Fortinet FortiClient vs SonicWall Capture Advanced Threat Protection comparison

The compared Fortinet and SonicWall solutions aren't in the same category. Fortinet is ranked #12 in EPP , with an average rating of 8.1, and holds a 1.8% mindshare in the category. SonicWall is ranked #28 in ATP , and holds a 2.2% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Fortinet users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of SonicWall users who would recommend it.

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We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiClient and SonicWall Capture Advanced Threat Protection based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Fortinet FortiClient vs. SonicWall Capture Advanced Threat Protection

March 2020

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Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Net...

Mindshare comparison

Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Fortinet FortiClient	1.8%
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint	7.2%
CrowdStrike Falcon	6.3%
Other	84.7%

Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)

Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
SonicWall Capture Advanced Threat Protection	2.2%
Palo Alto Networks WildFire	7.5%
Microsoft Defender for Office 365	6.9%
Other	83.4%

Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)

Featured Reviews

ABHISHEK_SINGH

Senior Process Expert at A.P. Moller - Maersk

Gained full visibility and streamlined threat detection through behavior-based insights and AI integration

Initially, we got to have a lot of false positives when we onboarded, but nowadays it's quite smooth. We have fine-tuned our security policies and allowed different levels of policies to get rid of those false positives. Currently, we are getting a fairly good amount of incidents that are not false positives or benign, but actionable items. The process is streamlined. In the initial days, the operations used to get involved in a lot of benign and other activities, but now the process is streamlined. We are leveraging the auto-detection and remediation plans. The operations teams are now more involved in other business roles as well, not just looking into the logs and fetching out what's happening there. They have fixed a lot of things. Initially, they didn't have IAC code drift detection, cloud posture management, or security posture management, but they have those now. They purchased different vendors and did a merger with that. They have now Prisma Cloud that gets integrated and now they are working with Cortex Cloud. Everything that was negative has now been addressed, and the product altogether looks to be in a very better and mature shape now. Currently, it's more or less detecting the workloads with AI-based best practices. Since most organizations are consuming AI agents and other things, we are looking forward to seeing what other feature enhancements Palo Alto can support in that.

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Kok Keong-Low

Senior Technical Manager at Flexaccel

Remote access has become seamless and secure while deployment remains simple for our users

Performance could be improved today. People are now moving toward SASE, which stands for Secure Access, Secure Edge Solution. Fortinet also has that offering, which would be easier since it operates through the cloud, acting as a first line of defense. When the user connects to the internet, they connect to the cloud first for posture assessment and monitoring before connecting to the outside world. The impact is significant because nowadays people are adopting SASE. During COVID time, many users were trying to connect back to their office, causing the performance or CPU utilization of the firewall to increase tremendously, which slowed down performance. I have not worked with endpoint telemetry in Fortinet FortiClient that could have been helpful for threat mitigation.

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MohammadAta

Technical Manager, NOC at TEXUM JORDAN

Has a good configuration but the price should be more competitive

Our primary use case of this solution is for security. It's a good solution but the price is high. It also has an easy configuration. The feedback that we get from our customers is that it's a good product. Our customers are mostly smaller enterprises. The price should be more competitive. I…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Since they've done their most recent update, the ease to isolate endpoints is valuable. If we find one where there is a virus on it, we can easily isolate it. We don't even have to contact the user. We don't have to manually take them off the network. We can easily isolate them."

"Palo Alto is constantly adding new features."

"It is easy to use."

"We use it for malicious connections from malicious websites, to identify payloads that might be inside the traffic, to identify malicious processes or bugs that are running on the network, and any activities that tend to lead to data infiltration."

"But overall, when we speak about security and protection, they are one of the top providers."

"Cortex XDR can integrate the firewalls and determine the tendencies of the attacks. It's a new generation antivirus, with protection endpoints and detection response. It is very easy to use and everybody can operate the solution."

"The user interface of the solution is sophisticated and straightforward."

"Its interface and pricing are most valuable. It is better than other vendors in terms of security."

