Additionally, and unusually for many appliances that can be deployed in enterprise environments, users praise FortiGate for clear and straightforward pricing. Users will get great results when the firewalls are properly configured, which most users say is not hard to do with proper training. For a few standout features, FortiGate users say its VPN is high performing, its GUI and administrative setup are fluid and easy to understand. Featuresīoth FortiGate and SonicWall TZ present certain advantages that might make them the correct solution for some networks.įortiGate is an established vendor and the product receives frequent feedback and across the board high ratings. Fortinet will tend to be deployed at larger companies and enterprise vis-a-vis SonicWall, with a correspondingly higher price tag.

Both vendors are network security specialists and provide related products and services besides their firewalls see the respective SonicWall and Fortinet vendor pages. They are competing solutions, however SonicWall TZ aims more at smaller companies as an entry level NGFW, while FortiGate customers include large enterprises.

Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS)įortiGate, from Fortinet, and SonicWall TZ are next-gen firewalls (NGFWs).Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG).Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS).

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