Fortinet FortiGate Review
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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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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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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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The most common users of FortiGate are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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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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September 22, 2022
Give your Network a Security Boost with FortiGate and enjoy the benefits of Peace of Mind
Fortinet FortiGate is a Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) that provides state-of-the-art security for your Network. Fortinet FortiGate provides the full Unified Threat Protection (UTP)Suite for our Company and includes powerful network protection services such as IPS, Anti-Malware, Antivirus, Flood Detection, BotNet Detection, Web Filters, and other security services. Fortigate provides a powerful first line of defense for our network, with proactive alerting and intrusion prevention. Fortigate and the FortiClient combine to provide versatile and secure VPN services for our Remote workers. the Site to Site VPN is also a powerful full-time VPN for larger sites that need WAN Connectivity. Fortigate provides a very intuitive interface which allows our Team to configure and utilize the most powerful features of this Firewall with ease.
- Powerful and reliable SDWAN Services
- Unified Threat Protection with powerful features such as IPS, Anti-Virus, Anti-Malware, Anti-Spam
- Powerful IPS Services backed by industry validation
- Provides Reliable Publishing Services for providing secure remote access to internal services
- Provides excellent Remote Access Services via IPSEC and SSL VPN Tunnel technologies.
- Features a simple and intuitive user interface which is well designed and easy to follow.
- There could be some improvement to the Logging Services to include more details
- 10 Gigabit Interfaces should be available for the lower models as well.
- Simpler installation of the FortiAP services when being used.
Fortinet's FortiGate solution is being used in my organization and we are able to achieve the security with this cost efficient firewall. It comes with powerful technologies to secure the infra from known and unknown both attack types. On the top of that, it has an user friendly user interface where policy creation is easy and we can select the security profiles per rules.
- IPS
- Remote VPN (Forti VPN)
- Advanced Malware protection
- Logs
- Cost effective
- CLI Commands
- Documentations
- High Availability
- Content filtering
June 01, 2021
Fortinet FortiGate for advance security features
We are using Fortinet FortiGate in our Remote area locations because it has one of the best features of remote VPN for connecting remote sites to the main branch. Also, they are providing the UTM feature that is giving the best outputs as compared to other firewalls we have in our enviorment. Fortinet FortiGate resolved our Security & remote VPN issues.
- Real UTM
- Remote VPN
- DLP
- Email filtering as well as content filtering
- Anti-Spam
- No advance routing feature available
- Nating customization options not good as compare to other market available firwall's
- CLI needs to be more easier for begineers
May 31, 2021
My Fortinet FortiGate Review (my experience)
Fortinet FortiGate firewall provides you ultimate threat protection for your organization. This is only one and [many] powerful firewall offers UTM. Most of firewall offers UTM but most of main features is missing but in Fortinet we have web filtering, anti virus, content filtering, application control, which help you organization from external threats so your business will not [be] harmed from any cyber attack. I have this product in one of my location. I am satisfied with [its] high performance and advanced protection.
- High performance threat protection.
- Web filtering.
- Anti virus.
- Application filtering.
- Content filtering.
- Email control.
- Highly protected with advanced security features.
- Command line is not easy so you will face problem to remember the commands.
- Not good technical support and issue with SLA.
- Not easy to configure and implement.
We use FortiGate mainly for internet gateway and IPS at each of our offices. It offers us IPS, Firewall, VPN and many more features for a competitive price.
We also use Fortigate captive portal with their 2FA (mobile or physical) keys to offer an additional validation before accessing our service backend networks.
We also use Fortigate captive portal with their 2FA (mobile or physical) keys to offer an additional validation before accessing our service backend networks.
- User authentication inside firewall rules. It is practically seamless and really easy to setup.
- Management of firewall rules via the GUI.
- Management of IPS rules via the GUI.
