Fortinet FortiClient Other Solutions Considered
To compare every project on FortiClient you have and compare it with Palo Alto. Palo Alto offers a few more powerful new features. You can automate the use case. You have internet analysis and endpoint analysis. I would like to see the same options in FortiClient.
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reviewer1934433
Network Infrastructure Manager at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
We looked into CrowdStrike, however, we did not go to the point of running a proof of concept. They suggested among the software that we were looking at, of course, Intercept X. Sophos, the endpoint agent, is very, very bulky, however. It tends to make most computers become slow when installed, so that was out of the question.
There is Gartner reporting that informs a lot of decisions when it comes to solutions that organizations choose to go for. The ones that are higher up in the ranking in the Gartner are what most organizations will go for. That said, we like to experiment with different industry solutions to gain insights.
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Fortinet FortiClient
April 2024
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We may have compared this solution to Check Point. We found Fortinet to be simpler and had better compatibility.
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Mevin Theethiah
Technical Director at Kaldera Ltd
We compared FortiClient with Sophos, but we already had FortiGate deployed on those sites, so we went with FortiClient.
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MartinYu
Senior Network Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Not too many releases have been made. The latest involved version seven and the one before it, six, was around for a long time. From the client's perspective, there has not been released anything which fully stacks up against Cisco. There should be more frequent releases or updates.
The initial setup is pretty straightforward, since even Cisco can use a called SDM when it comes to FortiGate supporting a web interface. However, FortiGate is more convenient in some cases.
In certain scenarios we would simply deploy FortiGate VPN, which we find to be comparatively more convenient, simple and stable than Cisco. I am talking about the FortiClient. It is also more cost efficient, as FortiGate tends not to charge for the client license, which allows one to make free use of whatever is supported on the device.
The solution may take new engineers some time to familiarize themselves with it, but it is, fortunately, close to Cisco in its concept. This means that if one has a background with Cisco, he can easily adopt all the functions and configuration procedures to the solution, including the command line from the FortiGate scenario.
I would recommend the solution to others, even when it comes to my friend, who has a small business, for which FortiGate compares more favorably than that of Cisco. If having a fancy system is not important to the person, but he is simply looking for a workable and stable solution, then FortiGate is the way to go.
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reviewer2144703
Principal Software Engineer at Infopulse
We had no options to choose from.
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Enayat Galsulkar
Senior Information Security Consultant at Future Telecom
I have deployed FortiGate's FortiAnalyzer, FortiMail for a lot of customers to replace their existing legacy-based firewalls such as Cisco ASA or Cisco PIX, SonicWall, FiberHome, Sophos, etc. We are replacing these technologies with FortiGate.
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Anders Nilsson
Project Manager at Stockholm School Of Economics
I evaluated Securicon and Pulse Secure before choosing the solution.
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reviewer1355130
Solutions Architect at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
My clients evaluated Sophos and Intercept X. They liked the ease of deployment with Intercept X because the control comes from working in the cloud. Sophos also has the management console on the cloud. However, the clients were already using Fortigate, so they wanted to keep that level of protection.
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reviewer895482
ICT Officer at a non-profit with 5,001-10,000 employees
We have previously used Symantec and ESET. I have not considered evaluating other options, but I update the information on the previous options I have used, and I'm following the latest trends.
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reviewer1901067
Junior Network Administrator at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Without really having much in the way of experience with others, it's hard for me to compare it to others.
View full review »I have evaluated other solutions, such as ZTNA Zero-Trust Network Access.
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OFIS-TECHNOLOGIES Njanjouo
Security Engineer at OFIS TECHNOLOGIES
For the moment, I only use a fraction of the features offered by the solution and these are very good. For someone like me, who is in Africa and has a small company numbering 500 users, the current features are more than sufficient. I do not use all that is provided by EMS.
When it comes to the competition, I can only wonder how Fortinet stacks up. I would be interested in knowing if it has the Data Lake feature offered on Palo Alto or machine learning about prevention.
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reviewer1470960
Lead Architect at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
OpenVPN was our primary VPN solution for internal usage
View full review »I have not compared it against different products.
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reviewer1459728
IT Manager/systems engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We did some comparisons and decided to use Fortinet. One of the most important things was Gartner's recommendation related to Fortinet, which was actually very high in 2019. It also had a good position in the market in terms of the number of users using this solution and the user experience.
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reviewer925785
Network Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
We also looked at FortiGate.
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reviewer936201
Systeem / Netwerkbeheerder at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
We also looked at Meraki and Cisco.
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Fortinet FortiClient
April 2024
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