Fortinet FortiGate IPS Reviews

Fortinet FortiGate IPS is a firewall that can be deployed on-premise, as an appliance, or you can be deployed on the private cloud as a VM or public clouds such as Microsoft Azure or Amazon AWS. 

One use case is where traffic is coming in, and it is scanned because all traffic is untrusted, even within the network. You want to scan the traffic within your network. Most of the use-cases are internal networks and external networks.

The most useful features of Fortinet FortiGate IPS are you can create a virtual firewall within it, most other firewalls do not have this feature. You are able to manage your network and have network segmentation within your firewall. Additionally, you can create virtual switches within the firewall and have policy management, such as firewall and access policy.

Fortinet FortiGate IPS could improve the configuration. In some use cases, there can be some configuration conflicts.

I have been using Fortinet FortiGate IPS for approximately four years.

Fortinet FortiGate IPS is a highly stable solution.

I have found  Fortinet FortiGate IPS to be scalable.

The support from Fortinet FortiGate IPS is good.

I rate the support from Fortinet FortiGate IPS an eight out of ten.

The initial setup of Fortinet FortiGate IPS was not completely easy, it is in the medium range of difficulty.

I would rate the initial setup of Fortinet FortiGate IPS a seven out of ten.

The licensing policies need to be fixed because if our license expires for Fortinet FortiGate IPS then all the functionality and internet do not work. However, with other vendors when the license expires the internet continues to work but some functionality is limited. Once my license expired before I even knew it, I could not continue with my business functions. 

If you compare the price of Fortinet FortiGate IPS to other firewalls, Check Point is priced very high followed by Palo Alto and Sophos. Fortinet FortiGate IPS price is more reasonable.

I have evaluated other solutions, such as Check Point, Sophos, and Palo Alto.

I rate Fortinet FortiGate IPS a nine out of ten.

FortiGate is a firewall. It protects from viruses, malware, and other threats. We deploy it along with other Fortinet solutions, including the next-generation firewall, FortiClient, and FortiProxy.

FortiGate protects and secures our clients' networks. The security is solid, and it performs well. I think they use some artificial intelligence, so I think it's excellent equipment.

The graphical interface could be improved.

We've been a Fortinet partner for 15 years, and we're the sole distributor of Fortinet and other brands in San Luis Potosí, Mexico. 

FortiGate is stable.

I thank FortiGate is scalable.

Fortinet support is good. 

Setting up FortiGate is straightforward and requires two engineers.

FortiGate's price is reasonable for this type of solution. It's competitive with other products. 

I rate FortiGate IPS nine out of 10. I like it, we have experience deploying Fortinet products. We know this product well and can explain how it works. They trust in us. FortiGate is a good appliance, and I recommend it.

I use the Fortinet as a perimeter firewall. All of the servers are on this Fortinet firewall. All traffic comes from the perimeters and email accounts and we also use it for this purpose.

The solution is easy to use.

It is a scalable product.

The solution is stable. 

Its GUI is very intuitive.

I found the solution very easy to set up.

The IPS's correct application control is perfect.

Overall, the integration could be better. The FortiManager is likely not good. I can't use it as it is unstable most of the time. We'd like to have an SD-WAN for a sandbox, for the Fortinet perimeter. We'd like to be able to manage different boxes.

I've been using the solution for two years. 

The stability is great. There are no issues with crashing or freezing. There are no bugs or glitches. 

The product is scalable and easy to expand. 

We have ten users on the solution. It is mostly the network team that deals with the product for the most part. We have 200 or so end-users as well that indirectly use it regularly.

We do plan to increase usage and would like to upgrade to a Fortinet perimeter firewall (a 501 model), however, on the financial side, it's difficult right now. 

Technical support is great. I called them twice in the last month and they were very helpful and responsive. 

We also have experience with Palo Alto products.

We had ASAs and other legacy firewalls that we used in the past.

The product is very straightforward and simple to set up. It's not a complex process at all. 

We have around 10 engineers that handle the operation, maintenance, and follow-up.

We used partners as the integrator to facilitate anything with the vendor. It didn't take long and we were able to have different timelines for different deployment areas. 

