We performed a comparison between FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) and Fortinet FortiGate-VM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The pipe filter application is an outstanding feature."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that it is good to use, and most importantly, the pricing. The customer especially likes the discount when they trade up or something like that."
"The most valuable feature is the VDOM, which allows the customer to have multiple firewalls in a single campus."
"Some of the key features of the solution is that it has good reporting, you can receive many details from the connection, for example, clients and website information."
"I'm pretty happy with its reliability. It is also very scalable."
"The next-gen features, the unified threat management capabilities are something that just about everybody is interested in at this point."
"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."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are remote access, web filtering, and IPS."
"When I survey FortiGate products, I see that they have a good performance, especially in terms of next generation firewalls."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to operate."
"The usability of the solution is its best feature."
"There are multiple features I have found to be valuable, such as encryption and integrated security features."
"FortiGate is a rapidly growing vendor with a wide range of ready-to-use products. Their delivery time is remarkably quick, usually between two to four weeks."
"It is a stable solution compared to other vendors."
"FortiGate Next Generation Firewall is a good solution because it has a range of options and a clear ecosystem."
"The product is easy to configure."
"Its interface is good. It comes with a lot of features, and its performance is also very good."
"The policies are very valuable. They allow me to secure and manage future traffic effectively."
"FortiGate is a nice and very good product."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"Use of this product does not require daily interactions."
"The most valuable features are locking applications from in and out of my test network and testing malware on different devices. I use malware detection, antivirus, and basic firewall policies to check for different types of security breaches. The UI is really nice and easy to use."
"It offers the same robust features and functionality in virtual, on-premise, and traditional data center environments."
"The product can scale."
"Lacks training for new features."
"The support costs and licensing are sometimes so expensive."
"Some features of Fortinet FortiGate are actually fee enabled that are inconvenient for deploying in production. Other issues relate to isolation with Cisco products and your server."
"FortiGate support could do some improvements on their IPv6 configuration. Right now it's still in the very early stage for utilizing in an enterprise level network environment."
"I think they need to improve more in order to be a competitor with the leaders of the field."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding FortiAnalyzer to its solution, we should not have to use another solution. FortiAnalyzer can provide more detailed information."
"It should be more stable. There should be full integration within Fortinet products themselves as well as with other third-party products. Especially when you're not dealing with SIEM and the correlation of the security box, we want Fortinet to be able to share that information with as many other products as it can."
"The command line is complicated, and the interface could be better."
"The solution's GUI is not very appealing."
"I see room to explore its integration with Secure Service Automation for a more comprehensive security view."
"There is room for improvement in pricing."
"The solution's stability should be improved because it is extremely unstable."
"Being a great product, some changes in the pricing would make it a great choice for even more organizations."
"There's a limitation wherein you can only have about 30 virtual or secondary IPs on a particular interface."
"The licensing model and pricing need improvement."
"One of the weaknesses of the solution is something we noticed, especially after comparing the tool with SD-WAN features, since, unfortunately, in a massive scale size environment, the solution is not good. I"
"The price and licensing of the solution can be better."
"The block, the clarity, the quarantine command, is not very user-friendly. You would have to do everything through the command line and I would have preferred if it wasn't a CLI."
"Web filtering is a feature that needs some improvement. There should be some additional features to allow active users to change their own passwords."
"The biggest area for improvement is storage configuration. It could be smoother."
"Technical support could be better."
"The solution is fairly complex."
"The stability could be improved. I find Cisco to be more stable than Fortigate, which is I major differentiator between the two."
"When new versions are deployed they tend to be a little buggy, so they should be more fully tested before release."
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FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) is ranked 14th in Firewalls with 37 reviews while Fortinet FortiGate-VM is ranked 9th in Firewalls with 113 reviews. FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) is rated 8.4, while Fortinet FortiGate-VM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) writes "Easy to set up but needs better pricing and more helpful support". On the other hand, 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". FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) is most compared with OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, Tailscale, Twingate and Google Cloud Platform Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy, whereas Fortinet FortiGate-VM is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Fortinet FortiOS, OPNsense and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) vs. Fortinet FortiGate-VM report.
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