Fortinet FortiClient and Microsoft Defender for Business are widely used cybersecurity solutions. Microsoft Defender for Business offers superior features, making it a preferred choice despite a higher price.
Features: Fortinet FortiClient offers comprehensive endpoint protection, integrated VPN support, and threat intelligence. Microsoft Defender for Business provides advanced threat detection, seamless Microsoft ecosystem integration, and automated response capabilities.
Room for Improvement: Fortinet FortiClient needs better compatibility with other security systems, reduce complexity, and enhance mobile support. Microsoft Defender for Business requires improvements in reporting capabilities, user support, and cross-platform protection.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Fortinet FortiClient offers straightforward deployment but has customer service responsiveness issues. Microsoft Defender for Business has effortless deployment and efficient customer support.
Pricing and ROI: Fortinet FortiClient is cost-effective with a quick ROI. Microsoft Defender for Business has higher setup costs but delivers exceptional ROI through advanced features and efficiency.
It is pretty good because it offers various features such as Exchange, OfficeSuite, OneDrive, and SharePoint.
They initiate the troubleshooting process quickly and resolve issues in a timely manner.
Technical support can be logged on Fortinet's support portal.
The main issue revolves around addressing bugs in the endpoint.
It is rated ten out of ten for its quality and assistance.
We can recommend FortiClient for small organizations with 50 to 60 users as well as for larger enterprises due to its extensive features.
I hope Fortinet will start an insider developer program where professionals can provide feedback on new releases to ensure improvements.
We can add more licenses and Fortinet tokens, demonstrating excellent scalability.
The cloud-based nature of the solution ensures high scalability.
Its stability level is excellent.
No customer complaints about its functionality or reliability.
FortiClient needs improvement in restricting user information and ensuring more secure customer data to better protect source code and reduce the risk of security breaches.
Fortinet frequently releases updates without thorough testing.
There are advanced features like Zero Trust that I currently do not use but could be beneficial for security.
Microsoft should provide batch management solutions with the application, integrating pass management with roles.
It is not quick to make exclusions or specific configurations compared to other antiviruses on the market.
FortiClient is cost-effective since the client itself is free with the purchase of Fortinet.
Justifying the price to clients can be difficult.
FortiClient is included in a package with the UTM features, so there is no separate cost for it.
Single-year pricing remains good.
The package with Business Premium is good for what you get for the price.
We appreciate its VPN capabilities and the features that offer extra security functionalities like antivirus and malware scanning.
The most valuable feature of FortiClient is its high security level.
The integration with Active Directory is a valuable feature, allowing SSO for users.
The security features are valuable because they come with more capabilities that other licenses do not have, including the enterprise license like E3.
Its vulnerability management is regarded as one of the best in the industry.
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.
Microsoft Defender for Business is a new endpoint security solution that was designed especially for the small and medium-sized business (up to 300 employees). With this endpoint security solution, your company's devices are better protected from ransomware, malware, phishing, and other threats.
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