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Fortra VM Reviews & Product Details

Fortra VM is a proactive, risk-based vulnerability management solution that helps organizations identify, assess, and prioritize security weaknesses across their infrastructure. Beyond basic scanning, Fortra VM provides contextual risk prioritization through its Security GPA rating system, Peer Insight for industry benchmarking, and threat ranking to identify exploitation vectors that are used in real world attacks. Conveniently delivered via SAAS, Fortra VM creates easily understood reporting for efficient and effective remediation.

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Value at a Glance

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Time to Implement

2 months

Return on Investment

22 months

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Fortra VM Media

Fortra VM is an on-demand service on an annual subscription plan through Digital Defense is a time-saving, hassle-free SaaS.

Leverage the vulnerability management software and benefit from an affordable solution with continuous monitoring that strengthen your comprehensive security.

We take data from the standard scoring systems and intelligence from the dark web, hacker forums and other unethical hacking sources. Then we feed it into our proprietary machine learning model, that ranks the threat level of exploitation in your network.

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Verified User in Judiciary

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/12/2025

"Solid platform and service"

5/5

What do you like best about Fortra VM?

We have been using Fortra VM for almost 9 years now and am very pleased with the platform and service. We have compared the results of the security vulnerability scans to other product scans and confirmed Fortra VM is a great value for us. Our teams use the security vulnerability scans to assess our endpoint posture and the reports help our teams narrow down on where we need to perform remediations and address critical and high risk findings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fortra VM?

To be honest, I can't recall anything I dislike about the platform and service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

suraj t.

security analyst

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/11/2024

"the vm has great features"

5/5

What do you like best about Fortra VM?

i am thrilled with that and I've been using it since 2020 it was very lightweight for me and their customer support is too good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fortra VM?

i have no problem with that now and when I got stuck I will inform you Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Chris H.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/12/2023

"Easy to use vulnerability scanning tool with a great dashboard and tracking tool."

3.5/5

What do you like best about Fortra VM?

I like how the dashboard and active view consolidates and prioritizes the findings. This and the notes features keep our team on the same page while remediating vulnerabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fortra VM?

Currently, my biggest concern is that there is no way to get debugging or command-line access to the scanners. The best would be a remote console into the scanners from the dashboard that would allow us to do things like connectivity tests in a customer's environment without having access to their network itself. A debugging view of what a scanner is doing during a scan would also be beneficial, possibly access to a log file from a scan's run to better help us troubleshoot failed scans or failures to discover anything.

Finally, I continue to find broken links and references to documentation that's moved throughout places like frontline's site, AWS marketplace, and the dashboard itself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Margaret Harrison of Fortra VM

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Hello. Thank you for providing valuable feedback. We are pleased to hear that you and your team leverage Frontline to keep your organization’s networks secure. Frontline is designed to be intuitive to enable informed prioritization of remediation efforts. Thank you for identifying areas that need improvement. Our teams work hard every day to ensure we provide relevant, up-to-date information for our users.

Robert D.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/19/2023

"Good"

4/5

What do you like best about Fortra VM?

The UI is good overall. There are suggestions on how to fix each detected issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fortra VM?

The active view page does not seem accurate. I correct issues on scans, then re-scan, and it goes away on the new scan, but it does not ever leave the active view for some reason.

The UI is good overall, but if you're looking at a vulnerability its tough to jump to systems affected.

I suspect there were one or two false positives on missing patches. The systems scanned had all of their patches. It eventually went away, and I dont seem to recall a patch job occuring between then and when it went away. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Margaret Harrison of Fortra VM

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Hello and thank you for your valuable feedback. A few notes that might be helpful:

Frontline’s Active View data management view consolidates disparate scan data into one searchable, filterable data set that can be used to more easily manage your vulnerability scan results and generate high-level as well as granular reports. Scan results are reconciled into Active View on scan completion. There may be times when reconciliation is queued due to data volume. If the remediated vulnerability is included in scan scope and no longer appears in a re-scan, please be assured when the reconciliation process completes, the Active View will reflect the new fixed state. You can always view and access the Asset history on the right-side information panel when viewing an asset to identify the most recently reconciled data to see most recently reconciled data.

Frontline strives to provide targeted actionable results to minimize the effort needed to secure your environment, with a minimum of false positives. Please report any false positives you encounter to your Client Advocate so they can be investigated and remedied in the scanner.

Thank you.

Roman M.

SVP/CISO

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/14/2023

"Easy and Effective Vulnerability Management"

5/5

What do you like best about Fortra VM?

The platform is very easy to use and navigate. The dashboards and data filters are easy to set up and all pertinent information is readily available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fortra VM?

In our new remote world, it would be nice to scan computers that are not on our network. Say an agent based scan. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Chris W.

Chief Information Officer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/7/2023

"Effective Vulnerability Management Tool"

5/5

What do you like best about Fortra VM?

Easy to use interface and quickly calls out and describes what risks may need to be addressed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fortra VM?

The scanner tool is not easily customized to remove and add clients from the scanning environment. You need to engage an account manager to assist Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Law Practice

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/12/2023

"Great comprehisive vulnerability scanning"

5/5

What do you like best about Fortra VM?

When issues are identified Frontline directs you to knowledgebase articles that outline the vulnerability and the fix allowing for less research and more patching/configuration of the core issue. I spend less time looking for answers so I can get back to my primary roles Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fortra VM?

Setting up scanning can be a bit convoluted on your own but your account manager can assist with this. Tagging assets as an accepted risk won't asjust the scan score and rescans for fixed assets seems slow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer & Network Security

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/13/2023

"Strong Vulnerability Scanner"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Fortra VM?

Solid scanning tool overall. UI is very intuitive and works well. Like the filters and ability to have different focused views. GPA works well to track improvements. Seems to be kept up to date with latest CVEs in a timey manner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fortra VM?

Have had some issues where scanner doesn't complete and had to re deploy internal scanner RNA. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.