Give your Network a Security Boost with FortiGate and enjoy the benefits of Peace of Mind
September 22, 2022

Give your Network a Security Boost with FortiGate and enjoy the benefits of Peace of Mind

Jesse Bridgelal | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Fortinet FortiGate

Fortinet FortiGate is a Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) that provides state-of-the-art security for your Network. Fortinet FortiGate provides the full Unified Threat Protection (UTP)Suite for our Company and includes powerful network protection services such as IPS, Anti-Malware, Antivirus, Flood Detection, BotNet Detection, Web Filters, and other security services. Fortigate provides a powerful first line of defense for our network, with proactive alerting and intrusion prevention. Fortigate and the FortiClient combine to provide versatile and secure VPN services for our Remote workers. the Site to Site VPN is also a powerful full-time VPN for larger sites that need WAN Connectivity. Fortigate provides a very intuitive interface which allows our Team to configure and utilize the most powerful features of this Firewall with ease.
  • Powerful and reliable SDWAN Services
  • Unified Threat Protection with powerful features such as IPS, Anti-Virus, Anti-Malware, Anti-Spam
  • Powerful IPS Services backed by industry validation
  • Provides Reliable Publishing Services for providing secure remote access to internal services
  • Provides excellent Remote Access Services via IPSEC and SSL VPN Tunnel technologies.
  • Features a simple and intuitive user interface which is well designed and easy to follow.
  • There could be some improvement to the Logging Services to include more details
  • 10 Gigabit Interfaces should be available for the lower models as well.
  • Simpler installation of the FortiAP services when being used.
  • SDWAN
  • SSL and IPSec VPN Services
  • Provides powerful and reliable protection against malware, exploits, and malicious websites in both encrypted and non-encrypted traffic
  • Prevents and detects against known and unknown attacks using continuous threat intelligence from AI-powered FortiGuard Labs security services
  • Provides a well designed and meaningful dashboard with up-to-date information on network performance and security parameters.
  • Provides an integrated Network Security Fabric allow the Company to manage the entire network fabric from a single pane of glass.
  • The powerful Network Security has allowed the company to detect and stop 90% of known attacks .
  • The Remote Access VPN Services have allowed the company to boost Work from Home productivity by 50% and increase usage by 75%
  • The SDWAN and reduced network downtime by 95% and increased overall WAN performance
Fortinet FortiGate is an all-round Network Security solution with advanced Next Generation Firewall features. The purpose built hardware provides unparalleled performance when compared to other similar solutions. The licensing model is very flexible and accommodates networks of all sizes as you pay only for the features you need and not by nodes or user count. The ease of configuration allows for a much simpler configuration task with a lower learning curve due to its very intuitive and flowing interface and many wizards that remove the complexity of programming the device.

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

Fortigate Firewalls models are designed to be used in networks of any size. They come in sizes varying from Entry Level to large enterprise. Fortinet FortiGate is best suited tot he Corporate Network environment where high security is required. The Devices also offer powerful WAN services and SDWAN features which make them an excellent alternative for your basic WAN Router. With features such as OSPF and BGP and SDWAN, they provide advanced network services and enhanced security at a lower cost. Because these boxes are purpose built and include Security Processor (SPU) technology, they outperform other devices in their class.

FortiGate Feature Ratings

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

Evaluating Fortinet FortiGate and Competitors

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Ease of Configuration. No matter how powerful of feature rich a Solution may be, if its difficult to implement and configure, you stand to lose the value of your investment. Fortigate provides a very intuitive, user-friendly configuration interface that allows the user to maximize on the value by being able to utilize the features easily and confidently.
I would buy the Fortigate Devices again since we have had quite a number of successes from our usage. The devices perform exceptionally and we have become quite familiar with the configuration interface and even advancing into even more technical deployments. The devices have proven their ability to handle all of the demands we have thrown at it thus far without fail.