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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
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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  • No setup fee
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  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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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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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 9.3.

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

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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.

Great product, at a great price point

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
March 16, 2018
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Derek Aldridge
Information Technology Director
Ed Schmidt Automotive Group, Inc (Automotive, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Fortinet FortiGate
5 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
The FortiGate in our environment provides protection across the entire organization. We are using SSL VPN, web filter, antivirus, and application monitoring. I can attest that these functions all work really well, and our FortiGate has had high reliability and configuring it is not a laborious task. The few interactions I have had with support have been great.
Pros
  • Web Filter - with the supplied FSSO utility filtering users by groups or department is simple.
  • Application Filtering - insight into what applications are running have been great
  • SSL VPN - SSL VPN is simple to set up
  • AV - has done a great job catching viruses before ever hitting the internal network
Cons
  • Logging can be a somewhat difficult to dig into
  • Occasionally usernames aren't attached to the computers being filtered
Likelihood to Recommend
Fortinet FortiGate is well suited for SMB, and they offer a suite of products that complement each other very well. There is a lot of flexibility for configuration, as there are command line options, and also a GUI that is fairly intuitive. With the range of appliances that Fortinet offers I'm not sure there is an environment that it wouldn't work in.

Excellent solution, easy to configure and manage with a low cost

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
February 18, 2020
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We have been working with this solution over 5 years and we are very satisfied. We use it for one of our offices and the configuration is very easy and intuitive. You can apply policies by address or by user, the integration with Active Directory is not complicated, the cost of the solution is cheaper in comparison with other vendors and including the same solutions.
Pros
  • Ease to configure policies
  • VPN performance
  • Active directory integration.
Cons
  • Not so scalable, if you need more performance you need to buy another device
  • The traffic shaper could be better
  • The Wan load balance could be better
Likelihood to Recommend
Fortigate works pretty well if you choose the correct device based on the number of your users. If you need to apply policies by application this solution can help you. Their other features like web filter, VPN connections, traffic reports, etc work well too. In general terms, the solution is very complete and the cost of this device is cheaper than other vendors.

Fortinet FIrewalls

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
March 11, 2019
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Adithyo Dewangga Wijaya
Network Operations Manager
Indosat Singapore Pte Ltd (Indosat Ooredoo Singapore) (Telecommunications, 5001-10,000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Fortinet FortiGate
5 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Fortinet's version of throughput is good and It has a strong active cluster, as you can have between three and 32 units to a cluster. The most important factor is that you choose a firewall or UTM solution that fits your organization's security requirements. Begin by determining what business problem you are trying to solve, what technical controls you need to implement (Firewall, IPS, NAC, VPN, endpoint, mobility, web filtering, malware detection, etc.). Then, determine what hardware features you need such as (HA clustering, link aggregation or 10Gb, port density), and what kind of throughput, and how many concurrent connections.
Pros
  • Easy to set up
  • 9/10 Customer Service
  • 9/10 Technical Supports
  • Multiple layers of security
Cons
  • Security
  • LAN
  • WAN
Likelihood to Recommend
Variables in TCL scripts via FortiManager

Forti-UTM

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
November 21, 2017
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Oil & Energy Company, 501-1000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Fortinet FortiGate
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Fortigate across the whole organization. It is used for firewall/IPS/Web filtering.
Pros
  • UTM provides comprehensive security, which is great
  • Easy to use GUI
  • Great support
Cons
  • Site-to-site vpn - would like to configure using wizard. currently, I use manual configuration.
  • Additional reports on web site usage statistics
  • Failover / redundancy
Likelihood to Recommend
Great for small-medium companies. Not sure how it will scale for large companies.
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