We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiManager and Fortinet FortiOS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Fortinet, Broadcom and others in Network Management Applications."The firewall configuration has more capabilities than the other firewall management systems that I have worked with."
"The firmware version upgrades are the most valuable feature."
"It is stable."
"We look at the traffic to segment the network and it improves and increases the performance. When we have a mobile connection and local laptops are on the same network. We have seen a big performance upgrade."
"Stability is good within the product."
"The capability of centralized management is valuable. We can configure all firewall boxes with the same configuration."
"Technical support is great. When we have sent urgent tickets and they do reply back within fifteen minutes."
"FortiManager's most valuable feature is central management."
"FortiOS's best features are its function as an internet gateway and how easy it is to manage."
"Fortinet FortiOS's valuable features include intuitive policy creation and deployment, precise parameter settings to determine thresholds, and security profiles such as web filtering and remote application filtering, among others."
"I am satisfied with Fortinet FortiOS. It's a cool product and has a lot of UTM features. It has application control, web filtering, antivirus, IPS/IDS, DNS filtering, and many things in that firewall. It also has a web application firewall WAF feature. On the feature side, it's a good firewall."
"The most valuable features are the ease of use, and the overall simplicity, everyone can use it with a small introduction."
"FortiOS's most valuable feature is a next-generation firewall that can be used as the APT solution in advanced threat protection."
"The VDOM (Virtual DOM) is a virtualized firewall that has some opportunities for flexibility that are an advantage in certain configurations."
"There are many useful features, such as web security and advanced threat detection."
"The solution constantly adds features that are useful and user-friendly such as the ability to tweak firewalls through the CLI."
"FortiManager could improve by making it easier to port larger policy packages to the FortiGate firewalls. Sometimes, there's an issue when we install a big package of policies. If you have a couple thousand policies for FortiGate firewalls, it can take a few minutes to receive a response from the remote devices. It's only an issue when you're dealing with thousands of policies and installing them on a large number of devices."
"The GUI is not ideal."
"The price always has room for improvement."
"The FortiManager is more complex and they can make it easier to use the VPN manager. All other features are okay. However, the VPN manager is more difficult and can cause some issues in the environment, if you do not have the experience to use it."
"Pricing-wise, it could always be less, even though it is less expensive than Palo Alto."
"Having FortiManager work with all of the Fortinet products would be a good improvement."
"When I started, it was a bit difficult, however, now it's okay. It can be a bit complex for basic users."
"Their EDR products could be better. They need to dedicate more R&D to that area."
"The solution is good, but they have poor marketing in Nigeria. They need to market their product better."
"There are some issues with the performance. We also had some issues while updating the firmware."
"I would like to see fewer bugs. If you use the box with its basic features, the solution is straightforward and stable, but you can run into bugs when using newer features or in more complex use cases. They included a DNS filter as a new feature, and I had issues that required raising a ticket with customer support."
"The support could be improved, Fortinet's response time is very slow. Setting up the VPN could be made much easier, especially when deployed with Azure."
"The solution's graphic interface could be a bit more responsive and include notations when changes are made."
"The product needs a feature that allows users to create another site on a VPN."
"For me, it is important to be able to block VPN applications, like Facebook, so I would like to see that included in the next release. With this version, if you want to block or allow a site, you now have to drag all the domains related to this site."
"The signature discs, compared to Palo Alto, aren't as good. It takes more time to get the signature updates."
Fortinet FortiManager is ranked 3rd in Network Management Applications with 61 reviews while Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews. Fortinet FortiManager is rated 8.0, while Fortinet FortiOS is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiManager writes "Easy to set up with good integration capabilities but we've had troubles when moving devices". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiOS writes "Provides effective filtering features, good stability but initial setup is moderately challenging". Fortinet FortiManager is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Cisco DNA Center, Zabbix, AlgoSec and Fortinet FortiWeb, whereas Fortinet FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Fortinet FortiWeb, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection and Darktrace.
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