I have not witnessed an ROI.

The cost of the product is reasonable. It's not overly expensive. 

We pay a yearly license that renews every three years. 

It's been two years since we set up the license. I can't recall how much we agreed to pay.

We looked at Fortinet and Palo Alto. Fortinet is well known in the industry, which is why we focused on it. It was reasonably priced and offered good efficiency. 

I'd rate the solution an eight out of ten. We're pretty happy with the product in general.

We primarily use FortiGate IPS for security tasks like forwarding, firewalling, attack detection, etc. All of our internet and portal connections are routed through FortiGate IPS. For example, we use it in our entire wireless setup, including the guest wireless and our internal LAN for wireless distribution. All public internet traffic is filtered through Fortinet. 

We like FortiGate's website change feature.

I've been using FortiGate for about five or six years. 

I think it's stable now. Yeah, exactly.

Right now, it's not really scalable, but it's okay for us. However, looking ahead to three years from now, we might have a problem with scalability. We foresee a little risk down the road. The stability is okay for now. 

Our usage is measured by the number of sessions in FortiGate, and it's divided by zones. In the French market zone, we have around 10,000 users.

We also use Juniper in some cases. In some ways, Juniper is more useful because we use this in our switch core for the internal LAN, so it's maybe more critical. Our sector depends more on Juniper than FortiGate. Three years from now, we might completely replace Juniper with FortiGate.

It is not difficult to set up FortiGate, but we have support helping us detect and troubleshoot difficult situations. FortiGate is easier to deploy than Juniper. 
We need a few people for maintenance, but we have some support working with us, and we need that. 

We have a FortiGate license for UTM, routing, firewalling, HTTPS, and some web features.

I rate FortiGate IPS eight out of 10. I would rate it higher if it had more features, stability, scalability, etc. For our requirements, I can rate it eight out of 10, but not more than that.

We use FortiGate to restrict access from internal, external, and some applications from publishing to the internet. This solution helps us achieve our purpose.

The solution is user-friendly. Fortinet FortiGate IPS has a feature called SPVen. The solution is easy to configure, the activation is perfect, the tech support is good, and the back-end database is good.

Price is a major competitor in the market for solutions. When we compare solutions, it's important to consider the pricing. To stay ahead of the competition Fortinet FortiGate IPS needs to think about how to adjust pricing. Most people prefer to use Apollo setpoint.

I have been using the solution for over eight years.

I give the stability a nine out of ten.

I give the scalability a nine out of ten.

We have around 500 people including IT engineers and developers using the solution.

I have previously used Check Point IPS and switched to Fortinet FortiGate IPS because of the cost and because Check Point IPS requires separate licensing.

The initial setup is straightforward. We can do the basic steps in as little as 30 minutes. If we need to do more detailed work and fine-tuning, it may take longer. But the basics can be done quickly.

We completed the implementation in-house.

I give the pricing of the solution a six out of ten.

I give the solution a nine out of ten.

The solution's maintenance can be completed by one person.

I recommend the solution to other users.

It's a great solution for security and a big solution when you consider the functionality and skills. It also has IPS and Secure Web Gateway embedded and we can spawn a lot of solutions in the same box because we use the on-premises version.

I prefer FortiGate because it has a lot of other solutions embedded within it and is the easiest for our technicians to operate. It also has strong security factors, and it comes with SD-WAN.

The price of the solution could be cheaper. 

I have been using this solution for about six years.

The solution is very stable. 

I think it is easily scalable. Our company has about 100 employees and 50% of them are technicians that work with this solution.

I'm located in Brazil and we have technical support available in Portuguese, which is our native language, so I think that the support is a good service.

It was easy to set up this solution. 

FortiGuard keeps the IPS up-to-date for new threats, so my main advice is to keep your license up-to-date because if you forget to update your license, the protection will not be very effective.

I would rate this solution as a nine out of ten.

I use Fortinet FortiGate IPS as an internet firewall. We are using IPS, application control, and access control.

I have found the decryption of Fortinet FortiGate IPS very good. It's called SSL deep inspection, it's working very well. This is how you decrypt access and traffic, and it is through the IPS antivirus center. Additionally, the UI is user-friendly. 

