Fortinet FortiGate Reviews

We primarily use this for the Security Fabric feature. It works together with other Fortinet products like FortiWeb and FortiMail, as well as with Amazon products. There is a lot of integration. 

It enables our organization to become more productive. Also, it protects our NEtWare from viruses and malware.

I think the only issue that needs improvement is the interface.

It is a very stable product.

Sometimes the solution is not scalable.

Our experience with technical support has been very positive. 

It was very straightforward an easy for us to initially install.

We always consider:

• Price
• Product success

The price, in comparison to other products is very cheap.

Other products considered were Sophos and CiscoMaraki.

We use it because it is a good device.

It has improved our organization with control data.

The rules.

The reports are very basic.

Firewall/Web Filter management. We have over 30 sites, and it is imperative that one person (myself) can plan, implement, and deploy these devices to our sites and manage them when finished.

Consolidated our network environment at all locations, but mainly at our datacenter. 

The web filtering was the most valuable, because at a school board, we need to make sure the students are not tying up our bandwidth and also to keep the bad guys out.

One area for improvement is the performance on bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering. Each manufacturer has their own way of filtering and each one needs improvement in categories, URL, and/or application filtering.

We saved a bundle by not needing all the past appliances from an NGFW.

The web content filtering and application control allow us to control which websites and online applications our users can access and those they cannot, thus preventing access to pornographic sites, online gaming sites, social media and many others during office hours.

The application control reinforces the blocks, preventing, for example, users from using specific applications to bypass the web content filter blocks. An example is a user running the UltraSurf proxy, attempting to access banned sites. With the application control function, FortiGate is able to prevent the operation of this application.

IPS - Intrusion Prevention System: It is the main component that detects and blocks hackers and malware attacks.

Other valuable features are SSL VPN and WAN link balancing.

It provides real security for business customers.

The reports provided by the equipment could be more detailed, and not so dependent on the FortiAnalyzer.

The FortiGate internal reports are good, but could have more details and options for viewing certain network data. For the client to get the richest reports, they need to buy the FortiAnalyzer appliance or hire FortiCloud service. These two aim to catch all of the FortiGate logs and turn them into friendly reports, many of which are not present in FortiGate itself.

I have been installing and configuring this product for at least 10 years with different companies, including other models such as the Fortigate 60D and 80C.

The product has always been stable and performed quite well.

I have not encounter any scalability issues.

Technical support is very good. Fortinet professionals are well trained.

For commercial UTM solutions, I have always worked with Fortinet; I had no reason to trust another third-party solution.

It's simple: Just turn it on, access your Web console via the default IP address and then perform the settings.

I installed and configured the 200D for one of my clients.

The full license is UTM Bundle Full Guard. The license fee varies according to the Fortigate model; prices can be low or too high.

If you need real and effective security for your network, do not hesitate to buy a Fortigate appliance. It is no wonder that it is the best according to Gartner, for several years running. It delivers what it promises and more when it comes to performance, stability and security functions.

The network security and cloud security are most valuable.

Its price could be better.

We have been dealing with this solution for hardly two years.

It is stable.

It is scalable. We have 10 clients who are using this solution.

We have never contacted them.

It is a little complicated. It took four months.

We have a team of about 20 people for deployment and maintenance.

Its price could be better.

I would recommend this solution to others. I would rate it a nine out of 10.

We use this solution as our Firewall.

FortiGate is a service, and because of that, I don't use it very much. The equipment is for the operator that monitors who is on the internet, nothing more.

It has improved our productivity because we can control the people who go on the internet, and we control their access to social networks.

The most valuable feature of this solution is Quota. It allows the user to go where they want to go and to use the internet.

The price could be improved.

In the next release, I would like to see the interface simplified to be more user-friendly.

I have been using Fortinet FortiGate for approximately six years.

It's a stable solution. It works for us.

This is not an area fully explored. It has been sufficient for what we need.

We have 700 users in our organization who are using this solution. We don't have plans to increase our usage at this time.

We have not needed any technical support for the Fortinet FortiGate service.

The initial set up was not something that I was concerned with.

The price could be lower.

It's a good tool to control users.

I would rate Fortinet FortiGate an eight out of ten.

We mostly use the solution for our internet-facing firewall.

The next-generation firewall features are the solution's most valuable aspect.

The implementation and deployment are pretty simple.

The pricing is very good.

We've found the solution to be pretty stable.

The solution isn't really lacking features per se.

The product does need better support in the cloud environment. It's not exactly cloud-native right now.

The solution needs to do more on the deployment in the multi-cloud. For example, clients have GCP and AWS. How do we deploy FortiGate in a cloud environment? Right now, there's no solution for that.

We're worried that the scalability isn't as good as it could be.

We've been using the solution for about two years or so. It hasn't been an extremely long time, however, it's been a while.

Stability, in our experience, is quite good. It doesn't run a lot of unexpected downtimes or anything of that nature. We haven't encountered any serious problems. There have been a few minor items here and there, however, by and large, it's quite good.

The solution isn't exactly scalable, especially when it comes to the public cloud environment. We'll need to scale up, so we will have to figure out how to do it effectively.

We primarily work with medium and large enterprises.

We find the solution to be pretty straightforward to set up and deploy. We didn't have any difficulties with implementation. 

The deployment takes less than a week. It's a pretty quick process.

We provide maintenance services for our clients.

We actually provide deployment services to our customers that need it. We can handle this aspect for customers.

The solution is on the cheaper side. There are other products that are competitors that are much more expensive.

That said, the pricing isn't just based on licensing costs. There are add-on costs as well a company will need to consider.

We are more of a solution integrator. We are not a straight reseller. We are partners, however. We recommend people to use products. That said, we don't actually resell the actual boxes.

We use different versions and deployments of the solution. It really is dependant on the client and their needs.

We mostly work with Fortinet. It's the main solution we recommend and use.

I'd recommend the solution to other organizations. We've had a pretty good experience.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.