We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, and McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is good."
"Web filtering and two-factor authentication are great features."
"I like how we can achieve total integration."
"Layer-3 firewall and routing are the most valuable features."
"It's very easy to configure."
"The signature database and zero-day detection are Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features."
"It is a good source for firewall protection."
"The integration with Active Directory is one of the good features. Most of the customers are now looking for the Single Sign-on feature. So, being able to integrate Active Directory with the firewall is useful. It is also easy."
"The tool's most valuable feature is its ability to deploy it on live physical hardware. Specifically, when providing firewall services for clients, we can leverage such hardware appliances to support multiple customers on the same hardware."
"The ease of access and user-friendly setup is a valuable feature. Fortinet proves to be particularly straightforward to configure, offering simplicity without complexity. Moreover, visibility is easily attainable due to certain factors. Price, implementation, and budget considerations play a role. When it comes to Cisco implementation, the process tends to be more intricate, which many customers find unfavourable for their business needs."
"It's a relatively simple product that is easy to use. It's not overly complex."
"The interface is decent."
"I have worked on some of the largest and smallest solutions that Fortinet sells and they all scale really well."
"The initial setup is very user-friendly."
"Fortinet FortiGate-VM is very easy to create the user of VPN, allowing them to use it quickly. Additionally, the integration and interface are good."
"The most valuable feature is the UTM, which gives them an advantage over other firewalls."
"It does give certain protection for everything that is well configured on our McAfee server. We have good protection with it. If we could find a feature and make it work, it would work perfectly, there would be no bugs, and it would be really good."
"They should improve high CPU and memory usage that occurs."
"The setup is pretty complex and not easy to implement."
"Monitoring and reporting could be better."
"They should improve the interface to make it more user-friendly."
"The cloud features and integration could be improved."
"Price, of course, can always be more competitive or better."
"The sniffing packets or packet captures, can be simplified and improved because it's a little confusing."
"The reporting in Fortinet FortiGate could improve. Customers are having to purchase additional reporting components. When I have used the Sophos solution it is a complete solution, in Fortinet FortiGate you have to use additional tools to have the features needed."
"With FortiGate, we sometimes encounter bugs in various operating systems."
"The product has issues with integration. I would like to see better integration in future releases of the product."
"It would be better if it could provide you with options before completely blocking anything through the web filter. If you are doing a deep SSL inspection on the site if it says it's expired, it doesn't give you the option to continue at your own risk. I can't say that it's bad, but SSL internally isn't really a requirement. However, its security features can help. Right now, we have people going out and spending on purchasing the SSL certificates for internal sites."
"FortiGate's application load balancing has to be improved. They need to improve a lot on the load balancing and RAF side. They are far behind Citrix in that regard."
"The stability could be improved. I find Cisco to be more stable than Fortigate, which is I major differentiator between the two."
"The price and licensing of the solution can be better."
"There should be integration with an active directory — with Microsoft."
"They should keep us up to date about the latest version. That's the biggest thing. Currently, we have to go looking for the latest version. We should get notified about what's going on with the versions. I would like to see easier dual-factor authentication."
"Customer support and AV are both lacking and are really hard to come to you when the product is installed. Those are the two major points that they need to work on."
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