We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, and McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."I like how we can achieve total integration."
"The web tutor and automatic rules by schedule are good features."
"The solution is scalable."
"It's a firewall that secures our internal network. I have been using it since 2013, and I find that most of the features are advanced, and very user friendly."
"The next-generation firewall is great."
"The features that prevent internet connections, the filtering are the most valuable because we did not have any internet protection before."
"The payment function for applications is good."
"The web filtering facility and application control are the most valuable features from the point of view of our clients. The VPN feature is also quite popular amongst our clients. Two-factor authentication is one of the good features in Fortinet. These features are important for the current scenario of security. Security has become a necessity nowadays. With cyber-attacks becoming more common, protecting an organization's data is one of the major tasks. It is also very stable and scalable, and it is very straightforward to configure. Their technical support is also good."
"The product is easy to implement."
"This product is affordable and it's a good, high-performance appliance."
"It is very useful to make lists for rules and prepare firewall rules."
"It handles our current load with ease, and I think it can handle a bit more. It definitely can handle a lot more capacity than we currently use."
"Fortinet FortiGate-VM is purpose-built as a next-generation firewall, excelling in its performance of this specific function."
"The most valuable features are network security, VLAN, network protection, and encryption are very valuable to us."
"The most valuable features are site-to-site connections and UTM."
"An enhanced security solution for any kind of alert that we have configured."
"It does give certain protection for everything that is well configured on our McAfee server. We have good protection with it. If we could find a feature and make it work, it would work perfectly, there would be no bugs, and it would be really good."
"The reports are very basic."
"The Wi-Fi controller needs a lot of improvement."
"The inability to scale the FortiAnalyzer to match our growth necessitates the purchase of new hardware."
"Technical support is good but the response time could be faster."
"They have to just improve its performance when we enable all UTM features. When you enable all the features, the performance of FortiGate, as well as of Sophos and SonicWall, goes down."
"The monitor and the visibility, in this proxy, is very weak."
"Fortinet Fortigate could benefit by simplifying some of their processes."
"Technical support for this solution can be improved."
"Data backup functionality could be included in the product."
"Web filtering is a feature that needs some improvement. There should be some additional features to allow active users to change their own passwords."
"his is not a good solution for enterprises. It's better for smaller companies."
"It is difficult to size the VM in terms of machine resources, and for this reason, clients prefer the appliance."
"The stability of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The users must buy FortiSIEM to get advanced analytics."
"In the next release, we would like to see full integration with VMware NSX virtualized networks."
"FortiGate should be more customer friendly and budgeted better."
"Customer support and AV are both lacking and are really hard to come to you when the product is installed. Those are the two major points that they need to work on."
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