We performed a comparison between Check Point Harmony Endpoint and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Check Point Harmony has a slight edge in this comparison. According to its reviewers, its interface is friendlier than that of Defender for Endpoint.
"Fortinet FortiEDR's firewalling, rule creation, monitoring, and inspection profiles are great."
"Fortinet is very user-friendly for customers."
"This is stable and scalable."
"The solution was relatively easy to deploy."
"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"
"Forensics is a valuable feature of Fortinet FortiEDR."
"Fortinet FortiEDR made our clients feel secure and more at ease, knowing that they had an EDR solution that would close the gap in their security posture."
"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."
"This software incorporates security AI features and effectively manages bandwidth with its DRS capabilities."
"The reporting feature where we can see and monitor what happened on our client computers is useful."
"It's a scalable product as it is a cloud offering."
"The most valuable feature of Check Point Harmony Endpoint is centralized management."
"The most important characteristic of our requirements was the implementation of disk encryption."
"It has improved the detection of malware."
"It is minimally invasive. From a single installer, the equipment is protected and secured."
"One of the coolest features is that it provides an HTML report on the laptop and the endpoint console for the administrator."
"Coming from an organization where the EDR wasn't strong, it has always been a case of basically searching through the information you already have and looking for something. It was basically trying to find the needle in a haystack. What the Defender platform does is that it reduces the size of the haystack, and it'll say that the needle is over here. Minutes matter, and it certainly zeros you in on the events that are concerning. It also simplifies the effort of trying to get some kind of correlation of behaviors or actions you see in the environment and confirming if something is benign or a threat."
"Defender for Endpoint provides good visibility into threats and has favorable threat intelligence."
"Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is scalable. Currently, we have 600,000 users in our organization."
"In terms of the installation, ease of use, and user interface, Defender has been great so far."
"Defender for Endpoint is a robust solution that works well out-of-the-box."
"Defender provides useful alerts and groups them. It sends an alert to your portal if it detects any malicious activity, and you can group multiple alerts to form an incident."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is that it is embedded into the Windows system. Additionally, the performance is good and simple to maintain."
"Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is a robust platform."
"FortiEDR can be improved by providing more detailed reporting."
"The support needs improvement."
"I would like the solution to extend beyond endpoint protection and include other attack surfaces such as other network components."
"The solution is not stable."
"We find the solution to be a bit expensive."
"The only minor concern is occasional interference with desired programs."
"Once, we had an event that was locked and blocked, but information about it came to us two or three days later."
"To improve Fortinet, we need to see more features and technology areas at the endpoint level introduced."
"It would be ideal if they had a migration tool of some sort."
"Legacy VPNs and digital footprints should be minimized."
"We did have some early compatibility issues, which I hope Check Point has since resolved."
"I would like to see them add features where we can use this license for mobile browsers, too."
"Compared to other brands, we would like a dedicated anti-spam to be included in order to close the full circle."
"They should also add new functions such as threat hunting."
"The next release should consider a strong threat detection mechanism that can categorize various levels of attacks for faster analysis."
"I would like to see is this same solution being able to link with the services of different corporate networks as if they were a remote access VPN extension and thus not require additional licenses."
"The detection of viruses could be a little bit better."
"Microsoft Defender for Endpoint could improve by making the reporting better."
"Microsoft Defender for Endpoint could provide us with a more holistic approach, such as collaboration. They can provide us with an environment from where we can manage all the endpoints from one central location, such as overall management."
"Microsoft Defender for Endpoint does not offer default templates for alerts, requiring us to configure everything ourselves to avoid numerous false positives."
"Sometimes, there are different skews. In a basic skew, they should have basic log analysis without the need to integrate with any third-party or SIEM solutions, like Sentinel. This would make it so much easier for users who don't have log collection or log analysis."
"Microsoft Defender could be improved with features more like the McAfee ePO. It would be better if I had a console to get all the information for my endpoints. Maybe this is too much for it, but it would be better if it could handle those non-signature-based malicious codes or viruses."
"Microsoft Defender for Endpoint could improve by providing more user-friendly dashboards. They may be complicated for some."
"The time it takes to restore the application could be improved. It has a lot of dependencies. It's not like the Microsoft security that comes with the OS. Updating through the command prompt, most of the time, it takes some time to download some of these dependencies."
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Check Point Harmony Endpoint is ranked 7th in EPP (Endpoint Protection for Business) with 46 reviews while Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is ranked 1st in EPP (Endpoint Protection for Business) with 96 reviews. Check Point Harmony Endpoint is rated 8.6, while Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Check Point Harmony Endpoint writes "Resilient by design, provides redundancy, and offers ongoing constant improvements". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint writes "You can access all your security data and telemetry from a single pane of glass". Check Point Harmony Endpoint is most compared with SentinelOne Singularity Complete, CrowdStrike Falcon, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks, Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business and Symantec Endpoint Security, whereas Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is most compared with Intercept X Endpoint, Symantec Endpoint Security, CrowdStrike Falcon and SentinelOne Singularity Complete. See our Check Point Harmony Endpoint vs. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint report.
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