We performed a comparison between Cato SASE Cloud Platform and Fortinet FortiGate based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product is efficient and easy to use."
"The WAN aggregation feature is the most valuable."
"It's a pretty straightforward solution."
"We appreciate the optimization and acceleration of the performance of SDP users."
"It is quite simple and easy to use."
"Cato offers all the functionality found in other solution. The life cycle management is always very stable."
"I haven't had any trouble, and practically forget that I'm using it."
"The most valuable feature of Cato Networks is the CASB and the documentation is useful."
"Good load balancing feature."
"Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features are ease of use, flexibility, and most of the configuration we can be done using the GUI. When we compare Fortinet FortiGate with other solutions the firewall policy are very easy to understand."
"The solution is highly scalable because they have devices that can handle a large amount of traffic."
"Unified Threat Management (UTM) features."
"Centralized monitoring, policy management, and virtualized appliances allow us to take control over our public and private infrastructure."
"The interface is very user-friendly and I like it very much."
"The reporting and monitoring are very good."
"Fortinet FortiGate's ease of management is the most valuable feature."
"There's no principal in Malaysia, only a distributor."
"They can't do one-to-one NAT (Network Address Translation) in AP (their access point), and that is something that Palo Alto can do."
"The solution could be made more user friendly for the administrator to use the portal. It is difficult to use it for people who are not experienced with Cato Networks."
"The product may be complex for users with few years of experience."
"The price could be better."
"Its functionality is a bit limited in some areas as compared to a Cisco solution. It is not as granular. It doesn't have the manageability, feature set, and capabilities of a larger or an enterprise-level solution. It just needs a more robust feature set and granularity."
"The solution is not cheap."
"The different languages in the user interface should be enhanced."
"The Web-filter in this solution is not very good."
"Currently, without the additional reporting module, we only have access to basic reporting."
"They should offer special pricing to premium partners and customers."
"The cloud management and automation capability could be improved."
"FortiOS is not simple."
"Web security solutions can be improved."
"For the migration, everyone has a firewall in use and I am selling Fortinet. Typically, I am replacing another firewall. Previously, there was a tool available to convert configurations from one firewall, such as Palo Alto, to Fortinet, but this tool is no longer free. If it could be made free again, it would be very beneficial."
"It is quite new for us, and we need to go more in-depth into the monitoring tools. It provides different features that we need to do what we want. So far, it is okay for us. In terms of improvement, in the future, they can provide a faster implementation of features. Some of the features are first available in other solutions. Fortinet sometimes takes a little bit longer than other solutions, such as Check Point, to implement new features."
Cato SASE Cloud Platform is ranked 5th in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 22 reviews while Fortinet FortiGate is ranked 2nd in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 306 reviews. Cato SASE Cloud Platform is rated 8.8, while Fortinet FortiGate is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cato SASE Cloud Platform writes "Useful remote worker VPN, centralized management, and simple on-boarding process". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate writes "It's a reliable solution that's easy to install and cheaper than competitors ". Cato SASE Cloud Platform is most compared with Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Cisco SD-WAN, VMware SD-WAN and Harmony SASE (formerly Perimeter 81), whereas Fortinet FortiGate is most compared with Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX and WatchGuard Firebox. See our Cato SASE Cloud Platform vs. Fortinet FortiGate report.
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