Fortinet FortiGate Reviews

My primary use case of this solution is as a data center. It performs very well.

It has very easy management and an amazing ETM configuration.

I would like to see more advanced developments of a wireless controller in the future.

I think the product is stable. It is amazing.

It is amazing, but sometimes there are issues with Fortinet Integrations. But, I know they are now trying to rectify the problem.

We have good technical support from the vendor.

It was very straightforward. An easy installation process.

I think when you look at this product, you must realize that the box hardware and software are vary stable. And, the pricing is perfect.

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.

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.

Our primary use case is for our small company. It is basically for users on the LAN-side. So, it is just for browsing mostly.

The most valuable feature is the policy routing and application control. In addition, the firewall will act as a call-switch. So, the performance within the LAN is good.

The UI could be improved. 

We sometimes wait 30 to 40 minutes to get a tech engineer. But, then they are pretty good. Whenever I call for a problem they will assist me and correct me and they will fix up the call. Only one they are sure we have solved the problem will they disconnect from the call. Whenever the issue arises, they're available to help.

I also have prior experience with SonicWall.

The initial implementation was straightforward.

I do not have personal experience with the pricing of the solution because my boss has been taking care of that aspect of the relationship with the solution.

SonicWall has a better UI solution.

I use Fortinet Fortigate. First of all, I use them as perimeter firewall. Secondly, I use it for a  data center firewall for internal segmentation.

The main benefit is the grouping of our security monitoring. I have all of my solutions from the same brand, Fortinet. I have only one console, one dashboard, all the security incidents that occurs on the network.

The Fortinet FortiGate product has original features that we use. 

These features include:

• IPS
• Anti-Malware
• Web Application Firewall

I am looking to implement key authentication for admin access for the Fortinet product.

The technical support is great. 

I was involved in the initial setup. When we decided to use Fortinet, we were already a customer of Fortinet. So, my previous firewall also was Fortinet and the experience with the brand and with the provider was very good. We have no issues. We like to keep with the same brand.

Fortinet is a very good solution. It would not be a mistake to choose Fortinet as a solution.

In the past, we had evaluated Palo Alto and Cisco as possible solutions. 

E-commerce environment, enterprise data center.                                                                                                                                                                                                        

It has improved the security posture and visibility of our traffic. The OS and the firmware updates are very straightforward.                                                                                         

All the features are very good, straightforward licensing, Fortinet product integration, standardized FortiOS and automatic uninterruptable firmware upgrade. Easy to use support and licensing portal as well as activation process.                                                                 

I would like to see improvements made to the dashboard and UI, as well as to the reporting. I would also like them to consider offering more predefined security templates.                       

One to three years.

No issues.

No issues.

Customer Service:

An eight and a half out of 10.

Technical Support:

They are able to identify an issue and resolve it within a pretty short period of time.

We previously used Cisco ASA. We switched to Fortinet Fortigate because it was easy to manage, and it uses a Single OS for the whole product. We were also able to learn how to use it very quickly.

It is very straightforward.

We implemented it ourselves with some assistance from vendor. Because of the limited assistance from the vendor, we do not know what the level of expertise was.

No

They have very competitive solutions across the entire product line.

They also offer very clear licensing and pricing.

Checkpoint, Cisco, Palo Alto, Sonicwall, Huawei, and Sophos.

I found that the memory usage for the Fortigate firewall are relatively higher than other firewall brand when compared to same traffic volume. It might be the scan engine do their job well or the scan engine not well tuning. If there is a details information about this would be good.

We use Fortinet FortiGate as our firewall and Layer 3 switch. Together, they connect all our locations for internal and external access with an MPLS as the primary connection and a backup VPN over a secondary DSL/Cable ISP.

Fortinet FortiGate has improved our routing and made us more secure. Using OSPF tables with an MPLS VPN, along with the combined security of the firewalls, has made a huge difference in our organization.

• The ability to customize UTM features and add or remove features as we like.
• Availability of different locations as options.
• The VPN features are easy to deal with.
• The CLI and GUI do a good job of putting a lot at your fingertips.

It could use more templates for third-party site-to-site VPN setups other than FortiGate and Cisco.

Their proxy-based inspection is responsive and secure.

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.