Check Point Harmony Endpoint vs Fortinet FortiClient comparison

Check Point Harmony Endpoint integrates security solutions, allowing comprehensive protection against cyber threats. It's designed to suit enterprise-scale operations with robust features for threat prevention and management.

Check Point Harmony Endpoint offers advanced security capabilities that prioritize threat analysis, detection, and prevention. Tailored for professional environments, it provides tools to handle endpoint vulnerabilities effectively. Its user-centric design ensures that IT teams can manage network security with streamlined operations. Continuous updates and threat intelligence are offered to counter emerging threats, and its deployment is optimized for ease of use.

• Threat Intelligence: Delivers real-time insights into new and existing threats.
• Forensics: Offers detailed analysis of incidents to understand and mitigate risks.
• Endpoint Threat Hunting: Empowers proactive search for advanced threats.
• Automated Response: Integrates response mechanisms to reduce incident impact.
• Zero Trust Architecture: Implements controls for verified access at every endpoint.

• Cost Efficiency: Reduces operational costs by minimizing security breaches.
• Enhanced Security: Protects data integrity and privacy across endpoints.
• User Productivity: Limits interruptions and maintains business continuity.
• Scalability: Grows with organizational needs without compromising on performance.
• Compliance Assurance: Aids in meeting regulatory and security compliance standards.

In specific industries like finance and healthcare, Check Point Harmony Endpoint is deployed to secure sensitive data and protect against sector-specific threats. Its flexibility allows adaptation to meet industry standards, ensuring critical infrastructures maintain operational security without hindrance.

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.