We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, and SonicWall TZ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The most important features with FortiGate are the web filter and application controls. We can control our internet usage and use the web filter for application purposes."
"The wireless control is helpful."
"FortiGate Secure SD-WAN includes best-of-breed next-generation firewall (NGFW) security, SD-WAN, advanced routing, and WAN optimization capabilities, delivering a security-driven networking WAN edge transformation in a unified offering."
"FortiGate has a strong security topic which allows all of the Fortinet devices to communicate and share information which makes their security more powerful."
"Fortigate is very scalable to serve our customers' needs. We have scaled already from fifty to more than a hundred instances of Fortinet FortiGate. Around 20 staff are required for deployment and maintenance, mostly engineers."
"The threat prevention is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"The main benefit is the grouping of our security monitoring."
"The most valuable feature is the CLI."
"The main advantage of Palo Alto Networks VM-Series stems from the fact that you can access it with the help of cloud services."
"It allows us to see all our traffic to properly secure it and only allow what is needed through the firewall."
"It is nice to have a rock solid security platform that we can count on."
"It provides complete security posture from end-to-end. This has given us better visibility into what our security aspects are."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"In Palo Alto the most important feature is the App-ID."
"We use the product on our Azure network firewalls."
"It does exactly what it says on the tin. It is good for protecting the business from being compromised. Its port protection is very good."
"Good site categorization and application controls."
"The most common feature in the firewall, apart from that traditional firewall, would be the security services, like application control, URL filtering, Gateway Anti-Virus, and IPS protection. These are the essential features in the firewalls which I think, has to be enabled and properly used at every network infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature of SonicWall TZ is the double authentication, where it asks for one password and again asks for a four-digit code, which changes every 30 seconds."
"I find the security we are able to do with the policies to be valuable. The monitoring is valuable as well."
"We like the central interface and we like the security features. Additionally, we use SonicWall with VPN connectivity and we have had no problems with SonicWall all these years."
"The features that we have found most valuable in SonicWall TZ are the intrusion and brute force attack prevention."
"We like the unified threat management for defense-in-depth. We can terminate our site-to-site and remote access VPNs with it."
"They should offer special pricing to premium partners and customers."
"They should improve the interface to make it more user-friendly."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"I'm not sure if it's something that they already have or are developing something, however, we need some dedicated features for container security."
"Quality control on their firmware versions needs improvement. When they introduce new firmware, there tend to be bugs."
"I would like to see more advanced developments of a wireless controller in the future."
"It can be a little bit more user-friendly in terms of policy definition and implementation. It seems a little bit complicated, and it could be simplified."
"Web security solutions can be improved."
"The product's AIOps process needs improvement."
"Just sometimes it can be a bit sluggish navigating through pages. That is just purely because of Java."
"In the next release, I would like to see better integration of multi-factor authentication vendors."
"The product needs improvement in their Secure Access Service Edge."
"It would be helpful if we had a direct number for the support manager or the supporting engineer. That would be better than having to email every time because there would be less wait."
"I would like to see a more thorough QA process. We have had some difficulties from bugs in releases."
"All areas need improvement: manufacturing, education, financial, etc."
"The user interface could use some improvement."
"The solution has lost the trust of its customers because of moving from one company to another."
"The log sections could be done more clearly."
"User interface could be improved."
"In an upcoming release, SonicWall could improve by adding cloud management for all devices for free or at a nominal cost. Currently, they have a cloud management platform but is not free. We have the MySonicWall portal for purchasing from them for software updates and renewals."
"GUI interface could be improved."
"The VPN that is available in the new version is a bit bulky and slower in speed."
"The areas we would like to see improvement include more features available similar to the equivalent FortiGate appliance, e.g. SSL encryption and inspection. Two-factor authentication capability would be another additional feature that could be included in the next release."
"I would like to see a SonicWall integration with the DLP tool, this would be interesting. Data Loss Prevention integration."