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We performed a comparison between Avast Business Hub and CylancePROTECT 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.
To learn more, read our detailed Avast Business Hub vs. CylancePROTECT Report (Updated: March 2024).
767,995 professionals have used our research since 2012.
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Quotes From Members
We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use.
Here are some excerpts of what they said:
Pros
"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.""The product's initial setup phase is very easy.""Fortinet has helped free up around 20 percent of our staff's time to help us out.""Ability to get forensics details and also memory exfiltration.""The console is easy to read. I also like the scanning part and the ability to move assets from one to the other.""NGAV and EDR features are outstanding.""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""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."

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"It warns you if there is a threat and it's perfect because it runs in the background and doesn't interfere with anything.""The performance is good compared to other products that slow down the laptop, post-installation.""Avast Business Endpoint Protection's best feature is its user-friendliness.""Avast as a product is as easy as it gets - everything is outlined and transparent in terms of licensing.""The solution is easy to use.""It has increased productivity. IT threats are kept at a minimum because of this product.""It's not heavy on the system.""The ease of deployment and the command center that they have are the most valuable. It is basically self-monitoring. It doesn't require that much tinkering after you deploy or install."

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"Even if an endpoint loses connection to the Internet, I know that endpoint is protected against 99.99% of the threats in the wild today.""It handles situations that the other threat management tools wouldn't find. It has worked well covering the weaker sides of the other products that we're integrating.""The non-daily requirement to update signatures is the most valuable feature. From a functional point of view, it is pretty spot on. For instance, we compared an algorithm from five years ago to today's algorithm, and it was 98% accurate. It has the ability to detect and mitigate. In the industrial environment that we work in, there's what we call OT versus IT. You are IT Central, but this is OT. Generally, we don't have the same level of skillset as IT individuals or IT professionals have. This particular product doesn't require you to be a computer scientist to be able to understand its proprietary algorithm and to be able to deploy, use, and work within it. It integrates well with a robust SIEM or SOAR solution, and it plays nice with others. We use other detection solutions like CyberX or site provision with Cisco, and it plays nice. That's one of the things we really liked about it.""The CylancePROTECT agent is very low on CPU usage, so it has virtually no adverse impact on my servers, desktops, or workstations.""What's most valuable in CylancePROTECT is the optics feature. I also like its easy-to-use and user-friendly dashboard and monitoring system.""Does malware analysis. Blocks WannaCry and other attacks that have come out.""The solution is easy to deploy.""CylancePROTECT works on AI technology, is always up to date, and uses very few resources on your devices."

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Cons
"I would like the solution to extend beyond endpoint protection and include other attack surfaces such as other network components.""The amount of usage, the number of details we get, or the number of options that can be tweaked is limited in comparison to that with other EDR solutions""The solution's installation from a central installation server could be improved because the engineers had a little bit of trouble getting it installed from a central location.""The SIEM could be improved.""ZTNA can improve latency.""We find the solution to be a bit expensive.""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."

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"Where I have faced a challenge is on the reporting. I would like to see something that provides information regarding the next month or quarter, in terms of reporting.""Avast Business Endpoint Protection would be improved with more frequent updates.""The solution needs to be more secure and work to protect us better from people trying to mess with our systems.""I would like to see better protection and more spyware included with the free version.""The accuracy of the scanner could be improved.""It could download faster during deployment.""It reduces network and bandwidth speed.""It should have proper and timely updates to deal with new viruses as they come onto the market."

