We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiOS and Qualys VMDR based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."Allows for firewall rules to be programmed and named in a way that makes it “readable”"
"Easy to use support and licensing portal as well as activation process."
"The security features are about the best that I've seen anywhere."
"The solution is very user friendly. The user interface in particular is quite nice."
"It has improved our security capabilities."
"The most valuable feature is the bundled subscription, which is IPS, TV and web filtering."
"It's inexpensive compared to some of the other technology out there."
"The most important features with FortiGate are the web filter and application controls. We can control our internet usage and use the web filter for application purposes."
"It efficiently manages large-scale firewall deployments."
"I am satisfied with Fortinet FortiOS. It's a cool product and has a lot of UTM features. It has application control, web filtering, antivirus, IPS/IDS, DNS filtering, and many things in that firewall. It also has a web application firewall WAF feature. On the feature side, it's a good firewall."
"FortiGate as a product is very easy to configure."
"We've been happy with the pricing."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiOS are its simplicity, highly user-centric, and performs well. The line speed and for heavy traffic, is helpful for us."
"There are many useful features, such as web security and advanced threat detection."
"All of the features in this solution are effective and efficient."
"The solution is very user friendly."
"It is a simple solution that makes scanning easy. You just give it a scheduled task, and it will do everything for you."
"It's a good product. After the scan our internet works well. It scans our security posture."
"Intuitive and easy to use."
"Technical support is great and we've never really had a problem."
"It's stable and quite reliable."
"Monitors workstations and servers for vulnerabilities and creates reports."
"The most valuable feature is that this solution is very lightweight."
"I find Qualys VM very robust, and it's very useful for vulnerability management and patch management. The value that it brings to my environment is economies of scale. There is no limitation on adding any endpoints. You go by the rule, and it's added once another endpoint is added to our environment. It's automatically installed, and it's less work from our end. It frees up my license automatically if I don't need an endpoint or if my machine is decommissioned. I like the dashboard displays because I don't see any duplication. The most important part is vulnerability management and prioritization. Unlike Symantec, it shows the kind of vulnerability I would want to patch first. It provides a holistic view of the kind of vulnerabilities and the ones I should remediate first. I don't have to do a scan; it just brings up those critical kinds of vulnerabilities like zero-day vulnerabilities and tells me to prioritize them. You have to prioritize these vulnerabilities first and go on with the rest. The dashboard shows me the ones that have been fixed, so I don't have to complete an aging report. The user experience and the graphical interface are good. As it's user-friendly and understandable on an executive level, it brings real value. We also use this solution because it's robust and flexibile."
"The support from Fortinet FortiGate could improve. They are not easily accessible when we need them. They could improve their response time."
"Fortinet FortiGate needs to improve the logging and reporting. Additionally, the next-generation application's policies should be improved. When they were released they had bugs."
"The solution could be more user friendly."
"WAN load-balancing could be a lot better at detecting when a link is poor or inconsistent, and not just flat out dead."
"I would prefer to have more detailed logs within the FortiGate products themselves rather than relying on a separate tool."
"The process of configuring firewall rules appears excessively complex."
"The search tool needs improvement. It's very difficult to search for policies right now."
"The non-error conserve mode has room for improvement."
"The implementation could be simplified."
"Fortinet's central management needs to be improved. FortiManager's technical tool provider ability should manage all Fortinet security products. Right now, FortiManager only manages the configuration of FortiGate."
"Technical support could be better. Some competitors have much more responsive support teams."
"Their technical support needs improvement."
"I would like to see fewer bugs. If you use the box with its basic features, the solution is straightforward and stable, but you can run into bugs when using newer features or in more complex use cases. They included a DNS filter as a new feature, and I had issues that required raising a ticket with customer support."
"I want to see a better integration or a better integration with the endpoint protection or with EDR with the security life cycle."
"The solution needs improvement with DDoS protection."
"Fortinet FortiOS can improve by limiting the need for the CLI and GUI combination. The more functions they can have on the GUI and less on CLI would be helpful."
"Qualys VM's machine learning and artificial intelligence features could be improved."
"We face issues while scanning multiple assets."
"Some of the older features could be polished instead of focusing on releasing new features."
"The IoT scan is not great."
"They're still evolving their platform in terms of reporting capabilities."
"There needs to be better documentation."
"There seems to be a lack of easy onboarding into Qualys."
"Sometimes we face a problem with accessing the tool and not getting an expected result. From a technology point of view, they need to look into this."
Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews while Qualys VMDR is ranked 3rd in Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with 76 reviews. Fortinet FortiOS is rated 8.4, while Qualys VMDR is rated 8.2. 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 Qualys VMDR writes "Good visibility but expensive and needs better support". Fortinet FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiWeb, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection and Darktrace, whereas Qualys VMDR is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Tenable Security Center, Rapid7 InsightVM, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management and Tenable Vulnerability Management.
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