We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate-VM and Waterfall Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The most valuable feature is the policy routing and application control."
"The performance is good."
"The main reason why I purchased the particular unit was that it had good reviews and what other people were saying as far as its completeness and its leading capabilities in terms of endpoint security was very good."
"The most important features with FortiGate are the web filter and application controls. We can control our internet usage and use the web filter for application purposes."
"The most valuable feature is the FortiManager for centralized management."
"There are great templates, so you don't have to customize them if you don't want to. You do have the option to custom create some folders and some reports, however, with what is there, you don't really need to go through extra effort, as they already give you a lot of predefined views of reports and so forth."
"The next-generation firewall is great."
"The license management is very valuable. You can get a new license each year, or you can enroll every two to four years. You can get the logs, and you will get the information on the risk in your network and the entire organization. With this information, you can take action on your actives, computers, or devices. You can bring your own device as an SSE."
"Fortinet is user-friendly."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"The most valuable features are the SD-WAN and the web filtering applications control."
"The policies are very valuable. They allow me to secure and manage future traffic effectively."
"The technical support is very good."
"The VM it's very quick for deployment. If we need to have a POC for a customer, if we don't have any hardware physically at our premises, at our store, in our office, we can download the VM from Fortinet and install all the VM to their environment in order to run it. If we have a customer that says "let's start tomorrow" we are able to do that in a way that's not possible with a hardware version."
"I did like the ability to back up the configuration into the cloud, as opposed to having to store the configurations or just downloading them, the backups, to local devices."
"The solution's initial setup process was very easy."
"This is a professional solution which has been the most valuable aspect of its use."
"The support structure needs to be improved because every time we contact them, there is a delay in the response."
"The improvement is related to logs. Instead of the CLI, we should be able to have more insights into the logs of the firewall in the GUI."
"To the best of my knowledge, Fortinet does not have a CASB solution and Fortinet does not have a Zero trust solution."
"We were not able to build a full-mesh VPN; however, I am not sure if this was the fault of Fortinet FortiGate."
"There is a lot of improvement needed with SSL-VPN."
"Technical support needs to be improved."
"There are mainly two areas of improvement in Fortinet FortiGate— the licensing cost and the timing of upgrading licenses for boxes."
"Vulnerability scanning could be improved."
"I have worked on some of the largest and smallest solutions that Fortinet sells and they all scale really well."
"In the next releases, it would be nice to see central cloud management."
"It has a monitoring tool, but it could be improved."
"The product is satisfactory. I haven't identified any features to improve, and based on the number of deployments I've handled with FortiGate-VM, there haven't been any complaints from the customer's side."
"They could simplify the troubleshooting process."
"Fortinet FortiGate-VM should improve its asset identification, wherein the device can identify assets on the network, like computers."
"Areas for improvement would be application control and web filtering."
"The product does not have a good graphical interface."
"The interface of this solution could be more user friendly. The initial set up could also be made more simple."
Fortinet FortiGate-VM is ranked 9th in Firewalls with 113 reviews while Waterfall Security is ranked 5th in Operational Technology (OT) Security with 1 review. Fortinet FortiGate-VM is rated 8.4, while Waterfall Security is rated 9.0. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Waterfall Security writes "Cyber security solution used for data transmission that requires training to make use of all of its powerful features". Fortinet FortiGate-VM is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Fortinet FortiOS, OPNsense and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Waterfall Security is most compared with Nozomi Networks and OPSWAT MetaDefender OT Security.
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