We performed a comparison between ESET Endpoint Security and Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: ESET Endpoint Security is highly regarded for its encryption capabilities, effortless automatic updates, and intuitive interface. Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business is commended for its extensive cross-platform protection, user-friendly interface, and compatibility with third-party software. ESET Endpoint Security has room for improvement in terms of faster threat alerts, automation, and ransomware protection. Kaspersky users requested improvements in security and stability. They also want better documentation, faster malware scanning, enhanced encryption, and improved remote management.
Service and Support: ESET's customer service is praised for its helpfulness and quick response. Users say that Kaspersky’s support is helpful and responsive, whether it comes from resellers, partners, or the vendor.
Ease of Deployment: The setup process for ESET Endpoint Security is generally regarded as effortless. Some reported that Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business is straightforward to set up, while others find it more complex and time-consuming.
Pricing: ESET Endpoint Security is considered to be reasonably priced with various licensing options. Users gave mixed feedback on the price of Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business. Some found it reasonable while others thought it was expensive.
ROI: Some reported a high ROI from ESET Endpoint Security due to cost savings, while others find it difficult to measure its effectiveness. Our reviewers said that Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business has proven to be a solid investment.
"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"
"Exceptions are easy to create and the interface is easy to follow with a nice appearance."
"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."
"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."
"Fortinet is very user-friendly for customers."
"It is a scalable solution...The initial setup of Fortinet FortiEDR was straightforward."
"It is stable and scalable."
"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 of ESET Endpoint Security is that it is light on resources. It has a very low impact on the system. It uses low memory and the setup size is very low."
"The most valuable feature is the antispam module, which comes in the bundle."
"The most valuable features are the sandbox, mail scanning, sandboxing attachments, files, and that it responds to VPN porting."
"Installing and integrating ESET Endpoint Antivirus was easy. It prevents worms, malware, and Trojans."
"The solution is stable."
"It's scalable."
"The stability is good."
"The product does not slow down the machine."
"It's excellent at detecting viruses."
"find some of the most valuable features to be the anti-malware, encryption, and the EDR launching service."
"It has a very good firewall, which lets you isolate your devices depending on the groups."
"Deployment and centralized management are essential for us because of the number of loads that we have along with the number of geographic locations where we are based."
"They have a very good reporting system and they have a very good dashboard for the administrator, which makes monitoring everything easy."
"It's a user-friendly solution."
"Overall, the product is quite flexible."
"The initial setup was fairly simple, taking only a few minutes."
"There's room for improvement in the quick response time and technical support for integration issues, especially when dealing with multiple vendors."
"Making the portal mobile friendly would be helpful when I am out of office."
"The SIEM could be improved."
"I haven't seen the use of AI in the solution."
"Detections could be improved."
"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."
"ZTNA can improve latency."
"We find the solution to be a bit expensive."
"I think that ESET is a little too heavy on the CPU."
"The migration between on-prem and cloud has room for improvement."
"ESET Endpoint Security should offer more integration with multi-attack frameworks."
"The product could have better integration with third-party products that would help extend functionality."
"There are some complexities if you want to manipulate the software."
"There are other features you can add on to help make the security stronger, however, they should offer better security even on a basic level."
"The console or GUI of ESET Endpoint Antivirus should improve. Additionally, they should provide an addon feature for HyperV and VMware."
"ESET Endpoint Antivirus can improve by having better EDR intelligence and automation. The EDR still needs lots of human interpretation. It can be better if add more intelligence to the EDR part of the endpoint protection."
"There are quite a number of areas for improvement. The first area for improvement is that I find this solution to be very resource intensive when you're running a particular task, even a mere scanning task, even though it's running in the background. When you go to inspect the resources you realize it makes the machine very slow. It takes up a lot of resources even though there are no particular scanning tasks scheduled to run. That's one of the issues."
"Kaspersky could be improved by better malware protection. They have to take advantage of Malwarebytes and integrate the same engine inside Kaspersky. I use Malwarebytes as well because Kaspersky doesn't always detect malware."
"The performance level could be better."
"Maybe the solution's monitoring could be improved with more dashboards, so there's no back and forth, back and forth."
"The solution could improve by having some integration with other vendors."
"The reports aren't so good. To make it a perfect ten they should improve the reports and web interface."
"Malware protection for Kaspersky should be revolutionized, where they no longer work with signatures, but with more advanced ways of detecting malware, such as Cylance or Traps from Palo Alto."
"I would like to have more forensic features. For example, if we are hit by an attack, I would like to have tools to investigate what kind of attack, who has attacked, how it was attacked, and what we could do to stop this kind of attack in the future. I would like to have more forensics capability built into Kaspersky."
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ESET Endpoint Protection Platform is ranked 11th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 97 reviews while Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business is ranked 12th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 111 reviews. ESET Endpoint Protection Platform is rated 8.2, while Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of ESET Endpoint Protection Platform writes "Easy to set up with good security and rapidly improving capabilities". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business writes "Easy to setup, stable and good security use cases". ESET Endpoint Protection Platform is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, Check Point Harmony Endpoint and Fortinet FortiClient, whereas Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Fortinet FortiClient, CrowdStrike Falcon, Check Point Harmony Endpoint and Trend Micro Apex One. See our ESET Endpoint Protection Platform vs. Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business report.
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