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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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Excellent Next Generation firewall

Rating: 10 out of 10
April 3, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 securi...
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Vishnu Yadav
Employee - Information Technology
IT executive
Origin Logistics pvt Ltd
Fortinet FortiGate4 years of experience

Fortinet FortiGate is a partner for Network Securtiy Blue Team

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 28, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
There are many uses of Fortinet FortiGate solution. We are using at first time how Perimeter's Firewall soluction. We knew its technology when migrate Cisco`s ASA to this ven...
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Gustavo Mendez
Team Lead - Information Technology
CyberSecurity Leader
Mutual Jerarquicos Salud
Fortinet FortiGate10 years of experience

Fortinet FortiGate-Confidence

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 26, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Fortinet FortiGate to centralise our networks, provide secure web filtering and deliver a solid security fabric integrated remote access solution to our Staff and pupil...
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Verified user
Manager
Fortinet FortiGate7 years of experience

Fortinet FortiGate for eveyone

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 26, 2025
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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...
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Julien Guffroy
Engineer - Information Technology
Network Engineer
Boulanger
Fortinet FortiGate4 years of experience

Next Generation Fortinet FortiGate Firewall - Uninterrupted Network

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 19, 2025
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Fortinet FortiGate is Gateway level security used to restrict incoming and outgoing traffic.also using for application control,web block, Antivirus ,DNS control, IPS as part o...
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Diksha Limbachiya
Administrator - Information Technology
Server and Network Admin
SSM Infotech
Fortinet FortiGate5 years of experience
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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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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 High Availability highest, with a score of 9.4.

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

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
March 02, 2019
Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Hospital & Health Care Company, 1001-5000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Fortinet FortiGate
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros
  • 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.
Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
FortiGate offers several sizing options to suit any size organization from small businesses to large enterprises. The licensing options are flexible as well, allowing organizations to choose their level of protection. Options include antivirus, web filtering, DNS filtering, application control, intrusion prevention, anti-spam, web application firewall, and SSL inspection. They also include a cloud sandbox with their offering.

Fortigates are good options for Firewalls

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
December 19, 2017
AB
Artur Bittencourt
Information Technology Manager
Corporation of the Township of Esquimalt (Government Administration, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Fortinet FortiGate
4 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros
  • 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
Cons
  • 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
Likelihood to Recommend
I've only used Fortigates in small and medium environments with multiple locations and the Fortigates work very well. They are usually very low maintenance and easy to upgrade. Creating site-to-site VPNs, as well as SSLVPNs, are very simple on Fortigates. The low-end Fortigates have pretty much the same functionality as the high end and can be managed the same way.

Fortinet FortiGate for advance security features

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
June 01, 2021
VS
Vinit Sharma
Network Administrator
Infosys (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Fortinet FortiGate
2 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros
  • Real UTM
  • Remote VPN
  • DLP
  • Email filtering as well as content filtering
  • Anti-Spam
Cons
  • 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
Likelihood to Recommend
Fortinet FortiGate Provides a Deep Scanning feature identifies malicious traffic over network easily & also having advance level of such security feature in a cost-effective manner. It also helps us to content filtering & anti-spam over data.

Fortinet FortiGate Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
February 28, 2019
Verified User
Director in Information Technology
Law Practice Company, 11-50 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Fortinet FortiGate
4 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros
  • 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.
Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
Fortinet FortiGate is well suited for any sized business to protect its internal network from external forces with bad intents. Common sense and best practices dictate that all private networks should be protected by a firewall, and just as importantly the FortiGuard services add-on (IPS, Anti-malware and spam filtering).

Give your Network a Security Boost with FortiGate and enjoy the benefits of Peace of Mind

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
September 22, 2022
JB
Jesse Bridgelal
Network Architect
MOH (Government Administration, 501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Fortinet FortiGate
6 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros
  • 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.
Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
Fortigate Firewalls models are designed to be used in networks of any size. They come in sizes varying from Entry Level to large enterprise. Fortinet FortiGate is best suited tot he Corporate Network environment where high security is required. The Devices also offer powerful WAN services and SDWAN features which make them an excellent alternative for your basic WAN Router. With features such as OSPF and BGP and SDWAN, they provide advanced network services and enhanced security at a lower cost. Because these boxes are purpose built and include Security Processor (SPU) technology, they outperform other devices in their class.
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