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"They could improve on the false positives, reporting and whitelisting features.""Additionally, their channel management has been lacking, with a notable disregard for small and medium-sized businesses, focusing primarily on large enterprises and very large MSPs.""If they can add more features on top of their Persona feature that would be ideal.""An area for improvement in CylancePROTECT is its pricing, as it's a bit costly.""It was not effective. There were a lot of false positives, even when we use Adobe, and everybody uses Adobe, which is not a threat.""​It needs real analysis of quarantined files. The EDR product isn't showing much right now.""We would like to see secure integration and multi-factor authentication to be able to access the administration dashboard.""I would say one thing that they might need to bring in is protection for mobile devices."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "I know it is tough to get big budget additions up front, but I highly recommend deploying environment wide and adding the forensic service."
  • "There are no issues with the pricing."
  • "The price is comprable to other endpoint security solutions."
  • "The pricing is typical for enterprises and fairly priced."
  • "I'm not familiar with pricing, but it looks a bit costly compared to other vendors I think."
  • "The pricing is good."
  • "I would rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten."
  • "The hardware costs about €100,000 and about €20,000 annually for access."
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  • "It is $75 per license for a year. There are no additional costs."
  • "I am using the free version."
  • "We are on a monthly subscription for Avast Business Endpoint Protection."
  • "If you become a partner, you will receive the wholesale price."
  • "I am using the free version of Avast."
  • "There are no costs other than licensing."
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  • "Review closely how many endpoints you actually need before buying into a pricing level. Deal and deal with the VAR of your choice."
  • "The initial end-point cost may seem a little high (~$55/device/year) but when you look at the total peace of mind that the solution provides, with no reboots for updates, and negligible performance impact, it is well worth it."
  • "​Shop around for sure and be assured the price you pay will be close to other solutions available, but even at a slight mark-up from the other solutions, you are getting real endpoint protection versus nothing more than a cheap security blanket that might keep you warm at night."
  • "Do not get hung up on price. You pay for what you get and expensive will hurt one time, where cheap will hurt forever, especially if you fall victim to a ransom attack, etc.​"
  • "Our licensing cost for the solution is around $4,000 for six months. There are no costs in addition to the standard licensing fees."
  • "We would just add more if there are new users, but right now you just need one license for per user."
  • "I think that the price we are paying is good for what it is."
  • "The monthly fee is $55 USD per user."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:I suggest Fortinet’s FortiEDR over FortiClient for several reasons. For starters, FortiEDR guarantees solid protection… more »
    Top Answer: Having all monitoring, response, tracking, and mitigation tools in one dashboard provides our analysts and SOC team… more »
    Top Answer:The pricing is significantly high. The implementation of this solution required us to allocate additional funds beyond… more »
    Top Answer:Avast Business Endpoint Protection's best feature is its user-friendliness.
    Top Answer:The product is affordable. It is becoming more complex, with more elements required in the solution.
    Top Answer:Segmentation and centralized manageability could be improved for large organizations.
    Top Answer:I've found the AI engine in CylancePROTECT to be particularly effective for technology and in preventing unknown… more »
    Top Answer:Currently, we have competitive pricing for Cylance, which is affordable enough to consider. However, similar pricing can… more »
    Top Answer:Following the acquisition by BlackBerry, there has been a noticeable slowdown in development and the introduction of new… more »
    Comparisons
    Also Known As
    enSilo, FortiEDR
    Blackberry Protect
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    Overview

    Fortinet FortiEDR is a real-time endpoint protection, detection, and automated response solution. Its primary purpose is to detect advanced threats to stop breaches and ransomware damage. It is designed to do so in real time, even on an already compromised device, allowing you to respond and remediate incidents automatically so your data can remain protected.

    Fortinet FortiEDR Features

    Fortinet FortiEDR has many valuable key features, including:

    • Easily customizable
    • Real-time proactive risk mitigation & IoT security
    • Pre-infection protection
    • Post-infection protection
    • Track applications and ratings
    • Reduce the attack surface with risk-based proactive policies
    • Achieve analysis of entire log history
    • Optional managed detection and response (MDR) service

    Fortinet FortiEDR Benefits

    Some of the key benefits of using Fortinet FortiEDR include:

    • Protection: Fortinet FortiEDR provides proactive, real-time, automated endpoint protection with the orchestrated incident response across platforms. It stops the breach with real-time postinfection blocking to protect data from exfiltration and ransomware encryption.

    • Single unified console: Fortinet FortiEDR has a single unified console with an intuitive interface, which makes management easier. The solution automates mundane endpoint security tasks so your employees don’t need to do it.

    • Cost savings: With Fortinet FortiEDR you can eliminate post-breach operational expenses and breach damage costs.

    • Flexibility: Fortinet FortiEDR can be deployed on premises or on a secure cloud instance. With Fortinet FortiEDR, endpoints are protected both on- and off-line.

    • Scalability: Because Fortinet can be deployed quickly and has a small footprint, it is easy to scale up to protect hundreds of thousand endpoints.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by Fortinet FortiEDR users.

    An Owner at a security firm says, "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 customer has literally about 800 cash registers. That was the use case for Fortinet FortiEDR - to get that down into a tiny space. The only way to do that was to use this product because it had that ability to unbundle services that were a surplus.”

    Chandan M., Chief Technical Officer at Provision Technologies LLP, mentions, “The ease of deployment and configuration is valuable. It's very easy compared to other vendors like Sophos. Sophos' configuration is complex. Fortinet is a lot easier to understand. You don't need a lot of admin knowledge to do the configuration.” He also adds, “The security is also very good and the firewall response is good.”

    Harpreet S., Information Technology Support Specialist at Chemtrade Logistics, explains, "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."

