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Fortinet from a SysAdmin perspective
Updated March 17, 2019

Fortinet from a SysAdmin perspective

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Fortinet FortiGate

Fortigate is a very simple solution to deploy and it helps to handle web users and to apply policies to those users according to departments or user's roles. This solution was deployed across the whole organization and it helped to manage limited resources as well as network bandwidth. You can manage resources to power or limit users. You can always define new roles and filter websites accordingly.
  • Web filtering. It has specific categories to filter web pages. You can always customize them and also create new ones.
  • Security. FortiGate provides a good security to guarantee that no users override the system.
  • You can find different categories where you can filter services. Something like IM, Social Networks, etc. You can also filter ports and create proxy-like routes.
  • I think that the GUI can be improved to make it friendlier.
  • License fee could be lower.
  • Logs and the information that comes out of it [don't have] much information to debug.
  • Fortinet helps you manage Internet bandwidth and web connections. This tool helps any IT admin to assign resources accordingly depending on the user's roles.
  • You can protect your network from viruses and malware by restricting access to unsecured websites.
  • You can use this tool when you have different networks on your domain.
The solution that Fortinet provides is very good because it gives you the power to manage limited resources such as bandwidth; and at the same time, it lets you filter web content that might harm your network or computers. It is a very easy tool to understand when using the GUI. CLI requires advanced knowledge.
Avaya Communicator, Cisco Catalyst
Fortinet is well suited for a working environment and when you want to manage how users interact with web services. In this case, Fortinet is doing it very well when it comes to assigning web profiles to users and granting or denying access to specific websites, ports or services (IM, Social Networks, etc.).

Using Fortinet FortiGate

700 - Users are public service employees and they are behind this firewall to protect the traffic the use to surf the web. This allows us to filter unsafe websites along with the risks they represent like virus and trojans. Not all the people know how to safely surf online and this allow the admins to keep the harm away.
4 - The skills required to operate FortiGate is basic network understanding to create rules and zones. When you get the idea how it works it is very straightforward. It takes not much time to understand it and start creating rules on your own. It is easy to test new rules by creating sub groups in a dev-like environment.
  • Web filtering using the website lists
  • Grant different access levels to the web
  • Creating a DMZ in the network
  • The organization implemented a group of rules to give different levels of access to employees using their job functions.
  • Allow remote users to log onto the network.
Because the service is reliable, the support is efficient and the web definitions are up to date. The latter is the one that makes this product very good and useful for the purposes of our organization. The product comes with many other cool features we are eager to implement in the future.