We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate Cloud and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewall Security Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate Cloud are the protection of internal and remote systems."
"The initial setup is relatively easy."
"Our customers implement this solution so that they can be assured of security in their environment."
"We have found the most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate Cloud are the firewall and the VPN connection manager. I am not worried about any cyber attacks, the solution is secure and I receive daily summary reports."
"FortiGate Cloud has many features that we like. For example, we're using it for security incident management, threat intelligence, and vulnerabilities check. It's integrated with several Fortinet tools like FortiAnalyzer and FortiSandbox controlled through FortiManager."
"The security features, for example, URL filtering, AMP, and advanced threat protection, are very valuable."
"We use the solution as a firewall."
"The intel we get from Fortinet is its most valuable aspect."
"Ansible provides great reliability when coupled with a versioning system (git). It helps providing predictability to the network by knowing exactly what's being pushed after validating it in production."
"The initial setup is easy and takes a few hours to complete."
"The most valuable features of the solution are automation and patching."
"The biggest thing I liked about Ansible is the check mode so that we can verify, after we've pushed, that the config there is actually what we intended."
"The most valuable feature of Ansible is repeatability because when you're working at the DoD, you want things to be cookie-cutter and replicable."
"It has improved our organization through provisioning and security hardening. When we do get a new VM, we have been able to bring on a provisioned machine in less than a day. This morning alone, I provisioned two machines within an hour. I am talking about hardening, installing antivirus software on it, and creating user accounts because the Playbooks were predesigned. From the time we got the servers to the actual hand-off, it takes less than an hour. We are talking about having the servers actually authenticate Red Hat Satellites and run the yum updates. All of that can be done within an hour."
"It is very extensible. There are many plugins and modules out there that everybody helps create to interact with different cloud providers as well."
"We can automate a few host configurations using the product."
"I would like to see better integration with other technologies."
"When it comes to technical support, the problem we have found is that if an issue comes, it takes a day to get everything resolved. It could be faster. They can be better at optimizing how they answer tickets in terms of response times. There must be ways to make the process more streamlined. It would make it easier for their clients."
"The Linux version currently lacks some of the latest features, notably in the IPv6 tool stack, which is available for Windows clients."
"The capacity to execute the solution needs to be improved. I would like to see management and analytics included in the solution."
"FortiGate Cloud could be improved with increased granularity for our control."
"We need some integration or communication between the endpoint and the firewall."
"Lacks some security against external attacks."
"The solution’s pricing and stability could be improved."
"There is always room for improvement in features or customer support."
"It could be easier to integrate Ansible with other solutions. No single tool can do everything. For example, we use Terraform for infrastructure and other solutions for configuration management and VMs."
"What I'm trying to figure out, personally, is, when doing mass updates, how I can parallelize that a little bit better. It seems right now - and maybe, it's a shortcoming on my end - that I run through one set of servers, and then another set of servers, ad then another set of servers, but it seems like I could throw a lot of these checks out. Different types of servers, like web servers and DB servers, if I could parallelize that a little bit to make everything run a little bit more efficiently, that would help."
"There needs to be improvement in the orchestration."
"The area which I feel can be improved is the custom modules. For example, there are something like 106 official modules available in the Ansible library. A year ago, that number was somewhere around 58. While Ansible is improving day by day, this can be improved more. For instance, when you need to configure in the cloud, you need to write up a module for that."
"It would be helpful to have templates for common configurations. It would make it much easier and faster rather than creating a whole script. The templates would decrease the learning curve as well."
"When you set up Playbooks, I may have one version of the Playbook, but another member of the team may have a different vision, and we will not know which version is correct. We want to have one central repository for managing the different versions of Playbooks, so we can have better collaboration among team members. This is our use case for using Git version control."
"It would be good to make the solution more user-friendly,"
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Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is ranked 5th in Firewall Security Management with 55 reviews while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is ranked 1st in Configuration Management with 58 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is rated 8.2, while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is rated 8.6. 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 Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform writes "Capable of broad integrations with easy-to-operate infrastructure and user controls". Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, AWS Firewall Manager, Palo Alto Networks Panorama, FortiGate Cloud-Native Firewall (FortiGate CNF) and Skybox Security Suite, whereas Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is most compared with Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager, VMware Aria Automation, Microsoft Azure DevOps and Microsoft Intune. See our Fortinet FortiGate Cloud vs. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform report.
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