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."We can detect any attack of viruses or malware at the first point of contact."
"User-friendly and affordable security solution that's recommended for SMB customers. This solution has good technical support."
"The reporting you receive out of this appliance is excellent. You will not need an external management system."
"A strong point of FortiGate is the graphical interface is complete and easy to use."
"Overall, the pricing of the solution is very good. The product offers good value."
"Valuable features include the Web Application Firewall, and it even has DLP (data leak prevention)."
"The IPsec tunnels are very easily created, and quite interoperable with devices from other vendors."
"Web filtering and two-factor authentication are great features."
"The solution is very easy to set up. It doesn't take a lot of time and offers a quick deployment, so you can start using it almost right away."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"The solution integrates well with other Fortinet products."
"The most valuables features are the ease of use and deployment."
"Initial setup is very straightforward with a wizard, if needed."
"It's a very simple solution to manage."
"In spite of the solution being inexpensive, it has everything one would need."
"The dashboards are a good feature."
"This is a professional solution which has been the most valuable aspect of its use."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I don't get proper reports."
"Fortinet should focus on enhancing the capabilities of FortiGate by consolidating its various products, such as FortiGate Cloud, FortiManager, and FortiAnalyzer."
"In the next release, maybe the documentation on how to use this solution could be improved."
"Tunnel flapping was one of the major things I had seen wherein your internet link remains but your VPN tunnel is down. However, since I got a fix from the TAC team, I have not noticed it, but the customer complained a few times that they couldn't access the internet because of this problem."
"I would like to see improvements with the antivirus and IPS as they are not working properly all the time."
"Difficult to add or define, and not that easy to configure and manage."
"Some of the web policy reports could be improved."
"As far as wanting more scalability or things in the network diagram, it's going to cost you."
"The scalability feature of the solution has certain shortcomings, making it an area where improvements are required."
"FortiGate-VM could be improved by making it cloud-based. I'd like it to be a cloud-based management solution instead of just a dedicated management orchestration tool."
"The reporting is not as good as it is with other firewalls and it should be improved."
"There should be more options to use lower-end models in a high availability configuration."
"Fortinet could improve the availability and delivery of its products. It takes four to six weeks for every purchase to arrive."
"I have worked on some of the largest and smallest solutions that Fortinet sells and they all scale really well."
"The biggest area for improvement is storage configuration. It could be smoother."
"Price-wise, it could be slightly better, however, if you compared it to other makes and models of equal category, it is generally cheaper."
"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 Nozomi Networks and OPSWAT MetaDefender OT Security.
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