We already have the firewalls, and when I compare Fortinet FortiGate IPS to all the other firewalls, Fortinet is really useful and works very well.

I have been using Fortinet FortiGate IPS for approximately six years.

Fortinet FortiGate IPS are very stable. However, the older versions were not stable.

The solution is scalable.

We have approximately 300 users that use the solution.

I have used technical support and they could improve. 

I would rate the technical support from Fortinet FortiGate IPS a seven out of ten.

When comparing their support with Cisco which is a lot better.

We use many Fortinet products, not only firewalls. We have Fortisand-S, FortiSandbox, Fortinet wireless controllers which are part of the Fortigate, FortiAnalyzer, and FortiMate. 

We have approximately 40 devices of Fortinet firewalls.

The installation is straightforward.

We did the implementation ourselves.

The solution does not require a lot of maintenance.

There is an annual license to use this solution. The prices have been increasing over the years.

I would recommend Fortinet if they have a medium budget and if they don't have much experience with the firewalls because it's easy to use and the administrative management is simple. Additionally, Fortinet has a good wireless solution that is very good for medium-sized enterprise organizations.

I rate Fortinet FortiGate IPS an eight out of ten.

This solution is the gateway for protecting our network. We are customers of Fortinet and I'm a system administrator. 

The solution has allowed us to get more data than we were previously able to and we also employ the FortiGate analyzer to provide more data on the usage patterns of our clients which provides us with security metrics. FortiGate gives us a better picture of what's going on in the network and how best we can approach improving the service or addressing any security issues.

We're currently relying heavily on the VPN capabilities, given that a lot of users are working remotely and that's been particularly useful for us. FortiGate has an extensive library for support so you rarely need to reach out to them, it's all easily accessible. 

The solution is quite expensive and I'd like to see the cost reduced. I think Fortinet could raise their level of security. Their VPN service for users gives them the ability to direct remote users to exactly where they're supposed to go. It's good but some other solutions don't give access for remote users to come on to the network. Rather the cloud platform relays or reflects the application that the remote user would've wanted to get access to on the network. It means that remote users don't get to the physical network of the company and that's good for security. 

As long as you know what you're doing, it's a pretty stable solution - they push out firmware updates pretty regularly and I haven't noticed any update that breaks anything.

The solution is scalable and adaptable depending on network activity or clients having a network. There's a solution for everything and it's pretty granular for each individual appliance. It gives you leeway and room to work. We have around 100 users in the company, everybody is connected; our staff are security administrators, systems administrators and database admins. We're planning to increase usage. I think FortiGate has a ZTNA service as well and we're in talks to determine the best solution.

We haven't had much contact with support but they're pretty good. You do need to schedule a time for them to get back to you so the solution isn't immediate. The support is quite comprehensive. 

We used SonicWall before moving to Fortinet. It was a good product but it was pretty complex and complicated when it came to implementing certain things. We needed a solution where anyone could come in and get the job done without having to research deeply. 

We used a Fortinet partner for implementation because we were busy with other projects at the time. They did a great job for us. Deployment took about a week but it could have been done in less time if we hadn't had some scheduling issues. We have three people involved with maintenance.

We used to have issues with data, internet usage, and controlling our users' access to the internet. It impacted other areas of the company. With Fortinet, we're able to control how users utilize resources and pull back on certain things while allowing more access in others. It would include things like online calls, IP calling or use of Teams for legitimate business. Having control over that means there are fewer break ups, and fewer dropped calls because we have more control.

People with BYOD's can hog the network but with that level of granular control, we can decide where the priority is. In terms of ROI, there are fewer expenses, less time wasted addressing issues related to reporting, whereas before it was quite chaotic. Fortinet provides the ability to create more order and the ability to better analyze exactly what it is that is going on in the network.

The solution is expensive although I'm not sure of the cost. It does include support and updates.

This is a good solution, it provides an extensive library for any issues or for when you're building out a new solution. It has different appliances for different tiers. Planning is important, knowing what's in the environment, where you expect it to go, and then ensuring that you develop or acquire a solution necessary to address that situation.

I rate this solution eight out of 10.