We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiOS and Vectra AI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."Their proxy-based inspection is responsive and secure."
"In terms of security, we have not experienced any security flaws or loopholes, and it has proven to be quite stable."
"It has improved our security capabilities."
"It's user-friendly and easy to operate."
"The application control features, such as Facebook blocking and Spotify blocking, are the most valuable."
"You can create multiple Virtual Domains (VDOMs), which are treated as separate firewall instances."
"The most valuable features are simplicity, management, and that it's constantly evolving."
"The GUI is good."
"The technical support on offer has always been quite good."
"The SSL VPN is fee for use is most attractive."
"I find filtering traffic, filtering web traffic, session traffic, and managing the network as valuable features."
"This is a user friendly solution and offers comprehensive integrations."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiOS are the SD-WAN, SSL inspection, and IDS/IPS functions."
"The most valuable feature of this solution would be the caching feature."
"The technical support is very good and the assistance they gave was very good."
"The solution is very user friendly."
"We particularly like the user experience around the dashboard, which we find to be much more straightforward than the dashboard of some of the competitive products... Vectra is a really easy system to understand and use to prioritize where we need to focus our security resources."
"We discovered a lot of things in our network and are correcting several misconfigurations. We are learning how some apps work together and how some things shouldn't happen. It's also easier for us to identify the source of a brute force, whereas before, we didn't even know we had a brute force."
"Vectra AI helped our team be more productive and save time. We have less work thanks to it."
"It's easy to manage, and I love the UX. It's very well designed. When we are looking for something, it's quite easy to find it."
"Vectra is very compatible with various cloud providers, such as Amazon and Azure AD. This is helpful as customers often migrate their network infrastructure to the cloud."
"The most useful feature is the anomaly detection because it's not signature-based. It picks up the initial part of any attack, like the recon and those aspects of the kill chain, very well."
"One of the things that we didn't expect to happen was that our network team also jumped on it faster than we thought. In most cases, if it's a security tool that's working on the network part, they can also use it to find out certain flaws that have been in the system. Certain flaws, related to some legacy stuff, were already there for quite a few years, which they couldn't explain at first, but we could explain them based on the timing of certain things."
"What I like best about Vectra AI is that it alerts you about suspicious activities."
"There are some cloud-based features that could be much more flexible than they currently are."
"Compared to some other products, the DLP is not at par for the moment."
"Fortinet needs to overhaul its documentation."
"The Web-filter in this solution is not very good."
"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."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
"I would like some automated custom reporting."
"Their software support needs improvement. I would prefer to have better support for bug fixes. Sometimes, we open a ticket, and it is very difficult to get a solution. Specifically, we are not at all happy with their support for load balancing."
"Technical support could be better. Some competitors have much more responsive support teams."
"The signature discs, compared to Palo Alto, aren't as good. It takes more time to get the signature updates."
"The solution needs to adjust its pricing models. With the way they are structured, everything is very disparate and sold separately, and, depending on the solution, it can get quite pricey."
"The additional features I would like to see included in the next release is better troubleshooting and reporting."
"Fortinet's central management needs to be improved. FortiManager's technical tool provider ability should manage all Fortinet security products. Right now, FortiManager only manages the configuration of FortiGate."
"The GUI could be improved to make it more usable, easier to administer, and easier to configure."
"SD-WAN configuration could be easier."
"I want to see a better integration or a better integration with the endpoint protection or with EDR with the security life cycle."
"The solution's marketing is not good."
"I would like to see a bit more strategic metrics instead of technical data. Information that I could show to my executive management team or board would be valuable."
"The rules for threats are not always precise and Vectra AI should improve this."
"Some of the customization could be improved. Everything is provided for you as an easy solution to use, but working with it and doing specific development could be worked on a bit more in the scope of an incident response team."
"One of the things that we are missing a bit is the capability to add our own rules to it. At the moment, the tech engine does its thing, but we have some cool ideas to make additional rules. There should be an option in the platform to add custom rules, or there should be some kind of user group where we can suggest them for the roadmap and see if they get evaluated and get transparent communication on whether they will be implemented in the product or not."
"One thing which I have found where there could be improvement is with regard to the architecture, a little bit: how the brains and sensors function. It needs more flexibility with regard to the brain. If there were some flexibility in that regard, that would be helpful, because changing the mode of the brain is complex. In some cases, the change is permanent. You cannot revert it."
"We would like to see more information with the syslogs. The syslogs that they send to our SIEM are a bit short compared to what you can see. It would be helpful if they send us more data that we can incorporate into our SIEM, then can correlate with other events."
"We are using SMB 3.0, which is an encrypted protocol. When we get some alerts or something, we cannot go deep into the protocol to see what's wrong because it's encrypted. We need to decrypt the protocol in another way, which is quite difficult. We might go back to SMB 2.0 just for this reason, but that's not a good solution."
Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews while Vectra AI is ranked 2nd in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 42 reviews. Fortinet FortiOS is rated 8.4, while Vectra AI is rated 8.6. 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 Vectra AI writes "Integrates well with other security solutions and provides good technical support". Fortinet FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Fortinet FortiWeb, Darktrace and Huawei NGFW, whereas Vectra AI is most compared with Darktrace, ExtraHop Reveal(x), Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Arista NDR and SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer.
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