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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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Popular Features

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  • VPN (38)
    9.7
    97%
  • Firewall Management Console (38)
    9.6
    96%
  • Policy-based Controls (38)
    9.6
    96%
  • Reporting and Logging (38)
    8.2
    82%

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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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Product Demos

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Features

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Product Details

What is FortiGate?

Fortinet’s FortiGate is a firewall product with high integrability. It can be deployed on-premises or as a Virtual Machine in a variety of modules. The granularity of the product enables buyers to tailor their purchase to their business needs. FortiGate integrates into multivendor environments, including IaaS cloud platforms and public cloud environments.

FortiGate’s functionality includes the core firewall features, such as intrusion prevention, anti-malware, and web filtering. It also includes SSL inspection, threat protection, and scalable segmentation, all within low-latency standards.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Reviewers rate VPN and High Availability highest, with a score of 9.7.

The most common users of FortiGate are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Community Insights

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FortiGate is a versatile product that has been widely used by various organizations to address their network security needs. Users have reported that FortiGate serves as a reliable firewall solution, providing advanced security features and protecting the infrastructure from known and unknown attack types. It is not just a firewall but a full Unified Threat Management solution, offering security checks for risks like SPAM, infected attachments, and spyware.

FortiGate has proven to be suitable for different use cases, such as small office connections, enterprise proxy, threats management solution, and routing and layer 3 management. It offers excellent routing and VPN performance, making it an ideal choice as the core of a company network's layer 3 and routing infrastructure. Additionally, FortiGate is highly regarded for its ease of setup and management, delivering intuitive visibility into multiple network activities that aid in troubleshooting network and security issues.

Virtualized FortiGates are also available, making it a suitable option for companies with strong virtualization infrastructures. The product line includes devices that can withstand environmental extremes, making it viable for industrial environments. Organizations have utilized FortiGate for securing external services, inter VLAN routing, protecting users' internet access, segmenting internal networks, and creating a security fabric using Fortinet switches and APs.

FortiGate provides robust VPN capabilities for remote workers, including site-to-site VPNs for larger sites. Users have praised its user-friendly interface for policy creation and selection of security profiles. The solution is also utilized as the primary internet-facing firewall, protecting networks from outside threats while allowing secure remote access through SSL VPN.

Customers have recommended FortiGate as an alternative to more expensive solutions due to its cost-efficiency without compromising on performance or functionality. With its powerful technologies and extensive support ecosystem provided by Fortinet, FortiGate has enhanced security and resolved issues across organizations of all sizes.

In summary, FortiGate has proven to be a reliable and versatile network security solution, addressing a wide range of use cases such as firewall protection, VPN establishment, threat management, routing infrastructure, and secure remote access. It provides advanced security features, intuitive management interfaces, and cost-efficient solutions for organizations of all sizes.

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Adrian Cumberbatch | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our Fortigate is used as the primary network router and IPSec VPN access point. We have a hub [and] spoke setup between the main office and other remote offices. Users also connect to our fortigate to access the network remotely using SSL VPN with the FortiClient software installed on their PCs or using the SSL web portal.
  • SSL VPN works well and is very configurable for controlling access to internal network resources based on user groups.
  • Fortigate also manages our wireless AP and many SSIDs can be created with either WPA or Enterprise WPA with radius for greater security
  • IPSec VPNs easy to configure between fortigate devices but also not that difficult for other IPSec compatible devices
  • Initial learning curve was difficult coming from a Symantec/Raptor background but not a huge deal
Fortigate is well suited where you have multiple internet connections and you want to provide failover for these connections. This can be done by round-robin or in an active-passive mode when an ISP goes down, traffic is automatically routed across the other device without interruption. Users never notice and it saves a lot of headaches. Of course, monitoring should be done from external sources so that you are aware when a link goes down.
  • Fortigate has made it easy for users to connect remotely and securely with Forticlient 2fa.
  • Fortigate has offered a number of devices that are appropriately sized for the various locations so we never have to over purchase.
  • Fortigate allows us to have multiple links between locations for redundancy making it easy to keep users connected.
Fortigate's multiple internet links were what made it desirable at the time but I imagine this is commonplace now.
100
All aspects of business, including Sales, Marketing, Tech, Finance and Customer service
2
Network administrators should be familiar with how the fortigate device can be used to protect assets within the internal network as well as providing secure remote access to users from outside the network.
Skills required are
  • understanding of network security concepts, such as IPSEC, VPN, OTP with Forti-token, and access policies,
  • Routing and subnetting
  • SDWAN,
  • DMZ
  • user access control methods such as LDAP and Radius
  • Wireless access points
  • Remote access for users
  • Inter-office VPN links using SD-WAN
  • Network segmentation to protect and isolate various network segments
  • Wan failover
  • source and destination routing of network traffic
  • SDWan has allowed us to utilize our multiple internet circuits to provide the best connection for inter office VPN. Before using SDWan features, we would have to be continuously monitoring VPN links and manually switching routing priority from links with degraded performance. This resulted in numerous complaints from users, but now SDWan keeps choosing the optimal circuit between ISPs which has dramatically improved things
  • We are hoping to use more SDWan features in the future to segregate the types of traffic on our VPNs, so that higher priority business traffic is placed on premium DIA circuits, and backup replication traffic is placed on cheaper broadband circuits. Currently we have to use all traffic on the same DIA link which is less capacity and is expensive.
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.
Yes
We pay for annual subscription of Forticare which gives us access to 24x7 support. Responses are usually the same day and with them usually asking for a copy of the config file.
The support engineers will always try to find the root of the problem you are having and not give up. Using gotomeeting makes it easy for them to see exactly what the problem is and I've learnt quite a lot from these interactions so that I'm now able to do more troubleshooting on my own.
No
My last support call was with a SSL VPN portal issue which had to be escalated to a level 2 engineer. The engineer came up with a way to troubleshoot the issue which was affecting another product we were testing, and even spent time on two calls with engineers from the other vendor so that we could find a work-around. This went on for about 3 weeks and he constantly updated me with progress he was making.
My environments are pretty small (less than 100 users per location) so no issues here.
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.
Kewyn Medina | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it as our internal and external firewall. It is also used with all security options, including DDOS protection, in our branches.
  • Web filtering, which protects the users browsing to non-secure websites
  • Network security between different networks
  • Traffic shaping control for users and applications
  • Traffic shaping options based more on layer 7, so you could have a more detailed control over the exact sites users are browsing
  • The transition between different major updates
  • More option in fast reports and dashboards
  • A more exact measure of bandwidth to show in dashboard and FortiView
Very good in the firewall protection between different networks, and also for external protection. It also gives a really good experience in the browsing protection for users, which keep them safe from unsecured websites.

