We performed a comparison between Fortinet Fortigate and Cisco SD-WAN based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison of Results: Based on the parameters we compared, Fortinet Fortigate seems to be the superior solution. All other things being more or less equal, our reviewers found Cisco SD-WAN rather expensive to purchase, not as secure as it should be, and somewhat difficult to deploy.
"The most valuable feature of Cisco SD-WAN is its compatibility and integration with the rest of the infrastructure."
"So far, the feature that I like best is the policy configuration manager."
"Cisco SD-WAN has separate OMP routing."
"The deployment is quite simple and straightforward."
"It's a complete solution with many security features."
"Huge companies use SD-WAN. It is largely scalable."
"It is very stable with very good firmware."
"This solution can scale from SMB to the enterprise level. It is very impressive."
"The application control features, such as Facebook blocking and Spotify blocking, are the most valuable."
"The threat prevention is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"The solution is highly scalable because they have devices that can handle a large amount of traffic."
"The signature database and zero-day detection are Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features."
"The solution is very easy to understand. It's not overly complex."
"The security fabric is excellent."
"It is easy to manage, and it doesn't need much knowledge from the team. It is a stable device, and there are many features that are included out of the box."
"I have found Fortinet FortiGate to be scalable."
"The solution is a bit complicated."
"I would like to see revision cycles to be more stable."
"The UI has room for improvement."
"The solution needs to be more flexible around legacy devices."
"The product should improve its prices."
"Since most user-data is going through the solution, we are concerned about security, as all the information is in the cloud and not on-premises. The user data authentification should be higher to better prevent malicious attacks."
"What I find should be improved is the possibility of really separating the software layer from the hardware layer since today the current offer is not well adopted by the service providers"
"The solution should not be so bound to ISPs."
"We'd like more management across other integrations."
"I think there could be more QoS features"
"There are some complex administration tasks in their administration portal. That needs to be improved."
"The initial setup and configuration are not intuitive and require training."
"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 monitor and the visibility, in this proxy, is very weak."
"The initial setup is complex."
"When we cluster the two Fortinet FortiGate boxes together we have some issues."
Cisco SD-WAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 86 reviews while Fortinet FortiGate is ranked 2nd in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 306 reviews. Cisco SD-WAN is rated 8.0, while Fortinet FortiGate is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cisco SD-WAN writes "A solution for integrating services to enhance up-time, performance and lower costs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate writes "It's a reliable solution that's easy to install and cheaper than competitors ". Cisco SD-WAN is most compared with Meraki SD-WAN, VMware SD-WAN, Juniper Session Smart Router, Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform and Cato SASE Cloud Platform, whereas Fortinet FortiGate is most compared with Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX and OPNsense. See our Cisco SD-WAN vs. Fortinet FortiGate report.
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