Fortinet FortiGate

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
FortiGate	Score 8.7 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 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? Verified User Engineer Chose Fortinet FortiGate Fortinet beats Cisco ASA in all firewall categories in my opinion. Incentivized Helpful? Michael Singh Network Engineer 3, Enterprise Managed Services Chose Fortinet FortiGate FortiGates are more professional and offer a robust command line. Incentivized Helpful? TT Tayfun Toka Senior Security Supervisor Chose Fortinet FortiGate Before Fortinet, we used checkpoint and our log was closed to gain performance. However, all devices were accessing Checkpoint through a different gateway inside. FortiGate is definitely more successful in log detail. We preferred Fortinet FortiGate because it offers stable … Helpful? Donny McIver Principal Owner; Senior Consultant Chose Fortinet FortiGate Ongoing costs and licensing options - the FortiGate product line comes out a winner every time. We especially like the granularity and licensing options compared to something like Meraki that is mostly "all or nothing" or the SonicWall which is less granular and just not as … Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Fortinet FortiGate Before Fortinet FortiGate, I used to use a Symantec Firewall for the enterprise, which I don't believe is offered anymore. In comparison, now the Fortinet FortiGate is a next-generation firewall that can do a lot more such as handling multiple network interfaces, much better … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Fortinet FortiGate In my opinion, Fortinet Fortigates is an enterprise-level firewall. They are workhorses and perform without a stutter. The WG comes close but lacks many features that the Fortigate has by default, and I needed to implement it into our environment. MX firewalls are good but … Incentivized Helpful? Mauro Osvaldo Sepulveda Gutierrez Network and Security Engineer Chose Fortinet FortiGate Fortigate is cheaper than other vendors and includes basically the same features. The performance is very good and the configuration is really very easy, you don´t need a lot of training to understand the configuration. The VPN connection works very well and the application … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Fortinet FortiGate FortiGate had some of the best features for the price. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User C-Level Executive Chose Fortinet FortiGate Feature to feature comparisons, Cisco and Fortinet are on par with each other. Both have great service and support. Both have robust security features that protect your network from various threats and exploits. Both have great logging and reporting capabilities. Both are high … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Fortinet FortiGate Cost-wise there is no comparison. Palo Alto looked like a solid option but they were just incredibly expensive without any major differences and were not very helpful when it came to making a decision. In the firewall shoot out the FortiGate came out on top with Palo Alto … Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Web filtering Pro Sd wan Pro Anti spam
Top Cons	Minus Need to improve Minus Technical support Minus Gui interface

Features

Fortinet FortiGate

Firewall

Comparison of Firewall features of Product A and Product B
	Fortinet FortiGate 9.3 38 Ratings 9% above category average
Identification Technologies	9.736 Ratings
Visualization Tools	8.736 Ratings
Content Inspection	8.937 Ratings
Policy-based Controls	9.638 Ratings
Active Directory and LDAP	9.237 Ratings
Firewall Management Console	9.638 Ratings
Reporting and Logging	8.238 Ratings
VPN	9.838 Ratings
High Availability	9.733 Ratings
Stateful Inspection	9.636 Ratings
Proxy Server	8.927 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Fortinet FortiGate
Likelihood to Recommend	9.5 (65 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.9 (4 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (6 ratings)
Availability	10.0 (2 ratings)
Performance	10.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	8.6 (26 ratings)
In-Person Training	10.0 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	8.0 (4 ratings)
Configurability	9.0 (1 ratings)
Ease of integration	7.0 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	9.8 (2 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	10.0 (1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	9.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Fortinet FortiGate
Likelihood to Recommend	Fortinet For FortiGate Firewall, the basic functionality and requirement is met easily as Fortigate is among market leaders in NGFW. There are some extra points that inclined us to use Fortigate as our main Firewall. [Fortinet]Fortigate has a very well refined and functional SD-WAN solution when it comes to load balancing for normal Internet Traffic. 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 - 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. Though, I think Fortigate is one of the best options for small and mid-sized organizations, there are some areas for improvement. First, the CLI interface is very hard to adapt as the commands and directory hierarchy is very different for common syntax and standards. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Fortinet It is the most reliable NGFW that we have ever been touch with it. You can easily upgrade the firewall cluster firmware without user attention!!! User IDentity based feature is fantastic and intrusion prevention just works with least false-positive possible. Very reachfull and intuitive GUI, just love it Incentivized Amin Mirzakhani Network Administrator Read full review
Cons	Fortinet When we switched to Fortinet Fortigate, it took some time getting used to and become familiar with the new interface. Being used to strictly command-line interfaces, a full GUI-based firewall was something brand new. Careful planning had to be done when creating rules to ensure we didn't miss anything. However, once we got used to the new GUI interface, going from one Fortinet product to another was simple, as Fortinet used the same interface for all of its devices. 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 user interface shared among many simultaneous users is very easy to get around. With shared favorites among users, most tasks are easily bookmarked and can quickly be found and edited. Their strategy for web filter integration is easy to understand and manage as well. With some general direction, setup and maintenance were easy to do and easy to teach others in the organization to do as well. Incentivized JW Jeff Winter IS Director 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 We live in Turkey. Fortinet's Turkey office [dealt] constantly with us in our every problem or our experience. In addition, global support teams also supported every ticket we opened in every problem we encountered. They support innovative approaches and evaluate and offer solutions. In this context, they were very supportive of the problems we encountered in previous versions. TT Tayfun Toka Senior Security Supervisor 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
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 Fortigates have an interesting bundle model for support and subscription services that make it an attractive option to deploy Firewall, IDS, Ant-virus, anti-SPAM in a single device. The cost of the bundle is pretty much what you pay for the device, not requiring huge expenditures on it's time to renew the hardware. Incentivized Artur Bittencourt Information Technology Manager Read full review
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