We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and Zyxel Unified Security Gateway based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ease of use and the UI. It has always provided me with what I needed. I have no need for additional costs that other solutions have, such as Sophos."
"I think that the UTM features are the most value, as it truly protects my infrastructure."
"Security solution with a straightforward and quick setup. It's a stable and scalable product."
"The web filtering facility and application control are the most valuable features from the point of view of our clients. The VPN feature is also quite popular amongst our clients. Two-factor authentication is one of the good features in Fortinet. These features are important for the current scenario of security. Security has become a necessity nowadays. With cyber-attacks becoming more common, protecting an organization's data is one of the major tasks. It is also very stable and scalable, and it is very straightforward to configure. Their technical support is also good."
"The feature I like most is the SD-WAN. It allows you to manage more than one ISP at the same time. And there is a high-availability mode, so if one of your ISPs is down, you still have a backup."
"Initial setup is easy to configure."
"The base firewall features are quite valuable to us."
"This solution has solid UTM features combined with a nice GUI."
"The solution strengthens our IT posture."
"The VM-Series reports how much bandwidth a particular IP is using. You don't need to regularly log into a website, like a Cisco command, to see what kind of ACL it's getting. There isn't an ACL use portal event. You can go there and see how much my ACL has been getting me."
"The most valuable features are security and support."
"The main advantage of Palo Alto Networks VM-Series stems from the fact that you can access it with the help of cloud services."
"What I like about the VM-Series is that you can launch them in a very short time."
"The product provides more visibility into our traffic."
"We have reduced the number of configuration lines by 90%. We need fewer number of admins right now because of it."
"The most valuable feature is the Posture Assessment."
"This is a capable appliance and the standard features work well for us."
"The solution can scale well."
"The most valuable features of the solution stem from web filtering, malware protection, and antivirus."
"While FortiGate is cheaper than most other solutions, we're seeing increased license renewal costs. Most of our clients are asking for more significant discounts because the price is going up."
"If they had better integration with security products, such as Cisco ISE or Rapid Threat Containment, then it would be an improvement."
"There are some cloud-based features that could be much more flexible than they currently are."
"It needs more available central management."
"The command line is complicated, and the interface could be better."
"I would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
"It could use more templates for third-party site-to-site VPN setups other than FortiGate and Cisco."
"Scalability for Fortinet FortiGate needs to be improved. SD-WAN security for this solution also needs some improvement."
"The product needs improvement in their Secure Access Service Edge."
"In the next release, I would like to see better integration of multi-factor authentication vendors."
"There are some delays that I have observed when my company communicates with Palo Alto's support engineers."
"On the cloud side, they need to come up with more HA solutions to support the multi-region."
"There could be dynamic DNS features similar to Fortinet in the product."
"From time to time, they have released some content updates that have some issues, maybe twice a year."
"Just sometimes it can be a bit sluggish navigating through pages. That is just purely because of Java."
"The disadvantage with Palo Alto is that they don't have a cloud-based solution that includes a secure web gateway."
"Although manageable, the user interface is a little bit slow and could be improved."
"The product has some scalability and data management issues where improvements are required."
"Sometimes it reboots when you least expect it, and that's the main issue."
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Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 52 reviews while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is ranked 10th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 3 reviews. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6, while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is rated 6.0. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zyxel Unified Security Gateway writes "A robust appliance that is reasonably priced and straightforward to set up". Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG and WatchGuard Firebox.
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