We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiOS and Sangfor NGAF based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Provides good firewall security and has great VPN features."
"The CLI and GUI do a good job of putting a lot at your fingertips."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is load balancing. It can provide central management and VPNA. Additionally, it has enhanced our security environment."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of configuration."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are remote access, web filtering, and IPS."
"This is an easy solution to deploy."
"The solution is easy to configure and maintain remotely."
"Its performance in fulfilling our requirements has been satisfactory."
"Their classification inside of that database of the various threats is typically very, very good."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiOS are user-friendliness, ease of use, and threat prevention."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiOS is great."
"We have expanded the wireless access point and switches using Fortinet FortiOS."
"What I like about this solution, is that it is the only solution that currently offers VPN for clients."
"There are many useful features, such as web security and advanced threat detection."
"The SSL VPN is fee for use is most attractive."
"All of the features in this solution are effective and efficient."
"The product is very fast and reliable."
"It's a very simple to use product."
"The price versus value is good because the solution is less expensive than Sophos, Fortinet, or SonicWall."
"The VPN connectivity feature is really nice."
"It offers application control features."
"While the features are not dissimilar to other brands, configuration is much more simple, which works out great for Indonesian people."
"Sangfor has the best capabilities for securing connections, securing web browsers, securing servers, and general threat protection."
"So far, the performance and reliability of the product have supported our company's critical network traffic."
"Fortinet should focus on enhancing the capabilities of FortiGate by consolidating its various products, such as FortiGate Cloud, FortiManager, and FortiAnalyzer."
"My only complaint about FortiGate is a lack of QinQ VLAN tunneling. I haven't found this feature in any Fortinet product. You can do this on all Cisco routers, including the smaller models. However, QinQ isn't available on the biggest, most expensive Fortinet units. They still don't have that. I think now we're on software version 6.0, and they still haven't found a solution for QinQ. It isn't a dealbreaker, but that's my main complaint."
"To some degree, it's almost a question as to why some of this stuff isn't simpler. For example, for an AP deployment, while it's integrated, the number of steps that you have to go through in order to get the AP up, seems like a lot."
"They should improve high CPU and memory usage that occurs."
"There are mainly two areas of improvement in Fortinet FortiGate— the licensing cost and the timing of upgrading licenses for boxes."
"There are some cloud-based features that could be much more flexible than they currently are."
"The search tool needs improvement. It's very difficult to search for policies right now."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve to be on par with its competitors, such as Palo Alto and Sophos. They are the market leaders. Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve its capabilities. However, we are happy with Fortinet FortiGate."
"Their first-level support is often poorly trained."
"Real-time threat monitoring is not there."
"The pricing of the product is too high."
"The solution could improve by making the dashboard easier to use."
"The pricing model makes this product far more expensive than similar solutions."
"The reporting for this solution could be improved. It could also be more stable and offer better pricing."
"There are some features for FortiGate using FortiOS that can only be enabled via a command line. These aren't very advanced features they have been part of FortiOS for quite some time but they still aren't accessible from the graphical user interface. It makes it a little bit harder than it should be for us to manage the solution. That's my main concern with the user interface. Another concern we have is some elements for the user interface, if they're not properly configured, it could lead to hardware and performance degradation."
"Could be improved by supporting an allocation of quota base management regarding user data."
"Sangfor NGAF could improve by refining its application control policies, especially in addressing challenges with certain types of applications."
"Sangfor need greater exposer in the market because the market is mainly saturated by Fortinet. The user experience of Fortinet is quite different compared to NGAF. If we want to switch our users from Fortinet to NGAF, we have to convince them that the user experience will be much easier once once they start to use it."
"The GUI needs to be improved, lacks logic in some areas."
"Our experience with its customer support was quite challenging."
"They need to increase the number of ports in the firewall."
"The support offered by the product has certain shortcomings where improvements are required. The knowledge levels and response time of the support team need improvement."
"The product must provide more IPS features."
"Sangfor could improve by providing better real-time reporting, as the current reports don't offer the level of detail we need, especially for runtime insights."
Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews while Sangfor NGAF is ranked 21st in Firewalls with 31 reviews. Fortinet FortiOS is rated 8.4, while Sangfor NGAF is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiOS writes "Provides effective filtering features, good stability but initial setup is moderately challenging". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sangfor NGAF writes "Affordable, easy to configure firewall with fast, responsive support". Fortinet FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiWeb, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Sangfor NGAF is most compared with Sophos XG, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Netgate pfSense, Check Point NGFW and SonicWall NSa. See our Fortinet FortiOS vs. Sangfor NGAF report.
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