We performed a comparison between FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) and Fortinet FortiGate-VM 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."The customization potential is quite impressive."
"The product is easy to use and is stable. The SV1 functionality is a benefit."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the rules and quality of service."
"Their interface is very easy to use, it is without bugs."
"The most valuable features are the enterprise modeling and the simple interface."
"It is a safe product."
"The email protection and VPN features are the most valuable."
"The features that prevent internet connections, the filtering are the most valuable because we did not have any internet protection before."
"It is a stable solution compared to other vendors."
"It is easy to install. There is not much complexity involved."
"The tool's most valuable feature is IPS. In my experience, I haven't encountered any issues with integration. It easily integrates with the FortiGate solution. However, verifying through documentation and assessing their support is necessary."
"The setup is easy."
"FortiGate Next Generation Firewall is a good solution because it has a range of options and a clear ecosystem."
"The solution is used in my company since its management is very comfortable"
"The solution’s interface is pretty user-friendly."
"The usability of the solution is its best feature."
"The user interface is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"All the security features that are built into the product are valuable."
"While the stability maybe isn't quite to the level of Cisco, it is a very cost-effective solution. It's cheap compared to Cisco."
"The ease of access and user-friendly setup is a valuable feature. Fortinet proves to be particularly straightforward to configure, offering simplicity without complexity. Moreover, visibility is easily attainable due to certain factors. Price, implementation, and budget considerations play a role. When it comes to Cisco implementation, the process tends to be more intricate, which many customers find unfavourable for their business needs."
"It has allowed us to centralize every network service into one appliance."
"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."
"Technical support has been super responsive and dedicated to getting any challenges resolved."
"I like the visibility and monitoring features because they're easy to use to monitor traffic. Features like geo-blocking and more have AI, and we're currently using all of it. But for now, we're only using geo-blocking, and we're able to block traffic from different countries. I also like that it's highly responsive. VM04 is also very powerful."
"The cloud features and integration could be improved."
"As far as wanting more scalability or things in the network diagram, it's going to cost you."
"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."
"There were quite a few problems with the stability of the system."
"Fortinet already improved FortiGate, but in the current market, many brands of security devices have improved together. Fortinet still needs to catch up with market standards. Fortinet is lacking in features in comparison to competitors."
"The solution could be more secure and stable."
"They should improve high CPU and memory usage that occurs."
"It would be nice if FortiGate incorporated some built-in endpoint protection features. I would also like a built-in SOC dashboard for managing multiple Fortinet firewalls."
"Technical support is not helpful."
"The vendors offer models with different levels of productivity of the product to its users, which is not possible in FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW). It lacks integration options."
"Its load balancing feature could be easy to configure."
"Vulnerabilities owing to viruses in the OS need to be reduced in FortiGate Next Generation Firewall from an improvement perspective."
"There is room for improvement in pricing."
"The solution needs to improve its support."
"The solution needs to integrate VPN features."
"The product has to be upgraded every few weeks."
"It would be better if it could provide you with options before completely blocking anything through the web filter. If you are doing a deep SSL inspection on the site if it says it's expired, it doesn't give you the option to continue at your own risk. I can't say that it's bad, but SSL internally isn't really a requirement. However, its security features can help. Right now, we have people going out and spending on purchasing the SSL certificates for internal sites."
"The performance could be better. Some features need to have quality control when the switch is working. The dedicated bandwidth for some users is not reliable."
"The scalability feature of the solution has certain shortcomings, making it an area where improvements are required."
"In the first two releases of FortiOS 5.6, we had some trouble with the SSL VPN service. Sometimes it stopped working, and the IPS daemon too."
"The interface of the solution could be improved."
"Customization needs improvement."
"It has a monitoring tool, but it could be improved."
"The product's initial setup phase is a bit complex."
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FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) is ranked 14th in Firewalls with 37 reviews while Fortinet FortiGate-VM is ranked 9th in Firewalls with 113 reviews. FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) is rated 8.4, while Fortinet FortiGate-VM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) writes "Easy to set up but needs better pricing and more helpful support". On the other hand, 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". FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) is most compared with OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, Tailscale, Twingate and Google Cloud Platform Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy, whereas Fortinet FortiGate-VM is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Fortinet FortiOS, OPNsense and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) vs. Fortinet FortiGate-VM report.
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