We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate Cloud vs Fortinet Fortimanager based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: The solutions are similar. Users of both say deployment is easy, like that each products are highly stable and scalable, and have good experiences with technical support. Fortinet FortiGate Cloud users are happier with the pricing of the product than Fortinet Fortimanager users.
"Everything is valuable, especially the SD-WAN tunneling, filtering of email, application, and browsing. Everything has value."
"The solution offers good network performance and efficiency."
"We like the availability of the hardware and the service that we get from FortiGate, as well as the kind of reach that they have as a part of their sales folks."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate Cloud are the IPS, SSL Wireless, and VPN. Additionally, packet inspection and point-to-point VPN application control are useful."
"It's easy to use and the fact that I can schedule the report to come to my inbox at set times is very convenient for me."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate Cloud are the protection of internal and remote systems."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the remote management capability."
"The most valuable feature is the centralized management console."
"It's very easy to install, and it's easy to discover and communicate with your device."
"The central management feature is the most valuable to me."
"Technical support is great. When we have sent urgent tickets and they do reply back within fifteen minutes."
"This solution enables you to centralize the rules and the configuration of all the equipment."
"For the whole security fabric from Fortinet, with a simple click you can see if some workstations or services are affected by an attack. You can really easily quarantine it, check the solution, and fix it."
"The capability of centralized management is valuable. We can configure all firewall boxes with the same configuration."
"The solution has the best stability for application control and inspections."
"In the email security modules they have in their UTM, maybe they can include more extended or expanded features for the email security where users can have their own portal login to release blocked emails, as an example."
"The command-line interface could definitely be improved in future iterations. It's lacking right now."
"They're constantly doing maintenance and there are unexpected downtimes for the cloud interface."
"As with any IT vendor, there are software issues."
"I recommend that Fortinet FortiGate Cloud improve their rules for configuration with each other."
"Its price should be better."
"There are European and US clouds and sometimes we mix them up. The solution should make determining the clouds more clear, or make one cloud instead of having separate ones."
"ACL is an area with shortcomings that needs to be improved."
"I prefer configuring rules and the VPN on the standalone device, not on the manager."
"Issues arise when customers experience unstable electricity or poor grounding conditions."
"The areas that need improvement are implemenation and support. In terms of implementation, it mainly needs clear documentation."
"Having FortiManager work with all of the Fortinet products would be a good improvement."
"The price always has room for improvement."
"FortiManager could improve by making it easier to port larger policy packages to the FortiGate firewalls. Sometimes, there's an issue when we install a big package of policies. If you have a couple thousand policies for FortiGate firewalls, it can take a few minutes to receive a response from the remote devices. It's only an issue when you're dealing with thousands of policies and installing them on a large number of devices."
"Their EDR products could be better. They need to dedicate more R&D to that area."
"It's a difficult process to transfer one interface from one virtual domain to another."
Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is ranked 5th in Firewall Security Management with 55 reviews while Fortinet FortiManager is ranked 3rd in Network Management Applications with 61 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is rated 8.2, while Fortinet FortiManager is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate Cloud writes "Useful for routing and cloud security purposes but needs to incorporate XDR capabilities ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiManager writes "Easy to set up with good integration capabilities but we've had troubles when moving devices". Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is most compared with AWS Firewall Manager, Palo Alto Networks Panorama, FortiGate Cloud-Native Firewall (FortiGate CNF), Fortinet FortiPortal and ExtremeCloud IQ, whereas Fortinet FortiManager is most compared with Fortinet FortiOS, Cisco DNA Center, Zabbix, AlgoSec and SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager. See our Fortinet FortiGate Cloud vs. Fortinet FortiManager report.
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