We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiOS and Qualys VMDR based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The email protection and VPN features are the most valuable."
"It can expand easily."
"Using this product makes the VPN seamless and almost invisible to me in the sense that I don't have to think about it."
"One of the nice things about FortiGate is that it can be deployed on the cloud or on-premises. You can actually do both. That's the biggest reason why I stick with this solution as opposed to something like Cisco Meraki. Another nice thing is that I can log directly into a FortiGate or get to it through their FortiCloud access products. They're pretty reliable and consistent. One of the reasons why I started using the product was their single pane of management. I can deploy their line of firewalls in conjunction with their switching and access points, and I can manage the entire network from one interface. I don't have to log into one interface for the firewall, another one for the access points, and another one for the switches. These firewalls have access point controller functionality built right into the system, so I don't even have to purchase additional devices to manage them."
"The customization potential is quite impressive."
"The security features are about the best that I've seen anywhere."
"The solution can scale well."
"The simplicity of the product is great. It's very easy to use, which is a compliment we get all the time in terms of feedback."
"The classification of the websites is helpful."
"The initial setup is easy. It's the easiest firewall installation process on the market. I work with three or four other products and this one is the easiest."
"The VDOM (Virtual DOM) is a virtualized firewall that has some opportunities for flexibility that are an advantage in certain configurations."
"It has a lot of scalability abilities which makes it easy to scale."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiOS are its constant updates and definitions."
"For my organization, it has become much easier to scan the firewalls because the solution is more user-friendly than competitors."
"There are many useful features, such as web security and advanced threat detection."
"This is an easy means of setting up high-availabilty firewall protection."
"The solution is easy to use."
"I am impressed with the VMDR feature."
"I find the solution's dashboard interesting...The response time is fine. You can pull up reports without dragging or consuming bandwidth."
"Detects new hosts along with vulnerabilities."
"Qualys has a continuous endpoint monitoring feature for agent-based scanning. Once you deploy the solution, it monitors everything that is happening every 30 minutes. Then, if there are any vulnerabilities, they are reported."
"Technical support is fantastic."
"I like that we have many scanners and channels that don't overload. It helps us scan and track easily. Also, the tagging system is good for tagging. We can still use QualysAgent task ID tools even if tags aren't made."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the external channel."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having a frequent ask questions(FAQ) area for people to receive quick answers to popular questions. Additionally, it would be beneficial to have an SMS notification feature. For example, if you cannot access your email you could receive an SMS message."
"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."
"We would like to have the ability to disable some of the security functionalities."
"I could not configure sFlow from the FortiGate graphical user interface. I realized that the sFlow configuration is available only from the CLI, and discovered that sFlow is not supported on virtual interfaces, such as VDOM links, IPsec, or GRE."
"I need user-behavior analytics, to find threat scenarios from inside the organization, insider attacks. That would be very helpful for us. In addition, I would like next-generation features for small and medium businesses. These businesses require UTM, all in one product. Fortinet must include it."
"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."
"Technical support for this solution can be improved."
"It could use more templates for third-party site-to-site VPN setups other than FortiGate and Cisco."
"There is room for improvement in the reporting part. The reporting is only for logging data, and it's just a tabulation of the log in the report. I would like to be able to take down more information in the event of an incident."
"Fortinet FortiOS could improve by having better authentication methods with Microsoft or Google Services."
"Technical support could be better. Some competitors have much more responsive support teams."
"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 is stable. However, last month we had an issue with a released patch. We had to receive another update to fix the firewall issue consuming all of the resources. The patches should be tested more before going into circulation."
"The solution is good, but they have poor marketing in Nigeria. They need to market their product better."
"We had assistance from one person from our local vendor for the implementation."
"Lacks flexibility for different scenario configurations."
"One of the biggest issues from the clients' perspective is that all Qualys computing is on the cloud."
"I would like to see this solution simplified to work more easily in a multi-cloud environment."
"Qualys VMDR is basically susceptible to false positives, and false negatives."
"Qualys VM's vulnerability scan could be improved, especially the number of CVE numbers it can manage at a time."
"Some of the older features could be polished instead of focusing on releasing new features."
"Certain integration factors between different options could be improved."
"We are moving away from Qualys to Defender ATP because I find that Defender ATP is much better at prioritizing the vulnerabilities that I should be looking at."
"If anything, I would like to see the user interface modernized a bit more."
Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews while Qualys VMDR is ranked 3rd in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with 77 reviews. Fortinet FortiOS is rated 8.4, while Qualys VMDR 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 Qualys VMDR writes "Good visibility but expensive and needs better support". Fortinet FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiWeb, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection and Darktrace, whereas Qualys VMDR is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Tenable Security Center, Rapid7 InsightVM, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management and Tenable Vulnerability Management.
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