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FortiGate Review
March 02, 2019

FortiGate Review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Fortinet FortiGate

FortiGate is used as our enterprise firewall used across the organization. It addresses securing our network from outside attacks with policy control, antivirus, IPS, application and web filtering.
  • Their ASIC technology has very high-performance. The hardware is fast.
  • Easy to manage. Rule creation is easy and flexible.
  • Logging is detailed. GUI allows you to add/remove columns to get the detail you want.
  • There seems to be a lack of quality control with new versions and service pack releases. GUI menus fail to load. Features get pulled out. What's in this release might not be in the next. Random bugs you would not expect to see.
  • Alerting options are not flexible. Very basic and limited options.
  • VPN logging is not very detailed for troubleshooting.
  • The bundled options reduce the need for multiple systems.
  • Firewall segmentation helps meet compliance requirements separating protected data from general data.
FortiGate was more cost-effective and offered more functionality. FortiGate is much easier to use and manage.
McAfee Web Gateway, SafeNet Authentication Service (SAS), Trend Micro Deep Security
FortiGate offers several sizing options to suit any size organization from small businesses to large enterprises. The licensing options are flexible as well, allowing organizations to choose their level of protection. Options include antivirus, web filtering, DNS filtering, application control, intrusion prevention, anti-spam, web application firewall, and SSL inspection. They also include a cloud sandbox with their offering.