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FortiGate

Score8.5 out of 10

469 Reviews and Ratings

What is FortiGate?

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.

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FortiGate Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features FortiGate has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 469 ratings of FortiGate's features
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Top Performing Features

  • High Availability

    Built-in capacity to prevent exposure if primary firewall stops working

    Category average: 8.6

  • Stateful Inspection

    Stateful inspection analyzes packet headers and contents of packets

    Category average: 8.4

  • VPN

    VPN's implement encryption and anonymize IP addresses

    Category average: 8.9

Areas for Improvement

  • Visualization Tools

    Visualization tools present administrators with data on applications traversing the network, who is using them, and the potential security impact.

    Category average: 7.5

  • Reporting and Logging

    Custom and summary reports, and log files enabling analysis of security incidents, application usage and traffic patterns

    Category average: 7.4

  • Firewall Management Console

    Either command-line or web-based interface for centralized control and management

    Category average: 8.4

Who Buys & Uses Fortinet FortiGate

FortiGate Reviews

What users are saying about FortiGate.
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Pros

  • Robust network security and threat protection
  • Effective web content filtering and application control
  • Reliable VPN functionalities for secure remote access

Cons

  • Outdated or insufficient documentation and video guides
  • Firmware stability issues and history of CVEs
  • User interface navigation and dashboard discoverability

Fortinet gives us the security and flexibility we need to protect our business.

Incentivized
Mark Tufts
Director of Network Services in Information Technology at Stonehill College (1001-5000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use our Fortinet FortiGate to control all traffic on and off our campus. It solves issue we have with knowing what connections are being made to our critical resources and secures them. We enable Intrusion Detection, Anti-Virus, DNS sink holing and web filtering. We feel be using all these protections our business has a good base level of security.

Pros

  • Firewall rules are easy to manage and control
  • Intrusion Detection works well.
  • Anti-Virus protection gives us a good extra protection layer.

Cons

  • Logging, We previously used a Palo Alto which was much easier to view log details quickly.
  • More intuitive interface. Coming from Palo Alto it's not as intuitive.
  • Speed, sometimes when we run certain functions there is to much lag

Return on Investment

  • Reduced the cost of our firewalls by 10%
  • Our Maintenace cost was lowered by 15%

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention, CheckPoint and Juniper SRX

Fortinet FortiGate for eveyone

Incentivized
Julien Guffroy
Network Engineer in Information Technology at Boulanger (1001-5000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The Fortinet FortiGate are actually used in our organization for sdwan topology (spoke and hub) and some other clusters are used for north/south filtering. We're using all the featured on different branches and also have a great view of the solution. In addition, we're managing devices through Fortimanager for some of them, and we're collecting all the logs to our FortiAnalyzer.

Pros

  • SDWAN
  • Webfiltering
  • Security Fabric
  • Documentation

Cons

  • FortiOS has a lot of CVE published
  • Upgrade time has CVE patching
  • Change in code between 2 major release

Return on Investment

  • The price is cleary the first ROI
  • Easy way to find administrator is a postive impact
  • Centralization of the solution with our entities is a great impact

Usability

Alternatives Considered

FortiAnalyzer, FortiManager and Fortinet Secure SD-WAN

Other Software Used

FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, FortiOS

It works great for what it does but needs minor improvements

Incentivized
Verified User
Account Manager in Information Technology (11-50 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Fortinet FortiGate firewall appliance with our clients to protect customers network, manage remote access and firewall rules. Also as a tunnel between locations of different branches. We are addressing security and virus problems by using built in antivirus, secure the network and manage various controls leveraging cyber security for many clients.

Pros

  • Firewall
  • VPN
  • Antivirus

Cons

  • Firewall rules interface
  • Forti-token cost

Return on Investment

  • Brought security level up comparing to our legacy firewall
  • Forti-token cost is prohibitive and making us reconsider VPN solution via Fortinet FortiGate

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Ubiquiti Networks UniFi, SonicWall TZ, SonicWall Web Application Firewall, WatchGuard XTM - Discontinued Product, Watchguard Endpoint Security, WatchGuard Network Security, Bitdefender GravityZone, Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows, Windows Server, Veeam ONE, Veeam Backup for Azure and Veeam Data Platform

Other Software Used

Sentinel, Ubiquiti Networks UniFi, WatchGuard Network Security

Excellent Next Generation firewall

Incentivized
Vishnu Yadav
IT executive in Information Technology at Origin Logistics pvt Ltd (51-200 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using the Fortinet FortiGate firewall to protect the organization's network and resources from cyber threats. It not only provides you with a comprehensive cyber security solution but also offers you advanced features like load balancing, failover, application control, website filtering, bandwidth optimization, VPN, etc. It comes with a user-friendly interface that simplifies configuration, monitoring, and management of firewall settings.

Pros

  • It protects organization's network and resources from various cyber threats
  • Fortinet FortiGate firewall manages high traffic efficiently and maintains low latency.
  • It helps your organization meet various security and compliance requirements
  • It supports zero-trust architecture
  • It offers excellent web filtering and application control features

Cons

  • Pricing should be competitive
  • The Fortinet VPN client is available only on selected Fortinet firewalls.

Return on Investment

  • It is protecting our organization's network and resources from various cyber threats.
  • With its web filtering and application control feature we able to optimize bandwidth uses
  • It ensure us higher availability

Usability

Alternatives Considered

SonicWall TZ

Other Software Used

AnyDesk, JioMeet, Foxit eSign, Foxit PDF Editor

Fortinet FortiGate use case

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (51-200 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Two of our major sites are currently protected by Fortinet FortiGate Enterprise level products. Both sites have an HA Fortigate solutions ensuring network segmentation, network protection (IDS, WAF, Firewall, SSL inspection, .....) and IPSec VPN connection towards our cloud services, telco operators and remote sites. Our cloud services and remote sited aren't using Fortinet technologies and are a mix of other brand security appliances and products but the integrations has been quite easy. Actually, even if we can find similar services and products offered by many other companies, I find the Fortinet line of products a bit easy to maintain while leveraging all the availability, resilience and security we need.

Pros

  • WAF
  • IDS/IPS
  • Network segmentation
  • QOS

Cons

  • The interface, even if intuitive, has room for improvement. Sometimes, The WAF and IDS/IPS are a bit too much aggressive and need careful tuning (even if this problem is quite common).

Return on Investment

  • Compared to the previous products we were using in our two datacneters, the Fortinet FortiGate ensured a 250% ROI in three years thanks to the easier maintenance, performances (compared to the entry level price) and quite complete "ecosystem".

Usability

Other Software Used

WatchGuard Network Security, Cynet 360