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What is Fortra VM?

Fortra Vulnerability Management (Fortra VM™), a Digital Defense product (under the Fortra umbrella), offering the industry’s most comprehensive, accurate, and user-friendly SaaS vulnerability management solution. Mobilizing our vulnerability scanning technology and vulnerability management solution enables comprehensive security assessments that simultaneously prioritize and track results. Making remediation planning and management more efficient and effective. A Key Part of Fortra Digital Defense is proud to be part of Fortra’s comprehensive cybersecurity portfolio. Fortra simplifies today’s complex cybersecurity landscape by bringing complementary products together to solve problems in innovative ways. These integrated, scalable solutions address the fast-changing challenges you face in safeguarding your organization. With the help of the powerful protection from Fortra Vulnerability Management and others, Fortra is your relentless ally, here for you every step of the way throughout your cybersecurity journey.

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Fortra VM, a Frontline.Cloud™ system, is the industry’s most comprehensive, accurate, and easy-to-use SaaS vulnerability management solution—bar none. Using our proprietary scanning technology, our vulnerability management solution performs comprehensive security assessments and helps prioritize and track the results, making remediation planning and management more efficient and effective.

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Year Founded
1982
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Problem solver. Proactive protector. Relentless ally.These three pillars represent who Fortra is as a positive changemaker for cybersecurity. Our approach is different, and we're proud of that. We transformed the industry by bringing the leading solutions into one best-in-class portfolio, creating a stronger line of defense from a single provider. But we know cybersecurity is always changing, and we should never get too comfortable. It's why our team of expert problem solvers is dedicated to building leading solutions and adapting to stay ahead of the ever-evolving threat landscape. We also understand that we're more powerful together, so we prioritize collaboration with customers throughout every step of their unique cybersecurity journeys. We take the time to listen to each organization's concerns, and provide integrated, scalable solutions to help put any worries to rest. Because ultimately, we know that the road to creating a stronger, simpler future for cybersecurity begins with the daily commitment of finding better ways to provide peace of mind to our customers.We are your cybersecurity ally.We are Fortra.

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"Solid platform and service"
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"the vm has great features"
i am thrilled with that and I've been using it since 2020 it was very lightweight for me and their customer support is too good
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"Effective Vulnerability Management Tool"
Easy to use interface and quickly calls out and describes what risks may need to be addressed.
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What do you like best about Fortra VM?

On the spot scanning and easy search an being cloud based Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fortra VM?

no way to keep track of applied changes to endpoints. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Consider your reporting layouts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fortra VM solving and how is that benefiting you?

scanning frequently and meeting NIST standards Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Fortra VM?

That we can run scans on our won on systems that we bring online. Also that it gives us remediation notes for vulnerabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fortra VM?

That the scans sometimes take a while to run, and sometimes adding external IPs to scan doesn't always work as intended. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fortra VM solving and how is that benefiting you?

Solving issues with devices - such as printers - that are generically installed. Through Frontline we were able to identify these and get them remediated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Fortra VM?

Does a great output layout of what is required to remediate on a scan report. It also offers a great grading scale with historical info. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fortra VM?

Limitations to suppress/remove devices from the reports of systems that were decommissioned permanently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Fortra VM:

Easier way to remove assets with vulnerabilities that were decomissioned. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fortra VM solving and how is that benefiting you?

The visibility that we didn't have before, this product allows us to find assets we didn't know existed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Fortra VM?

It gives a more comprehensive threat\scan summurry. It's the industry’s most comprehensive, accurate, and easy-to-use SaaS vulnerability management solution. solution performs comprehensive security assessments and helps prioritize and track the results, making easier remediation planning and management more efficient and effective. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fortra VM?

I observed during the scanning, it alerts about the trusted devices as well. So sometimes they have to coordinate with other vendors' teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Fortra VM:

must recommend for those users who want to simplify vulnerability scan and prevention. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fortra VM solving and how is that benefiting you?

its automatic capability of acknowledging threats in detail is wonderful.

It gives detailed information about threats. which helps to get mitigate easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Fortra VM?

Interactive Interface that is very visible and distintive for user readability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fortra VM?

It takes some time to get Support assistance to resolve out-of-scope issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Fortra VM:

If you are looking for a total service security and vulnerability management utility, Frontline is the one. It is also acceptably priced for mid to large companies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fortra VM solving and how is that benefiting you?

Frontline helps us to metigate all of our Security needs internally and externally. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Fortra VM?

Ability yo scan multiple ips at once and even scans 10000 ips at once. Never faced any lag. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fortra VM?

Hostname scanning is problematic as most entries are unidentified. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Awesome. Keep it up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fortra VM solving and how is that benefiting you?

Benifits is obviously managing the Vulnerabilities in our environment.

Penetration testing is also a nice feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Fortra VM?

I like the fact that they come up with new features based on customer feedback. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fortra VM?

Ability for a continuous scanning. A little more flexibility on Asset Type (to be able to add at our discretion).

Need a ServiceNow Integration App (could not find in the App store) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fortra VM solving and how is that benefiting you?

A wholistic view of devices on our network and to inform the backend teams to remediate the vulnerabilities. We can also rescan to check if remediations have been completed, which is great, because you do not have to only take the words of the backend team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Fortra VM?

The option to scan all the servers at once or even single server.

Provides accurate data everytime. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fortra VM?

Less scope of running scans with histnames only. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fortra VM solving and how is that benefiting you?

Have been able to remediate over 40000. Ulnerabilities over the course of 1.5 years. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Fortra VM?

It shows me all the equipment and the results for each one. Plus it shows the possible solution Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fortra VM?

There are some issue with reading the reports and no one to help with these. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fortra VM solving and how is that benefiting you?

Security Issues. This is a proactive way to hopefully ahead of any possible issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Fortra VM?

Frontline is easy to deploy and easy to configure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fortra VM?

We haven't run into any problems with Frontline. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Fortra VM:

The Frontline VM Linux virtual machine is portable so moving it to another server is easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fortra VM solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ensuring our security measures are in place and working. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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