Ivanti Connect Secure and Fortinet FortiClient are leading solutions in secure connectivity. Users are generally happier with the pricing and customer service of Ivanti Connect Secure but indicate that Fortinet FortiClient offers superior features, making it worth the higher price.
Features: Ivanti Connect Secure is praised for its robust VPN capabilities, seamless integration with corporate networks, and effective remote access management. Fortinet FortiClient stands out with advanced threat protection, endpoint vulnerability management, and a comprehensive security suite. Users appreciate Fortinet FortiClient's extensive feature set more, even though Ivanti Connect Secure remains a strong contender in VPN-specific functionalities.
Room for Improvement: Ivanti Connect Secure users often mention the need for better scalability, mobile device support, and an improved user interface. In contrast, Fortinet FortiClient user reviews highlight improvements needed in the complexity of configuration, reducing resource consumption, and better user training resources.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Ivanti Connect Secure is appreciated for its straightforward deployment process and responsive customer service. Fortinet FortiClient receives mixed feedback on deployment due to its complexity but is noted for its helpful customer support.
Pricing and ROI: Ivanti Connect Secure is seen as cost-effective with a good ROI. Fortinet FortiClient has a higher setup cost but offers a compelling ROI due to its comprehensive features.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| Fortinet FortiClient | 10.1% |
| Ivanti Connect Secure | 6.0% |
| Other | 83.9% |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 58 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 23 |
| Large Enterprise | 24 |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 6 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 5 |
| Large Enterprise | 18 |
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.
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