Reduce Your Corporate Risk with Fortinet Fortigate
February 12, 2020
Reduce Your Corporate Risk with Fortinet Fortigate
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Fortinet FortiGate
Fortinet Fortigate is the Firewall of choice in our organization now. We use them at every location, in every city or town, in every building, as well as in the homes of employees requiring remote access to the organization systems. Fortinet Fortigate solved two problems in our organization:
1. How do we reduce the costs incurred securing our infrastructure and assets, while at the same time not exposing those assets to undue risk; and
2. How do we simply our infrastructure, while increasing our visibility into those assets, with the limited resources available.
Fortinet Fortigate solved both those questions, and actually improved our security posture.
1. How do we reduce the costs incurred securing our infrastructure and assets, while at the same time not exposing those assets to undue risk; and
2. How do we simply our infrastructure, while increasing our visibility into those assets, with the limited resources available.
Fortinet Fortigate solved both those questions, and actually improved our security posture.
- Fortinet Fortigate created a simplified cost structure for every device we installed, saving our company thousands of dollars compared with our previous vendor of choice.
- Fortinet Fortigate firewalls contain a tremendous and robust feature set allowing our organization better protection while reducing the number of devices and software required to do similar functions if we went with our previous vendor.
- When we switched to Fortinet Fortigate, it took some time getting used to and become familiar with the new interface. Being used to strictly command-line interfaces, a full GUI-based firewall was something brand new. Careful planning had to be done when creating rules to ensure we didn't miss anything. However, once we got used to the new GUI interface, going from one Fortinet product to another was simple, as Fortinet used the same interface for all of its devices.
- As I've mentioned before, the cost of Fortinet Fortigate is significantly lower than it's competitors. It has the same, if not better, features as it's competitors, same throughput and resilience, for a cheaper price. We have switched out most of our gear for Fortinet, and continue to do so until Fortinet is the only product on our network.
Feature to feature comparisons, Cisco and Fortinet are on par with each other. Both have great service and support. Both have robust security features that protect your network from various threats and exploits. Both have great logging and reporting capabilities. Both are high performing security appliances that protect your network.
What differs is the price, and the ability to have a single appliance that does multiple functions, that required multiple devices or appliances in the Cisco world.
It's true that people used to say " No one ever got fired for buying Cisco! ". However, more and more, budget cuts have impacted every technology department. If a device performs the same, if not better, but is 1/3 the price, you owe it to yourself and your organization to investigate that product further.
What differs is the price, and the ability to have a single appliance that does multiple functions, that required multiple devices or appliances in the Cisco world.
It's true that people used to say " No one ever got fired for buying Cisco! ". However, more and more, budget cuts have impacted every technology department. If a device performs the same, if not better, but is 1/3 the price, you owe it to yourself and your organization to investigate that product further.
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