Likelihood to Recommend FortiAnalyzer is a must have when you administer multiple FortiGate firewalls in a defense in depth enterprise environment. Total visibility can be achieved across multiple physical and virtual firewalls. Complete analysis of your threat landscape is possible along with real time detection, compliance reporting, and wholistic firewall rule analysis and reporting. Eliminating shadow rules, tuning unnecessarily permissive rules, automation and other analysis are built in to this easy to deploy software.
Read full review FortiManager is well suited for larger organizations which require unified configurations and IT departments that need quick turn around on firewall related tickets. I believe MSPs can also benefit with the use of the VDOM feature, if strict separation between clients is needed. FortiManager wouldn't be ideal for 1-3 site operations, unless their configurations are extremely complex or have a high number of active users.
Read full review Pros Custom dashboard VPN traffic monitoring Internet traffic monitoring Users behavior analysis Integrate well with the FortiGate firewall Log analysis Read full review Centralized FortiGate FW Management in a single console Available physical, virtual, or cloud deployment Single console for next-generation FW features Multiple Administrative Domains Read full review Cons Administrative Domains and Software Versions are difficult to maintain managing different FortiOS versions gets complicated quite easily Administrative Domains must be well architected from the beginning Read full review Various bugs: The software is buggy, and if you don't have a good understanding of it's underlaying operation, you can get confused or stuck when pushing a configuration. There are lots of little quirks you will have to learn, which are not described in any documentation. Conflict resolution: Occasionally, during larger changes, bringing new devices in, pushing a config will fail due to dependencies, conflicts, or other software bugs. This is somewhat time consuming because the error messages provided aren't descriptive CLI Options: Some configuration changes require creating scripts that execute on each device, and can't be done via the GUI Read full review Usability FortiAnalyzer is easy to deploy are ready to use right out of the box. The user interface is intuitive and the reporting engine is very customizable however most of the 'canned' reports are usable right away. It is easy to add firewalls under management and event correlation happens immediately. FortiAnalyzer is a great log aggregator for all of your firewalls and then upload meaningful data to a SEIM.
Read full review Alternatives Considered The cost of FortiAnalyzer is lower compared to other products, and the benefits it provides at this cost are notably superior. Given the presence of multiple
FortiGate products in our network, its seamless integration enhances efficiency and usage, allowing us to maximize the utility of the product to a great extent.
Read full review FortiManager is the best choice for managing numerous FortiGate firewalls. It allows for easy integration into ServiceNow and automates simple repetitive tasks that are very straightforward. Role-based access control is easy to enable and you can get quite granular with user permissions. Administrative Domains help segregate firewall management and compliance within the FortiManager console, by almost any classification method that makes sense to your organization.
Read full review Return on Investment We are able to report to the management the real-time attacks on the network User behavior analysis has become easy Achieving a favorable return on investment (ROI) is easily attainable, given that the product cost is relatively moderate. Without the product, the amount of human work time required is significantly higher, further emphasizing the cost-effectiveness of its implementation. Read full review Significant reduction in new firewall deployment turn around time, 50% reduction Reduction in time spent on website access related IT support tickets. Avg 5 minutes from response to close Reduction in time spent by IT team for setting up WFH employees to allow working over SSL VPN. Read full review ScreenShots