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."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."
"It is a safe product."
"Fortinet FortiGate is scalable for our users. Right now, we have almost 70 users. We do not have any plan to increase our usage of FortiGate. For maintaining the firewall solution, one staff member is enough."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is the simple configuration."
"The wireless control is helpful."
"I have found Fortinet FortiGate to be scalable."
"The feature I like most is the SD-WAN. It allows you to manage more than one ISP at the same time. And there is a high-availability mode, so if one of your ISPs is down, you still have a backup."
"Fortinet FortiGate protects against internet-based threats, both internal and external. It is scalable, stable, easy to use, and easy to install."
"It’s easy to integrate the solution with our network infrastructure."
"We like FortiGate-VM's IPS features and its ability to create multiple virtual firewalls."
"FortiGate-VM has many valuable features: it's easy to use, it's intuitive, it's got very good traffic inspection features, it's got comprehensive filtering categories, and it has an extensive threat database, using FortiGuard."
"In terms of specific features, I like FortiGate's load balancing, interface, and priority on the network."
"Fortinet FortiGate-VM is very easy to create the user of VPN, allowing them to use it quickly. Additionally, the integration and interface are good."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is easy to operate."
"The most valuable features are network security, VLAN, network protection, and encryption are very valuable to us."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiOS network segregation, UTM, and antivirus, freight management protection, such as DDoS. Additionally, the CLI and the GUI are easy to use. The architecture makes sense, and the command in the CLI are organized well. They have quite a lot of features are easy to use, and are user-friendly. Any novice can use Fortinet FortiOS without an issue."
"It's simple to use in terms of inbound and outbound traffic management."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiOS are its constant updates and definitions."
"The technical support is very good and the assistance they gave was very good."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiOS is great."
"The interface is good."
"I have found the most valuable features to be the policies, cache, and the SD-WAN."
"It's very easy to use."
"There are some tiny bugs that sometimes affect the operations. In the past revision of it, there was a bug. Because of the bug, we had to downgrade the version. It happened only with the last revision."
"The support system could be improved."
"I would like to see improvements made to the dashboard and UI, as well as to the reporting."
"The command line is complicated, and the interface could be better."
"The solution lacks sufficient filtering."
"There can be more security in hybrid implementations. When a customer has a hybrid environment where some parts are in the cloud, we need a consistent security solution for such scenarios."
"The cloud management and automation capability could be improved."
"The feature which gives us a lot of pain is ASIC architecture."
"Technical support could be improved."
"The price model is not transparent by any means and should be made more clear. What's included in the packages is often not very obvious."
"FortiGate's application load balancing has to be improved. They need to improve a lot on the load balancing and RAF side. They are far behind Citrix in that regard."
"We have encountered certain issues with the bandwidth in respect of the security layer."
"The pricing is expensive."
"New versions are complicated with a big configuration."
"We face some issues with the IPsec connection during replication."
"VM should be more optimized."
"The signature discs, compared to Palo Alto, aren't as good. It takes more time to get the signature updates."
"Fortinet FortiOS need to manage its memory and CPU utilization better. It peaks at times, which sometimes can be challenging."
"We had assistance from one person from our local vendor for the implementation."
"A switch should be introduced."
"There are some issues with the performance. We also had some issues while updating the firmware."
"Could be improved by supporting an allocation of quota base management regarding user data."
"I want to see a better integration or a better integration with the endpoint protection or with EDR with the security life cycle."
"You can enable and disable certain modules in it. However, with disabling, nobody can really tell us if that module is disabled."
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