The biggest thing, for us lately, has been their cloud tools. They're like Intercept X from Sophos, where they'll test for ransomware. Fortinet has the same sort of set up with their cloud devices. So your firewall picks up something suspicious, it sends it up to the cloud for analysis. We also have their in-house antivirus. Having different antivirus checkpoints throughout the network is a good thing as well.

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it_user599028

Chief of Security Operation Division at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jan 31, 2017

When you implement FortiDB in your environment, you get the benefit of three important features: VA, Auditing and Alerting.

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Vasanth Chellappa

CEO & Technical Head Executive at ChellSoft Technologies

Feb 6, 2020

Some use case analyses could be improved.

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Hamed Wasel

Sr. Security Network Engineer at Children's Cancer Hospital - Egypt 57357

Jan 15, 2020

I would like better APIs and integration with other products, like Python and SQL.

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JoelSadomba

IT Engineer at BAZ

Oct 2, 2019

They need to improve the web filter to make it more user-friendly.

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IT Assistant at a international affairs institute with 10,001+ employees

Sep 24, 2019

The pricing of this solution is a little bit on the high side and can be improved.

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SoroushEnayati

Security Network Engineer at Freelance

May 19, 2019

We had some issues trying to fix some critical bugs, such as the SSL encryption.

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Jason Wetzel

Manager-Information Services at a maritime company with 501-1,000 employees

Jul 26, 2018

I'm an old-school guy. I really don't like web GUI interfaces. They're always slow and laggy and their design is restricted, whereas a binary deployment for an admin tool is always faster, easier, more flexible. I would like that kind of functionality from Fortinet.

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it_user599028

Chief of Security Operation Division at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jan 31, 2017

We had many issues with the performance and the appliance resource management.

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