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FireMon Security Manager vs Fortinet FortiGate Cloud comparison

FireMon and Fortinet are both solutions in the Firewall Security Management category. FireMon is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.0, while Fortinet is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.3. FireMon holds a 16.4% mindshare in Firewall Security Management, compared to Fortinet’s 5.4% mindshare. Additionally, 87% of FireMon users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Fortinet users who would recommend it.
FireMon Security Manager
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87% willing to recommend
Fortinet FortiGate Cloud
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95% willing to recommend
 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 4, 2024

FireMon Security Manager and Fortinet FortiGate Cloud are competitors in the network security and firewall management category. FireMon seems to have an edge for organizations keen on policy optimization and compliance, while Fortinet stands out for its integration and hybrid deployment flexibility.

Features: FireMon Security Manager excels in firewall policy management with features like Rule Optimization, Risk Analyzer, and proactive security intelligence. It identifies redundant rules and conducts compliance checks, supporting multiple firewall brands. Fortinet FortiGate Cloud emphasizes central management for distributed networks, offering SD-WAN, VPN management, and integration with Fortinet tools for enhanced threat intelligence and incident management.

Room for Improvement: FireMon could enhance network mapping and ease of use during upgrades. It lacks seamless firewall change implementation and needs improved alerting and reporting. Fortinet faces issues with integration, update bugs, and requires enhancements in the command-line interface. Licensing discipline, pricing strategies, customization, and support responsiveness need attention for both solutions.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: FireMon Security Manager is primarily on-premises, praised for reliable support and training. Its support team is responsive and experienced. Fortinet FortiGate Cloud offers deployment versatility across hybrid and public clouds, beneficial for multi-regional needs, yet its support is sometimes slower compared to FireMon.

Pricing and ROI: FireMon Security Manager is considered expensive but provides a good ROI through automation and security enhancements. Despite high costs, it delivers customer satisfaction. Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is seen as more affordable, offering lower initial costs. However, additional costs for features can be burdensome. Both solutions exhibit value for money, with FireMon's pricing reflecting a robust feature set and FortiGate's strategy targeting broader market access.

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Categories and Ranking

FireMon Security Manager
Ranking in Firewall Security Management
4th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
54
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Fortinet FortiGate Cloud
Ranking in Firewall Security Management
5th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
74
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Firewall Security Management category, the mindshare of FireMon Security Manager is 16.4%, up from 15.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is 5.4%, up from 5.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

JeffReese - PeerSpot reviewer
Makes compliance much easier compared to doing it manually, and automates policy changes across environments
People have a tendency to just add rules to firewalls, but they don't go back and take rules away. Some of our customers have thousands of unused rules that have been sitting out there for over a year. In one report, FireMon tells us there are, say, 1,000 rules that can be taken out and it gives us the ability to disable those for a year and to track when we made our changes. After a year, we can go back and eliminate the rules, to bring the configuration down to an almost human-readable level. It also identifies risks in your environment and helps to prioritize fixes. It actually rates the risk level, meaning you look for the red and try to bring everything to green.
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OcheEluma - PeerSpot reviewer
Cost-effective platform with valuable security management functionality
I use the product as a security and networking gateway. I have deployed instances in Azure and AWS as virtual appliances, and my main use cases are for connecting VPNs, routing, and securing connections between the outside and inside of the environment The platform's most helpful features for…
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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The most valuable feature is the reporting capability because everything that we do is a result of our being able to query a report, based on our environment and our PCI compliance efforts."
"FireMon is nice and provides 360-degree user views."
"The most valuable feature of FireMon is its ability to configure multiple devices and consolidate them into a single desktop, which allows us to manage all of our security devices, such as Palo Alto and Zscaler, from one place."
"It is a good product. Previously, we were using only spreadsheets to compare the usage, but now with FireMon, we are able to clean up or review the policies to some extent. It is still a work in progress, but we are at a good stage now."
"The ease of use is the most valuable feature. There are a lot of products out there, but the ability to navigate through and use Firemon is very good."
"I've been using the reports to see what is going on, and that is a helpful feature. We can track down unused rules, which helps with compliance. We can see rules that have not been used or that are duplicates or overly permissive."
"It provides us with a single pane of glass for our on-prem environment, to see configuration. We have not implemented into the cloud yet. We can search for an object group and see where it lives on any firewall in the enterprise or find security rules, no matter what firewall they're on."
"Compared to other applications, it is user-friendly. The appearance of the menus and titles is clear and they are easy to follow. Of course, it requires some experience through using it, to go through everything, but it is not very difficult. It is an easy application to use."
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"FortiGate Cloud boosts productivity because one solution covers all the requirements, features, and management functions. Staff can operate it with less security knowledge, so it decreases the workload of our security specialists. Anyone with training on the console can manage access to users and devices based on standardized structural services."
"It's user-friendly."
"This is a vast system that includes a lot of features."
"It covers all needs of our customers and works well. It is also easy to deploy and troubleshoot."
"The solution includes a very stable VPN and IPS."
"Everything is valuable, especially the SD-WAN tunneling, filtering of email, application, and browsing. Everything has value."
"The initial setup is relatively easy."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the sandboxing part, filters, and SD-WAN."
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Cons

