We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, and WatchGuard XTM [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The product is easy to use and is stable. The SV1 functionality is a benefit."
"I'm pretty happy with its reliability. It is also very scalable."
"The usage in general is pretty good."
"Fortigate's most valuable feature is that it doesn't need a push policy when writing rules."
"This is an easy solution to deploy."
"Its stability is the most valuable."
"Their proxy-based inspection is responsive and secure."
"Web filtering and two-factor authentication are great features."
"In spite of the solution being inexpensive, it has everything one would need."
"It provides an ease of management and configuration as well."
"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 has allowed us to centralize every network service into one appliance."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the integration within the environment, with centralized reporting."
"FortiGate integrates well."
"The support is good. We don't have any issues with the technical support."
"Initial setup was quite straightforward, as we can simply head to the required sections to apply the planned network."
"Application Control is fantastic with over 2,500 applications and the granularity that we can either allow people to view but not be able to log on to Facebook; or view it and log onto it if they're in the marketing department, but not play Facebook games. There are all sorts of different options like that. So it's highly granular."
"SNMP status monitoring and the Central Management Software."
"There is a site-to-site VPN configuration between others people."
"After installing the product, we achieved awareness of our data protection needs and email misuse."
"They have a reporting system which can store data over a very long period of time. Not many other firewall vendors provide a reporting system, but if they do, like Fortinet does, then you've got buy that as an additional product and that can be more than twice as expensive as the initial investment in the firewall. And without reporting over a long-term period, you're just about wasting your time."
"We have used technical support for WatchGuard many times and overall, we are satisfied with it. They are always listening and there is a good reaction time to our findings. When there are issues, they really try to resolve them."
"I like the hostwatch because I can see what traffic uses the most bandwidth and I can block that site."
"WatchGuard XTM is fairly basic. We use it as the perimeter firewall. The main point is to protect from attack software and hacking."
"The renewal price and the availability could be improved."
"One of the features that I would like to have is to do with endpoint production, it should be integrated. For example, the firewall gets notified of any kind of forensic event that needs to be done, such as if there is a ransomware attack and how it originated, all those records have to be available from the firewall, which is not."
"I would like to see improvements with the antivirus and IPS as they are not working properly all the time."
"We have an issue with hotel guest vouchers."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I don't get proper reports."
"Some of the filtering is not robust, you can escape it with a VPN. Some of the users bypass some of the filters. It catches some but it also misses some, that area could be improved. It's functioning reasonably but there's room for improvement in that area."
"When we cluster the two Fortinet FortiGate boxes together we have some issues."
"Fortinet needs more memory to save the log files. We need it to save the logs on the hardware and not in the cloud. I know this feature is available in FortiCloud, but if we need this log locally, it is not available."
"The users must buy FortiSIEM to get advanced analytics."
"Sizing can be challenging for customers interested in using Fortinet FortiGate-VM."
"The solution could use very well-defined support for resellers."
"The interface of the solution could be improved."
"The reporting is not as good as it is with other firewalls and it should be improved."
"The biggest area for improvement is storage configuration. It could be smoother."
"When new versions are deployed they tend to be a little buggy, so they should be more fully tested before release."
"There are certain GUI features that should be present but are not."
"Sometimes we have had issues with stability of the product."
"One huge issue with WatchGuard XTM is that I'm not getting reports in a readable format. Readable means, I don't want Excel online. We repeat auditing when we trigger the report or setup calendar. That functionality is what we are looking for from WatchGuard XTM here."
"The VPN errors are not helpful when troubleshooting."
"WatchGuard doesn't have a product that allows them to get into the data center. And that's just because there is no hardware to do the job. The software could do it, but there's no hardware that allows that to happen at the moment. So it doesn't scale as well as some other products, that's for sure."
"Syslog (Dimension) is focused on presentation, but needs more focus on utility like SonicWall syslog (GMS/Analyzer)."
"The setting policies need improvement. It needs an easier way to do static NAT and check on what policy is being used for that specific traffic."
"I would like them to improve the product's overall protections. This would be good for all product users."
"The initial setup is neither simple nor complex. If you know the base in networking and how the firewall works, you will be able to figure it out."
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