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We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiDDoS and Illumio based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"The product allows the users to adjust the thresholds.""It allows me to see all the traffic on my network.""It is a user-friendly product in terms of monitoring and updating policies.""The most valuable feature is the cloud DDoS scrubbing capability.""We have researched them all, and it's a good solution all around.""The solution is very user-friendly and very easy to use.""The solution already has security profiles and it can protect from DDoS attacks and other kinds of attacks.""This solution can protect Layer 3, Layer 4 and Layer 7 attacks of applications for us."

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"The features that I have found most useful is the ability to centralize all the rules and then distribute them across various locations. However, I've encountered challenges related to tagging policies, which can be complex to devise. It's a matter that requires careful consideration and stakeholder involvement before implementing such policies.""The solution helps to maintain logs and monitor activities. It also helps us with access management. The tool helps us to secure organizational data that include files.""The solution is easy to use.""The most valuable feature of Illumio Adaptive Security Platform is monitoring. When I have no requirement from the other application, I can use the web block traffic to build.""The Explorer allows you to know the traffic between source and destination.""The product provides visibility into how the applications communicate and how the network protocols are being used.""The flexibility of the solution is its most valuable feature.""It has helped us to understand internal network visibility and firewall policy implementation. We use the product to simplify firewall policy implementation."

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Cons
"Alerts and reporting features must be improved.""There aren't really any aspects of the solution we are unhappy with. It's been a positive experience overall.""All the thresholds that need to be configured should be included in the default so that user will not forget or misconfigure.""The primary area for improvement is the on-premises capacity limit, currently fixed at 10 GB.""The web interface could be much better.""I would like to see analytics, big data.""The only thing they need to do is to automate it. Today, you must create tools that do not require the use of an expert or anyone with special skills.""The tool needs to focus more on the area of application traffic management, where it currently has some shortcomings."

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"The product’s agents don't work very well in OT environments.""The solution is very basic and doesn't do anything other than the orchestration of layer four endpoint firewall rules.""Some of the features that can be improved is offer additional guidance on creating an effective and risk-free tagging policy would be highly beneficial.""Illumio Adaptive Security Platform could improve by supporting more operating systems. For example, Cisco and Apache appliances.""It requires a low-level re-architecting of the product.""The interaction we've had with the support team hasn't been ideal. Technical support should be improved.""The customer service is lagging a bit. It could be better.""I would like to see better data security in the product."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "It's quite pricey."
  • "The solution is reasonably priced."
  • "The product’s pricing needs improvement."
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  • "There is a subscription needed to use Illumio Adaptive Security Platform and we pay every three years. Overall the solution is expensive."
  • "The product's pricing is around 10,000-15,000 USD. The pricing is on a yearly basis."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Arbor would be the best bid, apart from Arbor, Palo Alto and Fortinet have good solutions. As this is an ISP, I would prefer Arbor.
    Top Answer:The product's initial setup phase was really easy.
    Top Answer:The pricing for FortiDDoS was on the expensive side for us, and the scalability options were limited. When upgrading from 10 GB to 20 GB, the process involved replacing the entire box rather than a… more »
    Top Answer:The features that I have found most useful is the ability to centralize all the rules and then distribute them across various locations. However, I've encountered challenges related to tagging… more »
    Top Answer:The product's pricing is around 10,000-15,000 USD. The pricing is on a yearly basis.
    Top Answer:Some of the features that can be improved is offer additional guidance on creating an effective and risk-free tagging policy would be highly beneficial.
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    Also Known As
    Fortinet DDoS, FortiDDos
    Illumio Adaptive Security Platform, Illumio ASP
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    Overview

    Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are ever-evolving and use a variety of technologies. To successfully combat these attacks, you need a dynamic, multi-layered security solution. FortiDDoS protects from both known and zero day attacks with very low latency. It’s easy to deploy and manage, and includes comprehensive reporting and analysis tools.

    Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation is a cloud and data center security solution that helps stop breaches from spreading across hybrid and multi cloud IT environments. The solution is designed to stop ransomware, contain cyber attacks, and reduce risk. With Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation, users can understand relationships and communications to map exposure risk of systems and data, identify the right security posture and secure applications through least-privilege policies, and ensure a Zero Trust security posture.

    Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation Features

    Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

    • Scalability: Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation scales up to 200,000 managed workloads or over 700,000 unmanaged workloads. These workloads can be in the cloud, on-premises, and in hybrid environments.
    • Single pane of visibility: The solution’s single pane of visibility improves your security posture and ability to prevent and respond rapidly to cyberattacks.
    • Simplicity: With Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation, setting up groups and tags is simple. The solution is easy to integrate with next-generation firewalls and can also integrate with IT service management tools to import workload tags to provide more context to workloads.
    • Ransomware containment: The solution provides enforcement boundaries to contain attackers from moving laterally across your organization, enabling security architects to immediately isolate any workload or endpoint compromised in an attack. Enforcement boundaries can be activated instantly through scripts or by manual control, isolating workloads and endpoints already infected from spreading across the organization.

    Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation Benefits

    There are many benefits to implementing Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

    • Visibility everywhere: The Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation solution helps ensure that every interaction on your network is accounted for. 
    • Least-privilege access: By implementing Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation, your organization can prevent unexpected breaches from propagating.
    • Adaptability and consistency: The solution guarantees consistent network behavior everywhere. 
    • Proactive posture: Using the solution enables your organization to always be on the lookout for an attack. 
    • Improve breach containment: With the solution, you can prevent unauthorized lateral movement and reduce your blast radius. Creating micro-perimeters around specific assets breaks up your attack surface and gives you the granular control needed to contain breaches.
    • Streamline policy management: The solution enables organizations to decouple segmentation from the underlying network to define policies based on the language that IT uses. Illumio's human-readable labels make policy creation much simpler and faster than traditional network segmentation approaches like VLANs, IP addresses, and port numbers.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Illumio Zero Trust Segmentation is a solution that stands out when compared to many of its competitors. Some of its major advantages are that it has a good auto policy writing feature, great mapping, and useful monitoring. 

    Shashi, Technical Consultant at a financial services firm, explains which features she really likes. “The auto policy writing is great. The feature will give you the option of inbound-outbound traffic. The Explorer allows you to know the traffic between source and destination. The illumination definitely stands out. Mapping is great. The application group mapping is useful.”

    The solution has “helpful support, useful monitoring, and high availability,” according to Edwin L., Security Architect at MGM.

    Sample Customers
    Black Gold Regional Schools, Amadeus Hospitality, Jefferson County, Chunghwa Telecom, City of Boroondara, Dimension Data
    Plantronics, NTT Innovation Institute Inc.
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company16%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Comms Service Provider9%
    Manufacturing Company7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm18%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Government6%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business62%
    Large Enterprise38%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise19%
    Large Enterprise55%
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    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise63%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise69%
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    Fortinet FortiDDoS is ranked 15th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 12 reviews while Illumio is ranked 5th in Cloud and Data Center Security with 8 reviews. Fortinet FortiDDoS is rated 8.4, while Illumio is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiDDoS writes "Offers good technical support but has poor scalability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Illumio writes "Pprevents attackers or threats from spreading or moving laterally". Fortinet FortiDDoS is most compared with Arbor DDoS, VMware NSX, Radware DefensePro, Fortinet FortiWeb and Edgio Global CDN, whereas Illumio is most compared with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, VMware NSX, Cisco Secure Workload, Zscaler Internet Access and Microsoft Defender for Cloud.

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