We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiOS and Vectra AI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."Our project needs to link two sides through the internet. One of these was in Cairo and the other in another city. We used FortiGate as the integrating solution between the two locations, i.e. the Fortinet 30E & 100E."
"The CLI and GUI do a good job of putting a lot at your fingertips."
"Fortinet FortiGate appears to be scalable."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use."
"The most valuable features of the solution are SD-WAN, filtering testing applications, web filtering, and the new VPN."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution."
"Security solution with a straightforward and quick setup. It's a stable and scalable product."
"The management console is pretty simple, so anyone who understands networking can initially deploy the solution."
"The solution is extremely scalable."
"I personally think the site-to-site VPN is the most useful feature. A lot of firewalls have that, but to me, that's one of the features that's essential."
"It is more robust than SonicWall, particularly on the VPN from site to site."
"Fortinet has optimized the WAN environment for connecting users to the application."
"I like its configuration and the various functions it offers."
"It's very easy to use."
"The interface is easy to understand, so when there are threats you get alerts. It's quite intuitive, but if you are ever confused they have instructional videos. For example, if you don't understand a graph there's a link to a video that explains what the graph means. It makes it very user-friendly."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiOS are its simplicity, highly user-centric, and performs well. The line speed and for heavy traffic, is helpful for us."
"Vectra AI can bring the ability to detect intrusion on the network more so than legacy IDS tools."
"Vectra is very compatible with various cloud providers, such as Amazon and Azure AD. This is helpful as customers often migrate their network infrastructure to the cloud."
"One of the most valuable features of the platform is its ability to provide you with aggregated risk scores based on impact and certainty of threats being detected. This is both applied to individual and host detections. This is important because it enables us to use this platform to prioritize the most likely imminent threats. So, it reduces alert fatigue follow ups for security operation center analysts. It also provides us with an ability to prioritize limited resources."
"Vectra AI helped our team be more productive and save time. We have less work thanks to it."
"The core product provides excellent visibility, but my favorite feature is Vectra Recall."
"The fact that we get the visualization of what's happening on our network, which is a way of improving our security in-depth is most valuable."
"The initial setup was pretty straightforward."
"I like the way that Vectra AI focuses on the internal network. Nowadays, most of the attackers are already inside, and they can be inside for many years before they start attacking. With normal monitoring, it's quite difficult to find them."
"The UTM filtering needs improvement."
"The routing capability on the FortiGate devices has room for improvement."
"Its customer service could be better."
"It could use more templates for third-party site-to-site VPN setups other than FortiGate and Cisco."
"We have an issue with hotel guest vouchers."
"The solution lacks sufficient filtering."
"I would like to see improvements made to the dashboard and UI, as well as to the reporting."
"Its reporting and pricing need improvement."
"Fortinet's central management needs to be improved. FortiManager's technical tool provider ability should manage all Fortinet security products. Right now, FortiManager only manages the configuration of FortiGate."
"SD-WAN configuration could be easier."
"The solution is good, but they have poor marketing in Nigeria. They need to market their product better."
"The reporting and monitoring could improve, they have a lot of limitations. The monitoring is not easy compared to the other firewall."
"Fortinet FortiOS could improve by having better authentication methods with Microsoft or Google Services."
"Right now, we have to contend with CLI. We'd like it to be easier. We need the features to be in a UI."
"For monitoring purposes, we don't have any option to monitor the ISP link."
"The support could be improved, Fortinet's response time is very slow. Setting up the VPN could be made much easier, especially when deployed with Azure."
"A blind spot that I have is around the ease with which you can automate threat intervention."
"In education as a sector, we are looking at AI a lot in terms of how it can be used as part of the teaching and learning side of things. It would be great to have Vectra AI look at a better way to enhance the security posture related to the AI tools in our portfolio."
"In comparison with a lot of systems I used in the past, the false positives are really a burden because they are taking a lot of time at this moment."
"We are using SMB 3.0, which is an encrypted protocol. When we get some alerts or something, we cannot go deep into the protocol to see what's wrong because it's encrypted. We need to decrypt the protocol in another way, which is quite difficult. We might go back to SMB 2.0 just for this reason, but that's not a good solution."
"The rules for threats are not always precise and Vectra AI should improve this."
"We would like to see more information with the syslogs. The syslogs that they send to our SIEM are a bit short compared to what you can see. It would be helpful if they send us more data that we can incorporate into our SIEM, then can correlate with other events."
"One of the things I am not so happy about when it comes to Vectra is the scoring board."
"It does a little bit of packet capture on alert so you can look at the packet capture activity going on, but it doesn't collect a whole lot of data. Sometimes it's only one or two frames, sometimes it does collect more. That's why they have the addition of their Recall platform, because that really does help expand the capability."
Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews while Vectra AI is ranked 2nd in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 42 reviews. Fortinet FortiOS is rated 8.4, while Vectra AI is rated 8.6. 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 Vectra AI writes "Integrates well with other security solutions and provides good technical support". Fortinet FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Fortinet FortiWeb, Darktrace and Cisco IOS Security, whereas Vectra AI is most compared with Darktrace, ExtraHop Reveal(x), Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Arista NDR and Illumio.
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