We performed a comparison between Check Point Harmony Endpoint and Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Because Check Point Harmony can require more resources to run, making Cortex XDR the ultimate winner in this comparison.
"Fortinet has helped free up around 20 percent of our staff's time to help us out."
"The setup is pretty simple."
"Fortinet is very user-friendly for customers."
"It is stable and scalable."
"The solution was relatively easy to deploy."
"NGAV and EDR features are outstanding."
"This is stable and scalable."
"We have FortiEDR installed on all our systems. This protects them from any threats."
"The real-time threat prevention capabilities stand out as a fortress against malware, ransomware, and evolving cyber threats, offering a proactive defense that safeguards our organization's critical assets."
"The solution has good threat intelligence features."
"Its ability to rollback anti-ransomware once an attack has started is the most valuable feature."
"It scans all the endpoints in your cloud and on-premises for vulnerabilities, threats, and malware attacks."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the VPN."
"It offers complete endpoint protection for all assets."
"The end-user facilities for managing the tool are good."
"One of the strengths of Harmony is its power to detect threats and keep us safe."
"Stability is one of the features we like the most."
"The user interface of the solution is sophisticated and straightforward."
"It blocks malicious files. It prevents attacks. It doesn't require many updates, it's a very light application."
"Best solution for avoiding security breaches, malware attacks, and other kinds of security issues."
"The most valuable features are the fact that it was running in the background and it would intercept any weird stuff, and the fact that it would send things directly to the cloud for sandboxing. It's quite practical."
"WildFire AI is the best option for this product."
"One of the things that I enjoy the most is using policy extensions. It's like having host firewalls to control USB connections. I think it's a wonderful tool to restrict use when connecting to our computers. Another important tool is Home Insights. That is an add-on to the Cortex solution. I like that because we can see all the vulnerabilities in the environment and control what assets are connected to our network."
"Cortex covers everything I need. It's a perfect solution. Cortex provides a different level of visibility because it's an extended EDR, allowing you to grab logs from the network and firewalls. Palo Alto invented the concept of the extended EDR or XDR."
"Once, we had an event that was locked and blocked, but information about it came to us two or three days later."
"We've encountered challenges during API deployment, occasionally resulting in unstable environments."
"I would like the solution to extend beyond endpoint protection and include other attack surfaces such as other network components."
"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."
"We find the solution to be a bit expensive."
"There's room for improvement in the quick response time and technical support for integration issues, especially when dealing with multiple vendors."
"It takes about two business days for initial support, which is too slow in urgent situations."
"The support needs improvement."
"Check Point offers solutions with only a few features for our company's customers' sites."
"I would like to see more automation."
"Check Point users a pattern-based security module, which is something that can be improved."
"We have observed some policies are not working as expected."
"There are still functionalities that I have not been able to fully test and I would like to spend more time using the tool before offering an opinion to the IT Central community on this point."
"There should be some way of managing this solution outside the organization's network, possibly with some type of remote access. For example, if I'm the admin of Check Point who manages the entire network, I would like to have access on my home device or maybe a mobile app to get reports, etc."
"For the future, I would like to see maybe a content-filtering emulation feature in Harmony Endpoint."
"It gives you an alert for malicious sites, which, after searching on the Google database, don't come out to be the same."
"The server sometimes stops continuously to check things so it would be helpful to receive access updates or technical reasons."
"There are some third-party solutions that are difficult to integrate with, which is something that can be improved."
"The playbooks could be improved to include more functionalities or actions."
"There is a severe gap in functionality between Windows, Linux, and Mac versions. For example all folder restriction settings are Windows only. Traps 5.0+ does not have SAML / LDAP integration."
"It is not very strong in terms of endpoint management. It should have additional features like DLP, encryption, or advanced device control. Currently, Cortex is good in terms of the security of the endpoints, but it is not as good as other vendors in terms of the management of the endpoint."
"Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks could improve by adding a sandbox feature to better compete with their competitors which have it."
"There are a large number of false positives."
"It should support more mobile operating systems. That is one of the cons of their infrastructure right now."
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Check Point Harmony Endpoint is ranked 8th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 104 reviews while Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is ranked 4th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 80 reviews. Check Point Harmony Endpoint is rated 8.8, while Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Check Point Harmony Endpoint writes "Excellent anti-ransomware protection, zero-day phishing protection, and web browsing filtering". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks writes "Perfect correlation and XDR capabilities for network traffic plus endpoint security". Check Point Harmony Endpoint is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business and SentinelOne Singularity Complete, whereas Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, Darktrace, Symantec Endpoint Security and Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business. See our Check Point Harmony Endpoint vs. Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks report.
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