- Forticlient with SSL VPN causes a lot more problems than it solves. Windows and Mac updates keep breaking the Forticlient and it takes weeks to get updates. Fortigate updates also sometimes break the SSL VPN. Forticlient crashes and the only fix is to restart the computer to restart the VPN driver. We had this problem for 3 years and they still don't have a fix for that. We now use L2TP-IPsec and Cisco-IPsec with Windows and Mac embedded VPN clients because of all that.
- Memory issues with IPS. We tried all the firmware versions and IPS engines given to us by the Fortinet support and we are still experiencing memory leaks once in a while with the IPS engine. The only provided solution is to restart the IPS engine via CLI.
- FortiView only works properly if you disable ASIC routing. Their marketing always says that their ASICs is the reason their appliances are better than competition but you can't use it if you want reports or to be able to drill down on network usage.
- Every time they release a new firmware version, it takes 3-6 revisions for it to be free from major bugs. We are still waiting for a 5.6 revision that will not have major bugs within the features we use.
- Active-Active clusters do not offer much resilience when problems are software based. If for example the IPS engine has a memory leak, it will not automatically fallback on the other Fortigate, even if the primary one reboots.
- Everything related to virus, spam and intrusion detection (Forticlient, IPS, mail antispam, etc.) needs a lot of tweaking otherwise you will get a lot of false positive. It is also lacking in the type of actions you can do when those are detected. It is designed more for blocking than anything else.
March 02, 2019
FortiGate Review
FortiGate is used as our enterprise firewall used across the organization. It addresses securing our network from outside attacks with policy control, antivirus, IPS, application and web filtering.
- Their ASIC technology has very high-performance. The hardware is fast.
- Easy to manage. Rule creation is easy and flexible.
- Logging is detailed. GUI allows you to add/remove columns to get the detail you want.
- There seems to be a lack of quality control with new versions and service pack releases. GUI menus fail to load. Features get pulled out. What's in this release might not be in the next. Random bugs you would not expect to see.
- Alerting options are not flexible. Very basic and limited options.
- VPN logging is not very detailed for troubleshooting.
February 28, 2019
Fortinet FortiGate Review
We use Fortinet FortiGate as our firewall at all three of our offices. We use the Fortiguard service on the firewalls, which includes anti-malware, intrusion protection and the Next Generation Firewall. Before we added the Fortiguard services we were unprotected against bad actors from around the world trying to brute force our RDP servers. Now I am confident that all of those actors are being blocked/banned at the firewall.
- The Fortinet FortiGate firewall software includes a full function graphical user interface that makes firewall administration easy without having to know the command line interface commands.
- The FortiGate does an excellent job of protecting devices behind the firewall, its integrated Spam, anti-malware and IPS services all work very well.
- FortiGate licensing costs are reasonable and much more affordable that Cisco's offerings.
- The only complaint I have about the FortiGate is the fact that the advanced services like IPS, anti-malware and spam filtering are add-on services. It would be great if they were a part of the firewall offering.
April 24, 2018
Fortinet Fortigate 110C General Review
We're currently working with amaze with a FortiGate 110C, that is our front end Firewall for ISP routing and as a first layer to declare web access policies, anti-spam filtering, IPS, application inventory and to implement fail over policies to warranty the Internet connection to all departments. The UTM Solution from Fortinet brings a bundle package of features that is allowing the company to establish a MAN and an extreme secure VPN layer to deliver to our branch offices the WAN access with incredible ease. I do strongly recommend this quite remarkable Security Solution.
- An accurate Web Filtering module that will allow to your IT Staff, leverage the administration of the web access from the end point users. Also will allow to customize the policies through a broad presentation of options, where you can customize or schedule the access to specific web sites.
- AD & LDAP integration will allow you to sync your DC with the Firewall and set the traffic rules and packages with ease.
- VPN through SSL Web Portals will simplify the scale of adaptation for final user, allowing a customization of the front end portal, with corporate image.
- Improve time for releasing bug fixing.
