We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate-VM and Zyxel Unified Security Gateway based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The pricing is excellent. It's much less expensive than Cisco."
"The user interface is relatively easy. The devices are easy to deploy and figure out when you have experience with other security appliances."
"The scalability is good in Fortinet FortiGate."
"There are lots of features and most of them are deployed for internet security. Users are protected if they accidentally go to some malicious sites."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"The interface is very user-friendly and I like it very much."
"The most valuable feature is the VDOM, which allows the customer to have multiple firewalls in a single campus."
"It is quite easy to handle."
"Its interface is good. It comes with a lot of features, and its performance is also very good."
"The tool's most valuable feature is its ability to deploy it on live physical hardware. Specifically, when providing firewall services for clients, we can leverage such hardware appliances to support multiple customers on the same hardware."
"The most valuable feature is the WAN optimization."
"Technical support has been super responsive and dedicated to getting any challenges resolved."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate-VM are the servers, analyzer, and track protection."
"We use it to ensure that our network is properly protected from viruses and malware."
"The policies are very valuable. They allow me to secure and manage future traffic effectively."
"The combination of SD-WAN and VPN capabilities is the most valuable feature."
"The solution can scale well."
"This is a capable appliance and the standard features work well for us."
"One of the features that I would like to have is to do with endpoint production, it should be integrated. For example, the firewall gets notified of any kind of forensic event that needs to be done, such as if there is a ransomware attack and how it originated, all those records have to be available from the firewall, which is not."
"With FortiGate, the main complaint that I have heard is about the technical support."
"The product does need better support in the cloud environment. It's not exactly cloud-native right now."
"There are some problems that support cannot give you a logical reason as to why it happened. For example, I had a case where I was dealing with a WhatsApp application that was giving issues. Technical support gave more than one reason it could be giving issues, but none of them solved the problem. Eventually I solved the problem, but it was far from the solutions that support had given."
"There are some complex administration tasks in their administration portal. That needs to be improved."
"Due to its higher cost, Fortinet FortiGate can lead to increased operational expenses."
"They should make the rule sets more understandable for the end user. When you're trying to explain to somebody how a computer network is secured, sometimes it's difficult for an end user or customer to understand. If there was a way to make the terminology more accessible to the end user, the set up could be easier. They should translate the technical jargon to an easily relatable and understandable conversation for the end user, the customer, that would be brilliant. Particularly in an environment where the IT structure is audited regularly, there's always pressure from the auditor to up the standards and up the security and you get your USCERT's that come out and there's a warning about this and the customer will want to lock out so much and when you apply it they run into issue where they can't search the internet or print to their remote office. Of course they can't print to your remote office, they just locked it up. They should make the language more understandable for the customer. If there's a product out there that made the jargon understandable to John Q. Public, I would buy that."
"Security is a continuous process. In every product, there is a requirement for improvement. Its pricing should also be improved according to Indian market requirements. They must also improve on the reporting part. Its reporting can be more precise. If we can get a real-time report in a specific format, it will be helpful for customers to know about the current status of their security."
"In the next releases, it would be nice to see central cloud management."
"The log settings and filters could use some improvement."
"Fortinet FortiGate-VM should improve its asset identification, wherein the device can identify assets on the network, like computers."
"The interface needs to be updated and simplified."
"Deployment can be difficult and they could dispense with reliance on FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer."
"FortiGate's application load balancing has to be improved. They need to improve a lot on the load balancing and RAF side. They are far behind Citrix in that regard."
"The pricing is expensive."
"The solution could use very well-defined support for resellers."
"Although manageable, the user interface is a little bit slow and could be improved."
"Sometimes it reboots when you least expect it, and that's the main issue."
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Fortinet FortiGate-VM is ranked 9th in Firewalls with 113 reviews while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is ranked 10th in Unified Threat Management (UTM). Fortinet FortiGate-VM is rated 8.4, while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is rated 6.0. 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 Zyxel Unified Security Gateway writes "A robust appliance that is reasonably priced and straightforward to set up". Fortinet FortiGate-VM is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Fortinet FortiOS, OPNsense and Sophos XG, whereas Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG, WatchGuard Firebox and Sophos XGS.
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