We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiOS and Skybox Security Suite based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The most important feature, normally for small business customers, is link load balancing."
"We've found the solution to be pretty stable."
"It is a one box solution, which covers most of the edge device’s requirements."
"It is quite easy to handle."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ability to work in proxy mode, which other solutions, such as Palo Alto cannot. There are some features that are better that come at no extra license or subscriptions cost, such as basic SD-WAN. The DLT is useful, other solutions have the same feature too, such as Palo Alto."
"It's a firewall that secures our internal network. I have been using it since 2013, and I find that most of the features are advanced, and very user friendly."
"FortiGate firewalls are user-friendly, and I like the security profiling features."
"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 initial setup is easy. It's the easiest firewall installation process on the market. I work with three or four other products and this one is the easiest."
"It's very easy to use."
"It has a lot of scalability abilities which makes it easy to scale."
"The solution constantly adds features that are useful and user-friendly such as the ability to tweak firewalls through the CLI."
"FortiOS's best features are its function as an internet gateway and how easy it is to manage."
"The interface is good."
"Compared to other firewalls, the segmentation is much easier in FortiGate."
"It's easy to use."
"The features that I have found most valuable with Skybox Security Suite, and this is because I work on the security side, are the firewall assurance, the change manager and the vulnerability control. These three features are the most impressive from Skybox Security."
"I think that compliance checks and policy compliance are the product's good features."
"Security review is the most important feature, because it offers a single pane of glass to analyze multiple firewalls."
"Robust modules can be used for different parts of network security."
"Overall, the tool has helped us reduce risks. If any step is missing, it's easier for my team or engineers to identify it. The tool provides accurate recommendations based on the data. Its integration is easy, and I have integrated it with Fortinet firewalls."
"The most valuable features are Firewall Assurance and Vulnerability Control."
"It can be integrated with a vulnerability management solution. When a client comes, apart from pitching network and firewall change management, we are recommending having vulnerability management. So, rather than just having the audit of the firewall, they can integrate it with their vulnerability management solution, which could be Rapid7, Qualys, or any other solution. This provides them the most value out of the platform. That is the way we are approaching our customer base."
"We are currently working on rule review and compliance. The logging features are good."
"The security of Fortinet FortiGate could improve."
"There is room for improvement related to the logging and reporting aspect."
"Some of the software stability could improve."
"I would like to see more advanced developments of a wireless controller in the future."
"I haven't had a single issue since using Fortinet."
"There were quite a few problems with the stability of the system."
"The support structure needs to be improved because every time we contact them, there is a delay in the response."
"The integration with third-party tools may be something that they should work on."
"I want to see a better integration or a better integration with the endpoint protection or with EDR with the security life cycle."
"FortiOS's interface and monitoring could be improved."
"The implementation could be simplified."
"SD-WAN configuration could be easier."
"The central management can improve in Fortinet FortiOS. It is sometimes difficult to manage all the devices."
"The additional features I would like to see included in the next release is better troubleshooting and reporting."
"For monitoring purposes, we don't have any option to monitor the ISP link."
"It would be great if they can push the Microsoft updates through Fortinet OS and provide a centralized patch management system. They should also include the data loss prevention (DLP) and data leakage prevention features. They could also add network monitoring more effectively."
"There is room for improvement in the technical support."
"The initial setup with Skybox Security is hard. You need one or two strong security engineers on your team."
"There is room for improvement in pricing. It would be better, especially if a customer bought all four modules."
"The only place where Skybox has room for improvement, and they're working on releasing this, it's just a slow-go, is the UI. The user interface has historically been via a locally installed thick client. They are moving to a web-based console and it's slowly coming out."
"Reporting. A lot of the reports, out of the box, are limited to a certain number of either configuration violations or access rule violations. So when you first set up a new firewall to be monitored by Skybox, you don't get a real full report. You have to really tweak it to get everything."
"There are multiple dashboards but no custom dashboard. It would be good to include a custom dashboard so that we can actually choose which field and what kinds of things we want to look at."
"I've had issues with licensing where, when they were expiring and I asked for the updated licenses, I would the wrong ones. I think their process needs to be straightened out a little bit - I don't know if they fixed it already, it has been awhile. It wasn't as straightforward as it could have been."
"Skybox Security Suite's attack surface management feature needs improvement."
Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews while Skybox Security Suite is ranked 19th in Vulnerability Management with 34 reviews. Fortinet FortiOS is rated 8.4, while Skybox Security Suite is rated 7.8. 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 Skybox Security Suite writes "Efficient in vulnerability management, stable and easy to use ". Fortinet FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiWeb, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection and Darktrace, whereas Skybox Security Suite is most compared with AlgoSec, Tufin Orchestration Suite, FireMon Security Manager, Palo Alto Networks Panorama and RedSeal.
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