- Integrate graphical troubleshoot tools for policies based on devices or user identities, will help IT Sec Admins to answer faster to security breaches.
- Using CLI reference guides and a better sort options.
December 19, 2017
Fortigates are good options for Firewalls
We use Fortigate as our main firewall to protect the network and to establish VPN between 2 sites. We make use of most Fortigate modules and subscription such as anti-spam, anti-virus and Intrusion detection systems. The Fortigates protect our Internal network and the public Wifi we provide to the public. We also take advantage of the Web filtering functionality.
- Unified Protection: Having firewall, IDS, Anti-virus and Anti-spam on the same appliance is very handy as you don't need to deploy multiple appliances/solutions
- User Access Control: Setup Firewall rules based on Active Directory User and Groups help with the constant need for firewall changes, saving the network folks a lot of time.
- GUI Interface: Very intuitive Management interface, makes the need for CLI changes very seldom
- Non-disruptive upgrades on standalone boxes. Not sure if the technology would allow it but it would be great to have.
- Subscription signatures auto-deployment could affect production traffic. In some circumstances letting Fortigate accept subscription signatures may cause the device to drop traffic
November 21, 2017
Fortigate, the best
We use and recommend Fortinet Fortigate to all our customers as the main firewall at the internet access point of the organization. We use it mainly as a firewall but we also make use of its anti-virus capabilities and as a web filter. The VPN is an additional plus.
- fire wall
- antivirus
- VPN
- GUI
- wizards
- price
June 08, 2017
A FortiGate firewall and UTM appliances review
- FortiGate is a label that Fortinet applies to a really large number of products having a part of shared features.
- Possible usage scenarios include:
- VPN Gateway
- Small offices connection endpoints
- Enterprise proxy, firewall and threats management with UTM (Unified Threat Management)
- Routing and layer 3 management
- High availability
- Virtualized FortiGates are also an option, and it is something that is interesting for companies with a good virtualization infrastructure.
- FortiGate is not just a firewall but a full Unified Threat Management (UTM) solution. So, a FortiGate can be used as the single security point to check on security risks like SPAM, infected attachments, spyware and so on).
- Smaller devices (series 90 and 30) have a limited subset of the above features.
- The routing and VPN performances are really good too, so a company network could easily use a correctly dimensioned appliance as the core of the layer 3 and routing infrastructure.
- FortiOS (Fortinet's network security operating system) is used on all the appliances, so security people are able to move from a smaller device to really large deployments with (relative) ease.
- Having a single solution used to manage security risks (using the UTM) is really something that reduces complexity of the network administration and deployment.
- The NAT and routing management that a FortiGate is able to deliver is one of the best I have seen so far. I had to configure really peculiar addressing requests and the FortiOS gave me a range of solutions that made it doable.
- The graphical interface of the FortiOS makes it look like an easy to use tool. This perception is true if you are going to do a really limited use of the appliance. However, it could create a false sense of confidence in using something that is really complex.
- In the past months I know that a few customers were not happy about the quality of the support they received, especially from sales people. If it is true (I have no first hand evidence) it could be an important point to fix.
- Some of the services and upgrades are costly. I am not saying they are not worth the money, but in a market that is really crowded, cost is a decision factor that could push companies to different platforms.
March 20, 2017
Fortigate Firewalls
We use the Fortigates as our primary firewalls at our primary and DR locations. We also use them for creating VPN tunnels between outlying branches for secure communication over the internet. They are also used as another layer of anti-virus, DDOS, etc., for our organization.
- Very easy to create VPN tunnels between Fortigate devices.
- Easy set up and configuration.
- Firewall rules are straight forward to setup.
- The logs can be troublesome to work through to try and find why information is not being passed through.
- Creating a VPN tunnel to a non-Fortigate can be difficult.
- Reporting function and GUI interface takes up a very large amount of CPU. Many times I have seen the CPU usage hit 100% with very little traffic being processed.