We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and Zyxel Unified Security Gateway based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"Fortinet FortiGate protects against internet-based threats, both internal and external. It is scalable, stable, easy to use, and easy to install."
"The security features are about the best that I've seen anywhere."
"The most valuable features are the enterprise modeling and the simple interface."
"FortiGate is flexible and easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of FortiGate is FortiView which provides proactive monitoring."
"The user interface is relatively easy. The devices are easy to deploy and figure out when you have experience with other security appliances."
"I really like the captive portal feature for our guest network. It has nice VLAN features in terms of separating our network. The anti-virus is also good."
"I have not actually called their support line, because we have a direct contact to a senior engineer in the company for any issues that we handle with them. I will say they are very responsive, and they do give you the information you need when you need it."
"It is very stable. It is fairly easy to use."
"It gives us the ease that we are secure. We have set up the proper things that help make our data safe."
"Using Palo Alto Networks Panorama, we were able to deploy a single point of management and visualization of the firewall infrastructure in cloud, on-premise and integrated with Azure to automate scale up. Its security features, i.e. anti-malware, threat prevention, URL Filtering, VPN, and antivirus are the most valuable. The ID-User integrated with AD and 2FA features are also very useful to provide secure access to servers and some users in the company. "
"The tool's cloud version makes application migration easy."
"Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is easy to maintain...From a security point of view, I find Palo Alto Networks VM-Series to be a better product compared to the other solutions in the market."
"The main advantage of Palo Alto Networks VM-Series stems from the fact that you can access it with the help of cloud services."
"Palo Alto’s Panorama centralized management system simplifies our security posture based on our requirements. Instead of manually pulling logs, then generating them into readable formats, it gives us the console in a readable format to view."
"This is a capable appliance and the standard features work well for us."
"The solution can scale well."
"The scalability could be better."
"I use the FortiGate 60D model and realized the 300Mbps bandwidth limitation. Because it is a product that offers many services, I think it could have greater bandwidth capacity."
"NGN, reporting and controls."
"We'd like more management across other integrations."
"Fortinet already improved FortiGate, but in the current market, many brands of security devices have improved together. Fortinet still needs to catch up with market standards. Fortinet is lacking in features in comparison to competitors."
"Its price could be better."
"I would like reporting to be improved and should offer a lot more tools to monitor the products."
"WAN load-balancing could be a lot better at detecting when a link is poor or inconsistent, and not just flat out dead."
"The implementation should be simplified."
"It can definitely improve on the performance."
"The reporting part of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The product needs improvement in their Secure Access Service Edge."
"There could be dynamic DNS features similar to Fortinet in the product."
"The DLP functionality or data classification can be improved in the solution's basic firewalling."
"All areas need improvement: manufacturing, education, financial, etc."
"We have run into some issues with scaling and limitations associated with some of the configurations."
"Although manageable, the user interface is a little bit slow and could be improved."
"Sometimes it reboots when you least expect it, and that's the main issue."
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Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 52 reviews while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is ranked 10th in Unified Threat Management (UTM). Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6, while Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is rated 6.0. 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 Zyxel Unified Security Gateway writes "A robust appliance that is reasonably priced and straightforward to set up". Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, whereas Zyxel Unified Security Gateway is most compared with Netgate pfSense, OPNsense, Sophos XG, WatchGuard Firebox and SonicWall TZ.
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