G2 Vendor Directory

Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall vs. FortiGate IPS

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

MetricPalo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewall

by Palo Alto Networks

FortiGate IPS

by Fortinet

Overall rating4.34.7
Review count9215
Ease of use8.59.5
Ease of setup8.49.4
Quality of support8.59.0
Meets requirements9.09.4
NPS51.08695784.615385
Small Business26.4%13.3%
Mid-Market29.7%46.7%
Enterprise44.0%40.0%
Total page views339198
Total LLM citations1,215230

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

FortiGate IPS

Whether part of a firewall solution or a separate standalone appliance, Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) technology is becoming an increasingly ubiquitous part of network security defenses.

Pros