We performed a comparison between Trend Micro Apex One and Trend Micro Deep Security based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on the parameters we compared, Trend Micro Apex One appears to be the superior solution. Any issues they are currently facing, they feel, will likely resolve with future updates. However, our reviewers found Trend Micro Deep Security to be expensive and difficult to deploy, and weren’t satisfied with the level of support.
"Fortinet has helped free up around 20 percent of our staff's time to help us out."
"Fortinet is very user-friendly for customers."
"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."
"Fortinet FortiEDR's scalability is quite good, and you can add licenses to the solution."
"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"
"It is a scalable solution...The initial setup of Fortinet FortiEDR was straightforward."
"The setup is pretty simple."
"It is very easy to set up. I would rate my experience with the initial setup a ten out of ten, with ten being very easy to set up."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the endpoint security with the zero-day vulnerability. They have an on-premise sandboxing solution which prevents any of those zero-day vulnerability issues."
"Its scalability and the central point of XDR so that all items are centrally reporting to one solution are the most valuable features."
"Trend Micro Apex One most valuable features are centralized management, ease of use, and help user management. Additionally, it can detect vulnerabilities in the end-users system"
"Trend Micro Apex One is good at detecting zero-day threats. When the solution was in operation I did not notice any system performance problems. Upgrades of the solution were simple to do and there are plenty of features."
"It is very stable. It also has good security capabilities. It is a strong security product for endpoint protection."
"The initial setup is not that tough. It's easy."
"The solution is stable and integrated into the system quite well."
"I like One Endpoint Security. We can manage all the Trend Micro products from one console."
"Aside from the basic antivirus features, there are additional features such as vulnerability protection, firewall, etc. which are helpful."
"The most valuable features are web security, email filtering, and content filtering."
"The most valuable feature is the virtual patching."
"There is a degree of set it and forget it in regards to the actual endpoints and what you can do with the console, which is nice."
"Very straightforward and very easy to implement."
"Trend Micro Deep Security is a complete solution and all the threat management has been taken care of."
"The vulnerability scanning reduces false positives by quite a bit."
"The VPN is the most prized characteristic of Trend Micro Deep Security, which in addition addresses all zero-day vulnerabilities. This allows us to confidently transfer our system physically, as it presents to the external world, whether it be an intruder or a hacker, that our system is completely secure without any weak spots. Even if the latest security patches have not been installed or updated, the software virtually covers them for you."
"The dashboard isn't easy to access and manage."
"The only minor concern is occasional interference with desired programs."
"The amount of usage, the number of details we get, or the number of options that can be tweaked is limited in comparison to that with other EDR solutions"
"FortiEDR can be improved by providing more detailed reporting."
"ZTNA can improve latency."
"To improve Fortinet, we need to see more features and technology areas at the endpoint level introduced."
"The solution should address emerging threats like SQL injection."
"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 sometimes face issues with policies and rules while working with Apex One. They sometimes do not work."
"They should include easy-to-use connectors to make it easier to connect to SIEM."
"Trend Micro Apex One could improve by having better integration in the future."
"The portal is a little bit slow in loading. The cloud portal or management control should be a little faster. There seems to be a lot of load on their servers over there. Maybe they are using one server for multiple customers. It would be great if they can increase server performance in the cloud. Its technical support and reporting can be improved. There is no proper reporting, and there is no PDF or things like that. They should include detailed reporting. An attack happened at a client's site, but we couldn't get the report on the same day. We were unable to provide a detailed report to our client. We approached the technical support, and even they didn't give proper answers. They need to improve the reporting capabilities, or the technical team should support us in providing these reports. They should include reporting in the solution. They should also insert sandbox analysis in Apex One."
"The solution could be more proactive by using AI to assess the production landscape and compete with other products."
"I think the one place where we like where they lacking is in a unified style dashboard."
"It would be great it can support endpoint encryption."
"No product can ever be rated a ten out of ten. They are always improving on one aspect or another."
"The client can show as offline sometimes, and that becomes a bit difficult for troubleshooting. We end up basically redeploying the client. This is something that could be improved in the future."
"The problem with this solution is that if you go on large sites you have to have an external database, which would increase the cost."
"It needs to improve its integration with a lot of other products. This should be in the road map because we have a lot of SaaS-based appliances which are not connected with each other."
"We are not very happy with Trend Micro Deep Security since it is not able to detect many viruses and bugs."
"Pricing is on the expensive side and could be more affordable. The technical support for Trend Micro Deep Security also needs improvement."
"Another issue is if I want to suggest this solution to a customer, we won't get the pricing immediately, which is a major problem."
"What this product lacks at this stage is the ability to have automated workbooks to do the response. At this stage, the response is more manual, and it is not automated. If there is a response functionality in Deep Security, similar to what we have in EDR these days, to automatically respond to some of the threats, it would be cool. So, we'd like to have an automated response. There should be a response functionality."
"The setup is fairly complex. The deployment took around two months."
Trend Micro Apex One is ranked 6th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 125 reviews while Trend Micro Deep Security is ranked 1st in Virtualization Security with 81 reviews. Trend Micro Apex One is rated 8.2, while Trend Micro Deep Security is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Trend Micro Apex One writes "We can get consolidated logs of suspicious objects and malware attacks in a single console". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Trend Micro Deep Security writes "High availability, effective VPM, and responsive support". Trend Micro Apex One is most compared with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike Falcon, Trend Micro Smart Protection and Trend Vision One, whereas Trend Micro Deep Security is most compared with CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Symantec Endpoint Security, Trellix Endpoint Security and Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business.
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