We performed a comparison between FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) and Fortinet FortiGate-VM 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."This is an easy solution to deploy."
"The stability and scalability of this solution are satisfactory. Its SD-WAN, VPN, and URL filtering features are very useful."
"It has improved our organization with control data."
"The technical support is great."
"It is a one box solution, which covers most of the edge device’s requirements."
"All of the features of Fortinet FortiGate are useful and the security protection is good."
"The scalability is good in Fortinet FortiGate."
"Consolidated our network environment at all locations, but mainly at our datacenter."
"The GUI configuration is its most valuable feature"
"The most valuable feature of FortiGate Next Generation Firewall is its SD-WAN."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to operate."
"FortiGate Next Generation Firewall's design is good...I am very impressed with the product's stability."
"It is a stable solution compared to other vendors."
"The solution is used in my company since its management is very comfortable"
"FortiGate Next Generation Firewall can be described as the most complete solution."
"FortiGate Next Generation Firewall is a good solution because it has a range of options and a clear ecosystem."
"Technical support has been super responsive and dedicated to getting any challenges resolved."
"Fortinet FortiGate-VM is easy to use."
"FortiGate-VM has many valuable features: it's easy to use, it's intuitive, it's got very good traffic inspection features, it's got comprehensive filtering categories, and it has an extensive threat database, using FortiGuard."
"We use it to ensure that our network is properly protected from viruses and malware."
"Initial setup was quite straightforward, as we can simply head to the required sections to apply the planned network."
"It's a relatively simple product that is easy to use. It's not overly complex."
"The initial setup was quite straightforward."
"The interface is decent."
"It should be more stable. There should be full integration within Fortinet products themselves as well as with other third-party products. Especially when you're not dealing with SIEM and the correlation of the security box, we want Fortinet to be able to share that information with as many other products as it can."
"The initial setup and configuration are not intuitive and require training."
"At first glance, the interface for the device is very confusing."
"One of the problems I was having was with user mapping, and it is an issue for which I have escalated tickets with Fortinet support."
"The cloud management and automation capability could be improved."
"One of the features that I would like to have is to do with endpoint production, it should be integrated. For example, the firewall gets notified of any kind of forensic event that needs to be done, such as if there is a ransomware attack and how it originated, all those records have to be available from the firewall, which is not."
"It could use better throughput on some of the smaller boxes for the branch offices."
"It is quite new for us, and we need to go more in-depth into the monitoring tools. It provides different features that we need to do what we want. So far, it is okay for us. In terms of improvement, in the future, they can provide a faster implementation of features. Some of the features are first available in other solutions. Fortinet sometimes takes a little bit longer than other solutions, such as Check Point, to implement new features."
"FortiGate Next Generation Firewall could be made a little less expensive."
"The solution needs to improve its support."
"The licensing model and pricing need improvement."
"Vulnerabilities owing to viruses in the OS need to be reduced in FortiGate Next Generation Firewall from an improvement perspective."
"FortiGate Next Generation Firewall's performance and threat intelligence could be improved."
"The pricing of the solution is expensive, so it could be cheaper."
"The solution needs to improve its support."
"The room for improvement is to have more flexibility on the virtual machines of their next-generation platforms."
"It should have the SD-WAN feature. This would increase the number of features that are available in the box."
"The stability could be improved. I find Cisco to be more stable than Fortigate, which is I major differentiator between the two."
"We have had some stability issues."
"In the first two releases of FortiOS 5.6, we had some trouble with the SSL VPN service. Sometimes it stopped working, and the IPS daemon too."
"Integration could be better. Whatever devices I'm using with FortiGate are all compatible. The access points and switches are also FortiGate, so I can easily integrate them. But it would be better if we could embed other devices as well. There are compatibility issues with other brands, and we need that. We can only integrate universal brands with FortiGate. The initial setup could also be easier."
"It has a monitoring tool, but it could be improved."
"Now they do have the ability to pop up a command line, which is nice, however, the fact that you can't do everything within the GUI is probably a problem."
"The management tools should be more user-friendly."
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FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) is ranked 14th in Firewalls with 37 reviews while Fortinet FortiGate-VM is ranked 9th in Firewalls with 113 reviews. FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) is rated 8.4, while Fortinet FortiGate-VM 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-VM writes "An easy-to-manage and configure tool that provides ample documentation to help with the setup phase". FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) is most compared with OPNsense, Netgate pfSense, Tailscale, Twingate and Google Cloud Platform Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy, whereas Fortinet FortiGate-VM is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Fortinet FortiOS, OPNsense and Cisco Secure Firewall. See our FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) vs. Fortinet FortiGate-VM report.
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