Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
CheckPoint
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
CheckPoint is a digital access management and engagement system for venues. It automates and digitizes the registration, ticketing, and check-in process while enabling venues, vendors, and exhibitors to engage with guests directly to their phone's lock screen. CheckPoint is an event management tool for events, conferences, festivals, clubs, and more. The venue management solution boasts users among both the Oscars and Nasdaq.N/A
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (formerly Microsoft Defender ATP) is a holistic, cloud delivered endpoint security solution that includes risk-based vulnerability management and assessment, attack surface reduction, behavioral based and cloud-powered next generation protection, endpoint detection and response (EDR), automatic investigation and remediation, managed hunting services, rich APIs, and unified security management.
$2.50
per user/per month
Watchguard Endpoint Security
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
WatchGuard EPDR (formerly Panda Adaptive Defense 360) combines next-generation antivirus protection, endpoint detection and response (EDR), patch management, content filtering, email security, full disk encryption, and more, into one package. The platform touts a unique zero-trust security service that certifies the legitimacy and safety of all running applications thanks to a combination of automated, AI-driven processes and investigation services provided by a team of malware analysts.N/A
Pricing
CheckPointMicrosoft Defender for EndpointWatchguard Endpoint Security
Editions & Modules
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Academic
$2.50
per user/per month
Standalone
$5.20
per user/per month
No answers on this topic
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CheckPointMicrosoft Defender for EndpointWatchguard Endpoint Security
Free Trial
NoYesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Considered Multiple Products
CheckPoint

