We performed a comparison between Forescout Platform, Fortinet FortiNAC, and Impulse Point SafeConnect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, HPE Aruba Networking, Fortinet and others in Network Access Control (NAC)."Forescout Platform provides multiple features. They have a very effective device fingerprinting in their cloud. You do not need to add any devices manually, such as in Mac devices. Other solutions you have to add IoT devices and OT devices manually. This is one of the major areas that Forescout Platform is excelling in."
"The actions that the agentless visibility, allow us to perform on the endpoint, are really amazing, especially in the way that it is done."
"Vulnerability remediation is valuable. We can narrow down a system and its properties. We can go granular on the properties of each endpoint, such as which operating system you're using."
"It has helped with improving our security posture in terms of controlling the access of rogue devices into our network through identification. We have been able to prevent rogue device activities on the network, check the health of the system, and ensure remediation."
"The most valuable features are remote access and administration scripts."
"Forescout Platform's best feature is plug-in integration."
"The stability is amazing for the Forescout Platform. We have been using Forescout for four years, and no one complained about the stability."
"I have noticed that in the last year the license model has changed from licensing the whole appliance to licensing the number of devices. It's more simple for a large installation, or a user to have CounterACT as their peripheral site in the company. It's a good choice to have changed the license policy."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiNAC is compliance, which we can do with the clients and the endpoints on the network."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiNAC are access control, automation, artificial intelligence, analysis, and security, and it is a unified solution. You can combine a lot of features within the solution."
"The FortiNAC features I found the most valuable are security and the ability to consolidate wireless networks."
"Version 9.1 has been an improvement on previous versions. It's a good solution for SMB."
"All the features of Fortinet FortiNAC are valuable."
"The product's most valuable feature is its ability to protect devices connected to network service."
"It's a very good solution and one thing I have noted is its simplicity and the ease of the set-up process."
"The support responds to our queries within two to four hours."
"It is very easy to scale the product."
"The solution does have a bit of complexity, and there's some complexity in the deployment. Users need to be trained before undertaking an initial setup."
"The ability to block external devices in Mac is lacking and needs to be added."
"It's scalable, but not without a big investment. It doesn't do so well at the branch. At the home office, it does okay and not so well at the branch."
"If older network devices are used there can be some compatibility issues while using the Forescout Platform. Additionally, if the switches that are deployed in your infrastructure are not captured properly to the endpoints there might be some difficulties with Forescout Platform trying to monitor the network traffic. Traffic management is an area the vendor should work on."
"They need to handle their Tier 1 cases differently. The biggest negative regarding Forescout is their support. Not having the ability to get instantly transferred to a support engineer for Tier 1 cases is pretty ridiculous."
"Forescout Platform's technical support is slow to respond and could be more knowledgeable."
"The solution could always improve by adding more features to make it more robust."
"In the next release of the solution, it could benefit from being more flexible to allow for more freedom."
"The course content could be improved, it's not that simple to work through."
"For our organization and our clients, the price is the main concern. They should work to make it more competitive."
"I hope that Fortinet can add a feature with a remediation mechanism when you find a broken piece so that you can click on something and download the needed update or resolve the firewall issue more easily. Currently, we have to use an external remediation server to download updates."
"The GUI is a little bit strange — different than other Fortinet products."
"We have some stability issues with the solution, the network drops out too often."
"The GUI in Fortinet FortiNAC could improve."
"Keeping the hard disk on the one series will be easier for the distributor and will keep the prices lower for the customer."
"The interface works fine, but it could be better."
"The solution would be much better if it offered self-service onboarding."
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