Fortinet FortiClient and SonicWall Capture Client compete in the security solutions category. Users generally prefer Fortinet FortiClient due to its ease of deployment and pricing, but SonicWall Capture Client stands out for its customer service and overall performance.
Features: Fortinet FortiClient integrates with Fortinet's security fabric, offers endpoint protection, and provides a straightforward feature set. SonicWall Capture Client delivers advanced threat protection, integrates seamlessly with other SonicWall products, and provides versatile and comprehensive protection.
Room for Improvement: Fortinet FortiClient needs better reporting capabilities, reduced resource consumption, and performance efficiency. SonicWall Capture Client could improve user experience, streamline configuration processes, and enhance performance efficiency.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Fortinet FortiClient is simple to deploy but may present challenges during initial configurations. SonicWall Capture Client has a steeper learning curve but offers superior customer support, ensuring smoother deployment.
Pricing and ROI: Fortinet FortiClient is cost-effective with high ROI, appealing to budget-conscious organizations. SonicWall Capture Client, while more expensive, provides significant value for its price through its robust features and superior support, leading to higher user satisfaction regarding ROI.
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.
SonicWall Capture Client is a unified client platform that delivers multiple endpoint protection capabilities, including next-generation malware protection and application vulnerability intelligence. It leverages cloud sandbox file testing, comprehensive reporting, and enforcement for endpoint protection.
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