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FortiGate Cloud-Native Firewall (CNF) vs. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall

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

MetricFortiGate Cloud-Native Firewall (CNF)

by Fortinet

Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall

by Palo Alto Networks

Overall rating4.34.3
Review count1392
Ease of use8.18.5
Ease of setup8.68.4
Quality of support9.18.5
Meets requirements9.09.0
NPS61.53846251.086957
Small Business23.1%26.4%
Mid-Market46.2%29.7%
Enterprise30.8%44.0%
Total page views186339
Total LLM citations4211,215

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 VM-Series Virtual Firewall

Palo Alto Networks' VM-Series Virtual Firewall is the industry’s leading cloud security software, delivering the world’s most effective network security to any cloud or virtualized environment. It is a virtualized form factor of Palo Alto Networks' next-generation firewalls, built to protect your applications from zero-day threats, providing consistent security and easy deployment across all clouds and virtualized environments, including technologies from Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, VMware, Cisco, KVM, Nutanix, OpenStack, and more.

Pros

  • Threat Protection
  • Features
  • Security
  • Protection
  • Deployment Ease
  • Ease of Use