We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiClient and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The console is easy to read. I also like the scanning part and the ability to move assets from one to the other."
"Fortinet has helped free up around 20 percent of our staff's time to help us out."
"The most valuable feature is the analysis, because of the beta structure."
"This is stable and scalable."
"Forensics is a valuable feature of Fortinet FortiEDR."
"he solution is an anti-malware product that integrates well with other vendor products such as firewalls, SIEM, etc. It captures threat intelligence and gives you better visibility. The product also has sandboxing features."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"It notifies us if there's any suspicious file on any PC. If any execution or similar kind of thing is happening, it just alerts us. It doesn't only alert. It also blocks the execution until we allow it. We check whether the execution is legitimate or not, and then approve it or keep it blocked. This gives us a little bit of control over this mechanism. Fortinet FortiEDR is also very straightforward and easy to maintain."
"It's very stable."
"Having a centralized console is a valuable feature. The Fortinet fabric is also very valuable where all different pieces talk together to secure our network and track the North, South, East, and West movement of files and data through our network."
"You can scale the product."
"It's got a very friendly user interface."
"The VPN has proven to be quite useful."
"FortiClient's most valuable features are that it's fast and safe."
"The most valuable feature is the single pane of glass, single point of management."
"The technical support from Fortinet and local vendors is good."
"Embedding it into my application development lifecycle prevents data loss and business disruption, allowing the adoption to operate at the speed of my AWS Cloud."
"The solution enables organizations to enforce policies."
"It has a good performance which helps you with the stability of your virtual environment."
"AWS has improved our agility to apply firewall rules. It has reduced the amount of time that it takes to apply firewall rules because everything is based in the cloud."
"The VM-Series reports how much bandwidth a particular IP is using. You don't need to regularly log into a website, like a Cisco command, to see what kind of ACL it's getting. There isn't an ACL use portal event. You can go there and see how much my ACL has been getting me."
"A solid operating system with all the necessary data center security features."
"The interface with Panorama makes it very easy to use."
"Using Palo Alto Networks Panorama, we were able to deploy a single point of management and visualization of the firewall infrastructure in cloud, on-premise and integrated with Azure to automate scale up. Its security features, i.e. anti-malware, threat prevention, URL Filtering, VPN, and antivirus are the most valuable. The ID-User integrated with AD and 2FA features are also very useful to provide secure access to servers and some users in the company. "
"The SIEM could be improved."
"The amount of usage, the number of details we get, or the number of options that can be tweaked is limited in comparison to that with other EDR solutions"
"To improve Fortinet, we need to see more features and technology areas at the endpoint level introduced."
"The security should be strong for the cloud. Some applications are on-prem and some are on the cloud. Fortinet should also have strong security for the cloud. There should be more security for the cloud."
"Detections could be improved."
"It takes about two business days for initial support, which is too slow in urgent situations."
"Cannot be used on mobile devices with a secure connection."
"We've encountered challenges during API deployment, occasionally resulting in unstable environments."
"Sometimes there are issues when we are trying to connect."
"The solution could be more secure. I would like to see more safety features."
"It would be interesting if the solution offered a way to try to investigate and create a use case to trace vectors."
"The initial setup was probably more complex. The configuration was somewhat unclear."
"The solution requires skillful users."
"The licensing feature of the product requires improvement since whenever the license expires, the tool logs out its users automatically, irrespective of whether they are on the network or not, which can be problematic for me."
"The solution can improve by adding new remote console or endpoint features to make the solution easier to use."
"The current version of this solution does not show the malicious websites that have been visited. They should add this to an upcoming release."
"We have ran into issues with Palo Alto’s limitations for resolving large IP lists from DNS lookups, as well as the antivirus interfering with App-ID."
"There are some delays that I have observed when my company communicates with Palo Alto's support engineers."
"The solution needs to have more easily searchable details or documentation about it online, so it's easier to Google if you have queries."
"The product could be better in terms of performance than one of its competitors."
"The interface is all Java-based. I would prefer an HTML5 interface."
"The product needs improvement in their Secure Access Service Edge."
"It can definitely improve on the performance."
"We don't know how it will scale once we start putting more load on it."
Fortinet FortiClient is ranked 15th in Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) with 85 reviews while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 53 reviews. Fortinet FortiClient is rated 8.0, while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiClient writes "Easy to set up and user-friendly with good support ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". Fortinet FortiClient is most compared with OpenVPN Access Server, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Azure VPN Gateway, Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business and Ivanti Connect Secure, whereas Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Fortinet FortiGate, Cisco Secure Firewall and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. See our Fortinet FortiClient vs. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series report.
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