We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and WatchGuard XTM [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."It is easy to use. We chose this product for the possibility to have virtual domains (VDOMs). We are building another company in the group, and we would like to split the firewalling rules and policies between these two companies. Each company would be able to manage its own policies and security rules, which is an advantage of Fortinet FortiGate. We can define VDOMs, and every company can manage its own VDOM as if it has its own physical firewall, but in fact, we would be using the same physical appliance because we are also using the same internet lines. So, it allows us to reuse the existing resources without the disadvantage of having to compromise on policies and security. Each company can choose its own way of working."
"A strong point of FortiGate is the graphical interface is complete and easy to use."
"Customers are more inclined towards FortiGate because of application control, web filtering, and anti-spam features. The support from the FortiGate team is good, and price-wise, it is affordable."
"The simplicity of the configuration and the stability of the product are most valuable. The VPN concentrator is very useful."
"The solution is very user friendly. The user interface in particular is quite nice."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the analytics."
"It's a user-friendly firewall. Most of the tasks are very simple. It's simple to configure and troubleshoot this firewall."
"There is an easy process for configuring it, and it is straightforward to implement the device from scratch."
"The most valuable features are security and support."
"We use the product on our Azure network firewalls."
"The most valuable features are the User ID, URL filtering, and application filtering."
"It provides complete security posture from end-to-end. This has given us better visibility into what our security aspects are."
"It gives us the ease that we are secure. We have set up the proper things that help make our data safe."
"The Palo Alto VM-Series is nice because I can move the firewalls easily."
"You already can scale it if you put it in Auto Scaling groups. If you put it in a load balancer, it should already be able to scale."
"We can monitor the traffic manually and detect threats. Additionally, we can block different IP addresses and URLs."
"I like the hostwatch because I can see what traffic uses the most bandwidth and I can block that site."
"We have used technical support for WatchGuard many times and overall, we are satisfied with it. They are always listening and there is a good reaction time to our findings. When there are issues, they really try to resolve them."
"Reputation Enabled Defense indicates that some websites are so infested that it's not even worth visiting them, and therefore saving the bandwidth of going through the detection process."
"They have a reporting system which can store data over a very long period of time. Not many other firewall vendors provide a reporting system, but if they do, like Fortinet does, then you've got buy that as an additional product and that can be more than twice as expensive as the initial investment in the firewall. And without reporting over a long-term period, you're just about wasting your time."
"SNMP status monitoring and the Central Management Software."
"It is stable and does not require you to reboot all the time."
"Application Control is fantastic with over 2,500 applications and the granularity that we can either allow people to view but not be able to log on to Facebook; or view it and log onto it if they're in the marketing department, but not play Facebook games. There are all sorts of different options like that. So it's highly granular."
"There is a site-to-site VPN configuration between others people."
"We have an issue with hotel guest vouchers."
"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."
"WAN load-balancing could be a lot better at detecting when a link is poor or inconsistent, and not just flat out dead."
"There is a lot of improvement needed with SSL-VPN."
"Bandwidth usage in reporting could be improved for Fortinet FortiGate."
"NGN, reporting and controls."
"They should improve high CPU and memory usage that occurs."
"The pricing could always be better."
"In the next release, I would like to see better integration of multi-factor authentication vendors."
"They made only a halfhearted attempt to put in DLP (Data Loss Prevention)."
"The solution needs to have more easily searchable details or documentation about it online, so it's easier to Google if you have queries."
"There is no proper support channel to follow up on cases."
"The current licensing model can be a sore point as we're paying for features we're not fully utilizing."
"The product could be better in terms of performance than one of its competitors."
"Its web interface is a bit outdated, and it needs to be updated. They can also improve the NAT functionality. We have had issues with the NAT setup."
"I would like a way to do everything programmatically, or be able to copy the configs from different prices at different levels."
"WatchGuard doesn't have a product that allows them to get into the data center. And that's just because there is no hardware to do the job. The software could do it, but there's no hardware that allows that to happen at the moment. So it doesn't scale as well as some other products, that's for sure."
"The initial setup is neither simple nor complex. If you know the base in networking and how the firewall works, you will be able to figure it out."
"The setting policies need improvement. It needs an easier way to do static NAT and check on what policy is being used for that specific traffic."
"Sometimes we have had issues with stability of the product."
"One huge issue with WatchGuard XTM is that I'm not getting reports in a readable format. Readable means, I don't want Excel online. We repeat auditing when we trigger the report or setup calendar. That functionality is what we are looking for from WatchGuard XTM here."
"I would like them to improve the product's overall protections. This would be good for all product users."
"Syslog (Dimension) is focused on presentation, but needs more focus on utility like SonicWall syslog (GMS/Analyzer)."
"The VPN errors are not helpful when troubleshooting."
Earn 20 points
Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 52 reviews while WatchGuard XTM [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Firewalls. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6, while WatchGuard XTM [EOL] is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WatchGuard XTM [EOL] writes "The multi-layer security of the products are the primary reason we use these appliances, however, the gateway wireless functionality for managing access points leaves much to be desired". Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Juniper SRX Series Firewall, whereas WatchGuard XTM [EOL] is most compared with .
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