We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate-VM and Palo Alto Networks K2-Series 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."Provides good firewall security and has great VPN features."
"The secure web gateway module and the application control module are valuable. HA operations are very easy."
"The response is very quick and they can visually resolve our problems in a short period."
"Some of the key features of the solution is that it has good reporting, you can receive many details from the connection, for example, clients and website information."
"I like that they have given me a solution at a fair price."
"This product is definitely scalable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the analytics."
"Whenever we raise a complaint with FortiGate, their response and resolution times are minimal."
"This product is affordable and it's a good, high-performance appliance."
"The pricing of the solution is good."
"The solution's initial setup process was very easy."
"It's a relatively simple product that is easy to use. It's not overly complex."
"GitDM, like FortiGate VM, provides similar features to FortiGate appliances or cloud solutions. However, FortiGate VM is more suitable for heavy traffic and inspection compared to GitDM. Unfortunately, FortiGate VM lacks a dedicated SPU for inspection, and all features rely on CPU and RAM."
"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."
"The most valuable features are the SD-WAN and the web filtering applications control."
"The configuration, graphical interface and command line are easy to use."
"I have found that Palo Alto Networks K2-Series has the best security. They are more user-friendly, older firewalls used to have to be configured using the command-line interface, but in this solution, it can be done in the GUI."
"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is its management abilities. Additionally, the updates are very good."
"The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is the performance which is above their competitors. The throughput they have delivered is good. When we used other solutions they failed the deployment when we were using different rules. They have a theory perform performance light and performance degradation. However, Palo Alto Networks K2-Series never fails in that scenario."
"Palo Alto firewalls are scalable enough. We have about 110 employees in our company, and we are about to expand to 130."
"This is a very reliable firewall and we have never had problems with it."
"The scalability of the product is quite high."
"Everything I could possibly want has already been implanted in the new version."
"The IPS system is the best in the field."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve the user interface. There should be more functionality and options through the GUI."
"FortiGate should have a better way of detecting and managing the system memory because otherwise if the memory is too low, a system restart is required."
"The logging details need to be improved."
"The license renewal process, annual renewal price, and the web application firewall features should be improved."
"I haven't had a single issue since using Fortinet."
"The user interface could be improved."
"The feature which gives us a lot of pain is ASIC architecture."
"If I had any criticism that I would give FortiGate, it would be that they need to stop changing their logging format. Every time we do a firmware upgrade, it is a massive issue on the SIM. Parsers have to be rebuilt. Even the FortiGate guys came in and said that they don't play well in the sandbox."
"It should have the SD-WAN feature. This would increase the number of features that are available in the box."
"New versions are complicated with a big configuration."
"We encountered scalability issues in IPSec Module. The tunnels freeze sometimes."
"FortiGate's application load balancing has to be improved. They need to improve a lot on the load balancing and RAF side. They are far behind Citrix in that regard."
"In terms of improvement, there have been some problems with the bandwidth of the security layer."
"The stability could be improved. I find Cisco to be more stable than Fortigate, which is I major differentiator between the two."
"The tech support calls were not the best and could be improved. There have been times when we felt as if we knew more about the device than the support person on the phone."
"The price is problematic."
"The password function of the solution could be improved. Additionally, some of the processes take too long to complete."
"Higher levels of support are excellent but new users may need additional options."
"I'd like to see more data protection on the system."
"Palo Alto doesn't have extended visibility to the end point in their firewalls."
"The licensing cost is a typical complaint with many clients. The solution is expensive."
"It would be nice if it could easily be integrated with Elasticsearch or Nagios."
"When it comes to renewing the solution, they tend to try to jack up the pricing."
"The technical support, and how they provide it to the client, needs to be improved."
Fortinet FortiGate-VM is ranked 9th in Firewalls with 113 reviews while Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is ranked 28th in Firewalls with 29 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate-VM is rated 8.4, while Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is rated 8.4. 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 Palo Alto Networks K2-Series writes "Easy to implement and manage, and the documentation is good". Fortinet FortiGate-VM is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Fortinet FortiOS, OPNsense and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Palo Alto Networks K2-Series is most compared with Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. See our Fortinet FortiGate-VM vs. Palo Alto Networks K2-Series report.
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In the best tradition of these questions, Feature-wise both are quite similar, but each has things it's better at, it kind of depends what you value most.
PA is good at app control, web filtering and such like, they have always been top of the pile there. The GUI is very good, and their product is very user-focused.
Fortinet is good for scalability and predictable high throughput (ASICs in the hardware), and useful things like authentication flexibility, CLI config (if you have any networking/Cisco people, they always seem to prefer CLI over GUI) and have better OT features, maybe relevant to your manufacturing use?
Fortinet seem to have a broader integration offering with their security fabric than PA do, plus they can do Fortinet-based wifi, switching, etc. Depends if you are prepared to go all-in with a single vendor.
Hi,
Both FT and PA have compelling features for large Enterprises. I would like to add a few good points about Fortinetwhich might be helpful ( from my 13 years of engagement with them as Distributor and Partner)
Fortinet:
Have higher throughput; which comes with competitive rates
Wide range of models to select to meet your requirement, without spending heavliy
Outstanding customer support and very active customer care team
Easly available skilled resources from the channel for deployment and post-implementation support
Regards
Abhilash
Hello. The question is what you are going to have as a result of application