We performed a comparison between Flowmon and Fortinet FortiGate IPS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in Network Monitoring Software."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The solution is stable."
"It is an open platform, so in terms of integration, we are quite happy. We can integrate it with other SNMP solutions. We can also integrate it with security solutions, such as a SIEM solution."
"The artificial intelligence and automatic detection system in Flowmon Solution are perfect for every, type of customer, such as government and commerce."
"The product has an inbuilt IPS software. We can configure it to block specific anonymous attacks that are happening."
"The solution provides an easy way to filter information and Fortinet lab is a great place to discover new things."
"We like signature-based anomaly detection and zero-day protection features."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"I like FortiGate's zero-trust capabilities and protection against zero-day threats. Zero-day threat protection is critical because we're seeing constant changes in the threat landscape. The sandboxing and web access controls are also robust."
"The solution can scale."
"The most valuable features are security and vision, and all of the UTM functionality."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate IPS is its efficiency."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"If there was better visualization in Flowmon Solution it would be good."
"The licensing price could be better."
"It would be helpful to have more details about the monitoring of the infrastructure. It should have support for SNMP. This is something that is currently not there in the product."
"IPs are not handled well and the process is unnecessarily complicated."
"We would like to see an improvement in the consistency of the product's performance levels."
"The interface could be better."
"Security level could be increased."
"The user interface needs a bit of upgrading."
"We'd like to have multi-factor authentication via fiber."
"The graphical interface could be improved."
"The solution has limited scalability."
Flowmon is ranked 70th in Network Monitoring Software while Fortinet FortiGate IPS is ranked 4th in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 54 reviews. Flowmon is rated 8.0, while Fortinet FortiGate IPS is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Flowmon writes "A stable and scalable solution allowing for the visibility of and the blocking of threats". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate IPS writes "Very stable with good network protection". Flowmon is most compared with Darktrace, SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer, Cisco Secure Network Analytics, WhatsUp Gold and Vectra AI, whereas Fortinet FortiGate IPS is most compared with Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention, Trend Micro TippingPoint Threat Protection System, Cisco NGIPS, Check Point IPS and ExtraHop Reveal(x) 360.
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