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

Rating: 8 out of 10
August 28, 2024
MT
Vetted Review
Verified User
Fortinet FortiGate
4 years of experience
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.

Next Generation Fortinet FortiGate Firewall - Uninterrupted Network

Rating: 10 out of 10
August 19, 2024
DL
Vetted Review
Verified User
Fortinet FortiGate
5 years of experience
User friendly easy to configure,Advance threat protection,Load balance and HA features are well suited for 365/24/7 OT environment as robust and unintruptted network security are plus point.while for small organization with less number of devices are not suitable as licensing cost is high and support from distribution is limited.

Fortinet FortiGate Review

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 10, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Fortinet FortiGate
10 years of experience
It's great for customers who need a reliable, easy-to-configure, intuitive platform with high-end security processing hardware, a decent technology ecosystem, and support at a price that most CFOs would be ok with. Also, for anyone still using MS TMG.

Best NGFW firewall

Rating: 10 out of 10
January 11, 2024
JR
Vetted Review
Verified User
Fortinet FortiGate
5 years of experience
Let it be a small office, home or a Multi National Company, Fortinet FortiGate can fit there very well. Performance capability of the firewall is really at the next level. The traffic analyzing feature of the firewall is really efficient and also at a very high rate. The throughput of the firewall is very good.

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

Rating: 10 out of 10
September 22, 2022
JB
Vetted Review
Verified User
Fortinet FortiGate
6 years of experience
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.

Fortinet FortiGate is perfect tool for gateway security

Rating: 9 out of 10
September 09, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Fortinet FortiGate
7 years of experience
We are connected to the outworld internet which needs special protection for our internal infrastructure and to manage the internal multiple subnet and routings. Access Rules are a must to configure for different sorts of users and departments. There is always a requirement for users to connect while traveling and outside the office premises. All these above needs can be achieved with a UTM Firewall device and Fortinet FortiGate solved these issues for any organization.

All the gates are securely closed with your Fortinet FortiGate

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 01, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Fortinet FortiGate
3 years of experience
We use FG-101E, and it is a good choice for small or medium-sized business. Wide partners network and easy implementation of the solution can make your life easier if you want to feel secure with the protection of your corporate network.

Getting to know Fortinet

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 19, 2022
JV
Vetted Review
Verified User
Fortinet FortiGate
1 year of experience
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.

Best Firewall for Small and Mid-sized organisation with negligible flaws

Rating: 8 out of 10
January 05, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Fortinet FortiGate
4 years of experience
For FortiGate Firewall, the basic functionality and requirement is met easily as Fortigate is among market leaders in NGFW. There are some extra points that inclined us to use Fortigate as our main Firewall. [Fortinet]Fortigate has a very well refined and functional SD-WAN solution when it comes to load balancing for normal Internet Traffic. SD-WAN - Load balancing of Internet traffic is a USP of Fortigate and makes it stand tall in the competition. Be it 3 or more Internet Links, multiple Subnets/segments of users to distribute and bandwidth load balancing for links and users. SLA based monitoring of Internet Links / MPLS links, makes it even better to choose the links on the basis of performance (Latency, packet loss, Jitter etc). SSL VPN configuration - The deep CLI-level debugging is also very helpful in troubleshooting. Type of tunnel can be easily configured - Full Tunnel or Split Tunnel for SSL. Though, I think Fortigate is one of the best options for small and mid-sized organizations, there are some areas for improvement. First, the CLI interface is very hard to adapt as the commands and directory hierarchy is very different for common syntax and standards.

Reliable and stable network protects the platform

Rating: 9 out of 10
November 12, 2021
CM
Vetted Review
Verified User
Fortinet FortiGate
1 year of experience
FortiGate products are doubtlessly appropriate for any company or corporate as this robust platform offers a lot more than just protection. FortiGate should be heavily considered by business owners who are eager to need complete protection for their business networks and data centers, especially if they want that their business grows more fastly.

A Cost effective Firewall to All sized company- Fortinet FortiGate

Rating: 10 out of 10
June 21, 2021
BK
Vetted Review
Verified User
Fortinet FortiGate
4 years of experience
Fortinet's Fortigate is a Firewall which can be suited to all the types of organizations starting from Small/ mid size to Large enterprises. Due to its cost effectiveness even a Small organizations can afford it. In the return Fortigate will give you the industry best technology to secure your organization infra.

Fortinet FortiGate for advance security features

Rating: 10 out of 10
June 01, 2021
VS
Vetted Review
Verified User
Fortinet FortiGate
2 years of experience
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.

My Fortinet FortiGate Review (my experience)

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 31, 2021
BG
Vetted Review
Verified User
Fortinet FortiGate
2 years of experience
I am using this firewall in my one location which we have limited users but our client data is very critical, we need deep security and we want to scan the every packet deeply, so I chose this one. I am really happy with UTM features. I am using email and DLP features for more control on my users.

Fortinet FortiGate secure your gates

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 17, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Fortinet FortiGate
3 years of experience
It is best suited to secure your private networks at filtering packets from the outside world. It also good for managing and limiting your employees to access certain websites and limit application access. It is best suited as your front line of your security systems inside your organization. You can also use it as a VPN.

Fortinet FortiGate Review!

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 30, 2021
AM
Vetted Review
Verified User
Fortinet FortiGate
1 year of experience
Fortinet devices are well suited for all applications. They meet security standards and HIPAA compliance. I have not found any issues where using their devices is truly a make or break set up.

Fortinet Fortigate - my top choice for medium enterprise networks.

Rating: 9 out of 10
January 12, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Fortinet FortiGate
1 year of experience
Our firewall is fantastic. It's very quick and easy to configure. Fortigate offered a lot of assistance during setup so that our downtime when switching was very limited. The technical support team is amazing and have a very quick response time. Compared to it's peers, Fortigate has exceptional pricing for the same or better feature set.

If You Are Considering Fortinet, Now Is The Time.

Rating: 10 out of 10
September 26, 2020
MS
Vetted Review
Verified User
Fortinet FortiGate
3 years of experience
FortiGates are very well suited when used in conjunction with FortiManager for scalability and management reasons. Larger model FortiGates are not necessary for smaller environments. The basic models do just fine.

Stable Performance under Huge Traffic

Rating: 9 out of 10
June 22, 2020
TT
Vetted Review
Verified User
Fortinet FortiGate
6 years of experience
FortiGate solution is a successful solution in terms of performance and efficiency. No problem in high traffic. Due to its innovative structure, it is an advantage to easily adapt to new integrations.

Fantastically happy with FortiGate

Rating: 10 out of 10
April 15, 2020
DM
Vetted Review
Verified User
Fortinet FortiGate
3 years of experience
FortiGate is a great fit and no brainer expense when replacing a firewall for our average target client (< 100 users) - much better return on investment compared to Meraki solutions. With the ability to license up or down to best fit a client's requirements - the product line is flexible and scalable. Much different experience than some other product lines we used to lead with - that we'll still support, it's just not the top of our list when a client asks for our recommendation.

We like that FortiGate simplifies the deployment of SSL VPN without added hardware or licensing costs - but if you want to include sandboxing and device endpoint telemetry, you can easily bolt on licenses and leverage cloud management without deploying additional hardware. A huge benefit for smaller clients where it's just not feasible.
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