Fortinet FortiGate Review
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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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- VPN (38)9.898%
- Firewall Management Console (38)9.696%
- Policy-based Controls (38)9.696%
- Reporting and Logging (38)8.282%
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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.
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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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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March 11, 2019
Fortinet FIrewalls
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.
- Easy to set up
- 9/10 Customer Service
- 9/10 Technical Supports
- Multiple layers of security
- Security
- LAN
- WAN
- With the Fortinet solution store connectivity can be restored in about 20 minutes. Estimating an average of one outage a year and a potential for average hourly earnings at a store of $$$ an hour
Fortigate reporting is significantly better than anything you'll pull from an ASA.
No
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
- Prior Experience with the Product
- Vendor Reputation
- Existing Relationship with the Vendor
- Positive Sales Experience with the Vendor
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Threat prevention, price/performance, and available interfaces.
Yes
Yes, best for Advanced Services for Enterprise
No
Great with 4-Hour On-site Engineer: Parts delivered on-site with an
engineer, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week within 4 hours
of RMA approval by Fortinet support.
- GUI
- Reports
- Scripting
Yes, but I don't use it
November 21, 2017
Forti-UTM
We use Fortigate across the whole organization. It is used for firewall/IPS/Web filtering.
- UTM provides comprehensive security, which is great
- Easy to use GUI
- Great support
- Site-to-site vpn - would like to configure using wizard. currently, I use manual configuration.
- Additional reports on web site usage statistics
- Failover / redundancy
- Easy to maintain, which means less time spent to monitor
- URL filtering is great
- Fortianalyzer is a plus
UTM comprehensive security is a plus.
250
web usage, ftp, e-mail, erp systems
2
firewall/URL filtering/VPN skills are needed
- Geo block
- URL filtering
- IPS/Firewall
- Web filter bypass
- Geo block
- Automatic failover
- Redundancy
Yes
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Third-party Reviews
comprehensive UTM security is a plus
none - happy with Fortigate
- Vendor implemented
- Implemented in-house
Yes
Offline configuration, firmware updates, isolated testing, controlled testing, implementation
Change management was a small part of the implementation and was well-handled
documentation is a key
- Before and after network diagram
- Up to date documentation
- Tribal knowledge
Yes
it is a critical system for us
No
We had to come up with a way to block certain web sites for all users but allow it for a few users. support provided a workaround, which worked.
- URL filtering
- Geo block
- Site to site vpn
- Log analyzer
- Wizard for site to site vpn will be a plus
Yes, but I don't use it
December 28, 2015
Fortigate -great product, great price
We use a variety of Fortigate models across our and our customer organizations. We use it as a firewall/security/VPN appliance and also as a high availability gateway at several locations. We needed to find a product that was quick to setup, easy to manage, and provided advanced security features. Netflow/S-flow are built into Foritgate, which met another one of our requirements for traffic monitoring. We also needed a company that had a product line that could tolerate environmental extremes in an industrial environment. Fortigate has such a product line.
The Fortigate GUI is intuitive and provides easy visibility into multiple network activities. When we are trouble-shooting for our customers, this interface has often proven invaluable in quickly getting to the heart of network or security issues.
The Fortigate GUI is intuitive and provides easy visibility into multiple network activities. When we are trouble-shooting for our customers, this interface has often proven invaluable in quickly getting to the heart of network or security issues.
- Forigate's FortiOS is feature rich, giving good value for the money spent. The GUI is intuitive and makes configuration easy and fast.
- Documentation is well written and easy to read. Diagrams and illustrations clearly illustrate principles and concepts, making it easier to make configuration decisions
- The consistency of features and GUI across the product line has made Fortigate implementation very easy.
- The form factor on the industrial units such as the 60D is not idea for DIN Rails, taking up more space than is needed. There needs to be an option for 24V power in the industrial units.
- Configuration ease has allowed us to rapidly deploy installations, reducing implementation hours, and increasing project profitability
- Customer service has been enhanced through the ability to rapidly troubleshoot through detailed information provided through the GUI
- Pricepoint of the Fortigate product line has made it a high value product for us. We are able to deliver more features to our customers at lower prices, and with improved service levels.
- Cisco ASA and Dell SonicWALL Aventail
Fortigate provides a more robust feature set than Sonicwall, and at a better price point than either Cisco or Sonicwall. Both Moxa and Cisco provide industrial DIN mounts, but Moxa lacked a data center product. Cisco has both industrial and data center products, but at a much higher price. Fortigate won out by providing good pricing, a consistent, feature rich OS across the product line, and by having offerings in both industrial and traditional IT.
Yes
We replaced Dell Sonicwall with Fortigate. For a long while, the Sonicwall was the security appliance of choice for our customers, but the pricepoint, enhanced security and additional features of Fortigate gave it a clear edge. In addition, because Fortigate offered an industrial hardened unit, it made it a superior choice for our customer base.
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Third-party Reviews
Of any of the listed factors, Usability was probably the most important factor. We needed a manufacturer that had a product line sufficient for our needs, that was easy to use and implement, and could survive the rigors of an industrial environment as well as conventional IT. Price was vey important too, but a low price without the usability that we needed wouldn't have worked.
I wouldn't change it. The switch to Fortigate was the result of a new evaluation and selection process. We listed our needs, the needs of our customers, and tried to list out what might be important over the next five years.
- Implemented in-house
No
Change management was minimal
As always, clear communication of what changes are taking place, what the impact will be, and expected outage windows played a key role in successful deployment for our customers.
- Most significant encountered issue was a few of the Fortigates had older versions of FortiOS. This version had some incompatibility issues that caused us to burn several hours until the version issue was discovered.
No
To this point, we have not needed premium support. The basic level of support has met all of our needs to date.
No
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.
- Implementing redundant internet connections and a high availability gateway was astoundingly easy. Got it right the first time with only about 20 minutes of research and effort.
- Firmware upgrades are almost effortless. Very easy to perform through the GUI.
No