We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, and Netgate pfSense based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The IPsec tunnels are very easily created, and quite interoperable with devices from other vendors."
"There are great templates, so you don't have to customize them if you don't want to. You do have the option to custom create some folders and some reports, however, with what is there, you don't really need to go through extra effort, as they already give you a lot of predefined views of reports and so forth."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution."
"A strong point of FortiGate is that the graphical interface is complete and easy to use, especially if we think there is a list of operations that we are able to perform inside."
"I like that they have given me a solution at a fair price."
"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 FortiGate controls the user's activities and maximizes my bandwidth use overall."
"Security management tool that's easy to integrate and easy to work with. No issues found with its stability and scalability."
"Initial setup was quite straightforward, as we can simply head to the required sections to apply the planned network."
"The most valuable features are network security, VLAN, network protection, and encryption are very valuable to us."
"The pricing of the solution is good."
"The interface is decent."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate-VM are its flexibility and scalability. This solution is available as a license, which allows us to activate it based on the specific needs of the customer. This gives us and the customer a great deal of versatility and customization options."
"We are able to closely monitor the usages of individual users and see their usage habits and other items, including the data itself, which gives us quite a bit of visibility."
"FortiGate is a nice and very good product."
"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."
"Sophos Intercept X is scalable. Currently, we have almost 30 people using it in our company."
"My technicians find the pfSense's web interface very useful. It is very easy to use. pfSense is very reliable and stable. We like the OpenVPN clients that can be deployed using pfSense very much."
"It's a good solution for end-users. It's pretty easy to work with."
"It is a stable solution."
"The tools' most valuable feature is load balancing."
"The interface is straightforward and easy to use."
"Some of the terminologies were more familiar to me than it was when I first encountered Cisco."
"The solution is very easy to use and configure."
"There are some tiny bugs that sometimes affect the operations. In the past revision of it, there was a bug. Because of the bug, we had to downgrade the version. It happened only with the last revision."
"The ease of use could be improved."
"A couple of things I've seen that need improvement, especially in terms of a hard coding. The driver-level active moment really is out-of-the-box and we have to have contact the customer support and sometimes it is difficult to resolve."
"The web-cache feature which was previously on the FortiGate device, but was deleted with the recent upgrade should be returned. It was a very valuable feature for us."
"Usually, we sell the bundle with the UTM or threat management piece with IPS, IDS. Other providers, such as Palo Alto, are ahead in terms of safe functionality. So, for me, delivering truly safe service is probably something that still needs to be improved."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I don't get proper reports."
"Fortinet FortiGate is not very easy to use. The navigation could be improved to make it easier to use."
"This product needs to have an analysis feature, rather than having the analysis done through the integration of a different product."
"Web filtering is a feature that needs some improvement. There should be some additional features to allow active users to change their own passwords."
"The log settings and filters could use some improvement."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"The tool is expensive."
"The product is satisfactory. I haven't identified any features to improve, and based on the number of deployments I've handled with FortiGate-VM, there haven't been any complaints from the customer's side."
"Support could be improved a little."
"Capacity-wise, I think the solution's log storage area is something that needs to be increased since, by default, it stores logs for only seven days."
"The stability could be improved. I find Cisco to be more stable than Fortigate, which is I major differentiator between the two."
"Needs services on additional features, such as managing inventory and generating reports."
"The stability could be improved."
"Reporting and real-time monitoring, since I'm used to Watchguard's reporting features, it would be nice to have an embedded solution for reporting."
"ClamAV AntiVirus can cause some crashes. That service should be improved."
"The GUI could use improvements, though it is manageable."
"Other solutions provide more scope for growth. For instance, we can have only 10 to 20 employees on VPN, but other solutions can support more users. We also have more capabilities to increase the performance of the solution."
"Web interface could be enhanced and more user friendly."
"I've never tried it in large environments. All my clients are small businesses with a handful of employees, so I am not sure how it works in large environments. I keep up with recent versions, and there's nothing I'm waiting for, and nothing breaks when I get a new version."
