ExtraHop vs Fortinet

ExtraHop Reveal(x) passively analyzes wire data at 100Gbps line rate, detecting east-west lateral movement that endpoint agents miss when they are removed or bypassed by attackers.

ExtraHop's out-of-band TLS decryption analyzes encrypted traffic content for threats without key escrow, maintaining security posture without the compliance risk of a man-in-the-middle proxy.

ExtraHop sensors in cloud VPCs map normal east-west communication patterns between workloads, flagging new cross-segment connections that indicate lateral movement within 60 seconds.

FortiGate's deep packet inspection identifies applications by behavior rather than port, enforcing policies that block specific app features like file uploads on Dropbox while allowing browsing.

FortiGate SD-WAN routes sensitive business applications over MPLS and best-effort traffic over broadband, improving application performance without manual per-flow configuration across 100+ branch sites.

FortiAnalyzer ingests logs from all Fortinet devices and correlates events across firewall, endpoint, and email security products, cutting investigation time by surfacing related alerts in a single incident view.