FortiGate: Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) Alternatives

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Item: SonicWall TZ Series
Rating: 4.7
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Considering alternatives to FortiGate: Next Generation Firewall (NGFW)? See what this market FortiGate: Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) users also considered in their purchasing decision. When evaluating different solutions, potential buyers compare competencies in categories such as evaluation and contracting, integration and deployment, service and support, and specific product capabilities.

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1. Check Point Quantum

By Check Point Software Technologies

4.5

(1808 Ratings)

It has multiple devices to protect everything from small businesses to large companies with huge data centers, and features excellent equipment ranging from 600 Mbps to 5 Gbps.

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2. Sophos Firewall

By Sophos

4.8

(1332 Ratings)

Our organization is using Sophos Firewall from last 3-4 yrs and till date we have not experienced any such issues, overall Support and service is good and roadmap of the product is fantastic many new features are coming as shared by Sophos team which will help us in our organization. Additionally, we have procured endpoint security as well from Sophos, so their Synchronized security helps us to correlate logs and have a single management console and also helps us with cloud integration with our AWS environment and also protects our remote access users.

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3. PA-Series

By Palo Alto Networks

4.6

(1167 Ratings)

Palo alto is a fantastic vendor to work with and their firewalls are the most advanced and best I've configured and used.

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4. Cisco Secure Firewall

By Cisco Systems

4.8

(1104 Ratings)

As we are using other Cisco solutions in our company, this one is integrated perfectly and works without any special issues. Our daily job, sometimes with heavy traffic works smooth and secured by Cisco. I feel that a good percentage of security goes to the Cisco Firewall.

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Easier to integrate and deploy
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5. Unified Security Gateway (USG)

By Huawei

4.9

(312 Ratings)

HUAWEI`s Firewalls USG series are very useful for my work.They deliver intelligent,all-scenario network security protection for enterprises，Built on deep understanding of evolving threats，they provide comprehensive visibility,automated threat prevention,and high-performance encryption to safeguard critical digital assets.

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6. Firebox

By WatchGuard

4.5

(295 Ratings)

- Issues that didn't go well For a project to install a UTM at a new site, we planned to create a clone of an already operational M270 and install it there. When creating the clone, we took a backup in FXI format instead of XML format and imported it into an identical unit in our inventory. However, we discovered that we couldn't manage or monitor the device from the WG management server. Ultimately, we learned that importing in FXI format to a different unit, even if it's the same model, is not supported, requiring us to restore from a backup made before the import. While this was mentioned in the documentation, it was very unclear, and we hope for improvement. We believe that adding a function to check whether the image was taken from a different unit during FXI format restoration would prevent such incidents, and we hope for its implementation. Furthermore, although it's unclear if it was related to this process, monitoring by the WG cloud and WG management server stopped working. We contacted the support center, but it took three weeks of back-and-forth communication to resolve the issue. We received advice on workarounds and recovery methods and were able to recover, but it took far too long. In particular, the process of obtaining logs and reproducing events for the support team to understand the situation was repeated multiple times, which was time-consuming. - What went well While there were many issues with the management functions, and although the management functions in general were almost unusable, we were able to launch the service according to the planned schedule.

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7. SRX Series

By Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

4.7

(233 Ratings)

Juniper equipment has been reliable, keeping our company's site-to-site networks always up and running with failover.

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Easier to integrate and deploy

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8. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall

By Barracuda

4.5

(230 Ratings)

We are very satisfied the use of the firewall in Microsoft Azure. We use it more than eight years. In combination with the onpremise NG in our central DC and offices, we have a meshed infrastructure managed from one central point.

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