    DeAndre V., Senior Network Administrator at a financial services firm, states, “The dashboard is easy to follow and use. The deployment and uninstalling were easy. I like the detailed information about the path of a file that might be suspicious. Being able to check that out was easy to follow. Exceptions are easy to create and the interface is easy to follow with a nice appearance.

    Built on the largest, most globally dispersed threat detection network in the world, Avast Business Endpoint Protection Solutions deliver superior, enterprise-grade protection that keeps small and medium businesses safe from today’s threats - and tomorrow’s.

    Blackberry Protect is a next generation artificial intelligence (AI) based endpoint protection platform (EPP) that prevents breaches and provides added controls for safeguarding against sophisticated cyberthreats. It uses predictive analysis to quickly and accurately find even the most advanced threats before they ever take place. Blackberry Protect’s cloud-based supercomputer mines hundreds of millions of files from all over the cloud, allowing it to predict and stop any hacker dead in their tracks.

    Blackberry Protect runs on a lightweight agent and requires no internet connection. Instead of taking up massive amounts of computing power, it typically requires less than 1% of a system’s available computing resources. In addition, it only needs to be upgraded if the model is improved, which means that you can run it on your local servers and have constant and uninterrupted access to it.

    Benefits of Blackberry Protect

    Some of the benefits of using Blackberry Protect include:

    • The use of advanced AI analytics to provide extremely fast protection. The solution scans any and all applications that attempt to execute commands in your system. If it determines that the application is a threat, then it will respond to the threatening action within milliseconds. The anti-viral software will cancel or disallow any actions that the application attempts to initiate.
    • Minimizing of potential threats by cutting off the access of unauthorized devices. Blackberry Protect allows users to determine which devices are allowed to run on their network. It enforces the security rules that your system administrators set and denies hackers the ability to penetrate your system through unapproved devices.
    • Uses less computing power while still providing your system with a robust level of protection. Blackberry Protect runs on a lightweight agent that requires you to devote a fraction of the computing power that similar solutions require. This ensures that your system does not have to sacrifice security for processing power.

    Reviews from Real Users

    The Blackberry Protect software stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are the artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms that the solution uses to detect and deal with threats and the ability to scale your level of protection according to your needs.

    PeerSpot user Donald D., the owner of Terra Controls, notes the value of having both artificial intelligence and machine learning in a single product when he writes, “The most valuable feature is the AI and ML-based virus protection that does not rely on signature-based detection methods. The way this product works is that it does not go to a central server to pick up the latest virus definitions. Instead, it's a processor-powered search that checks to see if anything out of the ordinary is running on your machine. It looks for anomalies and cancels processes that do not look normal. For example, if a program tries to read the registry and then make a change, but it hasn't been authorized, then it is assumed to be a bad actor and the process is canceled or the action is disallowed.”

    PeerSpot user Orlando B., Head of Systems at SKN Caribecafe Ltda, noted how this program is not a one-size-fits-all solution when he writes, “The solution is very good at quickly and easily changing the levels of protection for each computer and server. It's very easy to control and to see what is happening with each computer. It's very easy to choose which computer I can look at and check.”

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    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm21%
    Comms Service Provider11%
    Manufacturing Company11%
    Educational Organization5%
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    Computer Software Company16%
    Government8%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Financial Services Firm8%
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company43%
    Comms Service Provider14%
    Wellness & Fitness Company14%
    Financial Services Firm14%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company17%
    Comms Service Provider13%
    Educational Organization7%
    Financial Services Firm6%
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    Manufacturing Company20%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Security Firm12%
    Healthcare Company8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company14%
    Manufacturing Company12%
    Government8%
    Financial Services Firm6%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business50%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise34%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business31%
    Midsize Enterprise19%
    Large Enterprise50%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business82%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise9%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business39%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise45%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business67%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise22%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business29%
    Midsize Enterprise19%
    Large Enterprise52%
    Buyer's Guide
    Avast Business Hub vs. CylancePROTECT
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Avast Business Hub vs. CylancePROTECT and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    Avast Business Hub is ranked 43rd in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 12 reviews while CylancePROTECT is ranked 27th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 39 reviews. Avast Business Hub is rated 8.2, while CylancePROTECT is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Avast Business Hub writes "Easy to scale, good reports, easy to install and has excellent support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of CylancePROTECT writes "Ensures advanced AI-driven threat detection to provide robust endpoint security, effectively preventing both known and unknown threats with minimal impact on system performance". Avast Business Hub is most compared with HP Wolf Security, CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Defender for Business and Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks, whereas CylancePROTECT is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne Singularity Complete, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks and Trend Micro Deep Security. See our Avast Business Hub vs. CylancePROTECT report.

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