We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate-VM and Waterfall Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The features that I have found most valuable are that it is good to use, and most importantly, the pricing. The customer especially likes the discount when they trade up or something like that."
"The inspection and web security features are most valuable."
"Centralized monitoring, policy management, and virtualized appliances allow us to take control over our public and private infrastructure."
"FortiGate has a strong security topic which allows all of the Fortinet devices to communicate and share information which makes their security more powerful."
"Easy to use support and licensing portal as well as activation process."
"The signature database and zero-day detection are Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a security device. It can optimize security on the networks of a company. It actually protects the company from attacks from outside. With FortiGate, you can categorize the users. You can create a group of users that can access all of the websites for their work. You can limit other users' access."
"I really like the captive portal feature for our guest network. It has nice VLAN features in terms of separating our network. The anti-virus is also good."
"FortiGate-VM has many valuable features: it's easy to use, it's intuitive, it's got very good traffic inspection features, it's got comprehensive filtering categories, and it has an extensive threat database, using FortiGuard."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate-VM are the servers, analyzer, and track protection."
"The most valuable feature is the WAN optimization."
"The functionality provided is very good."
"The initial setup was quite straightforward."
"The most valuable features are the IPS and Antivirus."
"This product is affordable and it's a good, high-performance appliance."
"The solution can scale well."
"This is a professional solution which has been the most valuable aspect of its use."
"It could use more templates for third-party site-to-site VPN setups other than FortiGate and Cisco."
"The monitor and the visibility, in this proxy, is very weak."
"The reports are very basic."
"In some cases, its initial setup could be hard for customers."
"Application management can be improved."
"It does not have key authentication for admin access."
"The logging details need to be improved."
"The routing capability on the FortiGate devices has room for improvement."
"Their offering for MFA isn't the cleanest."
"The price and licensing of the solution can be better."
"They should keep us up to date about the latest version. That's the biggest thing. Currently, we have to go looking for the latest version. We should get notified about what's going on with the versions. I would like to see easier dual-factor authentication."
"In terms of improvement, there have been some problems with the bandwidth of the security layer."
"VM should be more optimized."
"FortiGate's application load balancing has to be improved. They need to improve a lot on the load balancing and RAF side. They are far behind Citrix in that regard."
"Right now, we have two data centers that are a thousand kilometers apart. It would be nice to be able to string them together."
"Some issues with connecting to the VPN from home after firmware updates."
"The interface of this solution could be more user friendly. The initial set up could also be made more simple."
Fortinet FortiGate-VM is ranked 9th in Firewalls with 113 reviews while Waterfall Security is ranked 5th in Operational Technology (OT) Security with 1 review. Fortinet FortiGate-VM is rated 8.4, while Waterfall Security is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate-VM writes "An easy-to-manage and configure tool that provides ample documentation to help with the setup phase". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Waterfall Security writes "Cyber security solution used for data transmission that requires training to make use of all of its powerful features". Fortinet FortiGate-VM is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Fortinet FortiOS, OPNsense and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Waterfall Security is most compared with OPSWAT MetaDefender OT Security and Nozomi Networks.
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