We performed a comparison between FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) and Fortinet FortiGate 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."Overall, I am satisfied with the product."
"The scalability is very good."
"The usability of the solution is its best feature."
"It is a very user-friendly solution. Moreover, Foritgate offers good performance."
"It is easy to install. There is not much complexity involved."
"When I survey FortiGate products, I see that they have a good performance, especially in terms of next generation firewalls."
"The product is easy to configure."
"FortiGate Next Generation Firewall is a good solution because it has a range of options and a clear ecosystem."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is Quota."
"The ease of setting the solution up is a valuable aspect for us."
"The most valuable features are simplicity, management, and that it's constantly evolving."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that it is good to use, and most importantly, the pricing. The customer especially likes the discount when they trade up or something like that."
"The most valuable features of the solution are SD-WAN, filtering testing applications, web filtering, and the new VPN."
"Their proxy-based inspection is responsive and secure."
"Fortinet FortiGate is stable. It's used across all the countries, this is the way most multinationals run their system."
"Using this product makes the VPN seamless and almost invisible to me in the sense that I don't have to think about it."
"There is room for improvement in pricing."
"The solution needs to improve its support."
"I would like to have SD-WAN as a part of the Next Generation Firewall. It would enhance high availability."
"The licensing model and pricing need improvement."
"There's a limitation wherein you can only have about 30 virtual or secondary IPs on a particular interface."
"The web process often has a memory leak."
"The room for improvement is to have more flexibility on the virtual machines of their next-generation platforms."
"The inability to change passwords when using FortiGate firewall and relying on a local FortiGate database for account creation can be problematic, particularly in non-Active Directory setups."
"The product does need better support in the cloud environment. It's not exactly cloud-native right now."
"The pricing could always be better."
"They can do more tests before they release new versions because I would like to be more assured. We had some experiences where they release something new and great, but some of the old features are disabled or they don't work well, which impacts the product satisfaction. The manufacturer should be able to prove that everything works or not only that it might work. This is applicable to most of the other services, software, and hardware companies. They all should work on this. We cannot trust every new release, such as a beta release, on the first day. We wait for some comments on the forums and from other companies that we know. We always wait a few weeks before we use the updated version. They should also extend the VPN client application, especially for Linux versions. Currently, it has an application for Linux devices, but it doesn't work the way we want to connect to the VPN. They use only the old connection, not the new one. They have VPN client applications for Windows and Mac, but they can add more useful features to better manage the devices and monitor the current health of each device. Such features would be helpful for our company."
"The logging details need to be improved."
"There are SD-WAN network monitoring, SD-WAN features, Industrial Databases, Internet of Things, Detection, etc., however, we do have not licenses for those features. We thought that if you bought a product, you should have all of the features it offers. Why should you need to make so many extra purchases to enable features? They should have one price for the entire offering."
"FortiLink is the interface on the firewall that allows you to extend switch management across all of your switches in the network. The problem with it is that you can't use multiple interfaces unless you set them up in a lag. Only then you can run them. So, it forces you to use a core type of switch to propagate that management out to the rest of the switches, and then it is running the case at 200. It leaves you with 18 ports on the firewall because it is also a layer-three router that could also be used as a switch, but as soon as you do that, you can't really use them. They could do a little bit more clean up in the way the stacking interface works. Some use cases and the documentation on the FortiLink checking interface are a little outdated. I can find stuff on version 5 or more, but it is hard to find information on some of the newer firmware. The biggest thing I would like to see is some improvement in the switch management feature. I would like to be able to relegate some of the ports, which are on the firewall itself, to act as a switch to take advantage of those ports. Some of these firewalls have clarity ports on them. If I can use those, it would mean that I need to buy two less switches, which saves time. I get why they don't, but I would still like to see it because it would save a little bit of space in the server rack."
"It is very expensive, and their support is not very good. I hope that their technical support will be better in the future."
"The main aspect of FortiGate that could be improved is load balancing. Our management team does not want to buy another appliance for only load balancing."
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FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) is ranked 14th in Firewalls with 37 reviews while Fortinet FortiGate is ranked 2nd in Firewalls with 306 reviews. FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) is rated 8.4, while Fortinet FortiGate is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) writes "Easy to set up but needs better pricing and more helpful support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate writes "It's a reliable solution that's easy to install and cheaper than competitors ". FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) is most compared with OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, Tailscale, Twingate and Fortinet FortiGate-VM, whereas Fortinet FortiGate is most compared with Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX and WatchGuard Firebox. See our FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) vs. Fortinet FortiGate report.
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