We performed a comparison between Darktrace and Fortinet FortiOS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Cisco, TitanHQ and others in Email Security."The initial setup is straightforward. You just add the license, click it, and then you can set up the rules. It is quite simple."
"The most valuable feature is the integration. It's a single console, so we don't have to switch around between multiple products. Another valuable feature is the ease of operations and maintenance."
"The solution is very easy to use. All you have to do is to assign the license to the end-user and it's done. The customer will only have the feature activated, and the solution will monitor the emails to determine if they are a threat or not."
"Defender for 365 is a comprehensive cloud-based solution. The value of the cloud is that you aren't alone. Threat intelligence and analytics are shared in the cloud. We don't have to find the solution alone. If you face an unknown threat with traditional solutions like Trend Micro and Symantec, you need to open a case and send your information to them to analyze forensically and identify the source of the attack."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is the ease of use."
"Defender helps us prioritize threats across our organization."
"Since we have started using the solution, there have been fewer compromises."
"The product is not resource-intensive."
"t was pretty as far as the granularity of what you were getting out of it."
"I like the Antigena feature in Darktrace, as it offers immediate response and is helpful."
"The most valuable feature is the alerts. The alerts are meaningful. The event rolls up into meaningful and actionable alerts rather than just being noise."
"I particularly like Antigena and the analytics around the real-time monitoring of our network. I also like its reporting because it has got a seven-day reporting period within the system. Every time you run the reports, it gives you the data about the previous seven days. I like that because it is in real-time. I enjoy reading those reports and getting a very clear and decisive idea of what's happening on my network on a real-time basis. I like the actual real-time monitoring of spoofing and things like that. I also like the user monitoring as well as the network logging capabilities."
"The most valuable feature has been the behavioral analytics that allows us to monitor all the traffic."
"Artificial intelligence and machine learning functionalities are valuable."
"I find it very good in the way that they show the past events, including the attack history."
"The most valuable feature of Darktrace and the most valuable feature is the artificial intelligence module because that is the tool that determines automatically if there is any risk or not in the network."
"The SSL VPN is fee for use is most attractive."
"We've been happy with the pricing."
"The solution is extremely scalable."
"The most valuable features are the intrusion prevention system and the anti-virus."
"The solution constantly adds features that are useful and user-friendly such as the ability to tweak firewalls through the CLI."
"All of the features in this solution are effective and efficient."
"The most valuable features are the ease of use, and the overall simplicity, everyone can use it with a small introduction."
"The classification of the websites is helpful."
"The GUI is sometimes slow to fetch the device report and could be improved."
"Microsoft security solutions work as expected. They are constantly updating the solutions to make them better. At the same time, the changes can impact a customer's environment, and we need to adjust settings. Sometimes we aren't aware of the changes, and nothing is pushed from the backend automatically."
"We are always looking for others tools to increase automation on tasks. There can be better integration with other solutions, such as PowerPoint and email."
"The XDR dashboard has room for improvement."
"Too many false positives and lacks an accurate capability to detect malicious SharePoint sites."
"There is room for improvement in terms of reporting."
"The UI needs to be more user-friendly."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 should be more proactive."
"I'd love them to see maybe covering the cloud a bit more."
"The pricing model is a little too high and could be more flexible."
"The pricing needs improvement."
"The solution could be easier to use."
"I would like for the product to work on the endpoints as well. I would like to see enhanced visibility into the endpoints and network but this solution only sits on the network itself."
"The dashboard and reporting for this solution could be improved as it is currently complex. The GUI for this solution could also be improved."
"Getting logs from different sources can be a challenge."
"The cost is a bit on the higher side."
"While it is a solid solution, there are some product limitations which exclude it from deployment in some situations."
"The solution needs improvement with DDoS protection."
"The support is not very good, but the product is stable so it is not so much of a problem."
"I would like to see the features of FortiAnalyzer included in Fortinet FortiOS. Right now, you're required to have an additional license and a different device for features such as processing the log, reporting, and analyzing traffic."
"Lacks flexibility for different scenario configurations."
"Technical support could be better. Some competitors have much more responsive support teams."
"The reporting and monitoring could improve, they have a lot of limitations. The monitoring is not easy compared to the other firewall."
"There are some issues with the performance. We also had some issues while updating the firmware."
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Darktrace is ranked 11th in Email Security with 66 reviews while Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews. Darktrace is rated 8.2, while Fortinet FortiOS is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Darktrace writes "Great autonomous support, offers an easy setup, and has responsive support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiOS writes "Provides effective filtering features, good stability but initial setup is moderately challenging". Darktrace is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon, Vectra AI, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks and ExtraHop Reveal(x), whereas Fortinet FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Fortinet FortiWeb and Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection.
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