We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate-VM and Zyxel Unified Security Gateway 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."The Fortinet FortiGate local partners were good. I did not have direct contact with Fortinet support."
"From the firewall perspective, the rules and policies are very sufficient and easy to use."
"The usage in general is pretty good."
"FortiGate improved our security. It's one of the best hardware firewalls."
"Good performance, stability, and virtual domain ability."
"Fortinet FortiGate is stable. It's used across all the countries, this is the way most multinationals run their system."
"LinkGreat firewall capabilities"
"It is useful for protecting and segregating the internal networks from the internet. Most of our customers also use the FortiGate client to connect to their offices by using the VPN client, and of course, they usually activate the antivirus, deep inspection, and intrusion prevention services. They are also using it for web filtering and implementing various policies dealing with forwardings, NAT, etc."
"The most valuable features are site-to-site connections and UTM."
"Overall, it's an excellent solution."
"Fortinet is user-friendly."
"While the stability maybe isn't quite to the level of Cisco, it is a very cost-effective solution. It's cheap compared to Cisco."
"In terms of administration, it's perfect."
"The setup is simple."
"The configuration, graphical interface and command line are easy to use."
"The stability of the solution is good. We haven't faced any issues at all while using the product."
"This is a capable appliance and the standard features work well for us."
"The solution can scale well."
"The most valuable features of the solution stem from web filtering, malware protection, and antivirus."
"It should come integrated or have its own type of network monitor tool in a module. There should just be one package, and you are good to go."
"Price, of course, can always be more competitive or better."
"It could use more templates for third-party site-to-site VPN setups other than FortiGate and Cisco."
"You do need some IT knowledge in order to effectively work with the solution."
"I don't like that anything more than very basic reporting is not included."
"They should offer special pricing to premium partners and customers."
"To some degree, it's almost a question as to why some of this stuff isn't simpler. For example, for an AP deployment, while it's integrated, the number of steps that you have to go through in order to get the AP up, seems like a lot."
"Fortigate's hardware capacities could be improved."
"The user interface 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."
"The price is problematic."
"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 key activation is very complicated at times."
"We face some issues with the IPsec connection during replication."
"Technical support could be improved."
"One thing that can be better is added automation. And, on top of that, enhanced security when it comes to the automation itself."
"The product has some scalability and data management issues where improvements are required."
"Sometimes it reboots when you least expect it, and that's the main issue."
"Although manageable, the user interface is a little bit slow and could be improved."
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Fortinet FortiGate-VM is ranked 9th in Firewalls with 113 reviews while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is ranked 10th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 3 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate-VM is rated 8.4, while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is rated 6.0. 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 Zyxel Unified Security Gateway writes "Offers good anti-spam and web filtering features but needs to improve in the area of scalability". Fortinet FortiGate-VM is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Fortinet FortiOS, OPNsense and Sophos UTM, whereas Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG, WatchGuard Firebox and Sophos XGS. See our Fortinet FortiGate-VM vs. Zyxel Unified Security Gateway report.
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