Fortinet FortiGate

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
FortiGate	Score 8.6 out of 10	N/A	FortiNet FortiGate is a firewall option with high integrability. It offers a variety of deployment options and next-gen firewall capabilities, including integration with IaaS cloud platforms and public cloud environments.	N/A

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Fortinet FortiGate

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FortiGate
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

FortiGate pricing starts at $250 for home office use, up to $300,000 for large enterprise appliances. Must contact sales team for pricing.

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Community Pulse
	Fortinet FortiGate
Considered Both Products	FortiGate Verified User Manager Chose Fortinet FortiGate The Fortinet products have been chosen because of our previous experience with them. The FortiClient is always used with our roaming users together theRedHAt authentications services and the IPS and Web Filtering addons are used, together the WAF, to strengthen our network … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose Fortinet FortiGate Some of them are great products, but overall Fortinet gives more for less. Also it is really easy to manage for almost everyone. As you should have at least a double layer, with different manufacturers, this is a great choice Incentivized Helpful? VY Vishnu Yadav IT executive Chose Fortinet FortiGate We choose Fortinet FortiGate because it provides AI-powered security services and offers more advanced threat protection and response capabilities than SonicWall TZ Incentivized Helpful? GM Gustavo Mendez CyberSecurity Leader Chose Fortinet FortiGate We migrate from Cisco ASA solution to Fortinet FortiGate solution. The technical feactures and easy operation were the most driver of our evaluation. Finally the high level of Cost over Benefit was very relevant in the project evaluation. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Fortinet FortiGate One of the biggest advantages over competitors that Fortinet FortiGate leverages well is its remote virtual private networks options. Licensing is included with Fortinet FortiGate units at no extra cost. We find that the telemetry is easier to compile and most importantly … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Account Manager Chose Fortinet FortiGate Great subscription services and easy branch office VPN configuration. Also a big plus for 2FA via Forti Token integration. Incentivized Helpful? JG Julien Guffroy Network Engineer Chose Fortinet FortiGate Money is the sinews of war but clearly Fortinet FortiGate and other product like FortiManager for extend and adminstrate remotes sites with dedicated or template of configuration is perfect, same thing with the wortianalyzer as you can find quickly any log from trafic log to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Technician Chose Fortinet FortiGate The FortiGate is a next generation firewall and has more features and more flexibility compared to the Sophos UTM devices and the older SonicWall devices. Technical support from Fortinet is far superior to SonicWall and Sophos. Incentivized Helpful? Diksha Limbachiya Server and Network Admin Chose Fortinet FortiGate Integrated security features multiple security in one platform, cost effective, centralized management, saclability like its models are availble from small to large enterprise for provide proper throughput according to size we can select model.documentation of all features are … Incentivized Helpful? MT Mark Tufts Director of Network Services Chose Fortinet FortiGate Better than Juniper, and CheckPoint. Not as good as the Palo Alto although it cost less so I would still make the choice to go with Fortinet Incentivized Helpful? Jesse Bridgelal Network Architect Chose Fortinet FortiGate Fortinet FortiGate is an all-round Network Security solution with advanced Next Generation Firewall features. The purpose built hardware provides unparalleled performance when compared to other similar solutions. The licensing model is very flexible and accommodates networks … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose Fortinet FortiGate Fortinet FortiGate is above other products in the market. Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Fortinet FortiGate An excellent ratio of functionality and cost of the solution, the UTM subscription and a wide partner network determined our choice of the Fortinet FortiGate. The solution met all the defined requirements, including personal data protection. Local vendors like UserGate were … Helpful? JV Josue Vargas Applications Engineer Chose Fortinet FortiGate Has more features and it's easier to understand. Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose Fortinet FortiGate As mentioned in the previous sections, Fortigate is best suited for our use cases of SDWAN, load balancing, SSL VPN, IPSec Tunnels, Bandwidth allocation (per IP, per user based ). Comparing with Palo Alto NGFW and Cisco ASA, the SD WAN and link load balancing based on the … Helpful? Chantel Moreno Finance & Accounting Professional Chose Fortinet FortiGate I stick with this program because of many reasons like it is extremely robust and scalable, as well as simple to set up. Protecting an organization's data is one Incentivized Helpful? Binita Kharbanda Shift Supervisor Chose Fortinet FortiGate [Fortinet] FortiGate is not only cost effective but it gives the comprehensive security against the APT attacks and gives the complete traffic visibility and granular control. You can easily create the VDOMs (Virtual firewall) within a Fortigate firewall and customize the … Incentivized Helpful? VM VINAY Mandora Sr Team Leader Chose Fortinet FortiGate Cisco ASA is [a] good product but you can't say this is providing the security from every points. Lots of features are missing in Cisco ASA but Fortinet [FortiGate] is fully loaded and all the advanced features are available for secure your company. Incentivized Helpful? Tony Dous Senior Network Security Engineer Chose Fortinet FortiGate ASA Firewall PaloAlto Sophos Incentivized Helpful? Vinit Sharma Network Administrator Chose Fortinet FortiGate We are previously using Cisco ASA in our environment & always concerned regarding security because ransomware attacks are increasing day by day. After implementing Fortinet FortiGate we are getting a bucket of security features at almost the same cost with the best technical … Incentivized Helpful? Basant Gupta Executive System Admin Chose Fortinet FortiGate We have both devices Fortinet FortiGate and ASA with firepower services, but [the] main difference is price. The price is [less for] Fortinet FortiGate and we are getting the all features. Email filtering and DLP is extra features and very advanced which we will get only in … Incentivized Helpful? Amin Mirzakhani Network Administrator Chose Fortinet FortiGate [Fortinet] Fortigate saved us with raising our availability a lot. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose Fortinet FortiGate Sonic wall as a firewall also gives us its main function as the Fortinet FortiGate. Sonic Wall is best suited when you want to use it to connect your cloud environment to your private on-premise network. But on reputation most vendors prefer or recommend Fortinet Fortigate if … Helpful? Andrew Meyer Sr Linux Engineer Chose Fortinet FortiGate Fortinet code configuration is a little bit cleaner, it has sub-modules for different components. One of the nice things about Juniper and pitfalls is that you drop out to the FreeBSD command line if there are any issues. Fortinet and Cisco do not have that capability. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Fortinet FortiGate The cost was comparable to the SonicWall we were looking at but feature wise, they are in a different league. The Fortigate offered far more next generation firewall features and they were bundled in with the license we chose. The interface is much easier to use and we spend … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Fortinet FortiGate

