We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate-VM and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series 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."FortiGate improved our security. It's one of the best hardware firewalls."
"Fortinet FortiGate has many valuable features, such as IDS, and intrusion detection. It has security features that are in part with the technologies that are available in the market."
"The customization potential is quite impressive."
"The network security and cloud security are most valuable."
"The email protection and VPN features are the most valuable."
"There is an easy process for configuring it, and it is straightforward to implement the device from scratch."
"Fortinet FortiGate protects against internet-based threats, both internal and external. It is scalable, stable, easy to use, and easy to install."
"The dashboard I have found the most valuable in Fortinet FortiGate."
"The most valuable feature is that its IPsec works perfectly."
"The combination of SD-WAN and VPN capabilities is the most valuable feature."
"The solution integrates well with other Fortinet products."
"The setup is simple."
"Operations have been flawless."
"We use it to ensure that our network is properly protected from viruses and malware."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate-VM are its flexibility and scalability. This solution is available as a license, which allows us to activate it based on the specific needs of the customer. This gives us and the customer a great deal of versatility and customization options."
"Fortinet FortiGate-VM is easy to use."
"It is nice to have a rock solid security platform that we can count on."
"The most valuable features are the User ID, URL filtering, and application filtering."
"It offers a single pane of glass for all the different types of installations."
"The tool's cloud version makes application migration easy."
"In AWS, Palo Alto provides us a better view than flow logs for network traffic."
"The solution strengthens our IT posture."
"The feature that I have found the most useful is that it meets all our requirements technically."
"The most valuable feature is the Posture Assessment."
"We were not able to build a full-mesh VPN; however, I am not sure if this was the fault of Fortinet FortiGate."
"The pricing could be a bit better, especially when you consider how they have the most basic offering priced."
"It needs more available central management."
"If they had better integration with security products, such as Cisco ISE or Rapid Threat Containment, then it would be an improvement."
"It does not have key authentication for admin access."
"They should make the rule sets more understandable for the end user. When you're trying to explain to somebody how a computer network is secured, sometimes it's difficult for an end user or customer to understand. If there was a way to make the terminology more accessible to the end user, the set up could be easier. They should translate the technical jargon to an easily relatable and understandable conversation for the end user, the customer, that would be brilliant. Particularly in an environment where the IT structure is audited regularly, there's always pressure from the auditor to up the standards and up the security and you get your USCERT's that come out and there's a warning about this and the customer will want to lock out so much and when you apply it they run into issue where they can't search the internet or print to their remote office. Of course they can't print to your remote office, they just locked it up. They should make the language more understandable for the customer. If there's a product out there that made the jargon understandable to John Q. Public, I would buy that."
"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."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having a frequent ask questions(FAQ) area for people to receive quick answers to popular questions. Additionally, it would be beneficial to have an SMS notification feature. For example, if you cannot access your email you could receive an SMS message."
"The solution can improve by adding separate interfaces for proxy and flow-based usage."
"The technical support is not very responsive and is an area that needs to be improved."
"The management tools should be more user-friendly."
"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 tool is expensive."
"Their offering for MFA isn't the cleanest."
"FortiGate should be more customer friendly and budgeted better."
"New versions are complicated with a big configuration."
"There is no proper support channel to follow up on cases."
"I would like to have automatic daily reporting, such as how many users have connected via SSL VPN."
"Just sometimes it can be a bit sluggish navigating through pages. That is just purely because of Java."
"There are some delays that I have observed when my company communicates with Palo Alto's support engineers."
"The product could provide protection above Layer 3, which gets into the application layer and provides better visibility into those aspects of application security."
"The one issue that I didn't like is that the SNMP integration with interfaces didn't record the interface counters."
"The interface is all Java-based. I would prefer an HTML5 interface."
"The command-line interface is something that some people struggle with and I think that they should have an option to go straight to the GUI."
Fortinet FortiGate-VM is ranked 9th in Firewalls with 113 reviews while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 53 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate-VM is rated 8.4, while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6. 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 Palo Alto Networks VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". Fortinet FortiGate-VM is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiOS, OPNsense, Cisco Secure Firewall and Netgate pfSense, whereas Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Huawei NGFW. See our Fortinet FortiGate-VM vs. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series report.
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In the best tradition of these questions, Feature-wise both are quite similar, but each has things it's better at, it kind of depends what you value most.
PA is good at app control, web filtering and such like, they have always been top of the pile there. The GUI is very good, and their product is very user-focused.
Fortinet is good for scalability and predictable high throughput (ASICs in the hardware), and useful things like authentication flexibility, CLI config (if you have any networking/Cisco people, they always seem to prefer CLI over GUI) and have better OT features, maybe relevant to your manufacturing use?
Fortinet seem to have a broader integration offering with their security fabric than PA do, plus they can do Fortinet-based wifi, switching, etc. Depends if you are prepared to go all-in with a single vendor.
Hi,
Both FT and PA have compelling features for large Enterprises. I would like to add a few good points about Fortinetwhich might be helpful ( from my 13 years of engagement with them as Distributor and Partner)
Fortinet:
Have higher throughput; which comes with competitive rates
Wide range of models to select to meet your requirement, without spending heavliy
Outstanding customer support and very active customer care team
Easly available skilled resources from the channel for deployment and post-implementation support
Regards
Abhilash
Hello. The question is what you are going to have as a result of application