Bitdefender GravityZone EDR vs USM Anywhere comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Fortinet FortiEDR
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Ranking in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
12th
Average Rating
7.8
Number of Reviews
32
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Bitdefender GravityZone EDR
Ranking in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
13th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
56
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
USM Anywhere
Ranking in Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
31st
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
113
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (17th), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (13th), Compliance Management (8th)
 

Market share comparison

As of June 2024, in the Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) category, the market share of Fortinet FortiEDR is 7.4% and it increased by 62.0% compared to the previous year. The market share of Bitdefender GravityZone EDR is 3.9% and it increased by 6.2% compared to the previous year. The market share of USM Anywhere is 0.2% and it increased by 102.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
Unique Categories:
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No other categories found
Log Management
0.8%
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
1.3%
 

Featured Reviews

RafaelTorres - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 20, 2024
Valuable for remote work security and enhances endpoint protection effectively
At my last job, we used FortiEDR to secure endpoints for 8,000 employees across MacBooks and Linux machines, ensuring the protection of backups and VPN connections. In 2020, we faced a significant challenge with remote work in Brazil, where BitLocker was utilized. FortiEDR proved invaluable as it…
AA
Jan 18, 2023
Straightforward to implement, easy to access and use, and has many features, such as VPN, web filtering, and email filtering
I've been working on some projects to find the best solution for different companies to implement suitable firewalls and routers based on various characteristics—for example, applicability, pricing, and functionality. I've been looking into it and saw that a specific product could be better when implemented for a particular industry. For example, it's not worth buying a Palo Alto firewall for a mid-range business when I can integrate Bitdefender or Fortinet. I'm working with Bitdefender GravityZone Ultra. I would recommend Bitdefender GravityZone Ultra to others because of its price and features; plus, it's a simple solution, though that's still dependent on your devices and what you want to use it for. The product is okay for personal and mid-range business use, but I'm not sure how it is with large enterprises and government institutions. I would rate Bitdefender GravityZone Ultra as eight out of ten, but it's not because I have a bad opinion of it. It's because I haven't used it for a long time, and every company has room for improvement, so I'm giving the software the benefit of the doubt.
SL
Apr 11, 2023
Easy to deploy, stable, and affordable
There are two criteria that I consider when evaluating products: "value for money" and "fit for purpose." The AT&T AlienVault USM satisfies both of these criteria. While we could potentially obtain better SIEM solutions by spending more, we must consider the cost. The SIEM is only one part of the overall model, and the efficiency of the response is also influenced by the people and processes behind it. Therefore, the tool alone cannot guarantee an efficient response. However, the AT&T AlienVault USM performs adequately in this regard, and I have not encountered any significant issues with it so far. Even with superior solutions such as Splunk, the effectiveness of the tool ultimately depends on the proficiency of the monitoring team. Therefore, I assign one-third of the overall value or a maximum of 40 percent to the tool's value if it accounts for 100 percent of the efficiency. In comparison to other products, the AT&T AlienVault USM is relatively good. On a scale of one to ten, I would rate the solution a nine out of ten. I would not recommend this solution for on-premises deployment or for large organizations due to the need for a well-designed architecture for implementation. However, I would recommend this solution for cloud deployment and for small to medium-sized organizations.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"I get alerts when scripts are detected in the environment."
"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."
"Impressive detection capabilities"
"We have FortiEDR installed on all our systems. This protects them from any threats."
"Having all monitoring, response, tracking, and mitigation tools in one dashboard provides our analysts and SOC team with a comprehensive view at a glance."
"The setup is pretty simple."
"It is stable and scalable."
"The product detects and blocks threats and is more proactive than firewalls."
"The most valuable feature of Bitdefender GravityZone Ultra is the ETX and ETM endpoint protection."
"The features that are most useful are the simplicity of deploying the package and the cryptosystem for managing all the situations on the computer."
"One strong point is that it doesn't have many background services running on the Windows system or server operating system. This minimizes impact because it's a lighter version."
"Sandbox Analyzer, HyperDetect, and EDR are valuable to our customers."
"It efficiently investigates security incidents."
"It is a good anti-malware product that is highly stable."
"It is a very stable solution."
"If you detect a virus, you can isolate the PC from the network and prevent access to the internet, network and routers. Once fixed, you can give access back to the client. We have not had this functionality using other solutions."
"The USM is a work horse, no matter what devices or the number of logs we throw at it, the system processes them in real time, correlates the events, and alerts on only events that need human review."
"The vulnerability manager and the file integration are very good."
"Reports are customized, so you can present them to executives or engineers.​"
"SIEM log collection is great, and all of the rules that support updates with maintenance."
"The most valuable feature in AT&T AlienVault USM is the reporting."
"We had used previous products and found AlienVault centralized the logging for our security."
"It has allowed us to see what is happening on our servers."
"OTX is a great module that lets staff maintain and monitor updates regarding events in the infrastructure and takes decision to improve the security perimeter."
 

