We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiOS and Vectra AI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."FortiGate has a very strong unified threat management system."
"We use the filtering feature the most. It has filtering and inbuilt securities. We can create customized rules to define which users can access a particular type of site. We can create policies inside the firewall."
"I have found Fortinet FortiGate to be scalable."
"Anti-Spam web content filterinG."
"It is a good source for firewall protection."
"The application control features, such as Facebook blocking and Spotify blocking, are the most valuable."
"Customers want to load balance more than eight lines or six internet lines. FortiGate is the only solution that can accomplish this."
"Good performance, stability, and virtual domain ability."
"The solution is extremely scalable."
"I have found the most valuable features to be the policies, cache, and the SD-WAN."
"The information security features are the most valuable."
"The interface is easy to understand, so when there are threats you get alerts. It's quite intuitive, but if you are ever confused they have instructional videos. For example, if you don't understand a graph there's a link to a video that explains what the graph means. It makes it very user-friendly."
"The classification of the websites is helpful."
"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."
"The VDOM (Virtual DOM) is a virtualized firewall that has some opportunities for flexibility that are an advantage in certain configurations."
"FortiOS's best features are its function as an internet gateway and how easy it is to manage."
"Vectra AI generates relevant information."
"The core product provides excellent visibility, but my favorite feature is Vectra Recall."
"The UI is easy to use and when we send detection to everybody, they easily understand what we are asking at the time."
"The fact that we get the visualization of what's happening on our network, which is a way of improving our security in-depth is most valuable."
"Vectra produces actionable data using automation. That has helped us. It's less manpower now to look at incidents, which has definitely increased efficiency. Right now, in a lot of cases, our mean time to detection is within zero days. This tells me by the time something happened, and we were able to detect it, it was within the same day."
"Vectra AI helped our team be more productive and save time. We have less work thanks to it."
"Vectra AI is the best. It is a major product in our cybersecurity."
"We particularly like the user experience around the dashboard, which we find to be much more straightforward than the dashboard of some of the competitive products... Vectra is a really easy system to understand and use to prioritize where we need to focus our security resources."
"They can do more tests before they release new versions because I would like to be more assured. We had some experiences where they release something new and great, but some of the old features are disabled or they don't work well, which impacts the product satisfaction. The manufacturer should be able to prove that everything works or not only that it might work. This is applicable to most of the other services, software, and hardware companies. They all should work on this. We cannot trust every new release, such as a beta release, on the first day. We wait for some comments on the forums and from other companies that we know. We always wait a few weeks before we use the updated version. They should also extend the VPN client application, especially for Linux versions. Currently, it has an application for Linux devices, but it doesn't work the way we want to connect to the VPN. They use only the old connection, not the new one. They have VPN client applications for Windows and Mac, but they can add more useful features to better manage the devices and monitor the current health of each device. Such features would be helpful for our company."
"The stability could be a bit better."
"The updates Fortinet provides are sometimes unstable."
"It needs to improve its ISP load balancing."
"I'm not sure if it's something that they already have or are developing something, however, we need some dedicated features for container security."
"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."
"The sniffing packets or packet captures, can be simplified and improved because it's a little confusing."
"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."
"FortiOS's interface and monitoring could be improved."
"They're using a lot of application-specific IC, so that may be causing some performance issues. And whenever a Fortinet adds new features, it can affect performance."
"It could more scalable for the lower end users."
"Real-time threat monitoring is not there."
"Fortinet FortiOS could improve by having better authentication methods with Microsoft or Google Services."
"SD-WAN configuration could be easier."
"The solution's firmware updates have significant bugs and issues."
"The solution is good, but they have poor marketing in Nigeria. They need to market their product better."
"One thing which I have found where there could be improvement is with regard to the architecture, a little bit: how the brains and sensors function. It needs more flexibility with regard to the brain. If there were some flexibility in that regard, that would be helpful, because changing the mode of the brain is complex. In some cases, the change is permanent. You cannot revert it."
"Some of their integrations with other sources of data, like external threat feeds, took a bit more work than I had hoped to get integrated."
"If you hit a certain number of rules, triage filters, or groups, the UX responds more slowly. However, we have a complex network and a lot of rules. So, our setup might not be a typical implementation example. We even had UX engineers onsite, and they looked at issues, improvements, and user feedback. Since then, it has gotten a lot better, they even built in features that we specifically requested for our company."
"For S&D account scans, it would be easier if Vectra AI could triage with users. If a client uses a lot of accounts, then it could indicate that these accounts are benign, for example. That would help a lot."
"I would like to see data processed onshore. Right now, the cloud components, like Office 365, must be processed on servers outside of Australia. I would like to see a future adoption of onshore processing."
"It does a little bit of packet capture on alert so you can look at the packet capture activity going on, but it doesn't collect a whole lot of data. Sometimes it's only one or two frames, sometimes it does collect more. That's why they have the addition of their Recall platform, because that really does help expand the capability."
"One area where there's room for improvement is the absence of a comprehensive TCP recording and replay feature."
"I think Vectra AI's automation, reporting, and integration could be improved."
Fortinet FortiOS is ranked 15th in Firewalls with 73 reviews while Vectra AI is ranked 2nd in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 39 reviews. Fortinet FortiOS is rated 8.4, while Vectra AI is rated 8.6. 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 Vectra AI writes "Integrates well with other security solutions and provides good technical support". Fortinet FortiOS is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, Fortinet FortiWeb, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection and Netgate pfSense, whereas Vectra AI is most compared with Darktrace, ExtraHop Reveal(x), Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Arista NDR and Splunk User Behavior Analytics.
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