We performed a comparison between 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."The features that I have found most valuable are that it is good to use, and most importantly, the pricing. The customer especially likes the discount when they trade up or something like that."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the different types of profiling. It has been the most effective for me. The WAF and the antivirus profile are the most effective in network protection."
"The features that prevent internet connections, the filtering are the most valuable because we did not have any internet protection before."
"I like how we can achieve total integration."
"The interface is very good."
"The most valuable feature is the policy routing and application control."
"Unified Threat Management (UTM) features."
"I appreciate FortiGate's flexibility, which allows for centralized management through FortiManager."
"The user interface, stability, and scalability are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable feature is the UTM, which gives them an advantage over other firewalls."
"The most valuable feature is the WAN optimization."
"I find the simplicity to be most valuable."
"The dashboards are a good feature."
"We use it to ensure that our network is properly protected from viruses and malware."
"The user interface is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"It is very versatile."
"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 solution needs to improve its integration with cybersecurity."
"The sniffing packets or packet captures, can be simplified and improved because it's a little confusing."
"Fortinet needs more memory to save the log files. We need it to save the logs on the hardware and not in the cloud. I know this feature is available in FortiCloud, but if we need this log locally, it is not available."
"Its customer service could be better."
"There are SD-WAN network monitoring, SD-WAN features, Industrial Databases, Internet of Things, Detection, etc., however, we do have not licenses for those features. We thought that if you bought a product, you should have all of the features it offers. Why should you need to make so many extra purchases to enable features? They should have one price for the entire offering."
"One area for improvement is the performance on the bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"I think the only issue that needs improvement is the interface."
"Stability and technical support are the two major issues I have found with Fortinet."
"The product may not be as robust as Palo Alto. However, unless you are a big bank, you probably won't need it to be."
"The solution could use very well-defined support for resellers."
"Some issues with connecting to the VPN from home after firmware updates."
"The users must buy FortiSIEM to get advanced analytics."
"The solution is fairly complex."
"I have had a data issue with physical devices that could improve."
"We encountered scalability issues in IPSec Module. The tunnels freeze sometimes."
"They could simplify the troubleshooting process."
"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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Fortinet FortiGate-VM is ranked 9th in Firewalls with 113 reviews while McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls. Fortinet FortiGate-VM is rated 8.4, while McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] is rated 7.0. 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 McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] writes "For managing multiple MFE firewalls it is incredibly handy but it could be easier for customers to migrate from one version to another. ". Fortinet FortiGate-VM is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Fortinet FortiOS, OPNsense and Netgate pfSense, whereas McAfee Firewall Enterprise MFE [EOL] is most compared with .
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