We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate and McAfee StoneGate [EOL] 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."
"FortiGate firewalls are easy to manage through a user-friendly web interface. They also have advanced features like DDoS and DLP. However, I wouldn't recommend enabling all of these features on one device because it can cause performance issues."
"Offers good security and filtering."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"Valuable features include the Web Application Firewall, and it even has DLP (data leak prevention)."
"The security features that they have are quite good. On top of that, their licensing model is quite nice where they don't charge you anything for the SD-WAN functionality for the firewall."
"The next-gen features, the unified threat management capabilities are something that just about everybody is interested in at this point."
"The signature database and zero-day detection are Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features."
"It works well with a highly-active cluster."
"We did not have issues with scalabiliy."
"They need faster serviceability and more security features."
"The integration with third-party tools may be something that they should work on."
"One issue that I have had is that sometimes I need to monitor the traffic, so I need to filter it according to the user and which user is using it the most. I experience a bottleneck most of the time, particularly at the peak time when the number of contracts and users are at maximum."
"The solution's framework needs to be frequently updated in order to have a stable solution."
"At first glance, the interface for the device is very confusing."
"A couple of things I've seen that need improvement, especially in terms of a hard coding. The driver-level active moment really is out-of-the-box and we have to have contact the customer support and sometimes it is difficult to resolve."
"The solution lacks sufficient filtering."
"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."
"After some experience with the solution, we had to do some redesign, but generally, we were happy with the product."
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Fortinet FortiGate is ranked 2nd in Firewalls with 306 reviews while McAfee StoneGate [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls. Fortinet FortiGate is rated 8.4, while McAfee StoneGate [EOL] is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate writes "It's a reliable solution that's easy to install and cheaper than competitors ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of McAfee StoneGate [EOL] writes "The HA cluster had issues during deployment, but the solution gives us better application control than with our previous solution". Fortinet FortiGate is most compared with Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX and Check Point NGFW, whereas McAfee StoneGate [EOL] is most compared with .
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