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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Chose Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Panda Adaptive Defense, in combination with Panda Systems Management, was a pretty big and powerful suite of AV software. However, the AV is pretty traditional, all things considered. ATP will always have a slight advantage due to its ability to seamlessly integrate with the …
Watchguard Endpoint Security
Chose Watchguard Endpoint Security
We used Kaspersky for all of our clients for many years. It was a good platform, but Panda Adaptive Defense works better and is easier to manage. Adaptive Defense 360 classifies the network environment first and will only allow trusted applications in the future upon review and …
Chose Watchguard Endpoint Security
It is more usable for companies which are not in Cloud, it is easier to manage, integration for different departments are better
Chose Watchguard Endpoint Security
For a long time, the centralized administration and the pool licenses were our intention to use [Adaptive Defense 360 / WatchGuard EPDR]. At the moment, the blocking against unknown programs and whitelisting of common programs are the main parts to use [Adaptive Defense 360 / …
Chose Watchguard Endpoint Security
The other software that we've been testing doesn't have the complete stop of execution of unknown software.
Features
CheckPointMicrosoft Defender for EndpointWatchguard Endpoint Security
Endpoint Security
Comparison of Endpoint Security features of Product A and Product B
CheckPoint
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Ratings
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
8.7
78 Ratings
2% above category average
Watchguard Endpoint Security
8.8
141 Ratings
3% above category average
Anti-Exploit Technology00 Ratings8.975 Ratings9.0135 Ratings
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)00 Ratings9.177 Ratings9.4138 Ratings
Centralized Management00 Ratings8.777 Ratings8.7136 Ratings
Hybrid Deployment Support00 Ratings7.210 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Infection Remediation00 Ratings9.075 Ratings9.05 Ratings
Vulnerability Management00 Ratings8.672 Ratings8.442 Ratings
Malware Detection00 Ratings9.276 Ratings9.3140 Ratings
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User Ratings
CheckPointMicrosoft Defender for EndpointWatchguard Endpoint Security
Likelihood to Recommend
1.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(133 ratings)
8.8
(136 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
1.0
(1 ratings)
8.4
(10 ratings)
9.0
(14 ratings)
Usability
5.2
(2 ratings)
8.6
(10 ratings)
10.0
(88 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
8.7
(4 ratings)
Performance
-
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9.1
(1 ratings)
6.4
(5 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(7 ratings)
8.0
(14 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
-
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10.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
-
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7.6
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
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7.3
(1 ratings)
7.7
(10 ratings)
Configurability
-
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8.2
(1 ratings)
7.3
(3 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
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7.3
(3 ratings)
Product Scalability
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9.1
(1 ratings)
8.7
(4 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
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9.1
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9.1
(5 ratings)
User Testimonials
CheckPointMicrosoft Defender for EndpointWatchguard Endpoint Security
Likelihood to Recommend
Fobi AI
CheckPoint performs well as an internal firewall between network zones, providing policy control and deep inspection of internal traffic. It works well for a multi network setup like ours across multiple sites. It is however not a fast changing interface and time needs to be taken to perform changes. It's not a quick as other vendors
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Microsoft
I can definitely tell you where it’s more suited, because we haven’t come across any less appropriate scenarios. But definitely in regard to how we centrally manage our user space and our endpoints, it’s been beneficial from an API perspective and is really transferable, with strong collaboration with our Azure stack. It works very well.
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WatchGuard Technologies
I would absolutely recommend Watchguard Endpoint Security to a colleague - as there's only four of us on the team in the entire district. The additional client insights have been invaluable to us. We had, historically, been doing Windows updates A. whenever a device was turned in with issues, or B. each Summer during device turn in. We can now control those updates with this software - pushing Windows patches to necessarily clients with the push of a button. This has saved us COUNTLESS hours of driving or directing staff to update themselves (and then ignoring us). We do have a remote desktop client that we have utilized in the past, but updating during the day is cumbersome for teachers. Watchguard Endpoint Security has now given us more control over our devices - as well as better protection from threats as well.
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Pros
Fobi AI
  • Threat Prevention better than Fortinet
  • Granularity of security policy can be customized to the maximum
  • hardware performance is really good
  • Bugs are less as compared to other vendors
  • support is excellent
  • modules work as expected
  • Features can achieve out of box requirements
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Microsoft
  • Definitely on the threat action and response. We didn't have a stress-response option before, but the dependent brand point provided it instantly. Also, it's doing UVA and machine learning, which we didn't have before. So it's definitely providing more sophisticated threat-detection capabilities than we had before.
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WatchGuard Technologies
  • The protection is fast with unperceivable loss of network speed.
  • Watchguard Endpoint Security is extremely accurate. That is, we never experienced false positives.
  • Something else tht does not get mentioned enough, is we have yet to overwhelm our Firebox 390 - it has kept up with detections!
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Cons
Fobi AI
  • In my experience, notifications are completely broken and non-functional
  • In my opinion, confusing UX for the cloud portal
  • Don't try and import 100's of endpoints when onboarding because it will create a mess
  • When installing the CP client you have to remove Microsoft Defender and if that fails, CheckPoint technical support goes, "Not my problem, sucks to be you!"
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Microsoft
  • The only thing is sometimes, because Microsoft has so many platforms, it gets a little confusing, like am I in the security platform? Am I in Purview? Where am I at right now? Because there's so many sites that are kind of doing a lot of the same thing, and so that does get a little confusing from time to time, but outside of that, it's a pretty good product.
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WatchGuard Technologies
  • EndPoint has an optional feature for automatic and remote software updates on endpoints, a handy option for keeping computers up-to-date and secure. However, it is not used to install new software but only to update it. We believe that this part is instrumental, but it is somewhat incomplete.
  • Another drawback is that some complementary functions to the antivirus, such as the one above, are optional and require a separate subscription.
  • The implementation of EndPoint requires some planning, especially the time required to harden and learn the system. This is not critical and is typical for this type of system, but it is necessary to plan it well.
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Likelihood to Renew
Fobi AI
Every dollar to CheckPoint is a wasted dollar.
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Microsoft
Cost add-ons for Security features is nickel and diming the process to keep pace with cybercrime. Limited Education budgets require us to be more pro-active in finding cost-effective measures to protect our devices, staff and students. Defender is a strong, well-featured product that is pricing itself out of the education market
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WatchGuard Technologies
The ease of use, pricing, support, reliability, and quality of the product. Panda / WatchGuard products are highly rated, priced right and easy to maintain. All of this make it very easy to renew and purchase new licenses for us and our clients.
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Usability
Fobi AI
the solution offer the most improvement about the usability by management more firewall in the same context or multicontext instead. The shared database allow to use one object for more than a package target of a cluster or more of gateways firewall. The management remain isolated from traffic pass through the firewall so the disruption is limited at minimum.
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Microsoft
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is a great EDR to have that works quickly and silently in the background and it integrates well with other Microsoft services. As an IT manager, I can appreciate that I do not get bombarded by alerts for every small detail. On the flipside, the management site can use some work in being more clear and should be more streamlined so I'm not clicking through multiple pages to figure out what happened
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WatchGuard Technologies
Easy and intuitive MSP management portal to manage all of your clients from a single pane of glass. Policies can be pushed down globally or individually based on needs. The client portal allows access to their tenant information and installs only which is nice if you are working with clients who might have an internal person or an IT team that also wants access to things to manage themself.
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Reliability and Availability
Fobi AI
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint chugs along just fine no matter what we throw at it and what systems it's running on. It doesn't take up a lot of resources either, so that's welcomed.
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WatchGuard Technologies
The software is 100% managed on a cloud platform that can be managed via an account even if they are not present within the company network where the software is installed, I even always opened the control panel on the browser of my smartphone to monitor the situation.I have never experienced any abnormal software crashes
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Performance
Fobi AI
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is easy on memory and resources on clients.
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WatchGuard Technologies
The only annoyance I complain, if we want to be picky, is the fact of the constant disconnections from the control panel.Every about 4 hours the account logs out even if I set the "remember this device" flag; having said that I have not noticed neither slowdowns nor conflicts with other software
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Support Rating
Fobi AI
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
The first time I tried to onboard my macOS endpoints to MDE I struggled for quite a bit. I had to reach out to Microsoft's MDE support team. The tech was very helpful in walking me through the steps during a screen share session
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WatchGuard Technologies
I gave it a 10 because I compare it to air conditioning. I need it to work every day, 24/7. I need it to be reliable and not something that requires a ton of interaction from staff to make sure it works every day. In addition, I should be able to run other things at my house when the AC is on. Panda fits that description.
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In-Person Training
Fobi AI
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
WatchGuard Technologies
Trainer was excellent, knew this product in-depth.
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Online Training
Fobi AI
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
WatchGuard Technologies
The training was very helpful. It demonstrated how to configure the service for initial install, items to monitor, and how to set up for ongoing protection. Hands on training is more helpful but this is a good starting point
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Implementation Rating
Fobi AI
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
Deployment was handled by our team here and everything went pretty smoothly. We did have a few hiccups in our test group, but that only took a bit to get ironed out.
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WatchGuard Technologies
Implementation shouldn't present any problems in standard office environments. In environments with development teams, however, caution is needed. If zero trust is enabled, mechanisms must be in place to ensure that internal software isn't classified as a false positive (software certificate, exception folder, etc.)
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Alternatives Considered
Fobi AI
The CheckPoint Firewall and Cisco ISR router serve different purposes. Our organisation uses both devices, but in different areas of the topology. The Cisco ISR is a remote device and its function is to relay information to our edge firewall, which then passes to our internal firewall (CheckPoint) to securely control traffic requests.
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Microsoft
Previously, we've used Sophos. We've used, way back when, McAfee, Norton, Symantec, all those. And we finally settled on Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. We're a Microsoft technology stack shop. So obviously it was natural. It's built into Windows, so we're not adding additional agents. Some of the other vendors and their agents, for a while, would compete with CPU usage. And so it actually slowed down the machines. Because Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is built into the Windows product, Microsoft is going to ensure that it does not affect the other productivity tools that a user may use.
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WatchGuard Technologies
We prefer to maintain loyalty with a brand that really delivers what it promises. Our focus is to bring customers who have other solutions to Watchguard's base, however some companies have their own IT department and already work with other tools. Preferimos Fidelizar com uma marca que realmente entreg o que promente. Nosso foco é trazer os clientes que possuem outras soluções para base da Watchguard, contudo algumas empresas possuem departamento de TI próprio e já atuam com outras ferramentas.
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Scalability
Fobi AI
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is easily scaled from small orgs to giant enterprises.
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WatchGuard Technologies
With the implementation of watchguard (at the beginning Panda Endpoint, but it is the same) I was able to insert in the control panel all the unauthorized software previously installed by colleagues without any authorization from the various department heads.Now any licensed software goes into lockdown and can be unlocked from the control panel
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Return on Investment
Fobi AI
  • Smart console with lower operational overhead
  • Compliance with Hipaa, PCISSS and saving on compliance plenties
  • Less compatibility issues
  • licensing model is costlier at the beginning
  • Some modules require special training
  • False positives may occur
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Microsoft
  • Reduced incidents of security breaches lead to lower remediation costs and avoid potential financial losses and reputational damage.
  • Reduces the need for additional third-party security solutions and training, thereby lowering overall security management costs.
  • Increased efficiency and productivity of IT staff lead to better allocation of resources and cost savings.
  • Reduces the risk of fines and sanctions associated with non-compliance, ensuring business continuity and protecting revenue.
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WatchGuard Technologies
  • By committing to go all in on Watchguard Advanced EPDR across our whole client base, we maximized our price position - enabling us to offer the best endpoint security at a price better than what lesser competitive products cost.
  • Leveraging Watchguard Endpoint Security as part of our unified platform strategy provides better integrated security, managed through Watchguard's cloud architecture. This significantly reduces our cost to deploy, manage, and support our client's. Our improved security offering, better delivery, and stronger price position has helped us achieve 56% growth in our managed services business over the past 18-months.
  • Organizations that have disparate cyber security products often require specialists for each solution in their stack. Watchguard provides outstanding training resources that equip our entire technical staff - significantly improving our service delivery while lowering our overall cost of business.
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ScreenShots

