We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiClient and Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Infrastructure VPN solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's an ideal gateway solution for small and medium businesses, i.e., around 300 devices can be easily handled."
"The solution has good performance."
"The most valuable features are malware detection, integrates well with other solutions, and ease of use for all users."
"The setup for FortiClient is really straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiClient is dual authentication and the VPN is secure."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its integration capabilities. The processing is fast and the reporting is also very good."
"Compared to other similar solutions, it is faster in connecting."
"FortiClient has good signatures, good protection and, up until recently, it integrated really well with our firewall."
"The EMS server gives us good control and central management."
"FortiClient's most valuable features are that it's easy to install and connect and has OTP on email IDs and two-factor authentication."
"Prisma Access protects all app traffic, so that users can gain access to all apps and that's very important because we need to be able to access everything. It also allows us to access non-web apps; anything internal that we need access to, we can access."
"It is geographically dispersed, and it sits on top of Google and AWS platforms. Therefore, you don't face the standard issues, such as latency or bandwidth issues, that you usually face in the case of on-prem data centers."
"The tool's consolidation is pretty quick."
"The stacked policies, event policies, and routing policies are easy to understand for someone with general knowledge."
"Its frontend is user-friendly. It is easy to use for us."
"The most valuable feature of Prisma Cloud-native, in my opinion, is that it assists in identifying, analyzing, and remediating vulnerabilities."
"Prisma SaaS is very easy to use; it's common sense — it's the best-in-class."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"The solution has some issues with stability on the user side."
"Fortinet FortiClient should improve its visibility of the consumption of traffic and end-user action, which is very low."
"The user interface on the central server could be improved."
"It would be interesting if the solution offered a way to try to investigate and create a use case to trace vectors."
"As far as I can tell, the solution only has one single function, so they could expand its functionality."
"The documentation could be improved."
"There is lagging in some of the authentication tools to support the newer versions, this is happening because they are not supported."
"FortiClient is not communicating with the new version of the firewall."
"I would like the solution to support a different type of authentication. We can't configure a secondary method for our portal."
"Prisma's integration between operational technology and IT should be more seamless. Right now, it requires additional setup and maintenance."
"Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks should consolidate the portals into a single portal. It is slow and takes more than ten seconds to load a page."
"I would like to see support for custom applications."
"The Cloud Management application has room for improvement. There are a lot of things on the roadmap for that application; things are going to happen soon."
"Its security is good. Everything is good, but the way the dashboard responds can be improved. It takes time to implement a policy. If you change only two or three lines and push the policy to make the change work, it takes 20 to 30 minutes even for a small change. That is something very irritating from the implementation perspective."
"Palo Alto Prisma 10 came out over a year ago. Palo Alto added this identity management feature. The legacy way Palo Alto selected which user is sitting on an IP address it passes through has been clunky."
"They can add some new characteristics. For example, when an incident triggers, they can automatically send a template for a particular match that is related to the policy. We don't have that right now. It is something to improve. There could be more automation for certain actions. For example, for a particular group, it can send an administrator alert to their manager. It was one of the concerns of our customers."
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Fortinet FortiClient is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 86 reviews while Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks is ranked 5th in Enterprise Infrastructure VPN with 58 reviews. Fortinet FortiClient is rated 8.0, while Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiClient writes "Easy to set up and user-friendly with good support ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks writes "Integration with Palo Alto platforms such as Cortex Data Lake and Autofocus gives us visibility into our attack surface". Fortinet FortiClient is most compared with OpenVPN Access Server, Fortinet FortiEDR, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Azure VPN Gateway and ESET Endpoint Protection Platform, whereas Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks is most compared with Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, Netskope , Cisco Umbrella, Zscaler Internet Access and Microsoft Intune. See our Fortinet FortiClient vs. Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks report.
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