We performed a comparison between Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks and ESET Endpoint Security based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Although both solutions received high marks from users, Cortex XDR reviewers feel that it is an expensive product. ESET Endpoint Security is the winner in this comparison since its reviewers feel that it is a cost-effective solution.
"It is a scalable solution...The initial setup of Fortinet FortiEDR was straightforward."
"Ability to get forensics details and also memory exfiltration."
"Forensics is a valuable feature of Fortinet FortiEDR."
"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."
"Having all monitoring, response, tracking, and mitigation tools in one dashboard provides our analysts and SOC team with a comprehensive view at a glance."
"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."
"Exceptions are easy to create and the interface is easy to follow with a nice appearance."
"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 product's most valuable features are massive user and feature intelligence exploit detection."
"Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks should be a stable solution."
"WildFire AI is the best option for this product."
"The product has an intuitive dashboard."
"The most valuable for us is the correlation feature."
"From a single pane of glass, you can easily manage all of your endpoints."
"After deploying Traps, we saw the performance of the network improve by 65 to 70 percent."
"Their XDR agent and their behavioral indicators of compromise (BIOC) are pretty nice. Their managed threat hunting is also pretty nice. They also have WildFire, which is a service for actively looking for malware. It's quite useful."
"The most valuable feature of ESET Endpoint Security performance."
"It's easy to set up and quick to deploy."
"The ability to push policies and also to restrict an installation or to restrict any form of threat within the policy has been quite useful."
"The performance of the solution is very good it does not impact my hardware and is user-friendly."
"The administration is its most valuable feature as I can see all versions in one place."
"Primarily used to protect computers from viruses and ransomware."
"The tool protects everything."
"ESET provides good protection."
"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."
"Making the portal mobile friendly would be helpful when I am out of office."
"The dashboard isn't easy to access and manage."
"The solution should address emerging threats like SQL injection."
"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."
"I would like the solution to extend beyond endpoint protection and include other attack surfaces such as other network components."
"They can include the automation for the realtime updates. We have a network infrastructure with remote sites. Whenever they send updates, they are not automated. We have to go into the console and push those updates. I wish it was more automated. The update file is currently around 31 MB. It could be smaller."
"ZTNA can improve latency."
"I would like to see them include NDR (Network Detection Response)."
"I would like to see some additional features related to email protection included."
"Limited remote connection."
"The product's pricing needs improvement. They could provide more discounts. Additionally, the dashboard and control panel could be enhanced."
"In general, the price could be more competitive."
"When it comes to core analysis, and security analysis, Cortex needs to provide more information."
"In terms of areas of improvement, we have not completed our review of the product. We're also looking at other products. So, it's a little bit hard to tell what could be different because we have not completed the review of this product, but based on our experience so far, its implementation is quite complex."
"A little bit more automation would be nice."
"The solution includes only Intrusion Detection and not IPS, which is an important feature that is missing in my version."
"While the pricing is good, they could always lower it a bit."
"If I were in an environment that required a large-scale deployment then I would choose another solution over ESET."
"We do get false positives."
"The proactive feature is excellent, but I do not believe ESET will make any changes to this feature in the future."
"The solution could improve by having higher-level security and reporting."
"There are some new antivirus technologies that rely on AI, artificial intelligence. ESET does not have this technology right now."
"I'm not aware of any areas that need improvement."
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Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is ranked 4th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 80 reviews while ESET Endpoint Protection Platform is ranked 11th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 97 reviews. Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is rated 8.4, while ESET Endpoint Protection Platform is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks writes "Perfect correlation and XDR capabilities for network traffic plus endpoint security". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ESET Endpoint Protection Platform writes "Easy to set up with good security and rapidly improving capabilities". Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, Darktrace, Symantec Endpoint Security and Cybereason Endpoint Detection & Response, whereas ESET Endpoint Protection Platform is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business, CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne Singularity Complete and Symantec Endpoint Security. See our Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks vs. ESET Endpoint Protection Platform report.
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