We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate-VM and Fortinet FortiOS 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."Overall, the pricing of the solution is very good. The product offers good value."
"The most valuable feature is the VDOM, which allows the customer to have multiple firewalls in a single campus."
"The stability of the solution is excellent, as it is with other Fortinet products."
"It is easy to use and performs very well."
"I think that the UTM features are the most value, as it truly protects my infrastructure."
"Customers are more inclined towards FortiGate because of application control, web filtering, and anti-spam features. The support from the FortiGate team is good, and price-wise, it is affordable."
"Fortinet offers the latest versions to cater to the needs of enterprises."
"Secure, user-friendly, stable, and scalable network security solution. Installation is straightforward."
"Fortinet FortiGate-VM is easy to use."
"The reporting is good."
"An enhanced security solution for any kind of alert that we have configured."
"Good for the servers and can stop network attacks, including spam."
"The initial setup was quite straightforward."
"It is very versatile."
"Its technical support is excellent."
"The most valuables features are the ease of use and deployment."
"It's easy to use."
"The VDOM (Virtual DOM) is a virtualized firewall that has some opportunities for flexibility that are an advantage in certain configurations."
"The solution is extremely scalable."
"It is more robust than SonicWall, particularly on the VPN from site to site."
"For ten to 12 years it has been quite secure."
"The pricing is excellent."
"We've been happy with the pricing."
"FortiOS' most valuable features are management, security, and easy updates with no downtime."
"In the balance between links feature normally you can just choose one option to balance. It would be better for the solution to have more than one option, preferably three."
"We would like to see an upgrade to the VPN feature, we are using the VPN from outside of our office and there is a limitation to 10 connections, more connections would be suitable."
"It should come integrated or have its own type of network monitor tool in a module. There should just be one package, and you are good to go."
"The initial setup and configuration are not intuitive and require training."
"With FortiGate, the main complaint that I have heard is about the technical support."
"The logging details need to be improved."
"I think they need to improve more in order to be a competitor with the leaders of the field."
"It needs to improve its ISP load balancing."
"We haven't attempted to scale the solution just yet. If we want to scale this solution we may have to look at other models. With certain requirements, we probably wouldn't be able to scale it so well as it is right now."
"The user interface (UI) and the performance of interface both need improvement."
"Not a ten because I think that Cisco is better."
"Data backup functionality could be included in the product."
"We have had some stability issues."
"The price is problematic."
"Now they do have the ability to pop up a command line, which is nice, however, the fact that you can't do everything within the GUI is probably a problem."
"In the next release, we would like to see full integration with VMware NSX virtualized networks."
"The signature discs, compared to Palo Alto, aren't as good. It takes more time to get the signature updates."
"I would like to see more statistics in the monitoring part."
"The threat time interval lags a little, especially if there's a heavy load on the firewall."
"The solution needs improvement with DDoS protection."
"It could more scalable for the lower end users."
"The additional features I would like to see included in the next release is better troubleshooting and reporting."
"Right now, all the features meet my requirements."
"We had assistance from one person from our local vendor for the implementation."
Fortinet FortiGate-VM is ranked 9th in Firewalls with 113 reviews while Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate-VM is rated 8.4, while Fortinet FortiOS is rated 8.4. 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 Fortinet FortiOS writes "Provides effective filtering features, good stability but initial setup is moderately challenging". Fortinet FortiGate-VM is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, OPNsense, Cisco Secure Firewall and Netgate pfSense, whereas Fortinet FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiWeb, Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection, Darktrace and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our Fortinet FortiGate-VM vs. Fortinet FortiOS 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