HP Wolf Security and Fortinet FortiClient are leading solutions in the cybersecurity space. Fortinet FortiClient stands out due to its robust features, justifying its higher price for many users, whereas HP Wolf Security is appreciated for its pricing and support.
Features: HP Wolf Security offers advanced threat protection, isolated browsing capabilities, and seamless remote support. Fortinet FortiClient provides comprehensive endpoint protection, security fabric integration, and cloud-based management. Users find FortiClient's feature set more extensive and valuable compared to HP Wolf Security.
Room for Improvement: HP Wolf Security needs better integration with other security tools, more user-friendly configurations, and improved mobile device management. Fortinet FortiClient requires enhancement in reporting features, better documentation for complex setups, and improved software updates. Both products have distinct areas requiring enhancements, but Fortinet's sophisticated setup documentation is a notable concern.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: HP Wolf Security is relatively easier to deploy with seamless onboarding and satisfactory customer service. Fortinet FortiClient presents a steeper learning curve and mixed feedback on customer support response times. HP Wolf Security’s simpler deployment gives it an edge over Fortinet FortiClient here.
Pricing and ROI: HP Wolf Security offers competitive pricing and is considered cost-effective, providing satisfactory ROI. Fortinet FortiClient, with a higher initial setup cost, delivers robust protection that users feel is worth the investment. HP provides better pricing flexibility, whereas FortiClient’s higher costs are justified by its extensive feature set.
Technical support can be logged on Fortinet's support portal.
We can add more licenses and Fortinet tokens, demonstrating excellent scalability.
FortiClient is cost-effective since the client itself is free with the purchase of Fortinet.
We appreciate its VPN capabilities and the features that offer extra security functionalities like antivirus and malware scanning.
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.
HP Wolf Security is a comprehensive cybersecurity solution that bolsters your organization's cyber-resilience on multiple fronts. With its full-stack security approach, it ensures layered protection from hardware to the cloud, providing a robust defense against cyber threats. HP Wolf Security introduces endpoint isolation, a cutting-edge feature that effectively halts threats that may go unnoticed by Next-Generation Antivirus (NGAV) and Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) systems. Moreover, it extends its security coverage to printers, equipping them with advanced detection and self-healing capabilities to further safeguard your digital ecosystem. This integrated solution streamlines IT and security risk management, resulting in fewer alerts and false positives, and reduces the time and effort required for endpoint incident analysis and remediation. Notably, HP Wolf Security prioritizes productivity, allowing you to manage risk without disrupting the user experience, enabling worry-free work from anywhere, and offering rapid IT disaster recovery at scale.
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