Panda Adaptive Defense 360 and Fortinet FortiClient are two leading products in endpoint security. Based on user reviews, Panda Adaptive Defense 360 excels in pricing and customer support while Fortinet FortiClient has superior features, making it worth the extra cost.
Features: Panda Adaptive Defense 360 is praised for its automated threat detection and response, cloud-based management, and detailed reporting. Fortinet FortiClient is highly valued for its comprehensive security suite, including VPN, web filtering, and in-depth endpoint management. Users find Fortinet FortiClient to offer more robust and diverse features.
Room for Improvement: Users suggest Panda Adaptive Defense 360 could improve its integration capabilities with other security tools and reduce false positives. Fortinet FortiClient could enhance its resource consumption and user training materials. Fortinet's minor flaws in performance are seen as less significant compared to its feature richness.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Panda Adaptive Defense 360 is noted for its straightforward deployment process and excellent customer support responsiveness. Fortinet FortiClient, while having a more complex setup, provides extensive documentation and good customer support. Panda's customer service slightly outperforms Fortinet's due to its quicker resolution time.
Pricing and ROI: Panda Adaptive Defense 360 is generally viewed as more cost-effective with a quicker return on investment. Fortinet FortiClient, despite being pricier, is considered worth the investment due to its advanced feature set and overall effectiveness. Users appreciate the balance Panda strikes between cost and benefit, while Fortinet is seen as a premium option.
Technical support can be logged on Fortinet's support portal.
Panda Adaptive Defense 360 is not compatible with certain network devices like access points, switches, or routers, which would be an area for improvement.
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.
I would rate the pricing as six out of ten, and its costs appear to be moderately priced.
The stability is approximately a seven to eight out of ten.
We appreciate its VPN capabilities and the features that offer extra security functionalities like antivirus and malware scanning.
The detection capabilities for malicious activities are effective.
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.
Advanced Security to Stop Breaches
Unified Endpoint Protection (EPP) and Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) capabilities, with our unique Zero-Trust Application Service and Threat Hunting Service in one single solution, to effectively detect and classify 100% of processes running on all the endpoints within your organization.
Cloud-delivered endpoint prevention, detection, containment and response technologies against advanced threat, zero-day malware, ransomware, phishing, in-memory exploits and malware-less attacks. It also provides IDS, firewall, device control, email protection, URL & content filtering capabilities.
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