Fortinet FortiGate vs. ZeroTier

Fortinet FortiGate

ZeroTier

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
FortiGate	Score 8.2 out of 10	N/A	FortiNet FortiGate is a firewall option with high integrability. It offers a variety of deployment options and next-gen firewall capabilities, including integration with IaaS cloud platforms and public cloud environments.	N/A
ZeroTier	Score 10.0 out of 10	N/A	ZeroTier delivers secure software defined networking that works identically across both local and wide area networks. ZeroTier enables users to treat the entire planet like one data center, with network virtualization technology that delivers software-defined networking to every device, service, and application whether it’s located on premise, at the edge, or in the cloud.	$10 per month per administrator & $5 per month, per user

Pricing

Fortinet FortiGate

ZeroTier

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Professional: $10
per month per administrator & $5 per month, per user
Business: Contact Sales
Enterprise: Contact Sales

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
FortiGate	ZeroTier
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

FortiGate pricing starts at $250 for home office use, up to $300,000 for large enterprise appliances. Must contact sales team for pricing.

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Community Pulse
	Fortinet FortiGate	ZeroTier
Considered Both Products	FortiGate Verified User Anonymous Chose FortiGate FortiGate has inbuilt SDWAN features along with Next Gen Firewall. Checkpoint Firewall dont have inbult SDWAN Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose FortiGate Some of them are great products, but overall Fortinet gives more for less. Also it is really easy to manage for almost everyone. As you should have at least a double layer, with different manufacturers, this is a great choice Incentivized Helpful? VY Vishnu Yadav IT executive Chose FortiGate We choose Fortinet FortiGate because it provides AI-powered security services and offers more advanced threat protection and response capabilities than Sonicwall TZ Incentivized Helpful? GM Gustavo Mendez CyberSecurity Leader Chose FortiGate We migrate from Cisco ASA solution to Fortinet FortiGate solution. The technical feactures and easy operation were the most driver of our evaluation. Finally the high level of Cost over Benefit was very relevant in the project evaluation. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose FortiGate The Fortinet products have been chosen because of our previous experience with them. The FortiClient is always used with our roaming users together theRedHAt authentications services and the IPS and Web Filtering addons are used, together the WAF, to strengthen our network … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose FortiGate One of the biggest advantages over competitors that Fortinet FortiGate leverages well is its remote virtual private networks options. Licensing is included with Fortinet FortiGate units at no extra cost. We find that the telemetry is easier to compile and most importantly … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose FortiGate Great subscription services and easy branch office VPN configuration. Also a big plus for 2FA via Forti Token integration. Incentivized Helpful? JG Julien Guffroy Network Engineer Chose FortiGate Money is the sinews of war but clearly Fortinet FortiGate and other product like fortimanager for extend and adminstrate remotes sites with dedicated or template of configuration is perfect, same thing with the wortianalyzer as you can find quickly any log from trafic log to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose FortiGate The FortiGate is a next generation firewall and has more features and more flexibility compared to the Sophos UTM devices and the older SonicWall devices. Technical support from Fortinet is far superior to SonicWall and Sophos. Incentivized Helpful? MT Mark Tufts Director of Network Services Chose FortiGate Better than Juniper, and Checkpoint. Not as good as the Palo Alto although it cost less so I would still make the choice to go with Fortinet Incentivized Helpful? Diksha Limbachiya Server and Network Admin Chose FortiGate Integrated security features multiple security in one platform, cost effective, centralized management, saclability like its models are availble from small to large enterprise for provide proper throughput according to size we can select model.documentation of all features are … Incentivized Helpful? Jesse Bridgelal Network Architect Chose FortiGate Fortinet FortiGate is an all-round Network Security solution with advanced Next Generation Firewall features. The purpose built hardware provides unparalleled performance when compared to other similar solutions. The licensing model is very flexible and accommodates networks … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose FortiGate Fortinet FortiGate is above other products in the market. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose FortiGate An excellent ratio of functionality and cost of the solution, the UTM subscription and a wide partner network determined our choice of the Fortinet FortiGate. The solution met all the defined requirements, including personal data protection. Local vendors like UserGate were … Incentivized Helpful? JV Josue Vargas Applications Engineer Chose FortiGate Has more features and it's easier to understand. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose FortiGate As mentioned in the previous sections, Fortigate is best suited for our use cases of SDWAN, load balancing, SSL VPN, IPSec Tunnels, Bandwidth allocation (per IP, per user based ). Comparing with Palo Alto NGFW and Cisco ASA, the SD WAN and link load balancing based on the … Incentivized Helpful? Chantel Moreno Finance & Accounting Professional Chose FortiGate I stick with this program because of many reasons like it is extremely robust and scalable, as well as simple to set up. Protecting an organization's data is one Incentivized Helpful? Binita Kharbanda Shift Supervisor Chose FortiGate [Fortinet] FortiGate is not only cost effective but it gives the comprehensive security against the APT attacks and gives the complete traffic visibility and granular control. You can easily create the VDOMs (Virtual firewall) within a Fortigate firewall and customize the … Incentivized Helpful? VM VINAY Mandora Sr Team Leader Chose FortiGate Cisco ASA is [a] good product but you can't say this is providing the security from every points. Lots of features are missing in Cisco ASA but Fortinet [FortiGate] is fully loaded and all the advanced features are available for secure your company. Incentivized Helpful? Vinit Sharma Network Administrator Chose FortiGate We are previously using cisco ASA in our environment & always concerned regarding security because ransomware attacks are increasing day by day. After implementing Fortinet FortiGate we are getting a bucket of security features at almost the same cost with the best technical … Incentivized Helpful? Basant Gupta Executive System Admin Chose FortiGate We have both devices Fortinet FortiGate and ASA with firepower services, but [the] main difference is price. The price is [less for] Fortinet FortiGate and we are getting the all features. Email filtering and DLP is extra features and very advanced which we will get only in … Incentivized Helpful? Amin Mirzakhani Network Administrator Chose FortiGate [Fortinet] Fortigate saved us with raising our availability a lot. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose FortiGate Sonic wall as a firewall also gives us its main function as the Fortinet FortiGate. Sonic Wall is best suited when you want to use it to connect your cloud environment to your private on-premise network. But on reputation most vendors prefer or recommend Fortinet Fortigate if … Incentivized Helpful? Tony Dous Senior Network Security Engineer Chose FortiGate ASA Firewall PaloAlto Sophos Incentivized Helpful? Andrew Meyer Sr Linux Engineer Chose FortiGate Fortinet code configuration is a little bit cleaner, it has sub-modules for different components. One of the nice things about Juniper and pitfalls is that you drop out to the FreeBSD command line if there are any issues. Fortinet and Cisco do not have that capability. … Incentivized Helpful?	ZeroTier No answer on this topic

