Great product, at a great price point
March 16, 2018

Great product, at a great price point

Derek Aldridge | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Fortinet FortiGate

The FortiGate in our environment provides protection across the entire organization. We are using SSL VPN, web filter, antivirus, and application monitoring. I can attest that these functions all work really well, and our FortiGate has had high reliability and configuring it is not a laborious task. The few interactions I have had with support have been great.

Pros

  • Web Filter - with the supplied FSSO utility filtering users by groups or department is simple.
  • Application Filtering - insight into what applications are running have been great
  • SSL VPN - SSL VPN is simple to set up
  • AV - has done a great job catching viruses before ever hitting the internal network

Cons

  • Logging can be a somewhat difficult to dig into
  • Occasionally usernames aren't attached to the computers being filtered
  • There's been minimal downtime
  • Policies are simple to set up, so carving out bandwidth for a specific application is painless
FortiGate has a strong offering at a very competitive price point. I like that with your subscription you get access to all of the pieces, and that features aren't arbitrarily turned off unless you buy a specific license or bundle. For what you get for the price, it's really hard to beat FortiGate, unless money is no object.
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.

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