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We performed a comparison between Sophos EPP Suite and ZoneAlarm based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"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""The console is easy to read. I also like the scanning part and the ability to move assets from one to the other.""Exceptions are easy to create and the interface is easy to follow with a nice appearance.""We have FortiEDR installed on all our systems. This protects them from any threats.""NGAV and EDR features are outstanding.""The setup is pretty simple.""Fortinet FortiEDR's firewalling, rule creation, monitoring, and inspection profiles are great.""This is stable and scalable."

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"Provides good control and can implement policies and on-the-web control.""The solution efficiently protects the servers for our customers.""It's easy to deploy.""The most valuable feature of Sophos EPP Suite is the accounting and reporting services are good and professional. The business features of the solution are very useful, such as the reporting page for clients. It provides a clear understanding of usage, including how much traffic has been used and how much is remaining. Additionally, it's user-friendly and easy to understand. Overall, the solution is good, useful, and has a helpful user interface.""The product interacts well with other Sophos products we have.""The performance and scalability are impressive. We can install it on various computers.""The most valuable features of Sophos EPP Suite are the detection capability, machine learning, ransomware protection, and live response.""Sophos EPP Suite stands out with its user-friendly dashboard and strong web filtering features for enhanced online security."

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"The solution really focused on giving more security than an antivirus.""The phone access scan stands out as the most valuable feature for me.""The solution maintains reasonable scalability.""It is easy to use through interfaces and easy to configure each of the customizations we created based on the characteristics that we wanted.""Personally, I find the Game Mode of the Firewall very useful.""ZoneAlarm protects all computers from viruses, spyware, and hackers.""This antivirus is regularly updated, and the updates can be scheduled.""It is quick and easy to configure."

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Cons
"It takes about two business days for initial support, which is too slow in urgent situations.""We'd like to see more one-to-one product presentations for the distribution channels.""I haven't seen the use of AI in the solution.""Detections could be improved.""I think cloud security and SASE are areas of concern in the product where improvements are required. The tool's cloud version has to be improved in terms of the security it offers.""Everything with Fortinet having to do with their cloud services. They need to invest more in their internal infrastructure that they are running in the cloud. One of the things I find with their cloud environment compared to others' is that they go cheap on the equipment. So it causes some performance degradation.""We've encountered challenges during API deployment, occasionally resulting in unstable environments.""There's room for improvement in the quick response time and technical support for integration issues, especially when dealing with multiple vendors."

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"The solution is not easy to use in comparison to other endpoint security solutions.""We have to use additional third-party solutions to fill the gaps in the capabilities of Sophos EPP Suite, such as using a mobility scanner. It would be helpful to add this feature.""I would like to have more logging features to help more deeply analyze traffic.""One area for improvement in Sophos EPP Suite is the support response time, particularly of the management team. It could be faster because I only got a response from the manager after a few days. If you open a case directly from the website, the response from the technical support agent may have been faster. I didn't open the request from the website, so that could be the reason why the response time took longer.""Lacks delegated administration privileges for large organizations, and differential permissions for admins.""There could be enhancements made to the DLP.""The solution could improve on the resource management, it is a bit heavy on the resources.""The product should improve support and provide more scalable clustering."

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"Perhaps the primary area for potential enhancement is to make it faster, ensuring a more seamless experience while maintaining robust security features.""The support is not always so effective.""They should release a single update with all the necessary characteristics to avoid being in a cycle of consecutive updates.""Currently, the client is only available for the Windows Operating System but it would be good if it were released for Mac OS as well.""We'd like better performance of the network equipment. There are high-speed environments where an immediate response is required.""Some of our users say that the interface is a little bit outdated for 2020, and want it to be more modern and cozy.""I would like it to be integrated with the Check Point centralization solution like Infinity Portal. It would be great to be able to manage it through the same website.""ZoneAlarm should be a light application that does not take too much memory in mobile phones."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "I know it is tough to get big budget additions up front, but I highly recommend deploying environment wide and adding the forensic service."
  • "There are no issues with the pricing."
  • "The price is comprable to other endpoint security solutions."
  • "The pricing is typical for enterprises and fairly priced."
  • "I'm not familiar with pricing, but it looks a bit costly compared to other vendors I think."
  • "The pricing is good."
  • "I would rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten."
  • "The hardware costs about €100,000 and about €20,000 annually for access."
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  • "Willing to discount when you are switching from another product. Upgrading services will end up costing more, as expected."
  • "The pricing for this solution is ok."
  • "It may be possible to negotiate licensing cost based on volume."
  • "We purchased a three-year license, which gave us a large discount."
  • "Pricing could always be lower. It costs around $120 per seat per year."
  • "Sophos is cheaper than some competing products."
  • "We are on an annual license to use the solution."
  • "There are licenses to use this solution and we are on a three-year license."
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  • "We use the free version of the software, but it can be upgraded to the paid Extreme Security edition."
  • "This is a freeware product and I recommend using it."
  • "We have to pay a yearly licensing fee for ZoneAlarm, which is cheap."
  • "The pricing is reasonable, with a yearly renewal license costing seventy dollars."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:I suggest Fortinet’s FortiEDR over FortiClient for several reasons. For starters, FortiEDR guarantees solid protection… more »
    Top Answer: Having all monitoring, response, tracking, and mitigation tools in one dashboard provides our analysts and SOC team… more »
    Top Answer:The pricing is significantly high. The implementation of this solution required us to allocate additional funds beyond… more »
    Top Answer:Sophos EPP Suite is a powerful antivirus.
    Top Answer:The tool’s price is the same as its competitors. It is not the cheapest, but it is not the most expensive. I rate the… more »
    Top Answer:The solution’s performance could be improved for the end-users.
    Top Answer:ZoneAlarm protects all computers from viruses, spyware, and hackers.
    Top Answer:We have to pay a yearly licensing fee for ZoneAlarm, which is cheap.
    Top Answer:The mobile phone applications get slower because of ZoneAlarm. ZoneAlarm should be a light application that does not… more »
    Comparisons
    Also Known As
    enSilo, FortiEDR
    EPP Suite
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    Overview

