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."LinkGreat firewall capabilities"
"The email protection and VPN features are the most valuable."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"The solution can scale well."
"FortiGate is very simple to manage and easy to use."
"Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use. Anyone can easily maintain it."
"We use the filtering feature the most. It has filtering and inbuilt securities. We can create customized rules to define which users can access a particular type of site. We can create policies inside the firewall."
"This solution has helped our organization by having strong functions and a reliable firewall."
"When I survey FortiGate products, I see that they have a good performance, especially in terms of next generation firewalls."
"The usability of the solution is its best feature."
"The solution is used in my company since its management is very comfortable"
"FortiGate Next Generation Firewall is a good solution because it has a range of options and a clear ecosystem."
"The GUI configuration is its most valuable feature"
"FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) 's most valuable features are reporting and filtering."
"FortiGate Next Generation Firewall has a simple configuration."
"Fortinet offers comprehensive security solutions for various purposes."
"FortiGate-VM's firewall is excellent."
"The solution integrates well with other Fortinet products."
"Primarily, the VPN solution is most valuable. It allows you to have more flexibility in terms of what is there on the end-user device, and what is not there. You can check and make sure that they're current. It has more flexibility than just a straight VPN solution. It works really well. It has the features that 99% of people need."
"Its technical support is excellent."
"The tool improved the security in our company's virtualized environment, as it was helpful in creating an additional layer of security for the organization and for the use of the internet."
"The pricing of the solution is good."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate-VM are the servers, analyzer, and track protection."
"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."
"I have to say that the initial setup was complex. The deployment took a few days to get set up. Initially, we were using an IPVanish. We switched to this tool since we thought it would be easier. But it turns out it wasn't easier to set up and run."
"The stability could be a bit better."
"It would be nice if backups could more easily migrate between different models."
"I would like to have logs, monitoring, and reporting for a month without extra fees."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having a frequent ask questions(FAQ) area for people to receive quick answers to popular questions. Additionally, it would be beneficial to have an SMS notification feature. For example, if you cannot access your email you could receive an SMS message."
"The solution could be more evenly structured."
"Fortigate's hardware capacities could be improved."
"Fortinet should focus on enhancing the capabilities of FortiGate by consolidating its various products, such as FortiGate Cloud, FortiManager, and FortiAnalyzer."
"The solution's GUI is not very appealing."
"The solution needs to improve its support."
"The solution must improve the support provided for customers around the globe, considering the time differences in different places."
"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."
"Its load balancing feature could be easy to configure."
"There's a limitation wherein you can only have about 30 virtual or secondary IPs on a particular interface."
"The licensing model and pricing need improvement."
"There have been several vulnerabilities in the firewall. It is hackable, some of the images are hackable."
"Technical support could be improved."
"Right now, we have two data centers that are a thousand kilometers apart. It would be nice to be able to string them together."
"Web filtering is a feature that needs some improvement. There should be some additional features to allow active users to change their own passwords."
"The interface of the solution could be improved."
"The solution is fairly complex."
"The reporting is not as good as it is with other firewalls and it should be improved."
"To improve FortiGate-VM, Fortinet needs to harden it more. For example, if you are using Hyper-V, then you need guidelines for hardening FortiGate-VM that are specific to the Hyper-V environment. If it's VMware, there should be at least a guideline on how to harden the firewall."
"The solution could use very well-defined support for resellers."
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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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