Item: Fortinet FortiGate
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Fortinet FortiGate

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It helps to protect our organization from cyber attack. Moreover, it helps us to block suspicious website and apps when user tries to access it. It provides report for the threat detection and get us the analysis. We can easily protect our branch offices as well as our data center through this Fortinet FortiGate.

Pros and Cons

Pros

It helps us to block social media during office hour
It helps us to protect us from DoS attack
Check HTTPS before entering into a website

Cons

The license cost is high
Sometimes it's difficult to find a feature from web portal

Return on Investment

Fortinet FortiGate has increased productivity since no more attack
FortiGate replaces VPN , web filter, IPS which reduces the cost
Quick deployment and scalability has allowed faster expansion

Usability

Deployment is easy. Its GUI interface is suitable for beginner as well as CLI was also there. Moreover, you can assign roles, like, VPN admin etc.

Key Insights

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

Other Software Used

FortiManager, VMware ESXi, Splunk Attack Analyzer

Likelihood to Recommend

If you are running a office with multiple branches with mid size organization, it's great to use Fortinet FortiGate because it offers firewall, VPN, AV in one solution.

If you are dependent on third party integration, then, I can tell you that you may find it difficult to connect with these tools. May be you need to put additional effort to configure.

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