    Fortinet FortiEDR is a real-time endpoint protection, detection, and automated response solution. Its primary purpose is to detect advanced threats to stop breaches and ransomware damage. It is designed to do so in real time, even on an already compromised device, allowing you to respond and remediate incidents automatically so your data can remain protected.

    Fortinet FortiEDR Features

    Fortinet FortiEDR has many valuable key features, including:

    • Easily customizable
    • Real-time proactive risk mitigation & IoT security
    • Pre-infection protection
    • Post-infection protection
    • Track applications and ratings
    • Reduce the attack surface with risk-based proactive policies
    • Achieve analysis of entire log history
    • Optional managed detection and response (MDR) service

    Fortinet FortiEDR Benefits

    Some of the key benefits of using Fortinet FortiEDR include:

    • Protection: Fortinet FortiEDR provides proactive, real-time, automated endpoint protection with the orchestrated incident response across platforms. It stops the breach with real-time postinfection blocking to protect data from exfiltration and ransomware encryption.

    • Single unified console: Fortinet FortiEDR has a single unified console with an intuitive interface, which makes management easier. The solution automates mundane endpoint security tasks so your employees don’t need to do it.

    • Cost savings: With Fortinet FortiEDR you can eliminate post-breach operational expenses and breach damage costs.

    • Flexibility: Fortinet FortiEDR can be deployed on premises or on a secure cloud instance. With Fortinet FortiEDR, endpoints are protected both on- and off-line.

    • Scalability: Because Fortinet can be deployed quickly and has a small footprint, it is easy to scale up to protect hundreds of thousand endpoints.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by Fortinet FortiEDR users.

    An Owner at a security firm says, "The features that I have found most valuable are the ability to customize it and to reduce its size. It lets you run in a very small window in terms of memory and resources on legacy cash registers. The customer has literally about 800 cash registers. That was the use case for Fortinet FortiEDR - to get that down into a tiny space. The only way to do that was to use this product because it had that ability to unbundle services that were a surplus.”

    Chandan M., Chief Technical Officer at Provision Technologies LLP, mentions, “The ease of deployment and configuration is valuable. It's very easy compared to other vendors like Sophos. Sophos' configuration is complex. Fortinet is a lot easier to understand. You don't need a lot of admin knowledge to do the configuration.” He also adds, “The security is also very good and the firewall response is good.”

    Harpreet S., Information Technology Support Specialist at Chemtrade Logistics, explains, "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."

    DeAndre V., Senior Network Administrator at a financial services firm, states, “The dashboard is easy to follow and use. The deployment and uninstalling were easy. I like the detailed information about the path of a file that might be suspicious. Being able to check that out was easy to follow. Exceptions are easy to create and the interface is easy to follow with a nice appearance.

    Protect every user and every device from malware, spam, data loss and more with our Enduser Protection bundles. Only Sophos delivers best-of-breed endpoint, mobile, encryption, email and web security solutions licensed per user and backed by the best support in the industry.

    ZoneAlarm protects you by preventing hackers from remotely accessing and controlling your device, and lets you know which apps have excessive permissions so you can decide whether they threaten your privacy.

    Sample Customers
    Financial, Healthcare, Legal, Technology, Enterprise, Manufacturing ... 
    EK Services
    Terma, Optix, Samsung Research Amercia, SF Police Credit Union, Independence Care System, Mattias Thomsen, Carmel Partners, Desert Research Institute, CRIF, FXCM Inc, US State Agency
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    Financial Services Firm21%
    Comms Service Provider11%
    Manufacturing Company11%
    Educational Organization5%
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    Computer Software Company16%
    Government8%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Financial Services Firm8%
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    Construction Company10%
    Retailer10%
    University10%
    Computer Software Company10%
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    Computer Software Company21%
    Financial Services Firm8%
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    Educational Organization6%
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    Security Firm43%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Integrator14%
    Logistics Company14%
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    Comms Service Provider21%
    Security Firm16%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Computer Software Company9%
    Company Size
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    Small Business50%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise34%
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    Small Business31%
    Midsize Enterprise19%
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    Midsize Enterprise11%
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    Small Business37%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
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    Small Business72%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise17%
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    Small Business41%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise42%
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    Sophos EPP Suite is ranked 26th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 52 reviews while ZoneAlarm is ranked 15th in Anti-Malware Tools with 11 reviews. Sophos EPP Suite is rated 8.0, while ZoneAlarm is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Sophos EPP Suite writes "The solution provides endpoint detection and response with a nice-looking dashboard". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ZoneAlarm writes "A highly stable solution that protects computers from viruses, spyware, and hackers". Sophos EPP Suite is most compared with Trend Micro Deep Security, Seqrite Endpoint Security, Trellix Endpoint Security, Coro and Xprotect , whereas ZoneAlarm is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Check Point Harmony Endpoint, Malwarebytes, F-Secure Total and Bitdefender GravityZone EDR.

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