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FortiGate Cloud-Native Firewall (CNF) vs. Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricFortiGate Cloud-Native Firewall (CNF)

by Fortinet

Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls

by Palo Alto Networks

Overall rating4.34.5
Review count13171
Ease of use8.18.6
Ease of setup8.68.4
Quality of support9.18.5
Meets requirements9.09.1
NPS61.53846265.868263
Small Business23.1%18.3%
Mid-Market46.2%45.0%
Enterprise30.8%36.7%
Total page views186864
Total LLM citations4217,427

FortiGate Cloud-Native Firewall (CNF)

FortiGate CNF is an enterprise-grade cloud-native firewall delivered as a service. It automatically scales protection to meet the dynamic demands of your cloud environments to prevent threats such as malware, data exfiltration, botnets, and compliance violations.

Pros

  • Secure Access
  • Integrations
  • Web Filtering
  • Ease of Use
  • Deployment Ease
  • Ease of Management

Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls

Our next-generation firewall classifies all traffic, including encrypted traffic, based on application, application function, user and content. You can create comprehensive, precise security policies, resulting in safe enablement of applications. This lets only authorized users run sanctioned applications, greatly reducing the surgace area of cyber attacks across the organization.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Features
  • Threat Protection
  • Firewall Efficiency
  • Protection
  • Threat Detection