Firewall

Comparison of Firewall features of Product A and Product B
	Fortinet FortiGate 8.6 52 Ratings 0% below category average
Identification Technologies	8.850 Ratings
Visualization Tools	8.250 Ratings
Content Inspection	8.851 Ratings
Policy-based Controls	8.852 Ratings
Active Directory and LDAP	8.649 Ratings
Firewall Management Console	7.751 Ratings
Reporting and Logging	8.152 Ratings
VPN	9.051 Ratings
High Availability	9.347 Ratings
Stateful Inspection	9.250 Ratings
Proxy Server	8.438 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Fortinet FortiGate
Likelihood to Recommend	8.7 (79 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	7.0 (5 ratings)
Usability	8.6 (20 ratings)
Availability	8.0 (3 ratings)
Performance	9.0 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	9.0 (27 ratings)
In-Person Training	10.0 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	5.0 (5 ratings)
Configurability	7.0 (2 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	8.0 (1 ratings)
Ease of integration	7.0 (2 ratings)
Product Scalability	7.0 (3 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	8.0 (2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	8.0 (2 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Fortinet FortiGate
Likelihood to Recommend	Fortinet Fortinet FortiGate addressed an immediate security issue we had a few years ago. The device gave us a much clearer picture of the activities on our network and also more importantly, increased our awareness of threats from the internet as a whole. Fortinet FortiGate helps us to mitigate these threats with regular signature updates from Fortiguard labs, identifying certain characteristics which, once recognised by Fortinet FortiGate, can be harnessed to deploy powerful 'playbooks'. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Fortinet SD-WAN - Load balancing of Internet traffic is a USP of Fortigate and makes it stand tall in the competition. Be it 3 or more Internet Links, multiple Subnets/segments of users to distribute and bandwidth load balancing for links and users. SLA based monitoring of Internet Links / MPLS links, makes it even better to choose the links on the basis of performance (Latency, packet loss, Jitter etc). SSL VPN configuration - As we all have WFH force (to some extend or all employee) during Covid-19, it is impossible to plan BCP without having a SSL VPN. In Fortigate, the SSL VPN configuration is very easy with the help of wizard. The deep CLI-level debugging is also very helpful in troubleshooting. Type of tunnel can be easily configured - Full Tunnel or Split Tunnel for SSL. Explicit Proxy - This is also a great feature to shape and re-route the traffic, configuring the Proxy on the Firewall itself. We are using this feature in Pilot for now, and planned to rollout in few weeks looking at the success rate of the POC. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Fortinet Documentation is missing a great deal of detail and assumes the customer and just guess and fill in the blanks themselves Fortinet has lots and lots of video guides on topics that only a small percentage of customers would ever need The documentation and video guides do not get updated so most is only relevant to older software versions Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Fortinet Fortinet's products have kept improving with new software releases and they continue to deliver great value. Their support is also very good. I believe that as a small enterprise, their products have given us competitive advantage delivering features and functionality that enable us to innovate and do things better. They also continue to be a leader in the markets they serve. Incentivized Adrian Cumberbatch Manager, IT Operations Read full review
Usability	Fortinet The firewall runs very well, firmware updates are fairly quick but you must follow the upgrade path. Neglecting this step will cause a lot of pain. If you decide to go with Fortinet FortiGate switches and/or access points, they can be managed within the firewall which is great. We're also using the FortiAnalyzer which easily plugs into the firewall for any reporting you may require. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Reliability and Availability	Fortinet We had didn't any hardware failures at our two main office locations and upgraded our units last year after using them for about 5-6 years Incentivized Adrian Cumberbatch Manager, IT Operations Read full review
Performance	Fortinet Good performance and really good integration. We have integration with Microsoft AD. Incentivized Kewyn Medina Supervisor IT Operations Read full review
Support Rating	Fortinet The Support team at Fortinet is excellent. They can not only help you configure the device for what you are trying to do, they offer suggestions on improving rules, and troubleshooting issues. Their response time is fast, ensuring you are up and running immediately with no questions asked. We had a hard drive failure in one of our Fortinet Fortigate appliances. The tech answered immediately, and started rebuilding the drive after some preliminary investigations. After rebuilding, there were still errors and issues, so they dispatched a brand new Fortinet Fortigate appliance. The tech then backed up the configurations for when the new device came in, which showed up in a few hours. A restore of the configuration took less than a minute, and there were no more errors or issues. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
In-Person Training	Fortinet I received it a couple years afters use it and it was just to confirm my knowledge about the tool. Incentivized Kewyn Medina Supervisor IT Operations Read full review
Implementation Rating	Fortinet Make sure that you have the most current version of FortiOS. Make sure all Fortigates are on the same version Incentivized Steve Jenovai Systems Architect Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Fortinet [Fortinet] FortiGate is not only cost effective but it gives the comprehensive security against the APT attacks and gives the complete traffic visibility and granular control. You can easily create the VDOMs (Virtual firewall) within a Fortigate firewall and customize the dashboard as per your requirement if you have multiple VDOMs within a single firewall. Incentivized Binita Kharbanda Shift Supervisor Read full review
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	Fortinet No changes needed to terms and conditions. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Scalability	Fortinet My environments are pretty small (less than 100 users per location) so no issues here. Incentivized Adrian Cumberbatch Manager, IT Operations Read full review
Return on Investment	Fortinet The pricing given to us for our firewall was well within what we were already spending for other vendors solutions and had the added value of eliminating a separate expense for a dedicated web filtering appliance. We have also adopted Fortinet's security fabric approach and thus changed vendors for our switch and AP devices. These devices have come at reduced prices as compared to another previous vendor we were using, particularly in relation to ongoing annual maintenance costs. Incentivized JW Jeff Winter IS Director Read full review
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