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Fortinet FortiGate

Score8.5 out of 10

447 Reviews and Ratings

What is Fortinet 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.

Top Performing Features

  • High Availability

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

    Category average: 8.9

  • Stateful Inspection

    Stateful inspection analyzes packet headers and contents of packets

    Category average: 8.6

  • VPN

    VPN's implement encryption and anonymize IP addresses

    Category average: 9.1

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: 7.7

  • Reporting and Logging

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

    Category average: 7.8

  • Firewall Management Console

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

    Category average: 8.4

It works great for what it does but needs minor improvements

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

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

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

All Rounder Next Gen FortiGate Firewall

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Use case : Its deployed at Network Perimeter.

Who handles, In out traffic in the corporate network. Allowing legitimate and Blocking unwanted traffic and keeping corporate network safe from cyber threats.

UTM - NGFW provides best UTM features, Web Filtering, App Control , Antivirus,IPS, HTTPS Inspection etc.

SDWAN- Gives granular level of control to stearing WAN traffic.

Integration - Integration with Identify Service Provider to configure user based policies.

Pros

  • Advance Threat Protection
  • SDWAN
  • HTTPS Inspection
  • Application Control, Web Filtering, Antivirus, IPS
  • AD VPN

Cons

  • Export Policies option for SDWAN Rules

Return on Investment

  • Less disruption in corporate network
  • Security from advance cyber threats
  • So users are focused on their desire tasks.
  • As there is high availability which indirectly impacts on organisational growth.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

CheckPoint

Other Software Used

CheckPoint, Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention, SonicWall NSA Series

Robust Network Security with Room to Grow A Practical Review of Fortinet FortiGate

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It helps to protect our organization from cyber attack. Moreover, it helps us to block suspicious website and apps when user tries to access it. It provides report for the threat detection and get us the analysis. We can easily protect our branch offices as well as our data center through this Fortinet FortiGate.

Pros

  • It helps us to block social media during office hour
  • It helps us to protect us from DoS attack
  • Check HTTPS before entering into a website

Cons

  • The license cost is high
  • Sometimes it's difficult to find a feature from web portal

Return on Investment

  • Fortinet FortiGate has increased productivity since no more attack
  • FortiGate replaces VPN , web filter, IPS which reduces the cost
  • Quick deployment and scalability has allowed faster expansion

Usability

Other Software Used

FortiManager, VMware ESXi, Splunk Attack Analyzer