We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate IPS and Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is a reliable solution."
"The solution is very stable."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"We use it to avoid unwanted traffic."
"The solution effectively blocks unwanted traffic."
"We have not had to reach out to FortiGate support yet and that is a pretty good track record."
"The feature that I find most valuable is its protection of the websites."
"The most useful feature of FortiGate IPS for me is Application Control."
"Palo Alto Networks Threat Prevention is the market leader as far as security gateways and endpoint protection. Additionally, the threat database that is used is one of the best."
"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Threat Prevention for our company is the next generation firewall."
"One of the most valuable features is the anti-malware protection."
"The initial setup was straightforward. It's quite easy. Deployment took one to two weeks."
"With the IP address flag, I was able to see that I was being hacked. The moment there was an interaction between somebody on my network and that IP, the solution was able to flag it, and we were able to protect ourselves."
"It's a monster, it's got so many beautiful features. We do deal with other firewalls and we've got a better idea of what other firewalls' capabilities are, any comparison with the Palo Alto I liked the quality of service on the applications that you can control the amount of bandwidth an application is allowed to consume. The best feature is the quality of the application quality of service."
"Edge protection is a valuable feature."
"I find the malware protection very handy."
"We would like to see an improvement in the consistency of the product's performance levels."
"The learning curve is a bit higher."
"It would be better if they had a dashboard where we could see what attacks were happening. It would be good to see who's trying to get into our network."
"We'd like to have multi-factor authentication via fiber."
"The solution has limited scalability."
"I have used technical support and they could improve."
"They can probably improve the reporting feature. Reporting and report alerting are the main key features of this solution. They can always find ways to improve these."
"The reporting was limited."
"The price of licenses should be lowered to make it less costly to scale our solution."
"Mission learning techniques should continue to expand and detect unknown threats on the fly."
"In Africa, the technical support is probably not as good as in Europe and the USA because it's a specific premium support, partner-enabled premium support and all of that. But it's really good, I don't really have any complaints, it's fairly good. I'll give them 80%."
"Right now we are focusing on email. If Palo Alto can increase the features related to email filtering and the new malware, it would help us protect our systems."
"The organization mail security solutions could be improved. There is no mail security solution available."
"The technology firewall anomaly network could stand improvement."
"The solution needs to improve its local technical support services. There is no premium support offered in our market."
"The application’s pricing and dashboard need improvement. It could be user-friendly."
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Fortinet FortiGate IPS is ranked 4th in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 54 reviews while Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention is ranked 7th in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 24 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate IPS is rated 8.4, while Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate IPS writes "Very stable with good network protection". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention writes "A good amount of granularity and advanced URL filtering capabilities". Fortinet FortiGate IPS is most compared with Trend Micro TippingPoint Threat Protection System, Cisco NGIPS, Cisco Sourcefire SNORT, Check Point IPS and Palo Alto Networks URL Filtering with PAN-DB, whereas Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention is most compared with Check Point IPS, Arista NDR, Trend Micro TippingPoint Threat Protection System, Forcepoint Next Generation Firewall and Darktrace. See our Fortinet FortiGate IPS vs. Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention report.
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