FortiNAC vs. Microsoft Defender for IoT

If you have a mid/large enterprise network and you need to comply with any of the IT security standards, FortiNAC will help you as it provides complete protection and will provide you needed reports, like logins, times, tries of unauthorized connections. All that can be passed to your existing siem or integrated with other forti products.

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Companies that are not using Azure cloud exhaustively will struggle with maximizing the potential of Microsoft defender as multiple important features require the use of IoT Hub etc The product definitely shines though, when integrated with it's friends, i.e when used collectively within microsoft ecosystem. Paired with Intune and IoT Hub, it does a phenomenal job at providing global protection including automated threat protection and cross domain network security features

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• Protects network
• Provides reports
• Easy to configure and maintain

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• Agentless monitoring
• Integration with Sentinel
• Multiple protocol support

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• Updates sometimes a bit buggy

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• To use it to it's full potential, multiple Azure services are required including but not limited to Intune, VM etc
• Due to a heavy focus on UI rather than Code heavy approach, it sometimes limits itself in terms of features and adds additional complexity when looking for niche network security features.
• Major features like Device inventory and alerting are still in preview mode, which of course can hamper an organisation's trust

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Defender being native to MS was the decision maker for us.

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• ROI was great as this not so expensive tool delivers so much more than a simple network authentication
• Got Fully compliant with our internal IT policies in network access area

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• With this Microsoft software the protection of our project data is excellent and easy data mining solution.
• Extraction and data analytics generation is very effective.
• Data modeling and preparation of multiple data reports from various projects.

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