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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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10 out of 10
January 11, 2024
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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 …
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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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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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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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February 28, 2019

Fortinet FortiGate Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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).
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Fortigate is amazing when attempting to create an SD-WAN between large or small environments. This alleviates the cost of a high priced SD-WAN platform like Cloudgenix (amazing product, but pricey!), and extends that functionality to SMB clients at a very low cost in models like the 61e. We can get most of our locations online, with redundancy for under $2000.00.
Kewyn Medina | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Very good in the firewall protection between different networks, and also for external protection. It also gives a really good experience in the browsing protection for users, which keep them safe from unsecured websites.

On the other hand, you could have some issues when you are tracking a user in the forward traffic log because is not easy to troubleshoot or find some browsing information because of the main graphical interface.
Victor Arana | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
FortiGate for large scale solutions with a tight budget can work quite remarkably. Making the right design having all the specs for the network workload, and security areas where the Fortinet UTM solution will be involved can give you the exact model and bundle options needed to make an accurate purchase.

For those IT pros that can save money and use their own resources you can have pfSense Firewall to cover SMB, SOHO offices also for mid size companies 50-99, should work perfect and you will save time money, and training.
Derek Aldridge | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Artur Bittencourt | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Harshil Gupta | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
No doubt, what a company's system administrator wants from a UTM device. It has everything and the parameters are proven by NSS Labs. The only need is to size the requirement accurately and the consumer will never regret having it. It's a world-class solution and has continuously secured a leading position in Gartner Magic Quadrants.
November 21, 2017

Fortigate, the best

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
Any company that takes information security serious should use Fortinet Fortigate as their primary firewall for the first line protection. Likewise, a company with multiple sites should make use of Fortinet Fortigate's tunneling options. If users need to be able to access the office remotely, there is nothing like Fortinet Fortigate's VPN to do so.
Fabrizio Volpe | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
FortiGate is well suited for medium/large companies (I suggest it for businesses having 500 or more users). It is a good VPN solution, mail gateway, routing device and (of course) firewall appliance. For a small deployment, it could be overkill (or the smaller devices could be too limited). In a really large enterprise, it is still a great security solution, while for the routing and switching part other competitors could be a better fit.
Johannes Weber | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
FortiGate has a good price performance ratio. That is you get a good all-in-one appliance for accessing the Internet, while allowing/blocking traffic to your servers, using the VPNs, etc. The firewall can also be used as a fast router with only layer-4 policies (port-based), e.g., for LAN segmentation. However, note that the throughput dramatically decreases when advanced features are enabled.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
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).
Steve Jenovai | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Foritgate has products that are well suited for harsh industrial environments and can provide a secured peripheral network outside the conventional data center. Because of the ease of manageability, it allows us to easily manage and secure remote sites without the need to travel to locations that are often a challenge to get to.
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