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"FortiClient is a very lightweight and secure product."

"The use of IoT devices is growing and it is important to manage data assets, and we have to follow rules and standards from our organization that FortiClient has helped with as an important tool on the end-users systems."

"The functionality of the solution is pretty good and with every version the solution gets dramatically better."

"Our customers are generally looking for a solution that works well and they get it with FortiClient."

"The configuration is the most valuable feature."

"It is a good solution, and we don't have any plans to switch to another solution."

"If having a fancy system is not important to the person, but he is simply looking for a workable and stable solution, then FortiGate is the way to go."

"We use this to connect the data VPN from the remote office to the headquarters."

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"The feedback that we get from our customers is that it's a good product."

"We use it for protection against viruses and ransomware attacks."

"I like this setup for a firewall. You can set things up very easily and you can automate items as well. It's a very robust firewall solution for enterprise as well as small businesses."

"I would recommend this solution, as a firewall product solution that has a similar sandboxing type of thing has become quite an essential part of a security footprint."

"We get alert messages whenever there is a new threat. We are notified at the firewall level that things are blocked, which keeps us in our comfort zone."

"For the past four and a half years, we haven't had any breaches or issues of any kind."

"SonicWall came out with a new add-on; it was inexpensive to add on to the existing product that we already owned, so we added it."

"The most valuable features of the product are the application filters, application policies, that block certain websites and allow bandwidth for others, those kinds of things."

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Cons

"Managing the product should be easier."

"There is a severe gap in functionality between Windows, Linux, and Mac versions. For example all folder restriction settings are Windows only. Traps 5.0+ does not have SAML / LDAP integration."

"A little bit more automation would be nice."

"There's room for improvement with Mac device installations, which can be challenging."

"While using Cortex, I noticed some aspects that could be improved, such as increasing the synchronization speed between XDR and Xnor."

"If Palo Alto reduces the pricing slightly for their products, it would make them more scalable in markets such as India and globally for cybersecurity."

"Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is a strong tool, but it is true that digesting information sometimes makes the tool go a little bit slower."

"Every 30 or 40 days, there's a new version and we need to go and make sure our customer's laptops are upgraded."

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"The endpoint side of FortiClient needs improvement, specifically the agent-based endpoint, which requires enhancements in detection and additional features to reduce bugs."

"I heard that Fortinet is going to enhance the firmware to have mobile versions. One is like Linux long-term support SCS and one with new features, but there is no support here. We spoke with the vendor multiple times, and they said that they will release these features soon."

"The solution could be more secure. I would like to see more safety features."

"FortiClient is not communicating with the new version of the firewall."

"Fortinet needs to cover more areas where threats can come from."

"The price could also use improvement."

"We'd like to see a deployment wizard to help implementation become streamlined."

"One area for improvement in FortiClient is the speed of connectivity."

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"I would say the solution needs a much simpler user interface, but the functionality of the firewall is quite extensive. You need the user interface to be that way. However, if there was a way to make the user interface a little easier, that would be great."

"The setup needs improvement. It needs to be made more user-friendly."

"Could provide online training to allow customers to learn more about the product."

"It does fare well against enterprise products."

"I would say the solution needs a much simpler user interface, but the functionality of the firewall is quite extensive."

"We would like to get immediate alerts from the alerting system without using third-parties."

"SonicWall had a recent layoff. This is a concern for us, because now we are missing the local presence from both the engineering and sales side."

"Having an on-premise solution as well would be an option for some people, but they'll want to use a cloud solution for their sandboxing."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It has reasonable pricing for the use cases it provides to the company."

"Traps pays for itself within the first 16 months of a three-year subscription. This is attributed to OPEX savings, as security teams spent less time trying to identify and isolate malware for analysis as a result of a reduction in malware incidents, false positives, and breach avoidance."

"This is an expensive solution."

"I don't have any issues with the pricing. We are satisfied with the price."

"The solution is expensive. It's pricing is on a yearly-basis."

