This blog post compares the performance and features of Fortinet and Palo Alto, two of the most popular network security vendors. Fortinet offers faster performance with its FortiGate 500E firewall receiving an impressive security efficiency grade of 99.3% from NSS Labs. On the other hand, Palo Alto scored 98.7% with its PA-5220 firewall but was able to outperform each firewall tested by NSS Labs with a speed of 7888 Mbps. In addition to performance, both vendors offer virtual firewalls, SD-WAN, AIOps support, cloud firewalls, container firewalls, and other cloud security solutions.
