Fortinet FortiClient and Nyotron PARANOID are two cybersecurity solutions with different strengths. Users generally prefer Fortinet FortiClient for its pricing and customer support, while Nyotron PARANOID is favored for its advanced features.
Features: Fortinet FortiClient's valuable features include comprehensive threat protection, easy integration, and an intuitive management system. Nyotron PARANOID is praised for its unique endpoint defense approach, proactive threat detection, and minimal system impact. Users feel Nyotron PARANOID offers superior and innovative endpoint security features compared to Fortinet FortiClient.
Room for Improvement: Fortinet FortiClient users suggest enhancements in the VPN client performance and more frequent updates. Nyotron PARANOID users desire improvements in reporting functionalities and user documentation.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Fortinet FortiClient generally receives positive feedback for its straightforward deployment process and responsive customer service. In contrast, Nyotron PARANOID also enjoys positive remarks for its deployment but has mixed reviews regarding customer service responsiveness. Users tend to view Fortinet FortiClient as slightly better in terms of deployment ease and customer service.
Pricing and ROI: Fortinet FortiClient is appreciated for its cost-effectiveness and perceived high ROI. Nyotron PARANOID, while seen as more expensive, is viewed by users as delivering substantial value, justifying its cost. Users are satisfied with Fortinet FortiClient's pricing structure but acknowledge Nyotron PARANOID’s higher ROI due to its advanced capabilities.
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.
PARANOID is a game-changing endpoint protection solution that works seamlessly with your existing endpoint security solutions to create an almost impenetrable defense against even the most sophisticated attacks. Acting as the last line of defense – after threats bypass all perimeter and endpoint security layers – PARANOID protects your data from deletion, exfiltration, encryption, sabotage and more.
Delivering the first-ever OS-Centric Positive Security, PARANOID distinguishes between legitimate activities carried out by a program or user and threatening activities carried out by attacks.
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