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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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TrustRadius Insights

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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  • No setup fee
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  • Free/Freemium Version
  • 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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Marc-Olivier Turgeon-Ferland | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our SE always provides support that goes beyond what is expected.

One time we were diagnosing a slowness when doing SMB traffic over L2TP VPN and even though support was trying to help but not finding the problem our SE was continually giving us things to try in parallel and in the end it wasn't even the Fortigate that was causing the problem, it was some regkey in Windows.
Adrian Cumberbatch | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My last support call was with a SSL VPN portal issue which had to be escalated to a level 2 engineer. The engineer came up with a way to troubleshoot the issue which was affecting another product we were testing, and even spent time on two calls with engineers from the other vendor so that we could find a work-around. This went on for about 3 weeks and he constantly updated me with progress he was making.
Tommy Boucher | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
During an upgrade, some of the feature stopped working, and everything was down. We called them, and they assisted us, step by step, to reverse, and get it back online. It was in the middle of the night and support was very helpful. They came back to us after with the solutions, and a fix, so we could do the upgrade again.
Kewyn Medina | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In some occasion during this year, we experienced a big issue that was causing a degradation in our internet, initially we created several cases requesting support to factory to try to find the origin of the bad internet performance and experience for the users especially in videoconference, after hours of troubleshooting and testing we found that the issue was caused by a security protection of DOS that only was automatically applied during high traffic hours during the day.
Steve Jenovai | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have had to ask Fortinet for custom modifications to one of their industrial models. Foritnet went above and beyond in understanding our needs, and working on a satisfactory resolution that allowed us to deploy almost 100 fortigates for a customer.
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