We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate Cloud and Fortinet FortiPortal based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewall Security Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution works well for remote or branch offices."
"This product is easy to manage and easy to use."
"It's user-friendly."
"The initial setup is relatively easy."
"Everything is valuable, especially the SD-WAN tunneling, filtering of email, application, and browsing. Everything has value."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate Cloud are the protection of internal and remote systems."
"The hardware is reliable, and their support is excellent."
"The functionality of the solution is excellent."
"The customer likes it for the graphs, the dynamics and the reporting functionality it offers."
"The documentation has been satisfactory."
"It does a little bit better than some of the other products health-wise and updates-wise. It is really clear that a firewall is getting the signature updates in this timeframe. In some of the other products, usually, you have to go a couple of screens in to see that, but not so much in this product."
"I am very comfortable with it, including it's reporting on threats and through its activities."
"I would like to see Wi-Fi management inside the firewall."
"If you need to scale, you do need to trade up to a new Fortinet solution."
"The licensing is a little bit confusing and needs to be improved."
"We've not seen any areas for improvement."
"It is currently durable, but they may be able to improve it further. They can adapt Cisco technology because of its durability."
"GUI access could be improved. It should be simpler to access everything from the portal. Once we log in to the portal, we should be able to access all the Fortinet Cloud options."
"The interface and dashboards should improve in Fortinet FortiGate Cloud. Other solutions have better graphical interfaces."
"The solution could improve by having a Russian interface."
"Fortinet FortiPortal could improve by providing a learning portal and better security."
"If you are a very small company or a person on your own, it's harder to get any response from technical support."
"I find their logging a little bit trickier to manage. The logging of events is broken up into a lot of different categories. Instead of breaking up my logs into several different places, I personally like to have all the events in one spot and then filter them down. In particular, I find that troubleshooting on Fortinet takes a little bit longer just because of those functional breakups in the logs."
"It's useful for us but if it had more educational reporting, it would good. It's not necessarily lacking but it's an area that could get better."
Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is ranked 5th in Firewall Security Management with 38 reviews while Fortinet FortiPortal is ranked 8th in Firewall Security Management with 4 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is rated 8.2, while Fortinet FortiPortal is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate Cloud writes "Robust product that is easy to deploy and easy to manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiPortal writes "Does a pretty good job of rolling out the environment and making most tasks actionable, but logging is a little bit trickier to manage". Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, AWS Firewall Manager, Palo Alto Networks Panorama, HashiCorp Terraform and Cisco DNA Center, whereas Fortinet FortiPortal is most compared with VMware Aria Operations, vCloud Director, Palo Alto Networks Panorama, VMware Aria Automation and AlgoSec. See our Fortinet FortiGate Cloud vs. Fortinet FortiPortal report.
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