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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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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
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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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Everything you need to know about Fortigate before buying it !!

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
April 02, 2019
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros
  • 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.
Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
For the money, even with all the bugs, I think it is the application that offers the most features. If you need a lot of those features and you are ready to put the time into tweaking your FortiGates, I really think it will give you the most value. If you have the money to buy the best VPN appliance, the best Firewall, the best IPS appliance and the time to set them with each other then FortiGate is not for you. If money is not the main concern and you only need the best, FortiGate is not for you but I really doubt it will be the case for most.

Fortinet gives us the security and flexibility we need to protect our business.

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
August 28, 2024
MT
Mark Tufts
Director of Network Services
Stonehill College (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Fortinet FortiGate
4 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use our Fortinet FortiGate to control all traffic on and off our campus. It solves issue we have with knowing what connections are being made to our critical resources and secures them. We enable Intrusion Detection, Anti-Virus, DNS sink holing and web filtering. We feel be using all these protections our business has a good base level of security.
Pros
  • Firewall rules are easy to manage and control
  • Intrusion Detection works well.
  • Anti-Virus protection gives us a good extra protection layer.
Cons
  • Logging, We previously used a Palo Alto which was much easier to view log details quickly.
  • More intuitive interface. Coming from Palo Alto it's not as intuitive.
  • Speed, sometimes when we run certain functions there is to much lag
Likelihood to Recommend
Works great as a base level firewall. Checks all the basic boxes for creating rules and protecting critical assets. Intrusion detection and anti-virus also work well. It is not a great product for getting quick access to detailed logs in a quick timeframe. I found the filtering aspect of logs to be lacking an intuitive quick interface.

Easy-to-use firewall

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
January 15, 2020
Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Primary/Secondary Education Company, 1001-5000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Fortinet FortiGate
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
FortiGate devices are used in our organization as firewalls and VPN servers. Main internet connections used Palo Alo firewalls, FortiGates are used on the secondary ones, as the cost of the FortiGates is significantly lower. SSL client-server VPN is used with Fortinet's Forticlient software as a client piece on PC and Mac computers. Fortinet subscription services are used for web filtering.
Pros
  • Compared to Palo Alto, FortiGates are significantly less expensive. I would advise organizations to use them in cases where funds are limited.
  • FortiGates are easy to configure via GUI - it is very simple and logical. Compared to Palo Alto or Cisco ASAs, Fortinet products are easier to work with for less experienced admins.
Cons
  • Web filtering subscription services are not as good as Palo Alto's. Palos had a smaller number of false negatives in my experience.
  • Log filtering is better on Palo Altos. It is easier to find log entries for particular events on the Palo Altos.
Likelihood to Recommend
I haven't worked with a higher-end offering from Fortinet, so my experience can only apply to smaller devices (80E and 60E). These units are less expensive than similar offerings from Palo Alto, making them a good choice for small businesses and branch offices. Also, FortiGate is the easiest firewall to configure, in my experience (among Cisco ASA, Palo Alto, pfSense, etc.). Ease of configuration is also a big advantage for organizations with limited resources. Palo Alto firewalls have better filtering and logging capabilities, though, so organizations with complicated requirements should consider investing in Palo Alto NGFW instead of FortiGate.

Getting to know Fortinet

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 19, 2022
JV
Josue Vargas
Applications Engineer
MCM Telecom (Telecommunications, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Fortinet FortiGate
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Fortinet FortiGate was used to provide different product solutions, the company specializes in internet and telephony solutions for corporations. Especially when the customer needed some security at his network.
Pros
  • Filtering information
  • High Availability services.
  • Strong security.
Cons
  • The path to upgrade. Sometimes its way to tedious.
Likelihood to Recommend
When you offer internet solutions as a company, you have to consider security measures, and the Fortinet firewalls are a good tool to achieve this. Therefore, to implement security on networks. This is perfect, however, if you don't need that much security, is not as necessary.

FortiGate: one of the best FW products for Enterprise Org

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
July 15, 2016
Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Telecommunications Company, 51-200 employees
Vetted Review
Reseller
Fortinet FortiGate
12 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We deploy multiple clusters of FortiGate 1500Ds nation-wide for our customers' centralized firewall as well as VPN concentrators. We also installed remote office class Fortigate to customer's locations to set up a VPN from the locations into the VPN concentrators.
Pros
  • FortiGuard (cloud-base AV/IPS/Webfiltering database) services regarless of the type of FortiGate on site are their main sell.
  • They cover most aspects of network needs with Forti-xxxx products integrated with FortiGate, such as FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, FortiAP, FortiSwitch, and so on.
  • They have top class support services like Cisco and Juniper [do].
Cons
  • Their business model relies on recurring revenue sources; service/support contract for bigger/more expensive hardware. It's not cheap to keep them for years unless yours are small enough to feel ease of annual cost.
  • Although they add some key routing/switching features from time to time, FortiGate has never been a "router" or "switch", or "L2/L3 router/switch". It's a "firewall". You can't expect the same level of routing/switching feature sets like Cisco or Juniper L2/L3 router/switch provide.
  • The level of support you can get may vary depending on how busy the support teams are. You might need to escalate if you don't think you're getting proper support.
  • They're very successful with enterprise customers/users. Mean Network Provider customers, like us, often take a back seat especially for new feature development.
Likelihood to Recommend
Smaller organizations who need cloud-based firewall services would get the most benefit out of FortiGate products. Provider class users need a full evaluation on exactly how they need/want to deploy. They should also see if FortiGate fits in the bigger picture (including the total cost analysis).
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