Fortinet FortiGate Reviews

Our primary use case is as a firewall. 

Customers want to load balance more than six internet lines. FortiGate is the only solution that can accomplish this. 

The monitoring and the visibility, in this proxy, is very weak. I would for them to develop better visibility, monitoring, and reporting.  

It's not always stable. When there's heavy traffic, we get hardware problems. 

Their technical support is very good. 

The configuration was very easy. I didn't have any problems with it.

 It depends on the project, but I don't need a lot of resources to maintain it. One or two staff are enough to deploy and maintain it.

I integrated it myself. 

Our licensing costs are on a yearly basis. 

I would rate it a seven out of ten. Not a ten because of the monitoring and the stability issues. 

Fortinet products are used mostly for internet firewalls. Fortinet's has a great reputation, and all our computer operators are very happy with it. When it comes to firewalls, Fortinet packages are very attractive, which also helps.

I like how we can achieve total integration.

The cloud features can be improved. The sandboxing part is only available in limited parts of the cloud. If they could expand that, customers would find it slightly better. The price can always be cheaper as well.

We have been using Fortinet FortiGate for about five or six years.

Fortinet FortiGate is very stable. It's a good product.

Technical support was very good.

You need some training, but it's mostly easy. It's a bit of pain, but it's not that difficult, even if you're untrained.

This solution was deployed by a team of four engineers who work under me.

It's expensive, but compared to the competition it's okay. Fortinet's pricing is more attractive than some of its competitors. There's also an annual support license that you can buy with it.

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

My primary use is for border protection for connectivity out onto the Internet. This product has performed exceptionally well.

It just runs. We have had very few issues with the solution.

It is a good product from a price perspective versus functionality. It is easy to use and performs very well.

There could be more integration between the logging and analytical platforms to make it more seamless and integrated.

It is a very secure, easily managed product. It keeps up-to-date with all the variabilities.

Price-wise, it's at a good price point for our market.

If someone is considering this solution, they should do their homework to learn about the product. A user should make sure they compare between a short list of products. The choice should be made after considering price, support, ease of access, and evaluation of integration with other products the organization still uses. Due diligence is the key to integrating a solution.

We are a solution integrator and FortiGate is one of the security products that we implement for our clients.

The support is the main thing that needs to be improved.

We have been using Fortinet FortiGate for five years.

This product is definitely scalable. Our clients range from small to medium-sized businesses.

The technical support needs to be improved, and I would rate them a six out of ten.

The initial setup is straightforward.

This is a product that I would recommend.

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

We use it for security. It performs okay.

It controls the traffic in the organization and the navigation of the Internet. It blocks some sites and permits limited access to our information through the web. We can detect any attack of viruses or malware at the first point of contact.

• The security
• Monitoring
• Alarms

It is a very strong platform.

There are problems with the custom reporting of the unique traffic. The data is there, but it is too difficult for us to extract. 

Just today, our platform was down seven hours today. We called the technical support and they told us that there was some maintenance in the cloud for the platform.

The scalability is good.

The technical support is good.

The initial setup is not difficult, but tricky. It's easy, but it's important that their technical support will help you during the configuration of the platform. Procedures that appear logical are not always so.

Most important criteria when selecting a vendor: The security of the platform, because we are very concerned about cybersecurity. Also, the customer service response is important.

The company has integrated the LDAP with the UTM to control user traffic in senses and have a high availability for Active/Passive to assure uptime in case of physical failure. Our company is cloud driven and downtime becomes critical.

The FortiGate controls the user's activities and maximizes my bandwidth use overall. If the employer BYOD, we can accommodate it the need by having an isolated networked exclusively for that equipment which does not comply with the internal policies.

The value is the capability of having multiple services with one unique license, not having the limitation per user licensing schema, like other vendors.

Reporting is limited to providing an external appliance for improving the reporting capabilities of the FortiAnalyzer. It does not offer a central management and is also sold separably as an appliance.

FortiGate/FortiWifi:

• IPS
• Application control
• IPsec & SSL VPN
• Web filtering
• E-mail security
• Data leak prevention
• Wireless security and wireless controller
• Central antivirus (FortiClient)
• HW & SW token controller (FortiToken) etc.
• FortiManager

• Central management
• Administrative domains (can group devices according to geographical are, functionality, admins, etc.)
• FortiGuard management
• Logging and reporting
• Configuration version control and tracking
• Firmware management
• Scripting
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• FortiAnalyzer

• Centralized security log analysis and forensics
• Centralized graphical reports
• Customized reports
• Scheduled reports
• Queries
• Content archiving/data mining

Routing and security policies, central management and all of the other features help us to improve network performance and implement organization policies.

They could improve vulnerability scanning.

I have used it for three years.

We encountered a few stability issues; maybe one case per year.

I did not encounter any scalability issues.

Technical support is 10/10. They respond and offer solutions very fast.

We previously used Cisco solutions. They are more expensive, have fewer features, are more difficult to use, and response and help from
technical support is not quick.

For Fortinet solutions, the initial setup is very easy.

They are very cheap compared to other vendors.

Fortinet solutions are very easy to implement, proven, certified and tested.

I use Fortinet FortiGate mostly for security purposes.

Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use. 

The sniffing packets or packet captures can be simplified and improved because it's a little confusing. The automation feature has some limitations and could be better. 

I've been using Fortinet FortiGate for over four years. 

Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution.

Fortinet FortiGate is a scalable solution.

The technical support was quite good.

I think it's very easy to implement this solution because one person can do it. There aren't too many fancy things to do. I think you can implement FortiGate in less than an hour. We implement it by ourselves. Three administrators can do it because our clients aren't big enterprises, just SMEs. 

Setup costs and pricing depends on many variables, but it's mostly affordable.

I would recommend Fortinet FortiGate to potential users.

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