We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate SWG and Fortinet FortiProxy based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Fortinet FortiGate SWG has stable performance, features, and scalability. However, users note that it has some hidden CLI features, poor web and DMC features, limited reporting capabilities, and expensive pricing. Fortinet FortiProxy is praised for its ease of use and efficient performance but lacks documentation and guides.
"The most valuable features are the antivirus as a whole, the anti-malware, and all of the protection features that scan our enterprise devices."
"The protection offered by the product is the most valuable feature. It detects vulnerabilities or traps on our users' phones and then prompts them to clean up their devices. Tools we used previously would only discover, which required us to gather information on the backend, so Lookout is a welcome upgrade."
"The solution is stable."
"On the outside, the main differentiation is because Lookout ingest. They have ingested basically all of the apps for the last ten years and all the versions of all the apps, and we have that in a corporate database that allows us to do very large-scale machine learning and analysis on that data set. That's not something that any of the competitors really have the capability to do because they don't have access to the data set. A lot of the apps you can no longer get them because that version of the app is five or six years old, and it just doesn't exist anywhere anymore, except within our infrastructure. So, the ability to have that very rich dataset and learn from that dataset is a real differentiator."
"The performance is very good and the solution is simple to manage."
"FortiGate SWG's most valuable feature is integration with vulnerability management."
"Web filters, particularly web application controls, grant us the ability to regulate user access effectively."
"Customers keep on improving their licenses. The solution remains scalable and flexible. On-premises deployments may have some limitations. However, cloud deployments offer a high degree of flexibility."
"Fortinet FortiGate SWG's content is its most valuable feature."
"The product has the most valuable configuration, offloading, and security features."
"The pricing on offer is excellent."
"The product is highly stable."
"The solution's stability is good."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiProxy are its simplicity and performance."
"It seamlessly integrates with various security products, enhancing threat intelligence and improving indicators of compromise."
"It helps to secure the networks at the DNA level and ensure proper identification and filtering of DNS traffic."
"The tool's most valuable feature is traffic inspections."
"Lookout was moving into the SSE space. And so their work on SecureWeb Gateway and SD-WAN is still sort of evolving."
"From the analysis that we've done, they do seem to be maybe a step behind in trying to enter the market with a new solution. But when they do pick up, they do come out with some good products."
"The stability depends on the service from where you access it. Because sometimes, the place you are in, you have Gateway. You don't have Gateway. The gateway is overutilized. At the end, you need to go through their gateways. And this is the key point here. You have a tracking point. If it's not well orchestrated, and it scales up as you add more to the existing team, you will suffer"
"We just submitted an enhancement request reflecting the main area we want to see improvement in; the APIs. Currently, we're able to build dashboards, but it's somewhat backward because we use our MDM API to create them. Lookout should provide API to customers so we can query our data and use it in our cloud, and this is the only outstanding area for improvement with the product right now."
"It could always be more secure."
"What could be improved in Fortinet FortiGate SWG is its pricing because it's a bit higher. If it's cheaper, my company could pitch it to customers and engage with customers better about it. What I'd like to see in the next release of Fortinet FortiGate SWG is an improvement in its dashboard or GUI. I'd like it to be more user-friendly."
"Fortinet FortiGate SWG should be localised to specific regions to comply with local data privacy regulations because of the data privacy rules in the countries. In the Middle East, data organisation and KFA requirements are stringent."
"Fortinet FortiGate SWG can be expensive for some customers."
"Support could be improved."
"Integrating OpenVPN with FortiGate would provide a powerful combination of secure remote access and comprehensive network security."
"There's room for improvement in the interface, especially following their upgrade to version nineteen."
"Another issue is how deduplication services don't work reliably after enabling deduplication on Fortinet."
"For IT administrators and managers, the reporting features are the main issues that should be addressed in order to improve the performance, security, and effective utilization of the product."
"Fortinet FortiProxy should integrate AI/ML technologies. Its pricing needs to be more flexible."
"Its web filtering capabilities could be improved."
"Its power supply process for some of the proxies needs improvement."
"Fortinet FortiProxy should improve by adding more documentation and guides."
Fortinet FortiGate SWG is ranked 4th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 39 reviews while Fortinet FortiProxy is ranked 15th in Secure Web Gateways (SWG) with 5 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate SWG is rated 8.6, while Fortinet FortiProxy is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate SWG writes "Non-IT people could plug it in, connect it to the fiber, and get it running without IT help. ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiProxy writes "Comprehensive security services that require further improvement of web filtering capabilities". Fortinet FortiGate SWG is most compared with Cisco Umbrella, Sangfor Internet Access Gateway (IAG), Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway, Netskope Next Gen Secure Web Gateway and Axis Security, whereas Fortinet FortiProxy is most compared with Zscaler Internet Access, Forcepoint Secure Web Gateway, Cisco Web Security Appliance, Skyhigh Security and Cisco Umbrella. See our Fortinet FortiGate SWG vs. Fortinet FortiProxy report.
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