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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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Best NGFW firewall

10 out of 10
January 11, 2024
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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 …
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Popular Features

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  • VPN (38)
    9.8
    98%
  • 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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  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Product Demos

Fortinet Fortigate Firewall SSL VPN Demo

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Features

Firewall

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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 highest, with a score of 9.8.

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

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

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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Reviews

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
Donny McIver | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Whenever we've had an issue (which isn't often) we've been able to great support through the Partner channel or KB area. We love how well documented various aspects of the platform are taken care of - and how well manicured the KB area / Cookbooks are.

Having quick access to support resources without always having to call to speak to some engineer helps us self-resolve a great number of issues on our own and learn more along the way. Candidly though, we just haven't had to call in or open a ticket hardly ever - usually it's more for our channel support to determine license needs or quoting assistance.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
I will give Fortinet FortiGate a 9, and there is no perfect solution out there. Everybody has an opinion on what is best. That's because it's what that person prefers to use. Some firewalls lack certain feature sets compared to others, but it all depends on the environment you need to deploy the solution. For what I needed, the Fortinet FortiGate hit all the points.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The Support team at Fortinet is excellent. They can not only help you configure the device for what you are trying to do, they offer suggestions on improving rules, and troubleshooting issues. Their response time is fast, ensuring you are up and running immediately with no questions asked.
We had a hard drive failure in one of our Fortinet Fortigate appliances. The tech answered immediately, and started rebuilding the drive after some preliminary investigations. After rebuilding, there were still errors and issues, so they dispatched a brand new Fortinet Fortigate appliance. The tech then backed up the configurations for when the new device came in, which showed up in a few hours. A restore of the configuration took less than a minute, and there were no more errors or issues.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The few times I needed assistance, they were excellent. Very professional and well trained. I have been very happy with support assistance as well as the initial assistance switching from a Cisco firewall and the FortiGate. We transferred policies and objects and they provided guidance on cleaning up our existing configuration.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Support is always a big factor in consideration of any product for our organization. Fortinet support has been extremely good. They have provided an onsite engineer at no cost to help us design, implement, and maintain new products when needed. The call support has also been excellent, with quick response times and knowledgeable technicians.
January 15, 2020

Easy-to-use firewall

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As devices proved very reliable, the configuration process was easy, and Fortinet's documentation is very robust, I had no need to contact Fortinet's support. All in all, it is a pleasure to work with these devices.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller
There were scenarios where we were unable to resolve the issues and it was impacting our business. We had raised the ticket with the Fortinet team to high priority, then they asked us to send a few logged posts so that they could support us remotely and resolved the issue in no time. This has happened multiple times. There support is very prompt.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The support offered by on onsite engineer to help design, configure, and use the firewall was the best we've experienced from a vendor. He was knowledgeable, efficient, and patient. Sales support has been equally good. We haven't used the email or phone support very much due to lack of issues, but when we have they have been quick, easy to get to, and knowledgeable as well.
Marc-Olivier Turgeon-Ferland | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The first support level is pretty much useless for any complicated problems. They are they to guide you to the correct documentation relating to simple questions and to collect data for the 2nd level and up.

Once you are able to get escalated, those people are pretty knowledgeable and will normally get you at least a workaround but most of the time they will really try to understand what you want to accomplish and not only apply the solution but also educate you which is less and less common and a really good thing.
March 11, 2019

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Adithyo Dewangga Wijaya | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
service provides technical support excellence through fast track access to the Advanced Services team. It also includes training and certification, a customized account plan, and proactive after-hours support.
Adrian Cumberbatch | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Tommy Boucher | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I always get an answer to my issues, most of the time the answer is positive, but when it is not, there is an explanation. The only un-resolved issue I have is regarding the FortiClient while connecting to VPN, and the support was never able to help me with it. Otherwise, all answers make sense.
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