One of the Best and Cost Effective Firewalls
January 02, 2020

One of the Best and Cost Effective Firewalls

Saqib Zaheer Ahmed | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller

Overall Satisfaction with Fortinet FortiGate

We have deployed the FortiGate firewall in all our 5 branches. There is site-to-site connectivity between all the branches over IPSEC and MPLS. We have enabled the IPS, web filter, application filter and have written the policies based on the IP and user group. A self-signed SSL certificate has also been pushed through AD to decrypt the HTTPS traffic. We are able to monitor and block the malicious URL. We have done both source NAT and destination NAT successfully.

Pros

  • The GUI is very simple and understandable.
  • It is a very cost effective firewall with all the enterprise grade features.

Cons

  • There are some bugs in the newer versions and patches.
  • Sometimes the firewall gets stuck we need to do a hard reboot which impacts the production.
  • The productivity for the users has increased as we were able to block nonproductive sites.
  • We have gotten branch visibility.
There were scenarios where we were unable to resolve the issues and it was impacting our business. We had raised the ticket with the Fortinet team to high priority, then they asked us to send a few logged posts so that they could support us remotely and resolved the issue in no time. This has happened multiple times. There support is very prompt.

Do you think Fortinet FortiGate delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Fortinet FortiGate's feature set?

Yes

Did Fortinet FortiGate live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Fortinet FortiGate go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Fortinet FortiGate again?

Yes

Fortinet is best suited to SMB customers if the customer has 20 to 500 employees with multiple branches. This is the best cost-effective firewall with a great level of security. But if you are looking for an application-based firewall where you need to define the policy based on the applications, opt for another firewall.

FortiGate Feature Ratings

Firewall
7.6
Identification Technologies
7
Visualization Tools
6
Content Inspection
8
Policy-based Controls
8
Active Directory and LDAP
7
Firewall Management Console
9
Reporting and Logging
8
VPN
8
High Availability
8
Stateful Inspection
8
Proxy Server
7

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