We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiOS and Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."Reliability is the best feature. We faced some issues when we were setting it up, but the service, portal, and administration are good."
"The performance is good."
"It's a firewall that secures our internal network. I have been using it since 2013, and I find that most of the features are advanced, and very user friendly."
"The notable features that I have found most valuable are that it includes the antivirus, and also IPS, and even SD-WAN."
"It is easy to use and performs very well."
"The solution is stable."
"Whenever I need something, Fortinet improves and updates the software for me."
"Unified Threat Management (UTM) features."
"The SSL VPN is fee for use is most attractive."
"FortiGate as a product is very easy to configure."
"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."
"FortiOS' most valuable features are management, security, and easy updates with no downtime."
"I personally think the site-to-site VPN is the most useful feature. A lot of firewalls have that, but to me, that's one of the features that's essential."
"Their classification inside of that database of the various threats is typically very, very good."
"It has a lot of scalability abilities which makes it easy to scale."
"The most valuable feature of this solution would be the caching feature."
"Grid high availability technology ensured network reliability, resilient network services, failover, recovery, and seamless maintenance."
"Centralized management of DNS, DHCP, and IPAM helped us a lot in simplifying and automating the management of network and services."
"I like that Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection is one hundred percent good, performance-wise."
"The solution's user interface is very smooth compared to other products."
"The most valuable features of Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection are the services, DHCP, and debugging. Additionally, we can use APIs and ansible scripts."
"DHCP is a basic service, and they've been doing it for years, so it's mature and stable."
"It is a stable solution."
"The solution helps to identify and mitigate DNS attacks."
"The logging details need to be improved."
"I'm not sure if it's something that they already have or are developing something, however, we need some dedicated features for container security."
"Scalability is one of the disadvantages. When it comes to scalability, you have to actually change the box. If you want to upgrade it, you need to actually change the existing box and probably you take the system off to other sites."
"Bandwidth usage in reporting could be improved for Fortinet FortiGate."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve to be on par with its competitors, such as Palo Alto and Sophos. They are the market leaders. Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve its capabilities. However, we are happy with Fortinet FortiGate."
"From a reporting perspective, there's room for improvement. They're providing FortiAnalyzer through which one can get some enhancements, but the visibility and reporting still need slight improvement."
"There are problems with the custom reporting of the unique traffic. The data is there, but it is too difficult for us to extract."
"Maybe they could make some features more accessible, such as a way to translate directions between two networks that share the same subnets."
"It would be great if they can push the Microsoft updates through Fortinet OS and provide a centralized patch management system. They should also include the data loss prevention (DLP) and data leakage prevention features. They could also add network monitoring more effectively."
"Fortinet FortiOS can improve the monitoring function, it could be more accurate, easy to use, and understandable."
"The solution could improve the log retention and reports."
"There are some features for FortiGate using FortiOS that can only be enabled via a command line. These aren't very advanced features they have been part of FortiOS for quite some time but they still aren't accessible from the graphical user interface. It makes it a little bit harder than it should be for us to manage the solution. That's my main concern with the user interface. Another concern we have is some elements for the user interface, if they're not properly configured, it could lead to hardware and performance degradation."
"I would like to see smaller and more frequent updates."
"I want to see a better integration or a better integration with the endpoint protection or with EDR with the security life cycle."
"The support is not very good, but the product is stable so it is not so much of a problem."
"FortiOS's bandwidth and interface could be improved."
"The solution is expensive."
"They are not supporting high query logging. They have a very limited size for the syslog, so they are usually asking for external storage, external network, and integration in order to keep the syslog. If you are considering the high volume traffic of the carrier-grade, then the syslog will hold for around five to 10 minutes. This is not enough time and it is being rotated. This is the main issue and the main limitation that we face with them that they need to work on."
"Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection could be more user-friendly because you need knowledge if you want to use it. To handle the solution, you need to be a subject matter expert, so this is one area for improvement."
"There should be better alerts for when attacks are happening."
"They should release frequent updates for its on-premises version."
"The price could be reduced to improve the solution."
"The solution's logging could be improved."
"There needs to be more capabilities in order to configure the console itself instead of the user interface dashboard. Configuring the DNS or DHCP through the console instead of the GUI dashboard would be better."
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Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews while Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection is ranked 2nd in Domain Name System (DNS) Security with 12 reviews. Fortinet FortiOS is rated 8.4, while Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiOS writes "Provides effective filtering features, good stability but initial setup is moderately challenging". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection writes "Stable, with good performance, and has no issues, support-wise". Fortinet FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiWeb, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Darktrace and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection is most compared with Cisco Umbrella, F5 BIG-IP DNS, Palo Alto Networks DNS Security, Zscaler Internet Access and Darktrace.
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