Fortinet FortiGate Reviews

Foremost, we mainly used it as a firewall. we also use it for low sharing between circuits.

It's great for capturing the traffic and troubleshooting it.

We used Fortinet FortiGate for one year.

Fortinet FortiGate is both scalable and stable.

We used a different party for support — they were pretty good.

Deployment was very easy.

I think the price of Fortinet FortiGate is very reasonable.

We were not able to build a full-mesh VPN; however, I am not sure if this was the fault of Fortinet FortiGate.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give Fortinet FortiGate a rating of seven. 

We use it to create a WAN. We also use it for the UTM firewall.

We don't have the latest versions. We've got the 60Ds and 30E products.

Its stability is the most valuable.

It should provide better visibility over the network and more information in the form of reports for the end users. Its installation should also be easier.

I have been using this solution for about three years.

It is stable.

It is scalable. We use it at five sites, and all in all, we have around 300 users.

We don't deal with Fortinet.

It was complex for me, but it was quick.

We had to use an outside resource to set it up.

We are going to move over to Meraki, so we won't be using this solution. I would recommend this solution to others, but it is a matter of preference.

I would rate Fortinet FortiGate an eight out of ten.

We use this solution for marketing and manipulation purposes.

Within our organization, there are roughly 500 people using this solution.

At the moment, we don't have any plans to extend our usage of this solution — currently, we are happy with the way things are.

The next-generation firewall is great.

The captive portal could be improved.

I have been using this solution for four years.

This solution is very stable.

I have never had to contact customer support. We have a team that handles all of the troubleshooting; however, they do provide excellent documentation.

The initial setup was very easy.

At the moment, we don't have a deployment strategy.

We have a team of three people who handle all maintenance-related issues.

Overall, on a scale from one to ten, I would give Fortinet FortiGate a rating of ten.

We primarily use the solution for network security and security next-generation firewalls.

The solution is quite user-friendly. 

We find that the system interface is simple to navigate.

The initial installation is very straightforward.

There are some cloud-based features that could be much more flexible than they currently are.

It's my understanding that they are currently working on improving the cloud solution quite substantially.

I've been using the solution for five years.

The solution is very stable. It doesn't have bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable.

We find the solution to be quite scalable. If your organization needs to expand this solution out, you shouldn't have any problems doing so.

We have two or three different locations and have between 50 to 200 users amongst those locations.

The technical support is very good.

Most of the time, whenever a ticket is opened and we reach out to support on behalf of our customers, they offer good advice and are very responsive. We're satisfied with the level of service we're provided. 

The implementation is not complex. It's very straightforward to set up and does not take a lot of time to deploy everything.

That said, I did not handle the implementation myself, so I can't speak to more technical aspects of the job.

We had four or five resources that assist in network security and they all helped with the deployment.

I don't handle the pricing side of the product and therefore can't speak to anything in regards to the licensing or costs.

Although we largely handle on-premises deployment models, we have suggested cloud versions to our clients recently.

We are a solution-providing company, and we are offering products to our customers.

Although we really enjoy the solution, there's a lot of very interesting competition in the market. The competition is huge. As a partner of the product, we get a lot of questions we have to answer, and, to be honest, this solution isn't as strong in some areas as others.

That said, we would recommend the solution to others. 

Overall, I'd rate the solution an eight out of ten.

Needed to get off of EOL Cisco ASA platform and we evaluated Checkpoint, Palo Alto, and FortiGate 1500 and 3000D. We chose FortiGate, FortiAnalyzer, and FortiManager as our solution.

• Better visibility into traffic patterns
• Lightening fast troubleshooting and reduced management complexity overall.

• Live traffic viewer
• Packet capture, and
• The option of using GUI and CLI interchangeably.  

FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer helps us manage multiply firewalls.

The speed of synchronization between FortiManager and FortiGate could be improved, but that could be because we host them in Azure.

The primary use case for this solution is as a firewall protection for our company.

It's performed as a firewall to block those unwanted traffics, and it can protect our clients and our users from some threats. I think it is the best solution to protect the network or our users from the APT attacks.

I like the UTM features, including the web filtering and antivirus.

The room for improvement is about the global delivery time period. Usually I need to wait for almost one month to deliver it overseas. So if you can shorten the deliver time it would be great.

It keeps improving the features and I am very impressed with the effort.

The response is very quick and they can visually resolve our problems in a short period.

In the past, we were using Cisco, the quite old firewall. And did not have the UTM features. So we switched to Fortinet to improve the security of our network.

I was involved in the initial setup and it was very easy and the features and interface are very good for us to understand what is going on.

When selecting the firewall vendor, we are considering the protection and the security features, it's the most important things we are considering. We need a good option for threat protection.

The beauty is the price performance ratio is great with FortiGate. It provides all the features we needed and the price is comparable with others' firewalls. The price is quite competitive with the firewalls with similar features.

We also looked at Palo Alto, Check Point and Cisco.

It's very easy to contact, the conversation is easy and it provides us all the features on point. It is also reliable.

We use Fortinet FortiGate mainly for firewall and VPN purposes. 

The virtual domains feature and the ease of use.

The Fortinet support needs improvement and also the quality control of the firmware (there are a lot of bugs)

I have been using Fortinet FortiGate for about 10 years.

Fortinet FortiGate offer a good value for money solution

Fortinet FortiGate is scalable. We don't have any constraints that create a problem for us except the support.

The major problem with Fortinet is the support. We have often hardware malfunctions and software bugs and the support is slow.

We also use another firewall vendor product

The initial setup was easy.

The implementation was through a international integrator team

Fair

The price is fair compared to the other competitors.

No

They have many features

On a scale from one to ten, I would give Fortinet FortiGate an eight.

We use it to protect our or our customers' full environment by using features such as IPS signatures, VPN, endpoint protection, and antivirus.

The application control features, such as Facebook blocking and Spotify blocking, are the most valuable.

The license renewal process, annual renewal price, and the web application firewall features should be improved.

I have been using this solution for two years.

It has been very stable and reliable. We are comfortable with its stability.

It is good enough for us. We have about 15 employees who use this solution.

I would rate them a nine out of ten.

The set up was a little complex, but the interface and the process are user friendly.

The license is too expensive to renew. The license renewal process is also complex. 

I would advise others to use the documentation. The official documentation is very comprehensive and complete. I use the Cookbook Reference Guide.

I would rate Fortinet FortiGate an eight out of ten.