Cons

"Detections could be improved."
"We've encountered challenges during API deployment, occasionally resulting in unstable environments."
"I would like the solution to extend beyond endpoint protection and include other attack surfaces such as other network components."
"We'd like to see more one-to-one product presentations for the distribution channels."
"We find the solution to be a bit expensive."
"FortiEDR can be improved by providing more detailed reporting."
"There's room for improvement in the quick response time and technical support for integration issues, especially when dealing with multiple vendors."
"To improve Fortinet, we need to see more features and technology areas at the endpoint level introduced."
"Bitdefender GravityZone Ultra should include more advanced features than their competitors in the market for the auto-detection of viruses and threats within the environment."
"The only problem we have, and I don't know if maybe it's the package we bought, is that it lacks the parts of data protection and application blacklisting."
"Bitfender could improve their modules on the server. For example, Bitdefender doesn't have content filters or firewall modules on the server. It would be great if it had a networking module and a content filter module at the workstations."
"The pricing should be improved. The user interface has been improved on a yearly basis. The key issue is that they need to look at their pricing."
"The reporting is much too simple."
"The software itself is solid. It would be better if it was more of a real-time solution, like SentinelOne. The one thing that holds me back on the SentinelOne side is that I can blacklist websites and stuff like that, but it's not as granular as Bitdefender. With Bitdefender, I feel like I have more control over what I can whitelist and blacklist."
"Bitdefender GravityZone EDR doesn't have an official office in Saudi Arabia, which is important if the vendor wants to gain or be closer to their customers."
"The cryptosystem could be improved a bit."
"This solution could be easier to use."
"The other thing is the agent is OSSEC. They needed to create its own agent to help to find threats on the devices that it happens to be installed."
"The AT&T AlienVault USM is okay, but the relational database is not very good for large amounts of data. For example, many logs cannot be processed. It has been very slow for the queries and some data which are large, it is not very good in this case."
"It should be able to communicate with other security solutions to stop threats."
"Sometimes the log is unclear, and the report is a bit ambiguous."
"I think plugin management should be self-service on AlienVault USM. The other product is self-service but on the USM side. You have to submit a ticket then AT&T creates and updates the plugins."
"I want to see more compliance management capability. The quality of integrations seems to be a little bit low."
"Maybe logs are the problem, as the database query is too slow. If you want to search something, you need time to find it."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price is comprable to other endpoint security solutions."
"It's not cheap, but it's not expensive either."
"I would rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten."
"I know it is tough to get big budget additions up front, but I highly recommend deploying environment wide and adding the forensic service."
"It is expensive and I would rate it 8 on the scale."
"There are no issues with the pricing."
"I'm not familiar with pricing, but it looks a bit costly compared to other vendors I think."
"Fortinet FortiEDR has a yearly subscription."
"I rate the product's price a four on a scale of one to ten, where one is low, and ten is high."
"The solution is not expensive but there are cheaper options in the market. In terms of competitiveness, the price is reasonable with no other additional costs besides the licensing fees."
"There are some differences. It's more cost-effective, yet it provides the same functionalities as Defender. That's why I've been exploring the comparisons. We pay for it annually, and it's a per-seat payment."
"The solution is affordable."
"Price-wise, we have a better licensing agreement with Bitdefender than we did with competing vendors."
"There is a fully functional trial that we used and we didn't have any issues."
"There are different packages available that vary in terms of licensing fees."
"The solution's price is mid-ranged."
"The price for this solution is very good, but since the features do not work the price is expensive."
"The pricing is a good value. The key thing is that for the new product, the licensing of it, is subscription-based and it's based on data. Clients need to be really careful when thinking about that, because odds are they're going to need to put a lot more data into it than what they initially estimate, which is going to drive their subscription costs up."
"It has good pricing."
"Pricing is very competitive with other products and you get much more functionality from AlienVault."
"Its price is in the medium to upper range."
"It is a product that is priced in a medium range, making it neither a cheap nor a costly product."
"​The price point is good.​"
"We pay around $12,000 a year including storage."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
16%
Government
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Computer Software Company
17%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Government
6%
Computer Software Company
17%
Government
8%
Educational Organization
8%
Financial Services Firm
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What's the difference between Fortinet's FortiEDR and FortiClient?
I suggest Fortinet’s FortiEDR over FortiClient for several reasons. For starters, FortiEDR guarantees solid protectio...
What do you like most about Fortinet FortiEDR?
We have FortiEDR installed on all our systems. This protects them from any threats.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Fortinet FortiEDR?
The pricing of the solution is on the high end compared to its offerings and capabilities.
What do you like most about AT&T AlienVault USM?
The most valuable feature of the solution is the ease of deployment that it provides to users. The integrations that ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AT&T AlienVault USM?
It is a product that is priced in a medium range, making it neither a cheap nor a costly product.
What needs improvement with AT&T AlienVault USM?
The vulnerability scanning feature is one of the areas where the product has certain shortcomings and needs to improv...
 

Also Known As

enSilo, FortiEDR
Bitdefender GravityZone Ultra, Bitdefender GravityZone
AT&T AlienVault USM, AlienVault, AlienVault USM, Alienvault Cybersecurity
 

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Sample Customers

Financial, Healthcare, Legal, Technology, Enterprise, Manufacturing ... 
Mentor Graphics, Rudersdal Kommune
Abel & Cole, Bank of Ireland, Bluegrass Cellular, CareerBuilder, Claire's, Hays Medical Center, Hope International, McCurrach, McKinsey & Company, Party Delights, Pepco Holdings, Richland School District, Ricoh, SaveMart, Shake Shack, Steelcase, TaxAct, Taylor Morrison, Vonage and Zoom
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