On the other hand, you could have some issues when you are tracking a user in the forward traffic log because is not easy to troubleshoot or find some browsing information because of the main graphical interface.
  • Very positive because it helps us reducing cost by avoiding the acquisition of additional network equipment
  • It helps us to easily reach our internal security objectives
  • Bandwidth control
We selected it because it is a good balance between a very well positioned company and good pricing
200
They are part of the user who receive fortigate security protection and also the administrator which fortigate helps to solve security in a friendly and simplistic way.
2
We need people with advanced knowledge in network configuration and support, but most of the admin task of the fortigate appliance are very user friendy to configure, admin and support.
  • Security protection
  • WAN links load balance
  • Traffic Shaping
  • Wan link Load balance and high availability configuration for main ISP connections at the same time in active mode
  • Different ways to apply traffic shaping to the users
  • Load balancing options
  • Remote site connections
It is a friendly user technology, with a simplistic dashboard to manage and control the daily operation with a high grade of trust in security.
Yes
Cisco Router doing a bad combination of security and shaping
  • Price
  • Product Reputation
  • Analyst Reports
  • Third-party Reviews
Fortinet is a very well ranked security company in the market giving to the company a good balance between security and pricing.
I still will keep it as my option.
  • Implemented in-house
Change management was a small part of the implementation and was well-handled
There is a lot of testing implicit with the migration to the fortigate to tune as much as possible the browsing experience for the users, it does not matter how much do you test to avoid user issues in production you will have to deal always with small quantity.
  • Load balance between WANs connections
Easy to configure and with a very intuitive manual to follow.
  • In-person training
  • Self-taught
I received it a couple years afters use it and it was just to confirm my knowledge about the tool.
Yes, it was easy, there are a lot of resources in internet that are easy to follow.
Just Right
Fortigate Cookbook it is definitely a good guide to start and follow
Yes - we have customized the interface extensively
Very easy to do and manage
No - we have not done any custom code
No
Yes
It is a good option always have available premium support hours in case you have a failure, In the last 3 years i never had a major issue that need to request big support help
Perfect is a complicated rate. But they are good in what they do and also give a really good through their local vendor channels
Yes
yes, definetely.
In some occasion during this year, we experienced a big issue that was causing a degradation in our internet, initially we created several cases requesting support to factory to try to find the origin of the bad internet performance and experience for the users especially in videoconference, after hours of troubleshooting and testing we found that the issue was caused by a security protection of DOS that only was automatically applied during high traffic hours during the day.
  • Policy creation to allow communication between networks
  • Application traffic Shaping
  • Make traffic shaping troubleshooting
I consider a good security appliance wit h a good bundle for network to use as a concentrated network appliance configured in a good high availability configuration
I ti is very stable appliance with a very trustable service
1 significant failure in 3 years, and it was solved with a rebooot.
Good performance and really good integration. We have integration with Microsoft AD.
it was a good process because they follow and guide since the acquisition to the configuration
They gave us a really good support
Additional hour of support in case of an emergency failure or advanced support
No
Yes
It is very easy to do an upgrade of version and also a rollback in case you have any problem. There is a lot of information even in the same console before executing all the process.
  • New Features available
  • having access to las network tendencies in market like SDWAN without doing an appliance replacement
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