"In terms of the cost Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks is very expensive because we are a Mexican company and when you translate dollars to pesos the cost is very high. The solution is very expensive for Mexican companies. I understand that they have international prices, but I do not think it offsets the price enough for many companies in countries, such as Mexico. The amount it is reduced is not a massive percentage."

"The price of the solution could be reduced. I have customers that have voiced that the solution is good for the value but if I want to sell more of the solution the price reduction would help."

"The price is on the higher side, but it's okay."

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"The solution is not expensive. We need more discounted rates in Pakistan. The price of the solution could be reduced to be more affordable for the solution."

"It is not that expensive. It was within the range. A dollar per user per month is nothing."

"FortiClient is quite reasonably priced."

"I rate the product's pricing a seven out of ten."

"The solution is more cost efficient than Cisco, as FortiGate tends not to charge for the client license, which allows one to make free use of whatever is supported on the device."

"Fortinet FortiClient comes free with the purchase of the FortiGate solution. There is a license required for this solution. You later can upgrade from the free version which will allow more endpoints. The cost of the license subscription is based on how many endpoints you require."

"The pricing is a six out of ten."

"I don't have the licensing schema for the VPN solution because we just purchased the VPN gateway."

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"We get our value for our money."

"The best deal from SonicWall is to buy the HA pair. When you buy the initial one, you receive the second one at a significant discount. If there is an event and something happens to one firewall, then you have the second firewall to roll into. For the price, it's pretty to tough to beat and not a lot of other firewall vendors offer it. You battle for a discount on both. Where with SonicWall, if you buy one, the second one is at half price. It's pretty straightforward."

"When you compare it with other solutions, they are cheaper and more economical."

"It's thirty dollars per user and we have 30 users."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Construction Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

Construction Company

17%

Comms Service Provider

13%

Media Company

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	44
Midsize Enterprise	20
Large Enterprise	48

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	59
Midsize Enterprise	23
Large Enterprise	25

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	3

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What do you like most about Fortinet FortiClient?

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Also Known As

Cyvera, Cortex XDR, Palo Alto Networks Traps

FortiClient

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Overview

Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks provides advanced threat detection with AI-driven endpoint protection and seamless integration, ensuring multi-layered security and automatic threat response.

Cortex XDR is designed to safeguard endpoints against malware and suspicious activities. It offers advanced threat detection and response capabilities using behavioral analysis, AI, and machine learning. It seamlessly integrates with security infrastructures, providing endpoint security, firewall integration, and enhanced visibility in both cloud-based and on-premises environments.

What are the key features of Cortex XDR?

Advanced Threat Detection: Uses AI and machine learning for proactive threat identification.
Multi-layered Security: Combines various security measures for comprehensive protection.
Endpoint Protection: Safeguards against malware and exploits.
Behavioral Analysis: Monitors suspicious activity for early detection.
Automatic Threat Response: Automates responses to neutralize threats.

What benefits should users expect?

Ease of Use: Simplifies security management with intuitive design.
Resource Efficiency: Minimizes impact on system resources.
Integration Capabilities: Works well with existing security setups.
Reduced Analyst Workload: Automates processes to decrease manual intervention.

Organizations in diverse sectors deploy Cortex XDR to protect against malware, leveraging its advanced threat detection capabilities. Its integration with existing security infrastructures appeals to those seeking comprehensive protection in both cloud and on-premises environments, providing enhanced visibility and threat intelligence.

Palo Alto Networks

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.

Fortinet

SonicWall Capture, a cloud based service available with SonicWall firewalls, revolutionizes advanced threat detection and sandboxing with a multi-engine approach to stopping unknown and zero-day attacks at the gateway, and with automated remediation. Customers benefit from high security effectiveness, fast response times and reduced total cost of ownership.

SonicWall

Sample Customers

CBI Health Group, University Honda, VakifBank

Black Gold Regional Schools, Amadeus Hospitality, Jefferson County, Chunghwa Telecom, City of Boroondara, Dimension Data

Wonder Cement, Foster Clark Products

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