Fortinet FortiClient and Bitdefender Hypervisor Introspection compete in the cybersecurity space. Bitdefender Hypervisor Introspection seems to have the upper hand due to its advanced virtualization security.
Features: Fortinet FortiClient offers comprehensive security features such as VPN, endpoint protection, and advanced threat protection. Bitdefender Hypervisor Introspection provides virtualization security, advanced threat detection, and prevention capabilities, crucial for virtual machine protection.
Room for Improvement: Fortinet FortiClient could improve integration capabilities, reporting features, and user experience. Bitdefender Hypervisor Introspection needs performance optimization, enhanced support for non-virtualized environments, and better UI.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Fortinet FortiClient is easy to deploy with commendable customer support. Bitdefender Hypervisor Introspection receives positive deployment feedback in virtual environments but has a steeper learning curve. Both offer strong support, though Fortinet's simpler deployment process is advantageous for quick implementation.
Pricing and ROI: Fortinet FortiClient is cost-effective with a good balance of price and features, providing satisfactory ROI. Bitdefender Hypervisor Introspection is more expensive but its specialized virtualization security justifies the cost, offering long-term ROI benefits.
Bitdefender Hypervisor Introspection (HVI) is the first security solution that is able to uncover memory violations that endpoint security tools sometimes miss by directly analyzing raw memory lines - thereby ensuring they are not being altered by malware.
FortiClient is a fabric agent that delivers endpoint protection, endpoint compliance, and secure access in a single, lightweight, lightweight client, providing visibility, information, and control to your endpoints. In addition, it enables secure, remote connectivity to the security fabric. It also integrates network and endpoint with segmentation and automation. FortiClient enables unified endpoint awareness by sharing endpoint telemetry with the security fabric. It is compatible with third-party EDR (endpoint detection and response and anti-malware solutions.
The FortiClient fabric agent can:
• Report on the status of a device, including firmware version and applications running.
• Send all suspicious files to a fabric sandbox.
• Enforce USB control, application control, URL filtering, and firmware upgrade policies.
• Provide application firewall service and malware protection.
• Enable devices to connect securely to the security fabric over either ZTNA tunnels or VPN (IPsec or SSL), both encrypted. The connection to the security fabric can be either a SASE service or a FortiGate next-generation firewall.
You can purchase FortiClient with one of three levels of capability:
Zero Trust security - The ZTNA edition enables both VPN and ZTNA encrypted tunnels, as well as USB device control and URL filtering.
Endpoint security - The EPP/APT edition adds AI-based NGAV (next-generation antivirus), application firewall, endpoint quarantine, and support for cloud sandbox.
Cloud-based endpoint security
Benefits and Features
• Fabric agent leverages integrations and provides telemetry information to the rest of the Fortinet security fabric.
• SAAS control and web/content filtering
• Dynamic access control helps with automation and simplifies compliance.
• Software inventory management enables visibility as well as management of licenses.
• Automated response detects and isolates any endpoints that may be compromised.
• ZTNA delivers better remote access and consistent application access policies
• Managed endpoint security services remotely assist with setup, configuration, deployment, vulnerability monitoring, and overall monitoring of endpoint security.
Reviews from Real Users:
PeerSpot users like that FortiClient is easy to use and integrates well with other solutions. They also appreciate the richness of its features and find it to be inexpensive in comparison to other products that require separate purchases for separate features.
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