We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, and Untangle NG Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution."
"Mainly the FortiGate reporting system is very good. It guides us through all the expectations of security. Fortinet provides us all that we need for security. Also, Fortinet FortiGate is a next-generation firewall. It is much more advanced than others."
"This product is definitely scalable."
"The next-gen features, the unified threat management capabilities are something that just about everybody is interested in at this point."
"The interface is very user-friendly and I like it very much."
"The Intrusion Prevention System and the web filtering are both working well."
"It's inexpensive compared to some of the other technology out there."
"The tool's cloud version makes application migration easy."
"We now know a lot more detail about what our users are doing on the network."
"In terms of security breaches, the product aids in categorizing and monitoring traffic, allowing for the identification of potentially malicisous or incorrectly formatted applications."
"Using Palo Alto Networks Panorama, we were able to deploy a single point of management and visualization of the firewall infrastructure in cloud, on-premise and integrated with Azure to automate scale up. Its security features, i.e. anti-malware, threat prevention, URL Filtering, VPN, and antivirus are the most valuable. The ID-User integrated with AD and 2FA features are also very useful to provide secure access to servers and some users in the company. "
"The VM-Series scalability is fast and easy to implement, improving our security posture as our Azure network grows."
"The main advantage of Palo Alto Networks VM-Series stems from the fact that you can access it with the help of cloud services."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series has everything centralized. You have the VPN solution, firewall, routing, UDR, flexibility, updates, and full visibility of your traffic."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series's most valuable feature is the visibility of the environment."
"It is very easy to deploy and monitor. "
"Web Filter is effective, Web Cache offers bandwidth savings, and the VPN setup is easy."
"Application Control and filtering features are valuable."
"The interface is very good."
"Easy to set up and easy to integrate."
"The features I have found the most useful are the web filter, the captive portal, the SSL inspector, and the ad-blocker. They're awesome."
"What I like about this product, which is the reason that we continue to use it, is that you can install the software version on your own hardware. In case there is a problem with the hardware, we can just install the firewall in another machine and restore the configuration."
"The web blocking for my clients and the application control are valuable."
"Its reporting and pricing need improvement."
"The Web-filter in this solution is not very good."
"Price, of course, can always be more competitive or better."
"It should have a better pricing plan. It is too expensive. It should also have a more granular view of the attack. I don't have FortiAnalyzer, and it is difficult for me to have a complete view when there is an attack on my server."
"NGN, reporting and controls."
"The solution is very expensive."
"The solution could be more secure and stable."
"Bandwidth usage in reporting could be improved for Fortinet FortiGate."
"The command-line interface is something that some people struggle with and I think that they should have an option to go straight to the GUI."
"It'll help if Palo Alto Networks provided better documentation."
"The implementation should be simplified."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is a complex product to work with."
"I would like a way to do everything programmatically, or be able to copy the configs from different prices at different levels."
"There should be an option for direct integration with the Azure platform."
"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."
"In the next release, I would like to see better integration of multi-factor authentication vendors."
"The product should improve reporting."
"The product needs to have a better support group for its online support, specifically for its help desk."
"The common center facility that Untangle provides should be available on-premises. There are great corporations here in Mexico that like the Untangle solution, but they don't like the fact that the monitoring and access to the appliance are in the cloud. They request for the common center facility to be available and installed on-premises."
"The hardware can be improved."
"There is room for improvement in the logs. Like with Cisco, I can do almost everything and know almost anything about what's running. Untangle works very much out of the box. It's very user-friendly, but it's not engineer-friendly. So, it's good for a home user. For something fairly easy, but at the same time, with good technology to have at home, because at home, I'm not a millionaire or anything like that. So it's not like I'm worried to get hacked. I didn't want something like a Cisco firewall; it would be a bit overkill to have at home. So that's why I went for Untangle. But it lacks a few features. It's just a tick-box kind of thing. So they have apps and turn on and off the apps. The VPN's configuration is all very ticked. They have a few custom configurations, but it's not that much."
"It would be much easier if there was a mobile app."
"The pricing is not as good as it was some time ago. They've since skipped offering a lot of individual features."
"They don't have any feature that allows you to drop the session."
