Re: Fortinet vs. Palo Alto

["Basgen, Brian" <bbasgen () PIMA EDU>]

 We recently reviewed both Fortinet and Palo Alto and were not impressed.

 The demo we did of the Palo Alto led us to believe that it was a content filtering device first, and firewall second. 
We could see potential for adding it into our mix of devices, but the UTM notion was quite far off the mark. That said, 
I think they do some good conceptual marketing, and have a good story to tell.

 In the end, we decided that we are better off with a strong traditional firewall (e.g. Not a Cisco!) that was 
improving in layer 7, rather than a native layer 7 device that really has a lot of catching up to do in terms of 
serious enterprise management.

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Brian Basgen
Information Security Officer
Pima Community College
Office: 520-206-4873
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From: "Consolvo, Corbett D" <cc72 () TXSTATE EDU<mailto:cc72 () TXSTATE EDU>>
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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 07:21:29 -0700
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Subject: [SECURITY] Fortinet vs. Palo Alto

Folks,
  We’re doing some firewall evaluations and was wondering if anyone has any input on Fortinet vs. Palo Alto.  We’re 
looking at them for multi-Gb installations (perimeter, data center, possibly dorms) and my impression is that Palo Alto 
is more polished but Fortinet looks to be less expensive as well as providing some features (such as vulnerability 
assessment and chassis versions) that Palo Alto doesn’t.  Any feedback (especially real-world experience) on either or 
both products would certainly be appreciated.

Thanks
Corbett Consolvo
Texas State University