We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate, and Fortinet FortiGate-VM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."Inbound and outbound traffic analysis, rule creation wizard, and the GUI portal are among the key features."
"The solution is stable."
"One of the big benefits of the product is that it allows you to manage big environments with fewer resources."
"The ability to be deployed and supported remotely is valuable."
"The antivirus protection or malware protection has been great."
"The most valuable feature for us is the ability to offer firewall support to our clients."
"It provides a lot of functionality adhering to the current trends."
"The encryption and the security standards are valuable."
"FortiGate is very simple to manage and easy to use."
"It's inexpensive compared to some of the other technology out there."
"The secure web gateway module and the application control module are valuable. HA operations are very easy."
"Their proxy-based inspection is responsive and secure."
"Our project needs to link two sides through the internet. One of these was in Cairo and the other in another city. We used FortiGate as the integrating solution between the two locations, i.e. the Fortinet 30E & 100E."
"The security features are about the best that I've seen anywhere."
"I only deal with it from a security analyst's point of view. I don't really get into the features of the actual FortiGate. From the security point of view, it works, and it does its job."
"Fortinet FortiGate's reliability is valuable."
"It’s easy to integrate the solution with our network infrastructure."
"The web GUI is easy to use."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"The IPS module is my favorite because of the security advantage reached with a few clicks and its automatic updates."
"The pricing of the solution is good."
"The most valuable features are network security, VLAN, network protection, and encryption are very valuable to us."
"The VM it's very quick for deployment. If we need to have a POC for a customer, if we don't have any hardware physically at our premises, at our store, in our office, we can download the VM from Fortinet and install all the VM to their environment in order to run it. If we have a customer that says "let's start tomorrow" we are able to do that in a way that's not possible with a hardware version."
"There is an interesting possibility of building a tunnel to a firewall from access points. We use this feature for small branch offices with one to two employees with access to central RDP servers."
"We would like to see a solution that is focused on container deployment, which is very important right now."
"The biggest issue that I have with this solution is that it is not super intuitive. Once you know what to do, things make sense, but you can't just open the program and start doing things. It would be great if there was a little bit more guided usage inside the program."
"I would like to see the connection improved."
"It's a little bit complex in terms of handling. If you implement a change, there is a specific point where you have to commit it. It's not like you just push a button and it's always committed. If you don't know to check whether your commit command has been executed or not... that is something Barracuda needs to work on."
"The technical manuals, at times, have images that don't match the actual screens and are not always as clear as they could be on the configuration."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly dashboard and an easier interface."
"The price is a bit higher than other vendors."
"The interface should be more user-friendly and it should be easier to configure."
"The ease of use could be improved."
"I don't really have anything negative to say as far as Fortinet firewalls are concerned. If anything, they can support a user a little bit better. They can stop being so time-sensitive about how much time the support call has taken, and they can help you do it yourself."
"I would suggest that Fortinet add sandboxing to their solution."
"The routing capability on the FortiGate devices has room for improvement."
"The stability of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"One issue that I have had is that sometimes I need to monitor the traffic, so I need to filter it according to the user and which user is using it the most. I experience a bottleneck most of the time, particularly at the peak time when the number of contracts and users are at maximum."
"I would like to see better pricing in the next release, as well as a simplification of the installation."
"The solution could have licensing fees reduced in the future."
"The pricing is expensive."
"The user interface (UI) and the performance of interface both need improvement."
"It has a monitoring tool, but it could be improved."
"Price-wise, it could be slightly better, however, if you compared it to other makes and models of equal category, it is generally cheaper."
"With FortiGate, we sometimes encounter bugs in various operating systems."
"The price and licensing of the solution can be better."
"It is a very good product, and it is good at standing by itself. It can maybe have a little bit of integration with other products, but it is not that important for most use cases."
"The tool is expensive."