We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, and SonicWall TZ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"I am "headache free" that I don't have to categorize all the websites and that security has been pre categorized by the people, and that the services are getting updated. At least one part of my problem is over."
"We can detect any attack of viruses or malware at the first point of contact."
"The IPsec tunnels are very easily created, and quite interoperable with devices from other vendors."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"Allows for firewall rules to be programmed and named in a way that makes it “readable”"
"Fortinet FortiGate has many valuable features, such as IDS, and intrusion detection. It has security features that are in part with the technologies that are available in the market."
"Fortinet FortiGate appears to be scalable."
"Centralized monitoring, policy management, and virtualized appliances allow us to take control over our public and private infrastructure."
"It has the ability to create Palo Alto VM-series using software."
"The solution enables organizations to enforce policies."
"The Palo Alto VM-Series is nice because I can move the firewalls easily."
"The product provides more visibility into our traffic."
"A solid operating system with all the necessary data center security features."
"I have not actually called their support line, because we have a direct contact to a senior engineer in the company for any issues that we handle with them. I will say they are very responsive, and they do give you the information you need when you need it."
"In AWS, Palo Alto provides us a better view than flow logs for network traffic."
"The feature that I have found the most useful is that it meets all our requirements technically."
"SonicWall TZ think it's a good, solid, and stable product."
"We like the unified threat management for defense-in-depth. We can terminate our site-to-site and remote access VPNs with it."
"Content filtering and application rules are the most valuable features. It is also easy to configure."
"It's a stable solution."
"Once it's configured properly, the solution is unbreakable."
"It does what it says it is going to do."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The features that we have found most valuable in SonicWall TZ are the intrusion and brute force attack prevention."
"Price, of course, can always be more competitive or better."
"Tunnel flapping was one of the major things I had seen wherein your internet link remains but your VPN tunnel is down. However, since I got a fix from the TAC team, I have not noticed it, but the customer complained a few times that they couldn't access the internet because of this problem."
"Fortinet needs to overhaul its documentation."
"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."
"Currently, without the additional reporting module, we only have access to basic reporting."
"Fortinet currently has many products bundled with FortiGate including the basic firewall and load balancer, and I think that that they need to have separate product portfolios for each of these specialized services."
"The command line is complicated, and the interface could be better."
"The support costs and licensing are sometimes so expensive."
"There's room for improvement in terms of integration with the load balancer. It isn't like Fortinet, which has a load balancer built into its firewall. It is effortless to integrate within the load balancer-plus-firewall solution."
"At the beginning of the implementation, we had some difficulties with the scripts, but Palo Alto Networks support together with a local partner finally fixed it."
"The implementation should be simplified."
"There should be an option for direct integration with the Azure platform."
"Palo Alto should update their documentation to make it more readable and provide easier-to-follow instructions through videos."
"I would like to have automatic daily reporting, such as how many users have connected via SSL VPN."
"The one issue that I didn't like is that the SNMP integration with interfaces didn't record the interface counters."
"The DLP functionality or data classification can be improved in the solution's basic firewalling."
"SonicWall TZ can improve the UI application and when you create any net policies or any new policy, it will not sync or work properly."
"The solution's antivirus checking could be improved so that we can have a deeper inspection of the packets."
"There can be an improvement in analysis and reporting. We need enhancement on the reporting side."
"The areas we would like to see improvement include more features available similar to the equivalent FortiGate appliance, e.g. SSL encryption and inspection. Two-factor authentication capability would be another additional feature that could be included in the next release."
"If the operation increases and the bandwidth consumption increases, it does not perform as per the expectations."
"The user support could be improved because you have to go outside to get that kind of support."
"Its reporting can be improved. Currently, we cannot directly get the user names. It only shows the IP, which makes it a bit confusing because we need to use the IP to find the user. If we could directly get the name of the user, it would be better."
"From a support perspective, if we're talking tech support I think Silver Partners, Gold Partners, Platinum, whatever level, should have a different number to call. End users can call tech support over at SonicWall if they've paid for support as part of their AGSS or whatever services they bought. The end-user can call, or we can call, however, I don't want to be calling the same line that an end user's calling. I don't want the same response time. I need a different level of expertise."
