We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate Cloud vs Fortinet Fortimanager based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: The solutions are similar. Users of both say deployment is easy, like that each products are highly stable and scalable, and have good experiences with technical support. Fortinet FortiGate Cloud users are happier with the pricing of the product than Fortinet Fortimanager users.
"The solution works well for remote or branch offices."
"It's user-friendly."
"The ability to manage everything from the cloud is going to be the most valuable by far with this solution."
"The most valuable features are management and integration."
"The most valuable feature is the inspection. It inspects before we have any traffic stops intrusion."
"I have found the SD-WAN, flexibility, and security the most valuable features."
"The intel we get from Fortinet is its most valuable aspect."
"FortiGate Cloud's most valuable feature is that it's 100% managed."
"A fully integrated solution."
"Technical support is great. When we have sent urgent tickets and they do reply back within fifteen minutes."
"It is easy to manage a huge number of devices with FortiManager."
"The features are good."
"FortiManager enables us to set unified firewall policies from one centralized dashboard, reducing human error. If you do not have a central dashboard, there's a chance you might set a policy on one firewall and forget to do it for another."
"The most valuable features are the centralized management of the firewalls."
"This solution enables you to centralize the rules and the configuration of all the equipment."
"It's a scalable product."
"When it comes to technical support, the problem we have found is that if an issue comes, it takes a day to get everything resolved. It could be faster. They can be better at optimizing how they answer tickets in terms of response times. There must be ways to make the process more streamlined. It would make it easier for their clients."
"It would be better for us if Fortinet provided a private cloud, and they should provide more security on the public cloud. There are some minor issues with security with the public cloud. For example, anyone with a link can access the public cloud."
"If more products convert their configuration to Fortinet configuration, it will be easy for migration."
"Lacks some security against external attacks."
"We've not seen any areas for improvement."
"Currently with the solution, if you want to manage more than one FortiGate you have to use a VM, and a VM can control up to 10."
"The licensing is a little bit confusing and needs to be improved."
"We need some integration or communication between the endpoint and the firewall."
"The reporting details have room for improvement."
"Within the management of some features on FortiManager, specifically the management of user objects used for VPN service, FortiManager is quite weak."
"The areas that need improvement are implemenation and support. In terms of implementation, it mainly needs clear documentation."
"We have experienced a series of minor bugs that necessitated contacted technical support on several occasions."
"I would like to be able to manage other products such as Endpoint and FortiAnalyzer through FortiManager. That is, the integration with other solutions needs to be improved."
"The fabric for integrations or connections could be improved."
"The solution has to be enhanced to manage new switches."
"It would be better if it were easier to run a routing protocol. In the next release, I would like them to enhance some features in the GUI rather than CLI or OSP. For example, whenever a customer generates an ISP directly on the firewall, it's complicated to configure the routing protocol."
Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is ranked 5th in Firewall Security Management with 57 reviews while Fortinet FortiManager is ranked 3rd in Network Management Applications with 61 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is rated 8.2, while Fortinet FortiManager is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate Cloud writes "Useful for routing and cloud security purposes but needs to incorporate XDR capabilities ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiManager writes "Easy to set up with good integration capabilities but we've had troubles when moving devices". Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is most compared with AWS Firewall Manager, Palo Alto Networks Panorama, FortiGate Cloud-Native Firewall (FortiGate CNF), Fortinet FortiPortal and ExtremeCloud IQ, whereas Fortinet FortiManager is most compared with Fortinet FortiOS, Cisco DNA Center, Zabbix, AlgoSec and Fortinet FortiWeb. See our Fortinet FortiGate Cloud vs. Fortinet FortiManager report.
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