We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiPortal and SaltStack based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about AlgoSec, Tufin, Palo Alto Networks and others in Firewall Security Management."The documentation has been satisfactory."
"I am very comfortable with it, including it's reporting on threats and through its activities."
"From a scalability perspective, I found the solution to be completely fine...The solution's technical support is absolutely fine."
"The customer likes it for the graphs, the dynamics and the reporting functionality it offers."
"It does a little bit better than some of the other products health-wise and updates-wise. It is really clear that a firewall is getting the signature updates in this timeframe. In some of the other products, usually, you have to go a couple of screens in to see that, but not so much in this product."
"I like the tool's controller facility."
"The firewall and site-blocking features are valuable."
"I like the product's asset management which gives clear hardware details."
"The product’s most valuable feature is its ability to provide environmental security."
"SaltStack has given us the ability to deal with systems at scale and rectify issues at scale."
"I want to build automation that is intelligent, part of the fabric of our environment, and is somewhat self-sustaining. I think SaltStack can help me do this."
"The automation functionality has been most valuable. With a click of a button, we are able to automate provisioning, the build of new hardware and apply patches. These are all extremely important and differentiated tasks that can be automated in SaltStack."
"It is a highly stable solution."
"The ability to programmatically describe the desired state of a single, or an entire fleet of servers, on-premises, and in a cloud environment."
"We monitor the configurations against CIS standards. We run CIS benchmarks and maintain configurations with higher CIS values for each server."
"The product must have in-built SD-WAN connectivity."
"So if it's more than a thousand, there could be some scalability issues. It becomes more complex as you go."
"If you are a very small company or a person on your own, it's harder to get any response from technical support."
"Fortinet FortiPortal could improve by providing a learning portal and better security."
"It's useful for us but if it had more educational reporting, it would good. It's not necessarily lacking but it's an area that could get better."
"The tool should provide a 10-15 days extension for customers when their license expires."
"The solution is more expensive than other products."
"Fingerprint access security would improve this solution."
"Its configuration process could be better."
"A hardened set of tests would be much appreciated."
"There is a little bit of pain when it comes to libraries and what is needed to run the product."
"SaltStack's features are minimal."
"It is difficult to set up."
"Web UI."
"This solution could be integrated with more hardware for an improved offering."
Fortinet FortiPortal is ranked 10th in Firewall Security Management with 10 reviews while SaltStack is ranked 14th in Configuration Management with 33 reviews. Fortinet FortiPortal is rated 7.8, while SaltStack is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiPortal writes "Suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and offers role-based access controls for granular control ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SaltStack writes "Orchestration tool that powers automation of processes with the click of a button". Fortinet FortiPortal is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Palo Alto Networks Panorama, vCloud Director, VMware Aria Operations and CloudStack, whereas SaltStack is most compared with VMware Aria Automation, Microsoft Configuration Manager, HashiCorp Terraform, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Red Hat Satellite.
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