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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    FortiAP

    Score7.3 out of 10
    N/AFortinet’s wireless LAN equipment, including FortiAP access points, leverage Secure Networking to provide secure wireless access for the enterprise LAN edge.

    $220

    one-time fee approx

    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft 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

    Pricing
    FortiAPMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint
    Editions & Modules
    Fortinet FortiAP 221E
    $220.00
    one-time fee approx
    Fortinet FortiAP 223E
    $240.00
    one-time fee approx
    Fortinet FortiAP 231F
    $390.00
    one-time fee approx
    Fortinet FortiAP 23JF
    $410.00
    one-time fee approx
    Fortinet FortiAP 233G
    $490.00
    one-time fee approx
    Fortinet FortiAP 231K
    $490.00
    one-time fee approx
    Fortinet FortiAP U431F
    $630.00
    one-time fee approx
    Fortinet FortiAP 431F
    $660.00
    one-time fee approx
    Fortinet FortiAP 433F
    $730.00
    one-time fee approx
    Fortinet FortiAP 241K
    $800.00
    one-time fee approx
    Fortinet FortiAP 234F
    $980.00
    one-time fee approx
    Fortinet FortiAP 831F
    $1,030.00
    one-time fee approx
    Fortinet FortiAP 431G
    $1,050.00
    one-time fee approx
    Fortinet FortiAP 433G
    $1,180.00
    one-time fee approx
    Fortinet FortiAP 234G
    $1,200.00
    one-time fee approx
    Academic
    $2.50
    per user/per month
    Standalone
    $5.20
    per user/per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    FortiAPMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    FortiAPMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint
    Considered Both Products
    Fortinet
    No answer on this topic
    Microsoft
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    96%
    Would buy again
    157 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    146 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    155 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    130 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    140 Answers
    Features
    FortiAPMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint
    Endpoint Security
    Comparison of Endpoint Security features of FortiAP and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    Feature
    FortiAP
    -
    Ratings
    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    8.7
    79 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Anti-Exploit Technology00 Ratings9.075 Ratings
    Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)00 Ratings9.179 Ratings
    Centralized Management00 Ratings8.679 Ratings
    Hybrid Deployment Support00 Ratings7.110 Ratings
    Infection Remediation00 Ratings9.077 Ratings
    Vulnerability Management00 Ratings8.774 Ratings
    Malware Detection00 Ratings9.278 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    FortiAPMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint
    Small Businesses
    WatchGuard Secure Wi-Fi Cloud
    Score9.1 out of 10
    SentinelOne Singularity
    Score9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Cisco Aironet 1800 Series Access Points (discontinued)
    Score8.5 out of 10
    BlackBerry Protect (CylancePROTECT)
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Cisco Catalyst 9100 Access Points
    Score9.2 out of 10
    ESET PROTECT
    Score8.8 out of 10
    All AlternativesView all alternativesView all alternatives
    User Ratings
    FortiAPMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.9
    (169 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.4
    (10 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.6
    (40 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    FortiAPMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Fortinet
    Any rollout is well suited for a FortiAP - from small office networks, to large warehouse deployments. Adding additional APs to your network is simple and easy. Monitoring is simple with Forticloud monitoring. Configuring the devices can be as complex or as simple as you need. Adding additional Fortinet devices (I have switches and firewalls) makes the network even more secure and easy to manage - all devices working in tandem make monitoring much easier
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    If you have multiple endpoints in your environment, if you're looking to understand what your environment looks like, if you're trying to identify the health of your environment, or identify any risks or vulnerabilities in your environment pertaining to your endpoints and devices.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Fortinet
    • Provide secure wifi
    • deploys easily
    • facilitates users connectivity when moving between offices
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    • The big thing for us is on endpoint, it kind of integrates with everything else that we already have because we use Microsoft completely. And so that helps us with being able to integrate, and send things over to Azure Sentinel as we need to as well.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Fortinet
    • Better to work with a Fortinet partner, their support is inadequate.
    • Maybe a lack of security features when using it without Fortigate
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Microsoft
    • I'd say building out summaries and log reviews for analysts reviewing incidents. So, pivoting from the alerts themselves to actually getting the detail underneath. Trying to understand what caused an alert, where they went from there, et cetera, et cetera. And then trying to get into deeper log review to take that investigation further can be a pain point.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Fortinet
    This is an excellent product for an SMB - cost isn't outrageous and deploy is simple. I can monitor my network without breaking the bank.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    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
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Fortinet
    I love FortiAP and how easy they are to use. It's very quick to train people to use them at a basic to intermediate level.
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    Because it's hard to find things sometimes. I can find things now because I know where they are. But you have to work with it a little while to figure out how. I'd basically say it was a security tool designed by developers. So you have to get that mindset to find things. So a new hire, a new person in the SOC would have a difficult time. I know that's sitting in here, or that screen is in here somewhere. So it's gotten better.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Fortinet
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Performance
    Fortinet
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is easy on memory and resources on clients.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Fortinet
    Fortinet offers excellent support. They will work with you until the solution is doing what it is designed to do, within its capabilities. They also do an excellent to follow-up with the end-user prior to closing the ticket.
    Incentivized
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    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
    Incentivized
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    Implementation Rating
    Fortinet
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Fortinet
    as a stand-alone product, the Fortinet wireless LAN solution isn't the most powerful, nor compelling out there. Others, like Cisco Meraki, offer great products, with added wifi features at a similar price point, but where Forti shines, is when integrated into a network with firewall enablement such as FortiGate. Overall, it stacks up well with others and is a solution that needs to be evaluated in a purchasing project.
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    Particularly, we're evaluating Symantec Endpoint Protection, the commercial version. We've looked at eSet, a couple of the others, and it's much too heavy or difficult to manage, things like that. Ease of use, ease of integration. It's already there. It's super easy to update it with the regular OS updates and everything. So we can manage it whether we're using SCCM or Intune or Dato, it's very easy to deploy updates and manage things.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Fortinet
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is easily scaled from small orgs to giant enterprises.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Fortinet
    • Less management cost
    • Less expensive to buy
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    • I think the positive impact overall is that we do a lot of sitting in front of assessors- federal assessors, government assessors. And it really comes down to when the assessor has to think about another product that you're bringing in that's not Microsoft, it creates a lot of confusion, more paperwork, more explanation. But the positive impact is that they know it, everybody kind of knows Microsoft. And so when you tell them you have this endpoint for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, they're like, okay. The questions go away, and it makes the overhead a lot less during an assessment.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Screenshots

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