We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, and WatchGuard XTM [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."We use a southern institution that's audited for IT security and the reporting that automatically comes off the unit makes it much easier to meet compliance standards and makes it easier as far as the amount of time that has to be spent to compile that information. If you get your reporting set up correctly when you initially set it up, you just select the one you want and hit print. The auditing trail on it is the best feature."
"This solution made it very easy to manage our bandwidth."
"The performance is good."
"The solution is extremely reliable."
"The most useful functionality of Fortinet FortiGate is the user interface, multiple engines, and their cloud with the latest integrations. Additionally, the Security Fabric tool is very good."
"The VPN is the most valuable feature."
"I like how we can achieve total integration."
"The solution is very, very easy to use."
"The product is easy to implement."
"Fortinet is user-friendly."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate-VM are the servers, analyzer, and track protection."
"FortiGate is a nice and very good product."
"The solution offers good documentation."
"I've found the UTM features and the SD-WAN to be most valuable."
"The solution is very secure, and its technical support is on point."
"All the security features that are built into the product are valuable."
"SNMP status monitoring and the Central Management Software."
"We have used technical support for WatchGuard many times and overall, we are satisfied with it. They are always listening and there is a good reaction time to our findings. When there are issues, they really try to resolve them."
"There is a site-to-site VPN configuration between others people."
"They have a reporting system which can store data over a very long period of time. Not many other firewall vendors provide a reporting system, but if they do, like Fortinet does, then you've got buy that as an additional product and that can be more than twice as expensive as the initial investment in the firewall. And without reporting over a long-term period, you're just about wasting your time."
"I like the hostwatch because I can see what traffic uses the most bandwidth and I can block that site."
"It configures in all-in-one place."
"WatchGuard XTM is fairly basic. We use it as the perimeter firewall. The main point is to protect from attack software and hacking."
"Monitoring of network activity is included in the box."
"There could be more integration between the logging and analytical platforms to make it more seamless and integrated."
"FortiGate is really good. We have been using it for quite some time. Initially, when we started off, we had around 70 plus devices of FortiGate, but then Check Point and Palo Alto took over the place. From the product perspective, there are no issues, but from the account perspective, we have had issues. Fortinet's presence in our company is very less. I don't see any Fortinet account managers talking to us, and that presence has diluted in the last two and a half or three years. We have close to 1,500 firewalls. Out of these, 60% of firewalls are from Palo Alto, and a few firewalls are from Check Point. FortiGate firewalls are very less now. It is not because of the product; it is because of the relationship. I don't think they had a good relationship with us, and there was some kind of disconnect for a very long time. The relationship between their accounts team and my leadership team seems to be the reason for phasing out FortiGate."
"A lack of integration between our data centers."
"There are a lot of bugs I have found in the solution and it is difficult to upgrade. These areas need improvement."
"We would like to have the ability to disable some of the security functionalities."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I don't get proper reports."
"It's my understanding that more of the current generation features could be brought in. There could be more integration with EDRs, for example."
"There are problems with the custom reporting of the unique traffic. The data is there, but it is too difficult for us to extract."
"The GUI could be improved."
"We encountered scalability issues in IPSec Module. The tunnels freeze sometimes."
"The stability could be improved. I find Cisco to be more stable than Fortigate, which is I major differentiator between the two."
"The operating system isn't stable, so it goes to memory counters every night."
"Some issues with connecting to the VPN from home after firmware updates."
"The management tools should be more user-friendly."
"The tool is expensive."
"We have encountered certain issues with the bandwidth in respect of the security layer."
"The VPN errors are not helpful when troubleshooting."
"Sometimes we have had issues with stability of the product."
"The setting policies need improvement. It needs an easier way to do static NAT and check on what policy is being used for that specific traffic."
"One huge issue with WatchGuard XTM is that I'm not getting reports in a readable format. Readable means, I don't want Excel online. We repeat auditing when we trigger the report or setup calendar. That functionality is what we are looking for from WatchGuard XTM here."
"Syslog (Dimension) is focused on presentation, but needs more focus on utility like SonicWall syslog (GMS/Analyzer)."
"The initial setup is neither simple nor complex. If you know the base in networking and how the firewall works, you will be able to figure it out."
"WatchGuard doesn't have a product that allows them to get into the data center. And that's just because there is no hardware to do the job. The software could do it, but there's no hardware that allows that to happen at the moment. So it doesn't scale as well as some other products, that's for sure."
"I would like them to improve the product's overall protections. This would be good for all product users."
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