We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate IPS and WatchGuard Intrusion Prevention Service based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Darktrace, Vectra AI, Check Point Software Technologies and others in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS)."It is a reliable solution."
"The solution can scale."
"I have found the decryption of Fortinet FortiGate IPS very good. It's called SSL deep inspection, it's working very well. This is how you decrypt access and traffic, and it is through the IPS antivirus center. Additionally, the UI is user-friendly."
"The feature that I find most valuable is its protection of the websites."
"Regionally, we are well covered. Technical support is good in this area."
"The most useful features of Fortinet FortiGate IPS are you can create a virtual firewall within it, most other firewalls do not have this feature. You are able to manage your network and have network segmentation within your firewall. Additionally, you can create virtual switches within the firewall and have policy management, such as firewall and access policy."
"You have access to CLI in case you have no web access."
"Provides good VPN capabilities."
"It works right out of the box. You just have to enable it and you can start working."
"The alarm system is valuable."
"The VPN and the filtering features are the most valuable. Its VPN is very strong, and its services are very nice. The main problem in India is the service. There are not enough Check Point and Fortinet Firewall services, but for this product, the service is very good."
"The most important feature of this solution is the SLAs."
"The initial setup was straightforward and, because we only need intrusion detection and prevention, we needed only about four hours to deploy it."
"Fortinet FortiGate IPS could improve the VPN. There are times it is slow."
"The most important feature to have is zero trust, which is lacking in Fortinet FortiGate IPS."
"The solution has limited scalability."
"The prevention mechanisms and implementation are not easy."
"We would like to see an improvement in the consistency of the product's performance levels."
"FortiGate's logging and reporting could be improved. I would also like to see Fortinet add a guest management portal."
"The solution could improve the configuration, there are times the configuration is missing."
"I would like to be able to see more log details."
"Regarding technical support, they could use more engineers."
"Its graphical user interface could be improved because not everybody is technical. There is a lack of knowledge, and they can give some training for this solution."
"Multi properties could be added to the solution in the future to make it better."
"The user interface and configuration can be improved."
"I would like to see faster automatation."
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Fortinet FortiGate IPS is ranked 4th in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 54 reviews while WatchGuard Intrusion Prevention Service is ranked 31st in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 5 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate IPS is rated 8.4, while WatchGuard Intrusion Prevention Service is rated 6.6. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate IPS writes "Very stable with good network protection". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WatchGuard Intrusion Prevention Service writes "Good VPN and filtering features, 100% stable, but needs a better graphical user interface and more training". 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 Zscaler Cloud IPS, whereas WatchGuard Intrusion Prevention Service is most compared with Cisco Sourcefire SNORT.
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