"One area for 7.x customers that needs improvement is the migration. It is an involved process so get ready to spend some time getting your environment back to the way it was."
"Its reporting can be improved. I am the only one who works a lot with it, and I am having problems in terms of reporting. In the case of Palo Alto, I'm okay with it, but with some of the Cisco devices, such as routers, when I provide the reports to other teams for review, they always say that the hit count is incorrect. So, I was struggling for a long time to work with them. When working with other teams, they have a lot of questions about reporting, such as how it reports, and we are still struggling with that."
"Some of the things that you want to do in FireMon are not exactly straightforward, like creating certain reports or controls. Some of the functions could be a little more user-friendly, such as creating certain filters."
"The stability has been fairly decent, but there have been a few issues. My coworker has had some issues in the past where he has had to work with support."
"We are looking for more integration with SIEM and other tools."
"FireMon could be made more user-friendly when it comes to creating filters or conducting traffic analysis."
"When it comes to real-time compliance management, something that is missing is alerting on certain, predefined controls. It would be good to have a predefined set of controls which, if not complied with in a newly set up rule, would create an alert for us. That is something that is missing, out-of-the-box."
"I think that having a more open system and providing documentation for it would be helpful for users like us. We are pretty adept and can navigate through the Linux software that the on-premises FireMon is based on. It would help us in the long run."
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"They're still trying to digest that Meru acquisition and need a plan."
"Things are moving increasingly towards hardware agnostic appliances, an area in which I would like Fortinet to be more focused and fast moving with that product line."
"In terms of stability, it could be improved."
"The new versions of the tool sometimes have bugs, and so we often have to spend a lot of time fixing issues in the solution. I want the patches offered by the product to be improved."
"It is currently durable, but they may be able to improve it further. They can adapt Cisco technology because of its durability."
"There is room for improvement in the VPN connection."
"They're constantly doing maintenance and there are unexpected downtimes for the cloud interface."
"We are seeking a solution that can monitor our network traffic running through 17 firewalls in Malaysia and Indonesia. We want a solution that can record and monitor all the logs from all the firewalls. We want to consolidate all our firewalls into one portal so we can monitor all the activities from all the firewalls."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"This is an expensive solution. The cost of three modules for three years was approximately one million."
"It's a good value. From a licensing standpoint... it's very simple to understand, and gives us a good bang for the buck."
"FireMon is very expensive. I think that they charge a premium. In general, they are very pricey. Compared to their competitors, they cost a little more than the other solutions that we evaluated."
"Pricing model seems fair."
"We pay for it yearly."
"Relative to what it offers, the price is fair."
"Regarding additional costs, if you want things like Policy Optimizer, extra features, that's extra."
"Pricing is reasonable."
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"The costs are reasonable."
"It is expensive."
"We need to pay a yearly licensing fee for Fortinet FortiGate Cloud."
"The pricing is competitive."
"On a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the pricing a one or two. The pricing is suitable for our company."
"The price of Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is affordable. However, lowering the price would be good for the end-users. The cost of the solution was approximately $800 per year. There are some additional features you can add in addition to the regular features."
"Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is more inexpensive than other vendors."
"If you purchase any Fortinet firewall, they will give you FortiCloud for 100 GB for free. You can access Fortinet FortiGate Cloud freely up to certain limits."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
19%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Energy/Utilities Company
6%
Computer Software Company
21%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Government
6%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about FireMon?
I like the Security Manager console where we can see any changes that have been made or pull the results of an assessment and control the policies that we implement.
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What needs improvement with FireMon?
Although configuration is not the most difficult aspect of FireMon, a basic understanding of cloud computing and firewall principles is necessary for successful implementation. Therefore, simplifyi...
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What is your primary use case for FireMon?
FireMon Security Manager is a highly intelligent and useful device that consolidates all our security policies, including those for Zscaler proxies, into a single console. This centralized view eli...
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What do you like most about Fortinet FortiGate Cloud?
Fortinet FortiGate Cloud has valuable firewall, SSL VPN, and web filtering features.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Fortinet FortiGate Cloud?
The pricing is on par with other cloud providers. FortiGate Cloud is priced similarly to other providers, however, we still need FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer.
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What needs improvement with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud?
All Fortinet products have many security flaws, and new versions often have large security holes. The integration process takes a long time for failovers between firewalls since it uses the Azure A...
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Overview

The increasing complexity of networks, driven by the constant influx of new devices, applications, and cloud services, presents a daunting challenge for managing firewall policies and rules. A typical enterprise environment has millions of rules, and just one simple misconfiguration can lead to devastating consequences like compliance violations, outages, and data breaches. 

FireMon’s Security Manager is a purpose-built network security policy management (NSPM) platform that automates the management of firewall and cloud security policies to eliminate policy-related risk, accurately and quickly change rules, and meet internal and external compliance requirements.

  • Reduce Risk Manage risk with real-time visibility and control
  • Manage Change Avoid misconfigurations, accelerate business, and improve security
  • Enforce and Maintain Compliance Avoid violations, avoid risk, and avoid fines

FortiCloud can help with your wireless and security challenges in a number of ways. Our solution addresses common IT difficulties including time-consuming provisioning, high investment costs, complex management, vulnerability to advanced threats, and the need to easily scale with growth.

 

Sample Customers

Convey, MGM Resorts International, Southwest Airlines, Alkami, Costco, Aetna, IBM, Verizon, Wells Fargo
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