All Rounder Next Gen FortiGate Firewall
June 26, 2025

All Rounder Next Gen FortiGate Firewall

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review

Overall Satisfaction with Fortinet FortiGate

Use case : Its deployed at Network Perimeter.
Who handles, In out traffic in the corporate network. Allowing legitimate and Blocking unwanted traffic and keeping corporate network safe from cyber threats.
UTM - NGFW provides best UTM features, Web Filtering, App Control , Antivirus,IPS, HTTPS Inspection etc.
SDWAN- Gives granular level of control to stearing WAN traffic.
Integration - Integration with Identify Service Provider to configure user based policies.

Pros

  • Advance Threat Protection
  • SDWAN
  • HTTPS Inspection
  • Application Control, Web Filtering, Antivirus, IPS
  • AD VPN

Cons

  • Export Policies option for SDWAN Rules
  • Less disruption in corporate network
  • Security from advance cyber threats
  • So users are focused on their desire tasks.
  • As there is high availability which indirectly impacts on organisational growth.
Its outstanding Firewall.
As its NGFW having almost all kinds of features for Advanced threat protection.
Also it has SDWAN which is included in its licence.
FortiGate has inbuilt SDWAN features along with Next Gen Firewall. CheckPoint Firewall dont have inbult SDWAN

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 firewall come for small office to Large scale enterprises environment. Its suitable for everyone. FortiGate firewall comes with SDWAN with same license. Cost is also less compared to others. Best affordable and cost effective. Best in class UTM /ATP features. I have seen FortiGate firewall is getting used for Hub and Branch topologies. For this ADVPN feature is used. It also used at branch firewall, Data centre Firewall. Used for SDWAN.

FortiGate Feature Ratings

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

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