Fortinet FortiEDR Initial Setup
It is very easy to set up. I would rate my experience with the initial setup a ten out of ten, with ten being very easy to set up.
It is very user-friendly and easy to manage. The deployment process is quick and easy, especially in new environments.
It's very fast and straightforward.
View full review »I rate FortiEDR an eight out of ten for ease of setup. The console is easy to set up, and there are ample tutorials on YouTube about how to do it. A 10-year-old could probably configure it accurately.
FortiEDR is typically deployed on-prem for top SMB clients and multinational enterprises. We may use it on the cloud for our smaller clients. The deployment process involves scoping, due diligence, configuration, and testing. We have a detailed internal process at my company. Deployment requires two staff members.
View full review »The setup is pretty simple. The deployment takes less than one month. For the most part, the setup process is pretty reasonable and not complex.
We have a few people that are able to handle the deployment and maintenance.
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Fortinet FortiEDR
April 2024
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reviewer1728366
Owner at a security firm with 1-10 employees
The initial setup is complex compared to stuff like CrowdStrike or other products where you can just sign up and download and it, and it works.
It's a little bit more complex with FortiEDR because you're dealing with the setup and management of it, whereas in products like CrowdStrike, it's pretty automatic and it's just a question of a radio button to turn on or turn off additional features that you may want.
For example, going EDR to XDR or going EDR to MDR in CrowdStrike, you can do that in Fortinet but you have to implement FortiSOAR and all this other stuff.
Initially the setup took us a while, simply because we had to mess around with the client. We are talking weeks because we had to test and make sure that there were no performance issues and no interruptions in the flow of data, etc...
That took us probably five, six weeks to get up in a POC type environment. Once we got that, it's cookie cutter. You have an image that you deploy that already has that compiled in it, and it works pretty easily.
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FarooqSarwar
Director at Solution n Services
The initial setup was relatively straightforward. I would rate it eight out of ten.
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Horst Hoffmann
System Engineer at StockFood GmbH
Installation is straightforward.
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reviewer861352
Assistant Director at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
The initial deployment was complex, but that is expected in any firewall environment.
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Nenad Jošić
Project Coordinator at ELECTUS
We are a technical crew. Therefore, we had nice training, and everything worked quite well. We are satisfied with the process. It's not too difficult. That said, you must have knowledge of the product if you want to do an implementation for this kind of device. On a scale of one to ten, it's a seven. It's okay.
View full review »We didn't have any major problems during the installation while in monitoring mode. Issues arose, causing a lot of overhead, when we enabled the prevention mode and started seeing those false positives.
If we're looking strictly at the setup, there weren't any problems. I'd rate my experience with it an eight out of ten, with ten being easy and one being difficult to set up.
The implementation itself was fine, but we experienced a lot of frustration due to the overhead of those false positives. We had to dedicate someone to constantly monitor and allow legitimate traffic. This created a negative experience with FortiEDR.
View full review »I rate Fortinet FortiEDR a six out of ten for the ease of its initial setup. The engineers had some trouble setting up the solution, and they had to contact Fortinet to get some help.
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Samuel Hung
Sales manager at Scantech Solution Limited
It is not easy to set up Fortinet FortiEDR. It takes more than a day to complete the installations and configurations.
View full review »The product's initial setup phase is very easy.
The solution is deployed on an on-premises model.
The time required to deploy the solution depends on the needs of our company's customers. My company's engineers handle the product's deployment area. It takes around a month to deploy the solution.
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reviewer2173302
Security Analyst at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup requires a lot of communication with the business to gather and clarify requirements.
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DeAndre Valentine
Senior Network Administrator at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
The initial setup was straightforward. There were no complexities.
The deployment didn't take long at all. It took more time to create a Cylance install and push-out to the network to do anything. It didn't really take that much time. It was no problem.
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HarpreetSingh2
Information Technology Support Specialist at Chemtrade Logistics
The initial setup was simple. The deployment time depends on how big the implementation is. Ours is a big organization. It took us a week to deploy to our systems, and that's obviously because we were pushing those agents. Some of our sites are so remote that they can only have 1MB lines. So, when you push the agent, it obviously takes time.
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reviewer1636572
Cybersecurity Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The initial setup is straightforward. The deployment configuration is straightforward.
View full review »I would rate the solution's setup an eight out of ten. We have deployed the solution on the cloud and on-prem. The tool's deployment took three weeks to complete.
View full review »Setting up FortiEDR isn't difficult.
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reviewer2278146
Network Engineer at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees
The initial setup of Fortinet FortiEDR was straightforward.
The solution is deployed on an on-premises model.
From what I remember, the product's deployment process did not take too long.
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Leo Veroy
Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
It is straightforward to set up and easy to deploy.
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Sascha Mladek
System Admin at Kuratorium Wiener Pensionisten-Wohnhäuser
The initial setup is a little complicated. We have three admins currently involved.
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SUDHANSHU PATHAK
Manager Networking Solutions at CCS Computer's Pvt Ltd
The solution's initial setup is very straightforward.
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Ryan Wong
Network & Cyber Security Specialist at HKICL
The initial setup is complex. I give the deployment a three out of ten.
We are still in the process of deploying the solution.
View full review »The initial setup is pretty easy and I would rate it an eight out of ten.
View full review »The management is cloud-based so it was easy to just install agents and go after opening a firewall to our dedicated IP.
View full review »The deployment can be done in one week. We have configured it within a week. It takes generally three people to set it up. I supervise the team.
View full review »The initial setup was very straightforward.
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Fortinet FortiEDR
April 2024
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