We performed a comparison between Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business and Sophos Intercept X based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Sophos Intercept X has a slight edge over Kaspersky Endpoint Security in this comparison, since it is a more lightweight solution.
"Fortinet FortiEDR made our clients feel secure and more at ease, knowing that they had an EDR solution that would close the gap in their security posture."
"Fortinet FortiEDR's firewalling, rule creation, monitoring, and inspection profiles are great."
"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"
"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."
"Forensics is a valuable feature of Fortinet FortiEDR."
"The stability is very good."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"Ability to get forensics details and also memory exfiltration."
"Synchronization with the firewall is most valuable."
"It is stable and has a good price. I find it very good."
"We most value the price and interface quality with Sophos Intercept X. We focus on solution quality."
"The EDR (Enhanced Data Detection and Response) and the DLP (Data Loss Prevention) components are valuable assets."
"Very stable solution."
"The base product and the anti-malware feature are most valuable."
"The most valuable features of Intercept X are server lockdown, auto-remediation, and encryption monitoring."
"What I have found the most valuable about Sophos Intercept X is the ease of use with management administration and the solution's ability to stop exploits and ransomware."
"As far as it functions, it works fine."
"Using dashboards, it is very easy to manage."
"We have gained advanced threat protection without investing more into that area."
"The malware threat detection has been excellent overall."
"They have a very good reporting system and they have a very good dashboard for the administrator, which makes monitoring everything easy."
"The stability has been good."
"The product's most valuable features are automation and central administration."
"We swtiched to Kaspersky Endpoint Security because we found our previous solution did not meet our requirements."
"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."
"FortiEDR can be improved by providing more detailed reporting."
"To improve Fortinet, we need to see more features and technology areas at the endpoint level introduced."
"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."
"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."
"Once, we had an event that was locked and blocked, but information about it came to us two or three days later."
"Making the portal mobile friendly would be helpful when I am out of office."
"There should be a report including a flowchart or diagram. It will be useful to evaluate the software’s effectiveness."
"We had some initial problems with our deployment, and they were more around uninstalling Sophos Basic and installing Sophos Intercept X. We had some challenges with some of the uninstallation scripts. They can improve the deployment of Sophos Intercept X when there is already an existing Sophos version. They can also provide more information in the form of best practices and lessons learned from previous findings. A knowledge base with this type of information would be helpful."
"The main real-time scanning takes most of the processing power of my notebook."
"Deployment on cloud needs to be carried out manually."
"Through Sophos Central I would like to see the ability to zero in and produce a report about the challenges being faced by a particular machine and user, to know if a virus is appearing only on that specific machine or also on others."
"The product’s DDoS and AI features must be improved."
"They should work on the logs and events. Sophos Intercept X needs to increase the interface test so that it can export to a live event."
"I would like the solution to have more functions and to be more user-friendly."
"The solution needs to lower its pricing."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The support must provide quick responses."
"Reaching their support team can be difficult."
"This solution used a lot of memory and GPU; it would be nice if this could be reduced."
"Kaspersky Endpoint Security could have more visibility and threat hunting. Right now, if it detects a file, it's quarantined, and then we can't find more details other than the path and the file name. We don't see what process it's warning off and how the virus got in. So, the reporting on the quarantined items, why were they quarantined, etc., could be improved."
"We find that the solution uses up too much RAM and can slow down machines."
"We've found that sometimes the solution is not doing its job in detecting some malware."
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Intercept X Endpoint is ranked 7th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 101 reviews while Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business is ranked 12th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 111 reviews. Intercept X Endpoint is rated 8.4, while Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Intercept X Endpoint writes "A standard offering with good threat analysis but reduces machine performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business writes "Easy to setup, stable and good security use cases". Intercept X Endpoint is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, Fortinet FortiClient and Trend Micro Apex One, whereas Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Fortinet FortiClient, CrowdStrike Falcon, ESET Endpoint Protection Platform and Trend Micro Apex One. See our Intercept X Endpoint vs. Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business report.
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