We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiOS and Rapid7 Metasploit based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."It's great for capturing the traffic and troubleshooting it."
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"The security on offer is very good."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the analytics."
"The most valuable feature is the FortiManager for centralized management."
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"The SD-WAN is the most valuable feature."
"We purchased Fortinet because of the pricing, its functionality, because it met our requirements, and the total cost of ownership over five years was quite reasonable. In the market, Fortinet is rated quite well."
"The solution is very user friendly."
"The solution is very easy to configure and has a good interface, plus it offers more configuration options than other vendors."
"I personally think the site-to-site VPN is the most useful feature. A lot of firewalls have that, but to me, that's one of the features that's essential."
"FortiGate as a product is very easy to configure."
"The solution constantly adds features that are useful and user-friendly such as the ability to tweak firewalls through the CLI."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiOS are the granular control and their interoperability is good."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiOS are its constant updates and definitions."
"FortiOS allows us to set up alarms for blocked websites and SSL verifications. When someone tries to access a blocked site, the solution sends a notification to the IT manager's mailbox."
"Rapid7 Metasploit is a useful product."
"Technical support has been helpful and responsive."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"It's not possible to do penetration testing without being very proficient in Metasploit."
"It contains almost all the available exploits and payloads."
"The greatest advantage of Rapid7 Metasploit is that it is the only system that can directly exploit vulnerabilities on the Metasploit platform."
"The option to generate phishing emails has proven to be very valuable in understanding the behavior of users."
"It allows us to concentrate solely on identified vulnerabilities without the hassle of additional setup."
"The solution lacks multi-language support."
"WAN load-balancing could be a lot better at detecting when a link is poor or inconsistent, and not just flat out dead."
"FortiLink is the interface on the firewall that allows you to extend switch management across all of your switches in the network. The problem with it is that you can't use multiple interfaces unless you set them up in a lag. Only then you can run them. So, it forces you to use a core type of switch to propagate that management out to the rest of the switches, and then it is running the case at 200. It leaves you with 18 ports on the firewall because it is also a layer-three router that could also be used as a switch, but as soon as you do that, you can't really use them. They could do a little bit more clean up in the way the stacking interface works. Some use cases and the documentation on the FortiLink checking interface are a little outdated. I can find stuff on version 5 or more, but it is hard to find information on some of the newer firmware. The biggest thing I would like to see is some improvement in the switch management feature. I would like to be able to relegate some of the ports, which are on the firewall itself, to act as a switch to take advantage of those ports. Some of these firewalls have clarity ports on them. If I can use those, it would mean that I need to buy two less switches, which saves time. I get why they don't, but I would still like to see it because it would save a little bit of space in the server rack."
"The biggest "gotcha" is that if the client purchases what they call the UTM shared bundle, which has unified threat management on both, it's not as easy to manage if you have more than one firewall."
"Some of the software stability could improve."
"There are problems with the custom reporting of the unique traffic. The data is there, but it is too difficult for us to extract."
"Vulnerability scanning could be improved."
"One of the problems I was having was with user mapping, and it is an issue for which I have escalated tickets with Fortinet support."
"You can enable and disable certain modules in it. However, with disabling, nobody can really tell us if that module is disabled."
"The solution's graphic interface could be a bit more responsive and include notations when changes are made."
"The implementation could be simplified."
"A switch should be introduced."
"We had assistance from one person from our local vendor for the implementation."
"The additional features I would like to see included in the next release is better troubleshooting and reporting."
"Fortinet FortiOS could improve by having better authentication methods with Microsoft or Google Services."
"There is some room for improvement in the support."
"The solution is not very scalable, it does not provide any automation to be able to scale it."
"There are numerous outdated exploits in their database that should be updated."
"The open-source version has reporting limitations. You need to develop these capabilities yourself. Built-in reporting is an excellent feature for penetration testing, but it isn't a must-have. The solution could also cover more vulnerabilities. Metasploit has around 10,000 exploits in its library, but more is always better."
"We'd like them to offer better coverage of malware."
"Metasploit cannot be installed on a machine with an antivirus."
"Rapid7 Metasploit can add a GUI feature because it is only available online."
"I would like to see more capabilities, more functions, and more features. More types of attack vectors."
"Better automation capabilities would be an improvement."
Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews while Rapid7 Metasploit is ranked 11th in Vulnerability Management with 18 reviews. Fortinet FortiOS is rated 8.4, while Rapid7 Metasploit is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiOS writes "Provides effective filtering features, good stability but initial setup is moderately challenging". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rapid7 Metasploit writes "Helps find vulnerabilities in a system to determine whether the system needs to be upgraded". Fortinet FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiWeb, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection and Darktrace, whereas Rapid7 Metasploit is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Pentera, Acunetix, Rapid7 InsightVM and Nucleus.
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