Absolute Secure Access vs Fortinet FortiClient comparison

Absolute Secure Access provides comprehensive IT management and control, ensuring organizations maintain secure connections while offering robust access controls and data protection.

The platform is designed to address the complexities of managing IT environments across multiple endpoints, offering seamless integration and enhanced security measures. With its advanced encryption and real-time monitoring, Absolute Secure Access delivers a reliable infrastructure for secure remote access and device management, meeting stringent security requirements while optimizing network performance.

• Access Controls: Customizable access management to restrict and manage permissions based on roles.
• Real-Time Monitoring: Continuous surveillance of network activities to prevent unauthorized access.
• Advanced Encryption: Protects data in transit with robust encryption protocols.
• Seamless Integration: Easily integrates with existing IT infrastructure without disruption.
• Comprehensive Reporting: Offers detailed analytics and reporting for informed decision-making.

• Enhanced Security: Provides multi-layered protection against cyber threats.
• Increased Efficiency: Streamlines access management, reducing administrative overhead.
• Cost Savings: Minimizes risk of data breaches, potentially lowering insurance costs and fines.
• Improved Compliance: Helps meet regulatory standards, reducing compliance-related issues.
• Scalability: Supports growth with flexible and scalable architecture.

Many industries benefit from deploying Absolute Secure Access, particularly in sectors like finance, healthcare, and education, where secure and efficient access to systems and data is crucial. In finance, it ensures customer data protection, while in healthcare, it safeguards patient information. Education institutions leverage it to provide secure access to educational resources.

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.