Fortinet FortiGate is a partner for Network Securtiy Blue Team
March 28, 2025

Fortinet FortiGate is a partner for Network Securtiy Blue Team

Gustavo Mendez | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Fortinet FortiGate

There are many uses of Fortinet FortiGate solution.
We are using at first time how Perimeter's Firewall soluction. We knew its technology when migrate Cisco`s ASA to this vendor.
Inmediatly we detected many other uses case such as Wireless solution (FortiAP), Web Application Firewall (FortiWeb) an another more.
Don't forget that Fortinet FortiGate have a concept like an ecosystem; its name is "Fabric".

Pros

  • Have many solution for resolv diferente requirement. All of them have full internetworking.
  • The interfaces to manage its soluction are really easy to learn.
  • Bring solution to different type of customer. As small much as Huge.

Cons

  • Make easier than cisco asa deply vpn service.
  • Full integration with all componente tu Forti Analyzer (FAZ).
  • Really effective to use SSO from link to Microsoft Active Directory
  • The Fortinet FortiGate's project deployment are fast and cheap.
  • In the next weeks atther that desploy Fortinet FortiGate, we have been seen complete information about security visibility and incidents stops for these securtiy controls.
  • We achieve easier ISO 27002 compliance.
The Fortinet FortiGate have different type of interface.
At fist the web interface is easy to use and full completed.
In next step, the security network admiistrator can use Command Line Interface; this interface grant program capacity to administrator to make scripts.
Finally, the FortiManager must be use when there are many Fortinet FortiGate systems because this solution can apply configuration on multiple system with one only command.
We migrate from Cisco ASA solution to Fortinet FortiGate solution.
The technical feactures and easy operation were the most driver of our evaluation.
Finally the high level of Cost over Benefit was very relevant in the project evaluation.
In our country, Fortinet FortiGate are many installed platform. It was importa for us.

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 FortiGate's solution is well suited in enterprise ambients. When We tried to use its solution in academic ambient, we had some problem with different uses cases typical of this scenario.
On the other hand in ambient when require restricted access, hard securtiy policy and intrusion detection, Fortinet FortiGate swim like a fish.

FortiGate Feature Ratings

Identification Technologies
9
Visualization Tools
9
Content Inspection
9
Policy-based Controls
10
Active Directory and LDAP
10
Firewall Management Console
10
Reporting and Logging
9
VPN
10
High Availability
9
Stateful Inspection
9
Proxy Server
9

Evaluating Fortinet FortiGate and Competitors

Yes - Before that deploy Fortigate's System, we had cisco ASA 55XX systema and Mikrotik ethernet routers.
We had technical limitation because both didn't have utm feactures. And they had different management software. We had two isolate data netwrk without join capacity form management.
When migrate to Fortigate, those problema stopped. When had one unique management layer.
  • Scalability
  • Ease of Use
We were many factors to influenced abou our decision.I choise two; the first factor was technical capacity to resolv all our uses case y our company.Finally the partner ecosystem availability in our countrie.
We had much more time used to validate capabilities of different solution than the consume time in Fortigate deploy project.We had a lot of meet with Security Adminisrator an Operator for shared information about tecnical evaluation, uses cases and success story. But the most importan factor that changed its opinion was when talk with another costumer in otrer company near our city. This costumer shared his experience with Forigate.
In my opinion we had been much less time if we use first this contact we our technical staff.

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