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.
"We have found the most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate Cloud are the firewall and the VPN connection manager. I am not worried about any cyber attacks, the solution is secure and I receive daily summary reports."
"The template will save time from being wasted on load balancing."
"We use the solution as a firewall."
"It covers all needs of our customers and works well. It is also easy to deploy and troubleshoot."
"Our customers implement this solution so that they can be assured of security in their environment."
"It's quite easy to use, and it's easy to find the necessary information from the web."
"It's user-friendly."
"FortiGate Cloud has many features that we like. For example, we're using it for security incident management, threat intelligence, and vulnerabilities check. It's integrated with several Fortinet tools like FortiAnalyzer and FortiSandbox controlled through FortiManager."
"It is stable."
"It has multiple features in one box, which helps to avoid needing a lot of equipment. This is something that makes them unique."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiManager is the ease of manageability and policy-pushing functionality."
"The solution is very stable."
"I pushed templates from FortiManager to our site, and they were deployed successfully."
"It makes management very easy."
"The user interface is very easy to navigate."
"I appreciate the ability to connect via SSH through Fortinet FortiManager to the FortiGates I manage. This feature allows me to gather information about the interfaces without having to physically connect to the device. This is a convenient aspect that I find valuable."
"When we're upgrading, it's sometimes quite challenging, especially firmware. We usually don't upgrade unless we have a bug, and we still feel it's not safe to react instead of being proactive. We often have some delays when updating FortiGuard, too."
"The console or demonstration tool could be more user friendly."
"It would be much better if Fortinet FortiGate Cloud allowed third-party integrations like multi factor-authentication."
"There are European and US clouds and sometimes we mix them up. The solution should make determining the clouds more clear, or make one cloud instead of having separate ones."
"The licensing is a little bit confusing and needs to be improved."
"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."
"We need some integration or communication between the endpoint and the firewall."
"The product is not recommended on the basis of technical parameters. It is very tough to authenticate."
"We have experienced a series of minor bugs that necessitated contacted technical support on several occasions."
"Areas for improvement in Fortinet FortiManager are scalability and stability."
"I didn't like the connectivity with FortiManager and FortiSwitch, which was buggy and annoying and had fewer features."
"FortiManager would be improved by putting everything into a single console, including Microsoft O365 integration."
"The solution could improve by having better integration with other solutions other than Fortinet."
"The information extraction through command lines was could improve to some extent. Although there were some command lines available, there were not enough options. For instance, I needed to obtain the management IP address of my two Fortigates, but the Fortinet FortiManager did not provide me with the IP address on the LAN interface. I attempted to find this information through the command line but was unsuccessful. I also searched for articles on the internet, but could not find a solution. This is an aspect that could be improved or potentially there is a method to access this information that I have yet to discover."
"Troubleshooting for Fortinet products is more difficult than competing products like Cisco and Palo Alto."
"The price is a bit too high."
Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is ranked 5th in Firewall Security Management with 55 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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