We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, and WatchGuard Firebox based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."Offers good security and filtering."
"I think that the UTM features are the most value, as it truly protects my infrastructure."
"It works very well. It has a lot of different functionalities. Its cost is also fine for our customers."
"The pricing is excellent. It's much less expensive than Cisco."
"The usage in general is pretty good."
"It has very easy management and an amazing ETM configuration."
"Our project needs to link two sides through the internet. One of these was in Cairo and the other in another city. We used FortiGate as the integrating solution between the two locations, i.e. the Fortinet 30E & 100E."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"It helps us perform our daily jobs."
"It's easily scalable."
"Juniper is a highly flexible platform, and you get more bang for your buck compared to a Cisco product."
"The EEE security controls allow us to make policy restrictions, so I can customize port numbers to allow or limit control."
"Technical support is perfect."
"It uses many applications, like antivirus blocking and web filtering."
"You can scale the solution."
"The solution has been good for fulfilling our basic needs."
"We experienced that WatchGuard is easy to setup regarding VPN compared to other firewalls of other brands."
"It's pretty simple to use. It's pretty simple to understand, and there's plenty of documentation. It does a pretty good job of what it is meant to do."
"The reports are detailed."
"The firewall aspect and the branch office VPNs are the most valuable features... We don't have any issues with it. We don't have to spend a lot of time maintaining it."
"It's hard to pick one feature over another. But if I had to pick one, the UTM would be the most valuable because of the notification. I get notified via email if there is any type of threat detection or alert, telling me something is wrong."
"It is a scalable solution."
"Among the most valuable features is the ease of use — love the interface — of both the web interface and of the WatchGuard System Manager."
"After conducting several tests I found the antivirus is working very well. Additionally, they have a very interesting feature, DNS WatchGuard, which is checking DNS requests for phishing, among other things, and it has caught a lot of unwanted attempts and attacks."
"One area for improvement is the performance on the bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"The feature which gives us a lot of pain is ASIC architecture."
"They need faster serviceability and more security features."
"They sometimes hide some features and if you want to enable them, you have to go in the CLI, enable the feature and configure it through the CLI. Customers, typically, like everything to be done by the GUI."
"The support is the main thing that needs to be improved."
"The support system could be improved."
"It does not have key authentication for admin access."
"The support from Fortinet FortiGate could improve. They are not easily accessible when we need them. They could improve their response time."
"The interface could be more user-friendly."
"The GUI needs to be easier and more helpful for users who don't have security experience."
"IPS is one that I would definitely want to be improved. I would also like SSL VPN to be integrated."
"Improvements can be made to the GUI. The GUI can be improved by creating policies to handle IPS requirements. The configuration should be a one-step process. This would make it easier to complete the setup to register the time of operation."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"The configuration is difficult and it should be easier."
"The pricing strategy of the vendor could improve."
"The solution isn't very granular or detailed."
"There could also be better reporting. For example, there should be more out-of-the-box management reports."
"The product's technical support services need improvement."
"What could use some significant improvement in WatchGuard Firebox would be its interface and policy management. An additional feature I'd like to see in the next release of WatchGuard Firebox is the ability to modify an existing policy instead of having to recreate a policy when changes are necessary. At the moment, there's no possibility to modify the policy. You have to delete the policy and recreate it."
"The way Secure Sign-On authentication is happening needs to be improved. When the Secure Sign-On portal is turned on, anybody who comes into the campus, whether he or she is a staff member or a guest, has to go past the initial portal. One of the shortcomings is the username. It shouldn't allow permutations or combinations with upper or lower cases. For example, when there is a username abc, it shouldn't allow ABC or Abc. It should not allow the same username, but currently, two separate people can go in. Therefore, its authentication or validation should be improved, and the case sensitiveness should be picked up. If I have restricted someone to two devices, they shouldn't be able to use different combinations of the same username and get into the third or fourth device. It shouldn't allow different combinations of alphabets to be used to log in."
"The software base, the management piece that goes onto a server, is not as user-friendly as I would like. There are three different pieces that you have to manage, so it's a little bit convoluted, in my opinion."
"The solution needs to improve its accessibility."
"The scalability of the solution needs improvement."
"The solution is lacking a professional website, they should be updated more often."