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FortiGuard Web Filtering Service

FortiGuard Web Filtering Service

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What is FortiGuard Web Filtering Service?

Fortinet headquartered in Sunnyvale, California offers the FortiGuard Web Filtering Service, a web content filter.

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FortiGuard Web Filtering Service has proven to be an invaluable tool for users seeking to filter harmful and damaging websites. Users have …
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What is FortiGuard Web Filtering Service?

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FortiGuard Web Filtering Service has proven to be an invaluable tool for users seeking to filter harmful and damaging websites. Users have successfully utilized the service to minimize data leakage and maintain uninterrupted work environments. The ease of implementation has made it a popular choice, as it eliminates the need for manual maintenance of web filtering lists.

The service's versatility is evident in its application across different settings. It has been effectively used as part of proof-of-concept projects within departments and implemented in pilot programs at test high schools, middle schools, and elementary schools. Integration with firewalls in various locations, branches, and enterprises allows for separate rule sets tailored to different networks and users.

Business problems such as protecting against phishing attempts, preventing non-work related browsing, securing guest wireless networks, and enabling user activity logging have found their solutions with FortiGuard Web Filtering Service. Users also appreciate its user-friendly approach, which does not require installation of a root certificate on PCs. The service includes website categorization and antivirus protection to further enhance its capabilities.

Having been relied upon for approximately 4 years, FortiGuard Web Filtering Service has proven its effectiveness where other software solutions have fallen short. Its ability to block unwanted access and prevent malicious content extends across multiple platforms and operating systems, making it a powerful solution for organizations in need of comprehensive web filtering capabilities.

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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using FortiGuard Web Filtering Service to protect our network traffic through all tunnels. In this scenario we have many policies and category list of unwanted and dangerous websites. That provides us use and secure our devices. That allows us to give our focus on other topics of our work.
David Williams | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
FortiGuard Web Filtering Service is well-suited for an organisation that is able to funnel all its Internet connectivity through one device, i.e., the office environment - or perhaps where WFH workers are using a remote desktop or VPN.

It allows management/IT to minimise risk by blocking websites that may be harmful, as well as websites that may enable data leakage, or even are websites that people ought not to be visiting in the workplace.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Corporate or educational environments would benefit from this service. Blocking access to social media, malicious and adult websites is very simple to implement on modern FortiGuard Web Filtering Service firewalls. FortiGuard Web Filtering Service being a business product doesn't fit well in the home due to it's higher level of networking required to set up. However, I wouldn't want FortiGuard Web Filtering Service to dilute their brand by offering home products like Cisco does.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I recommend FortiGuard [Web Filtering Service] for small and medium businesses. It is well suited if you need to block bad websites like pornography, so I especially recommend using it for schools. For example, you can implement a firewall between the public internet and your local network of computer labs, students, and staff.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
FortiGuard Web Filtering Service has served us well for protecting both business and guest networks. We currently have multiple tiers on the business side running different rule sets, and some shared custom groups allowing us to manage access with as much granularity as we desire.
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