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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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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)
    9.7
    97%
  • 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 and High Availability highest, with a score of 9.7.

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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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
January 11, 2024

Best NGFW firewall

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
Jesse Bridgelal | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
February 19, 2022

Getting to know Fortinet

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
Chantel Moreno | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Binita Kharbanda | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Vinit Sharma | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Basant Gupta | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Michael Singh | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Donny McIver | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
Mauro Osvaldo Sepulveda Gutierrez | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
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