We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiOS and Vectra AI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."FortiGate is on the cheaper end, and it offers good value."
"The technical support is great."
"It's very good and very stable for businesses. It works very well."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, application control, IPS control, and FortiSandbox."
"It is very flexible to use."
"The features that prevent internet connections, the filtering are the most valuable because we did not have any internet protection before."
"Customers are more inclined towards FortiGate because of application control, web filtering, and anti-spam features. The support from the FortiGate team is good, and price-wise, it is affordable."
"I have found Fortinet FortiGate to be scalable."
"It is more robust than SonicWall, particularly on the VPN from site to site."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiOS are user-friendliness, ease of use, and threat prevention."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiOS is great."
"There are many useful features, such as web security and advanced threat detection."
"We have expanded the wireless access point and switches using Fortinet FortiOS."
"Performance-wise, I think FortiOS is much better than its Juniper counterpart. Based on our actual experience and performance metrics, FortiOS-based products are much better than Juniper."
"The user experience is great. The graphical user interface is also good."
"There are a lot of features that we like within the solution. The resources or performance of the firewall is very good. However, the real selling point is the fact that the solution offers so many features, it gives our clients a lot of extras that they can work with. There's a lot on offer."
"The UI is easy to use and when we send detection to everybody, they easily understand what we are asking at the time."
"Vectra AI can bring the ability to detect intrusion on the network more so than legacy IDS tools."
"We particularly like the user experience around the dashboard, which we find to be much more straightforward than the dashboard of some of the competitive products... Vectra is a really easy system to understand and use to prioritize where we need to focus our security resources."
"Cognito Streams gives you a detailed view of what happens in the network in the form of rich metadata. It is just a super easy way to capture network traffic for important protocols, giving us an advantage. This is very helpful on a day-to-day basis."
"The most valuable feature for Cognito Detect, the main solution, is that external IDS's create a lot of alerts. When I say a lot of alerts I really mean a lot of alerts. Vectra, on the other hand, contextualizes everything, reducing the number of alerts and pinpointing only the things of interest. This is a key feature for me. Because of this, a non-trained analyst can use it almost right away."
"One of the key advantages for us is we define a 24/7 service around it. We use far more of Vectra alerts than we do with our SIEM product because we understand that when we get an alert from Vectra we actually need to do something about it."
"Scalability wise, we have many sensors, and Vectra AI seems to handle them all very well."
"It has helped us to organize our security. We get a better overview on what is happening on the network, which has helped us get quicker responses to users. If we see malicious activity, then we can quickly take action on it. Previously, we weren't getting an overview as fast as we are now, so we can now provide a quicker response."
"The routing capability on the FortiGate devices has room for improvement."
"In the next release, I would like to see the interface simplified to be more user-friendly."
"The UTM filtering needs improvement."
"Fortinet FortiGate can be integrated with different platforms. They have integrations in place, but I can't say they're 100%."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by having more storage in the hardware for log data."
"The performance could be a bit better. Right now, I find it to be lacking. Having good performance is very important for our work."
"The process of configuring firewall rules appears excessively complex."
"It's my understanding that more of the current generation features could be brought in. There could be more integration with EDRs, for example."
"It could more scalable for the lower end users."
"Fortinet FortiOS's integration could be improved."
"Fortinet FortiOS can improve the monitoring function, it could be more accurate, easy to use, and understandable."
"In terms of what needs improvements, the troubleshooting could use improvement. When we work with other products like Cisco ASA, Palo Alto, and Check Point, we see a big difference in the troubleshooting. It's not easy to find a report."
"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."
"There is no flexibility."
"Fortinet FortiOS can improve by limiting the need for the CLI and GUI combination. The more functions they can have on the GUI and less on CLI would be helpful."
"I would like to see smaller and more frequent updates."
"ExtraHop has better features that seem more advantageous when compared to Vectra."
"Other alternatives, like Darktrace, have a fancier UI."
"I would like to see data processed onshore. Right now, the cloud components, like Office 365, must be processed on servers outside of Australia. I would like to see a future adoption of onshore processing."
"The false positives and the tuning side of it is something that could use improvement. But that could be from our side."
"Vectra is still limited to packet management. It's only monitoring packet exchanges. While it can see a lot of things, it can't see everything, depending on where it's deployed. It has its limits and that's why I still have my SIEM."
"The rules for threats are not always precise and Vectra AI should improve this."
"We are using SMB 3.0, which is an encrypted protocol. When we get some alerts or something, we cannot go deep into the protocol to see what's wrong because it's encrypted. We need to decrypt the protocol in another way, which is quite difficult. We might go back to SMB 2.0 just for this reason, but that's not a good solution."
"The solution has not reduced the security analyst workload in our organization because we still need to SIEM. Unfortunately, while Vectra, for us, is a brilliant tool for network investigations, giving wonderful visibility, it doesn't go the whole way to replace our SIEM that is needed for compliance. So, I still have the same amount of alerting and logging that I did before. It gives us more defined ability to see incidents, but it doesn't give us enough information to satisfy a PCI or 27001 audit."
Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews while Vectra AI is ranked 2nd in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 40 reviews. Fortinet FortiOS is rated 8.4, while Vectra AI is rated 8.6. 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 Vectra AI writes "Integrates well with other security solutions and provides good technical support". Fortinet FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiWeb, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection and Zyxel Unified Security Gateway, whereas Vectra AI is most compared with Darktrace, ExtraHop Reveal(x), Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Arista NDR and VMware NSX.
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