CheckPoint Screenshots

Screenshot of CheckPoint ecosystem includes the digital ticket using the wallet pass technology, a near-field communication tap device used for registration and check-in, and an admin portal used to provide real-time updates and analytics to make data-driven decisions.Screenshot of CheckPoint gives exhibitors, vendors and sponsors access to your guests' lock screen to send personalized notifications. Send urgent messages in real-time to increase security around your venue.Screenshot of Modernize your venue with CheckPoint's digital ticketing system that lives in your guests' mobile wallets. By using CheckPoint, improve your user experience by enabling a 100% contactless and automated system that gets your guests into your venues faster and smarter.Screenshot of Increase security around check-in with CheckPoint's automated and contactless system. CheckPoint is a sleek digital solution that condensed a multi-step process into one simple tap to speed up check-ins.

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Screenshots

Screenshot of blocked activitiesScreenshot of Detects & respondsScreenshot of discovers vulnerabilityScreenshot of Eliminates blind spotsScreenshot of Risk management

Watchguard Endpoint Security Screenshots

Screenshot of Main dashboardScreenshot of PUPs activityScreenshot of IoAs Panel- Threat Hunting ServiceScreenshot of Service provider-TrialsScreenshot of Endpoint Risks DashboardScreenshot of Program Blocked By Advanced Security Policies