We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate-VM and Zyxel Unified Security Gateway 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."I like how we can achieve total integration."
"The license management is very valuable. You can get a new license each year, or you can enroll every two to four years. You can get the logs, and you will get the information on the risk in your network and the entire organization. With this information, you can take action on your actives, computers, or devices. You can bring your own device as an SSE."
"The technical support is great."
"The usage in general is pretty good."
"We can use our devices to check all of the perimeters. It secures email websites."
"The web tutor and automatic rules by schedule are good features."
"The inspection and web security features are most valuable."
"The solution is very, very easy to use."
"The ease of access and user-friendly setup is a valuable feature. Fortinet proves to be particularly straightforward to configure, offering simplicity without complexity. Moreover, visibility is easily attainable due to certain factors. Price, implementation, and budget considerations play a role. When it comes to Cisco implementation, the process tends to be more intricate, which many customers find unfavourable for their business needs."
"There is an interesting possibility of building a tunnel to a firewall from access points. We use this feature for small branch offices with one to two employees with access to central RDP servers."
"It provides an ease of management and configuration as well."
"The most valuable features are site-to-site connections and UTM."
"A top feature is the really good web interface and the classic Fortinet features, such as IPS, IDS, AV scanner, and spam filter."
"Fortinet is user-friendly."
"I've found the UTM features and the SD-WAN to be most valuable."
"It's very easy to set up, even for more junior developers."
"The most valuable features of the solution stem from web filtering, malware protection, and antivirus."
"The solution can scale well."
"This is a capable appliance and the standard features work well for us."
"It does not have key authentication for admin access."
"The inability to scale the FortiAnalyzer to match our growth necessitates the purchase of new hardware."
"To some degree, it's almost a question as to why some of this stuff isn't simpler. For example, for an AP deployment, while it's integrated, the number of steps that you have to go through in order to get the AP up, seems like a lot."
"The command line is complicated, and the interface could be better."
"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."
"They sometimes hide some features and if you want to enable them, you have to go in the CLI, enable the feature and configure it through the CLI. Customers, typically, like everything to be done by the GUI."
"It would be good if they had fewer updates."
"I would like some automated custom reporting."
"We are experiencing a failed login issue. There should also be improvements in functionalities we store to enhance our services."
"We encountered scalability issues in IPSec Module. The tunnels freeze sometimes."
"The product does not have a good graphical interface."
"The users must buy FortiSIEM to get advanced analytics."
"Data backup functionality could be included in the product."
"It has a monitoring tool, but it could be improved."
"The key activation is very complicated at times."
"FortiGate's application load balancing has to be improved. They need to improve a lot on the load balancing and RAF side. They are far behind Citrix in that regard."
"The product has some scalability and data management issues where improvements are required."
"Sometimes it reboots when you least expect it, and that's the main issue."
"Although manageable, the user interface is a little bit slow and could be improved."
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Fortinet FortiGate-VM is ranked 9th in Firewalls with 113 reviews while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is ranked 14th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 3 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate-VM is rated 8.4, while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is rated 6.0. 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 Zyxel Unified Security Gateway writes "Offers good anti-spam and web filtering features but needs to improve in the area of scalability". Fortinet FortiGate-VM is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Fortinet FortiOS, OPNsense and Sophos UTM, whereas Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG, WatchGuard Firebox and Sophos XGS. See our Fortinet FortiGate-VM vs. Zyxel Unified Security Gateway report.
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