We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate and Waterfall Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."Offers good security and filtering."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ability to work in proxy mode, which other solutions, such as Palo Alto cannot. There are some features that are better that come at no extra license or subscriptions cost, such as basic SD-WAN. The DLT is useful, other solutions have the same feature too, such as Palo Alto."
"Mainly the FortiGate reporting system is very good. It guides us through all the expectations of security. Fortinet provides us all that we need for security. Also, Fortinet FortiGate is a next-generation firewall. It is much more advanced than others."
"Reliability is the best feature. We faced some issues when we were setting it up, but the service, portal, and administration are good."
"It is useful for protecting and segregating the internal networks from the internet. Most of our customers also use the FortiGate client to connect to their offices by using the VPN client, and of course, they usually activate the antivirus, deep inspection, and intrusion prevention services. They are also using it for web filtering and implementing various policies dealing with forwardings, NAT, etc."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are it is one of the most mature firewalls in the UTM bundle."
"The most valuable feature is the web filter."
"The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is good."
"This is a professional solution which has been the most valuable aspect of its use."
"The search tool needs improvement. It's very difficult to search for policies right now."
"Its filtering is sometimes too precise or strict. We sometimes have to bypass and authorize some of the sites, but they get blocked. We know that they are trusted sites, but they are blocked, and we don't know why."
"The solution lacks sufficient filtering."
"Technical support is good but the response time could be faster."
"They need to improve their technical support."
"Improvement is needed in the Web Filter quotas to restrict users with allocated quotas."
"There are a lot of bugs I have found in the solution and it is difficult to upgrade. These areas need improvement."
"Fortinet needs more memory to save the log files. We need it to save the logs on the hardware and not in the cloud. I know this feature is available in FortiCloud, but if we need this log locally, it is not available."
"The interface of this solution could be more user friendly. The initial set up could also be made more simple."
Fortinet FortiGate is ranked 2nd in Firewalls with 306 reviews while Waterfall Security is ranked 5th in Operational Technology (OT) Security with 1 review. Fortinet FortiGate is rated 8.4, while Waterfall Security is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate writes "It's a reliable solution that's easy to install and cheaper than competitors ". 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 is most compared with Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX and WatchGuard Firebox, whereas Waterfall Security is most compared with Nozomi Networks and OPSWAT MetaDefender OT Security.
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