We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate-VM and Waterfall Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The interface is very user-friendly and I like it very much."
"The pipe filter application is an outstanding feature."
"It does a lot for you for intrusion protection and as an antivirus. The threat management bundle is worth the money. You don't need another company to monitor your web traffic for you. You can do everything yourself on the firewall. You restrict your own black list for people on the firewall. You don't need to pay some other company for another product to do that for you. The firewall can do that for you. So, it's an easy-to-use product for people to be independent. They don't need to rely on other vendors to do what the firewall can do. They can do everything."
"Reliability is the best feature. We faced some issues when we were setting it up, but the service, portal, and administration are good."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is URL filtering."
"It's super reliable. I don't think I've ever had a reliability issue with it."
"Using this product makes the VPN seamless and almost invisible to me in the sense that I don't have to think about it."
"I'm pretty happy with its reliability. It is also very scalable."
"The thing that I like the most is that they're very willing to work with us to resolve issues that they haven't taken care of before in their product."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"It's almost perfect. It's very stable. We don't have many hardware issues."
"The most valuable features are the web proxy for protection and web gateway for deployment."
"The support is good. We don't have any issues with the technical support."
"The most valuable feature is the WAN optimization."
"Its technical support is excellent."
"The tool's most valuable feature is its ability to deploy it on live physical hardware. Specifically, when providing firewall services for clients, we can leverage such hardware appliances to support multiple customers on the same hardware."
"This is a professional solution which has been the most valuable aspect of its use."
"There could be more integration between the logging and analytical platforms to make it more seamless and integrated."
"You do need some IT knowledge in order to effectively work with the solution."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having a frequent ask questions(FAQ) area for people to receive quick answers to popular questions. Additionally, it would be beneficial to have an SMS notification feature. For example, if you cannot access your email you could receive an SMS message."
"The platform's interface could improve."
"The user interface could be improved to make it less confusing and easier to set up."
"Web security solutions can be improved."
"MTBF: Hardware failure is more common when compared to SonicWall or Cisco ASA."
"One area for improvement is the performance on the bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"The pricing is expensive."
"It has a monitoring tool, but it could be improved."
"The user interface (UI) and the performance of interface both need improvement."
"To improve FortiGate-VM, Fortinet needs to harden it more. For example, if you are using Hyper-V, then you need guidelines for hardening FortiGate-VM that are specific to the Hyper-V environment. If it's VMware, there should be at least a guideline on how to harden the firewall."
"The costs could be lowered."
"The interface of the solution could be improved."
"The price is sometimes very expensive."
"The biggest area for improvement is storage configuration. It could be smoother."
"The interface of this solution could be more user friendly. The initial set up could also be made more simple."
Fortinet FortiGate-VM is ranked 9th in Firewalls with 113 reviews while Waterfall Security is ranked 5th in Operational Technology (OT) Security with 1 review. Fortinet FortiGate-VM is rated 8.4, while Waterfall Security is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate-VM writes "An easy-to-manage and configure tool that provides ample documentation to help with the setup phase". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Waterfall Security writes "Cyber security solution used for data transmission that requires training to make use of all of its powerful features". Fortinet FortiGate-VM is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Fortinet FortiOS, OPNsense and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Waterfall Security is most compared with Nozomi Networks and OPSWAT MetaDefender OT Security.
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