We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiOS and Qualys VMDR based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The next-generation firewall is great."
"The multi-tenancy feature is most valuable. It integrates very well with FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer."
"The solution is stable."
"We've found the solution to be pretty stable."
"The web tutor and automatic rules by schedule are good features."
"It is a good source for firewall protection."
"FortiGate is very simple to manage and easy to use."
"Good load balancing feature."
"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."
"We have expanded the wireless access point and switches using Fortinet FortiOS."
"For my organization, it has become much easier to scan the firewalls because the solution is more user-friendly than competitors."
"The initial setup is easy. It's the easiest firewall installation process on the market. I work with three or four other products and this one is the easiest."
"There are a lot of features that we like within the solution. The resources or performance of the firewall is very good. However, the real selling point is the fact that the solution offers so many features, it gives our clients a lot of extras that they can work with. There's a lot on offer."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiOS are the ease of use and user-friendly interface."
"We've been happy with the pricing."
"The initial setup is straightforward, and it is very customer friendly."
"The Vulnerability Management and Patch Management features are the most valuable features of this solution."
"The reporting functionality is great."
"Monitors workstations and servers for vulnerabilities and creates reports."
"The most valuable feature is automation."
"This is one of the best products I have worked with so far. I like the power of Qualys, and it's a better solution because you can scan a compact file, a BIT file, or batch files. The product already knows what's happening inside, and you don't need to expand the package. Tenable will do the same thing, but you need to have a package issuance claim. With Qualys, we can immediately understand the file, even a compact file. If there's some kind of discovery or incident, you will know what happened in the environment."
"The solution is easy to use."
"Detects new hosts along with vulnerabilities."
"I like Qualys because it is a very complete product, more so than Tenable."
"There aren't really any negative aspects to discuss."
"FortiGate is really good. We have been using it for quite some time. Initially, when we started off, we had around 70 plus devices of FortiGate, but then Check Point and Palo Alto took over the place. From the product perspective, there are no issues, but from the account perspective, we have had issues. Fortinet's presence in our company is very less. I don't see any Fortinet account managers talking to us, and that presence has diluted in the last two and a half or three years. We have close to 1,500 firewalls. Out of these, 60% of firewalls are from Palo Alto, and a few firewalls are from Check Point. FortiGate firewalls are very less now. It is not because of the product; it is because of the relationship. I don't think they had a good relationship with us, and there was some kind of disconnect for a very long time. The relationship between their accounts team and my leadership team seems to be the reason for phasing out FortiGate."
"The solution's framework needs to be frequently updated in order to have a stable solution."
"FortiOS is not simple."
"When we cluster the two Fortinet FortiGate boxes together we have some issues."
"It would be ideal if they had some sort of GUI interface for troubleshooting and diagnostics."
"Some of the software stability could improve."
"The solution could be more user friendly."
"The technical support is good. However, during the holidays they can get a little slow to respond."
"I can only compare it with SonicWall, and it is missing many advanced features that SonicWall has."
"In terms of what needs improvements, the troubleshooting could use improvement. When we work with other products like Cisco ASA, Palo Alto, and Check Point, we see a big difference in the troubleshooting. It's not easy to find a report."
"Right now, all the features meet my requirements."
"The reporting for this solution could be improved. It could also be more stable and offer better pricing."
"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."
"Fortinet FortiOS's integration could be improved."
"The reporting and monitoring could improve, they have a lot of limitations. The monitoring is not easy compared to the other firewall."
"Improve the API speed."
"We face issues while scanning multiple assets."
"Sometimes we face a problem with accessing the tool and not getting an expected result. From a technology point of view, they need to look into this."
"I would like to see more accuracy in detections, better reporting capabilities, and better dashboard download capabilities."
"Reports were lacking somewhat on the customization side."
"It's quite complex on the way it is set up, so it takes a fair bit of time in order to get your head around it in order to deploy it. Once you've deployed it, then you're never confident on the versions of the browsers and the SSL certificates, etc. You have to always go back into Qualys and check."
"Its integration with ServiceNow and other similar products is complicated and can be improved. It should also have virtual batching. They should support more standards and compliance requirements and more customizations. For policy compliance, they can add the standards required by the countries in the Middle East. Each country generates its own standards and frameworks, and those frameworks should be there in all products, not only in Qualys. The market here is huge, especially in the cybersecurity field. Qatar has a framework for Qatar 2022, and each and every company in the public or private sector has to follow the Qatar 2022 framework."
"I would like to see this solution simplified to work more easily in a multi-cloud environment."
Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews while Qualys VMDR is ranked 3rd in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with 77 reviews. Fortinet FortiOS is rated 8.4, while Qualys VMDR is rated 8.2. 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 Qualys VMDR writes "Good visibility but expensive and needs better support". Fortinet FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Fortinet FortiWeb, Darktrace and Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection, whereas Qualys VMDR is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Tenable Security Center, Rapid7 InsightVM, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management and Tenable Vulnerability Management.
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