Features

Fortinet FortiGate

ZeroTier

Firewall

Comparison of Firewall features of Product A and Product B
	Fortinet FortiGate 8.9 Ratings 3% above category average	ZeroTier - Ratings
Identification Technologies	8.60 Ratings	00 Ratings
Visualization Tools	8.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
Content Inspection	9.40 Ratings	00 Ratings
Policy-based Controls	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Active Directory and LDAP	9.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Firewall Management Console	8.60 Ratings	00 Ratings
Reporting and Logging	7.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
VPN	8.60 Ratings	00 Ratings
High Availability	9.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
Stateful Inspection	9.50 Ratings	00 Ratings
Proxy Server	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

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	Fortinet FortiGate	ZeroTier
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User Ratings
	Fortinet FortiGate	ZeroTier
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.9 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Availability	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.6 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
In-Person Training	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	8.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Configurability	9.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	7.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	9.8 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	9.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Fortinet FortiGate	ZeroTier
Likelihood to Recommend	We reviewed many different vendors product offerings, we found the Fortinet FortiGate to best fit our needs. We upgraded from a previous firewall, the migration was a fairly easy process. We were also able to consolidate multiple firewalls into one unit using vdoms. It's been helpful to have one pain of glass, one support contract and easy to work with support. These firewalls are feature rich which is great, but the support contracts are expensive. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Pros	It is the most reliable NGFW that we have ever been touch with it. You can easily upgrade the firewall cluster firmware without user attention!!! User IDentity based feature is fantastic and intrusion prevention just works with least false-positive possible. Very reachfull and intuitive GUI, just love it Incentivized Amin Mirzakhani Network Administrator Read full review	No answers on this topic
Cons	When we switched to Fortinet Fortigate, it took some time getting used to and become familiar with the new interface. Being used to strictly command-line interfaces, a full GUI-based firewall was something brand new. Careful planning had to be done when creating rules to ensure we didn't miss anything. However, once we got used to the new GUI interface, going from one Fortinet product to another was simple, as Fortinet used the same interface for all of its devices. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Likelihood to Renew	Fortinet's products have kept improving with new software releases and they continue to deliver great value. Their support is also very good. I believe that as a small enterprise, their products have given us competitive advantage delivering features and functionality that enable us to innovate and do things better. They also continue to be a leader in the markets they serve. Incentivized Adrian Cumberbatch Manager, IT Operations Read full review	No answers on this topic
Usability	The user interface shared among many simultaneous users is very easy to get around. With shared favorites among users, most tasks are easily bookmarked and can quickly be found and edited. Their strategy for web filter integration is easy to understand and manage as well. With some general direction, setup and maintenance were easy to do and easy to teach others in the organization to do as well. Incentivized JW Jeff Winter IS Director Read full review	No answers on this topic
Reliability and Availability	We had didn't any hardware failures at our two main office locations and upgraded our units last year after using them for about 5-6 years Incentivized Adrian Cumberbatch Manager, IT Operations Read full review	No answers on this topic
Performance	Good performance and really good integration. We have integration with Microsoft AD. Incentivized Kewyn Medina Supervisor IT Operations Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	We live in Turkey. Fortinet's Turkey office [dealt] constantly with us in our every problem or our experience. In addition, global support teams also supported every ticket we opened in every problem we encountered. They support innovative approaches and evaluate and offer solutions. In this context, they were very supportive of the problems we encountered in previous versions. TT Tayfun Toka Senior Security Supervisor Read full review	No answers on this topic
In-Person Training	I received it a couple years afters use it and it was just to confirm my knowledge about the tool. Incentivized Kewyn Medina Supervisor IT Operations Read full review	No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating	Make sure that you have the most current version of FortiOS. Make sure all Fortigates are on the same version Incentivized Steve Jenovai Systems Architect Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	One of the biggest advantages over competitors that Fortinet FortiGate leverages well is its remote virtual private networks options. Licensing is included with Fortinet FortiGate units at no extra cost. We find that the telemetry is easier to compile and most importantly communicate with non technical members of staff. The Fortinet FortiGate unit is also extremely stable for long periods of time without showing signs of needing a reboot. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Scalability	My environments are pretty small (less than 100 users per location) so no issues here. Incentivized Adrian Cumberbatch Manager, IT Operations Read full review	No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	SD-WAN : Can't stress it further that we are very happy with this functionality and outcomes in the org. We have multiple WAN and MPLS links and traffic switching becomes an important in order to utilize the best performing line. QoS : We use QoS for almost all internet traffic, be it Web browsing by users, IOT segment, Application based traffic policy and VIP and normal user based bandwidth allocation. SSL and IPSec VPN, both features are fully used to it absolute capacity. IPSec tunnels with multiple sister companies across globe. Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
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