelligence to some degree. It wasn't like full-blown artificial intelligence, but something where you have one endpoint recognizing issues because it maintains a cloud database. If one client recognizes a threat, it would add it to the database, and almost immediately, every agent in the world would also know about that threat. That was very appealing to us. However, now it's becoming commonplace, whereas ventures like Symantec and McAfee were based more on the traditional model of definition and updates, and we were always falling behind. Webroot also has pretty good technical support.""Valuable features include good scanning, very light footprint and management console that the client can access and (just as important) in which I can see status of groups of computers (I am a consultant, IT role).""It is excellent endpoint protection for mobiles that does everything it says it will.""Low performance requirements.""The feature we found most valuable is the AI functionality for maintaining endpoint security. This is very powerful.""The ease of use of the centralized admin console is its best asset."

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Cons
"I think cloud security and SASE are areas of concern in the product where improvements are required. The tool's cloud version has to be improved in terms of the security it offers.""The support needs improvement.""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.""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""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.""Detections could be improved.""The only minor concern is occasional interference with desired programs.""Once, we had an event that was locked and blocked, but information about it came to us two or three days later."

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"The solution's UI is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement.""One area for improvement in Huntress would be to allow for PSA integration from a specific IP address or hostname for better security measures.""In the next release, I'd like to see more intuitive dashboards.""I would like the API to be a little better. They are getting there.""I'd like Huntress to implement a component that can analyze network traffic for specific sites.""The application control system could benefit from improvements in identifying and managing both whitelisted and blacklisted applications.""The Huntress is not a standalone solution. It really needs to be used with something else such as Microsoft Defender or another antivirus solution. It would be nice to see the product fleshed out by the Huntress team and include the antivirus solution part as well. I want it to be a full-fledged XDR product. It would push the tool to a higher price range but it would be nice to see the fleshed out features. I want them to integrate more features from the XDR realm.""Huntress' Process Insights feature could benefit from more robust search and filtering capabilities."

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"I believe that Webroot Business Endpoint Protection should offer a more modern UI.""The console spins up relatively slowly, and some of the configuration items are obscure (e.g., reporting back one time per day is a default setting) and need to be tweaked.""It would be great if there was a feature which would allow you to scan an individual file on an endpoint user's computer.""The reporting is the weakest part of the Webroot console. Frequently, I export to Excel to massage something into it to pass on to others.""Its detection capability for certain attacks should be improved. It should have better and wider detection for certain malware attacks. It could also have some sort of RMN.""The only complaint I have with Webroot is its inability to prevent UoD phishing and its inability to check against bots or block anti-attacks. Plus the URL server is in zero-definition.""There needs to be more advanced analytics. It would make it a more powerful antivirus solution within the marketplace.""Reporting system could be improved."

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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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  • "The tool’s price is very good. You just need to pay for the standard license. However, you need to pay the additional cost for Microsoft Defender."
  • "I rate the product's price a five or six on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive since it is a fairly priced product."
  • "The pricing is competitive, in line with Huntress's offerings, and aligns well with our business model."
  • "It is simple. It is reasonable. They raised my prices this year. We never like price increases, but they continue to add value, so we just keep adding agents as we grow and as our clients grow."
  • "While other options have emerged since Huntress' arrival, I believe it still offers the best value for the features and services it provides."
  • "Huntress is priced fairly for the services and value it provides."
  • "It is fair. They provide good value for the product that they deliver. I have had one price increase in the entire time I have used them. They added a bunch of features and then said that they have to increase our price a little bit. That is a fair way to handle it."
  • "The pricing model for Huntress is similar to competitors and is charged per endpoint."
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  • "Our strategy was to overestimate the complexity and cost. It turned out that Webroot's assurance was justified."
  • "Get a trial, then a multi-year license."
  • "We evaluate other options using multiple choices, best value, management and functionality."
  • "Work on a price tier plan."
  • "If you purchase for clients, then you are the managing billing entity. It's better to either get a monthly subscription check from your clients, or to prepay for the year (so as to not keep cash in reserve to pay the bill each month) IMHO."
  • "I can't recall the exact pricing, but I believe there is a monthly fee of $20-30 per user."
  • "The solution is pretty cheap, actually. At our level, which is at 2,500 endpoints, we're paying 87 cents an agent per month."
  • "The solution doesn't cost too much. It's about 30 Euros a year for each endpoint. It's pretty affordable for us and for many other companies."
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    Comparisons
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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.

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    Webroot SecureAnywhere Business Endpoint Protection offers a unique security approach that protects against threats across numerous vectors; including email, web browsing, file attachments, hyperlinks, display ads, social media apps, and connected devices like USB drives, as well as other blended threats with the potential to deliver malicious payloads. SecureAnywhere Business Endpoint Protection is fully cloud-based management, means no on-premises hardware or software is needed and the console is always up to date and there are no definitions or signatures to deploy and manage. Webroot SecureAnywhere Business Endpoint Protection offers highly accurate and effective endpoint malware prevention with a range of additional security shield capabilities that keep both the user and the device safe, Malware detection occurs continuously in real time, so performance issues fade away.

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    Comms Service Provider11%
    Manufacturing Company11%
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    Government8%
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    Large Enterprise34%
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    Buyer's Guide
    Huntress vs. Webroot Business Endpoint Protection
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    Find out what your peers are saying about Huntress vs. Webroot Business Endpoint Protection and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    Huntress is ranked 13th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 12 reviews while Webroot Business Endpoint Protection is ranked 34th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 30 reviews. Huntress is rated 9.4, while Webroot Business Endpoint Protection is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Huntress writes "Is the easiest tool we've ever deployed, is cost-effective, and significantly improved our security posture". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Webroot Business Endpoint Protection writes "Lightweight and not hard to set up however, does not offer good reporting". Huntress is most compared with SentinelOne Vigilance, Blackpoint Cyber MDR, CrowdStrike Falcon Complete, Arctic Wolf Managed Detection and Response and Malwarebytes, whereas Webroot Business Endpoint Protection is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, Intercept X Endpoint, SentinelOne Singularity Complete and Bitdefender GravityZone Enterprise Security. See our Huntress vs. Webroot Business Endpoint Protection report.

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