Stormshield Endpoint Security and Fortinet FortiClient are two competing cybersecurity products. Fortinet FortiClient seems to have the upper hand in terms of features, while Stormshield Endpoint Security is favored for pricing and support.
Features: Stormshield is valued for its robust threat detection, low resource consumption, and easy integration. Fortinet FortiClient is praised for its integration capabilities, wide range of tools, and comprehensive protection.
Room for Improvement: Stormshield users suggest enhancing integration with third-party products, providing more frequent updates, and improving usability. Fortinet FortiClient users point out the need for a more intuitive management console, clearer documentation, and better integration.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Stormshield is noted for its straightforward deployment process and responsive customer service. Fortinet FortiClient is similarly easy to deploy but has mixed reviews on support responsiveness.
Pricing and ROI: Users find Stormshield's pricing competitive with a good return on investment. Fortinet FortiClient, although more expensive, is justified by its extensive features and capabilities.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| Fortinet FortiClient | 1.8% |
| Stormshield Endpoint Security | 0.2% |
| Other | 98.0% |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 58 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 23 |
| Large Enterprise | 24 |
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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