We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate-VM and Waterfall Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"Fortigate is very scalable to serve our customers' needs. We have scaled already from fifty to more than a hundred instances of Fortinet FortiGate. Around 20 staff are required for deployment and maintenance, mostly engineers."
"The simplicity of the product is great. It's very easy to use, which is a compliment we get all the time in terms of feedback."
"All of the features of Fortinet FortiGate are useful and the security protection is good."
"Their interface is very easy to use, it is without bugs."
"What I like the most is the configuration and that it's simple, and straightforward to maintain."
"The user interface is relatively easy. The devices are easy to deploy and figure out when you have experience with other security appliances."
"The UTM feature is quite good. FortiAP is easy to deploy because both Fortigate and FortiAP are under the same brand. Otherwise, you need to do more work on the configuration."
"The solution integrates well with other Fortinet products."
"I really like that it's internationally deployable."
"The solution offers good documentation."
"The product can scale."
"FortiGate integrates well."
"The configuration, graphical interface and command line are easy to use."
"It is a complete package, and it has complete offerings. It fit the needs, and our customer is happy with it."
"In spite of the solution being inexpensive, it has everything one would need."
"This is a professional solution which has been the most valuable aspect of its use."
"I would like to see improvements in the support from Fortinet. Here in the Philippines, whenever we have problems with a Fortinet product, we mostly ask for support from distributors and resellers and not directly from Fortinet."
"The support we receive when we need to upgrade is not satisfactory and has room for improvement."
"Fortinet currently has many products bundled with FortiGate including the basic firewall and load balancer, and I think that that they need to have separate product portfolios for each of these specialized services."
"The ease of use could be improved."
"MTBF: Hardware failure is more common when compared to SonicWall or Cisco ASA."
"There are problems with the custom reporting of the unique traffic. The data is there, but it is too difficult for us to extract."
"One issue that I have had is that sometimes I need to monitor the traffic, so I need to filter it according to the user and which user is using it the most. I experience a bottleneck most of the time, particularly at the peak time when the number of contracts and users are at maximum."
"We'd like more management across other integrations."
"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."
"Support could be improved a little."
"The product has issues with integration. I would like to see better integration in future releases of the product."
"The graphical user interface should be enhanced."
"Technical support could be improved."
"Not a ten because I think that Cisco is better."
"In the next release, we would like to see full integration with VMware NSX virtualized networks."
"VM should be more optimized."
"The interface of this solution could be more user friendly. The initial set up could also be made more simple."
Fortinet FortiGate-VM is ranked 9th in Firewalls with 113 reviews while Waterfall Security is ranked 5th in Operational Technology (OT) Security with 1 review. Fortinet FortiGate-VM is rated 8.4, while Waterfall Security is rated 9.0. 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 Waterfall Security writes "Cyber security solution used for data transmission that requires training to make use of all of its powerful features". Fortinet FortiGate-VM is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Fortinet FortiOS, OPNsense and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Waterfall Security is most compared with Nozomi Networks and OPSWAT MetaDefender OT Security.
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