Fortinet FortiGate Review
February 28, 2019

Fortinet FortiGate Review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Fortinet FortiGate

We use Fortinet FortiGate as our firewall at all three of our offices. We use the Fortiguard service on the firewalls, which includes anti-malware, intrusion protection and the Next Generation Firewall. Before we added the Fortiguard services we were unprotected against bad actors from around the world trying to brute force our RDP servers. Now I am confident that all of those actors are being blocked/banned at the firewall.

Pros

  • The Fortinet FortiGate firewall software includes a full function graphical user interface that makes firewall administration easy without having to know the command line interface commands.
  • The FortiGate does an excellent job of protecting devices behind the firewall, its integrated Spam, anti-malware and IPS services all work very well.
  • FortiGate licensing costs are reasonable and much more affordable that Cisco's offerings.

Cons

  • The only complaint I have about the FortiGate is the fact that the advanced services like IPS, anti-malware and spam filtering are add-on services. It would be great if they were a part of the firewall offering.
  • The Fortinet FortiGate allows us to meet our business objectives of keeping our data and systems safe from external actors with bad intentions. Without FortiGate I could not rest easy at night knowing the sheer number of attackers trying to access our network on a daily basis. With FortiGate, I sleep like a baby at night.
I feel that the Fortigate can do everything the Cisco ASA can do, at a lower cost and without specialized vendor training.
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).

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