We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiOS and LiveAction LiveNX based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."What I like the most is the configuration and that it's simple, and straightforward to maintain."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"The threat prevention is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"Their proxy-based inspection is responsive and secure."
"The flexibility and ease of configuration are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are remote access, web filtering, and IPS."
"The solution is very user friendly. The user interface in particular is quite nice."
"We use the FortiGate Sandbox to detect zero-day vulnerabilities, such as anomalies or malware, that are unknown and have not yet been discovered."
"FortiGate as a product is very easy to configure."
"I find filtering traffic, filtering web traffic, session traffic, and managing the network as valuable features."
"The product is scalable and easily expands."
"FortiOS' most valuable features are management, security, and easy updates with no downtime."
"The main features I find useful are intrusion prevention and web filtering. Additionally, the solution is easy to manage."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiOS are the ease of use and user-friendly interface."
"The solution provides good firewall and antivirus protection."
"The most valuable features are the ease of use, and the overall simplicity, everyone can use it with a small introduction."
"One of the valuable features is the ability to create CLI scripts on the fly to fix any issues. We were using it for QoS modeling to ensure that we were properly modeling QoS, and it basically said here is what you need to fix to get this QoS done, whether it is ACL or something else. It would either push or recommend. If you have the right credentials, you could also push. It is very good if you are a Cisco shop. It gives you reporting, latency, and bandwidth utilization for your applications, so you can do good capacity management planning. There are a lot of pieces that LiveNX can give you. It is a total NPM solution for SD-WAN."
"The alerting feature is very good because it allows you to set MOS alerts at various network junctures or data points."
"The product has a very good graphical interface."
"All in all, LiveAction LiveNX has become an indispensable tool for maintaining and improving our network's reliability and performance, ultimately supporting our organization's goal of providing timely and dependable delivery services."
"We don't have any complaints about the software. According to my team, it's a very good tool that's very intuitive."
"Its analytical capability is really good."
"The intention and the idea of the filter is great."
"Currently, FortiGate is providing SSL VPN. But they're missing some features that are available in Palo Alto's SSL VPN."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a firewall solution and once it's deployed, you can rest assured that your system is secure."
"We'd like more management across other integrations."
"With the reports, you can see it, and you can get good feelings so upper management can go, "Oh, wow. That looks pretty." However, it's very basic."
"There could be more integration between the logging and analytical platforms to make it more seamless and integrated."
"Palo Alto has a feature called WildFire Analysis that is unavailable in FortiGate. WildFire is better than a sandbox because it can address zero-day threats and vulnerabilities. It can immediately identify zero-day threats from the cloud."
"I use the FortiGate 60D model and realized the 300Mbps bandwidth limitation. Because it is a product that offers many services, I think it could have greater bandwidth capacity."
"Fortinet FortiGate can be integrated with different platforms. They have integrations in place, but I can't say they're 100%."
"The pricing of the product is too high."
"The solution needs to adjust its pricing models. With the way they are structured, everything is very disparate and sold separately, and, depending on the solution, it can get quite pricey."
"Fortinet FortiOS can improve the GUI and remove the command line interface. All the functionality should be available from the GUI. Day-to-day management can be tough for IT administrators. Additionally, the reporting is not very good."
"The report and policy optimization tools can be improved in the next release."
"FortiOS could provide a more detailed analysis of the network and connected devices."
"The solution needs improvement with DDoS protection."
"Right now, it's very trendy to integrate everything into the cloud. This solution would be more effective if they did more integration in that regard."
"For me, it is important to be able to block VPN applications, like Facebook, so I would like to see that included in the next release. With this version, if you want to block or allow a site, you now have to drag all the domains related to this site."
"Sometimes the solution does not register devices properly and that is a bug."
"The tool crashes sometimes when we try to pull reports simultaneously."
"The only downside to this software is the price."
"Improved documentation and more responsive customer support can help in addressing issues faster."
"This is a horrible solution and I think everything needs to be improved."
"They need to create a more simplified UI."
"It is not as robust as other NPM solutions. For instance, there is a problem while labeling specific applications. It works well with well-known applications, but when you have to put in new applications that are not very known and set them up with names, ports, URLs, or some protocols, it is not as intuitive."
Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews while LiveAction LiveNX is ranked 55th in Network Monitoring Software with 7 reviews. Fortinet FortiOS is rated 8.4, while LiveAction LiveNX is rated 6.8. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiOS writes "Provides effective filtering features, good stability but initial setup is moderately challenging". On the other hand, the top reviewer of LiveAction LiveNX writes "Greta visual analytics and real-time monitoring but requires better documentation". Fortinet FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Fortinet FortiWeb, Darktrace and Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection, whereas LiveAction LiveNX is most compared with ThousandEyes, SolarWinds NPM, NETSCOUT nGeniusONE, Cisco Secure Network Analytics and OmniPeek.
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