We performed a comparison between Check Point Harmony Endpoint and Fortinet FortiClient 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."The setup is pretty simple."
"Fortinet FortiEDR's scalability is quite good, and you can add licenses to the solution."
"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."
"The price is low and quite competitive with others."
"We have FortiEDR installed on all our systems. This protects them from any threats."
"Fortinet FortiEDR's firewalling, rule creation, monitoring, and inspection profiles are great."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the analysis, because of the beta structure."
"We had a ransomware attack and the SandBlast agent automatically picked up the ransomware."
"The dashboard is user-friendly and easy to understand."
"The license plans are also very nice and distributed - allowing for a separation between types of users with more basic or more advanced options."
"Resource overheads have been reduced and we are overall more secure as a business."
"We have found the stability to be very reliable."
"Information is easily managed and protected (which is particularly useful in lost or stolen endpoints)."
"The solution has good threat intelligence features."
"Deploying new versions of the endpoint are easy."
"There is a lot of documentation available online."
"Fortinet FortiClient's scalability is very good because it has no limitations."
"The service is centralized."
"When the user gets authenticated, I can assign a different VPN or network to each user."
"From my perspective as an end user, it's consistently stable, and I would rate the stability as a nine out of ten."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiClient are ease of use and simple configuration."
"It is very easy and useful. A normal user with basic information can easily connect to any environment."
"We find the VPN features valuable."
"The solution is not stable."
"We've encountered challenges during API deployment, occasionally resulting in unstable environments."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Detections could be improved."
"Once, we had an event that was locked and blocked, but information about it came to us two or three days later."
"There was a learning curve for our general population of employees (the user)."
"From an improvement perspective, the major challenge we've faced with Harmony is the support."
"Some of the less tech-savvy users sometimes find it difficult in adjusting and learning how to use the platform."
"We did have some early compatibility issues, which I hope Check Point has since resolved."
"If you're using an endpoint that does not have sufficient resources, it would be very tough to use."
"We would like to make the documentation for more modern solutions like the Harmony family easier to find."
"I would like to see is this same solution being able to link with the services of different corporate networks as if they were a remote access VPN extension and thus not require additional licenses."
"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."
"I don't think FortiClient is bad, but it's very buggy. We ran into some issues with the EMS, which amounted to more than 10 cases last year."
"Working with Distribution sometimes comes at a cost due to a lack of knowledge of the current status of your licensing and products."
"While I cannot think of new features to add, it would be nice if the reports were improved, to have these sent automatically."
"The documentation could be improved."
"While we like patch management, it would be nice if it could handle patch management for other solutions, like Microsoft."
"When we change our endpoint, we have to connect again, which means having to enter our credentials and permissions."
"I heard that Fortinet is going to enhance the firmware to have mobile versions. One is like Linux long-term support SCS and one with new features, but there is no support here. We spoke with the vendor multiple times, and they said that they will release these features soon."
"Occasionally, the solution may provide a slow connection. In addition, there may be initialization and authorization issues that one may need to take care of while using the solution."
Check Point Harmony Endpoint is ranked 8th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 104 reviews while Fortinet FortiClient is ranked 15th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 86 reviews. Check Point Harmony Endpoint is rated 8.8, while Fortinet FortiClient is rated 8.0. 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 Fortinet FortiClient writes "Easy to set up and user-friendly with good support ". Check Point Harmony Endpoint is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business and SentinelOne Singularity Complete, whereas Fortinet FortiClient is most compared with OpenVPN Access Server, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Azure VPN Gateway, Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business and Ivanti Connect Secure. See our Check Point Harmony Endpoint vs. Fortinet FortiClient report.
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