Fortinet FortiGate Reviews

We have a Cisco ASA firewall. We have it at the border of the network in front of the internet. With FortiGate, we put it in the middle, then it works behind our server farm to protect our server farm from attacks, from viruses.

It is a strong firewall. 

The product offers many features. 

There has been no attack on our servers after we configured the FortiGate IPS. No more attacks are coming. We are very secure.

The initial setup is very easy.

I have found the solution to be stable. 

It's possible to scale the solution. 

So far, everything has been good for us. We haven't had any issues. 

While the security is good, we'd always prefer if it was even better to ensure protection.

I have three years of experience with the solution. 

It is a very stable product. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable.

The solution can scale well. 

We have five engineers using the solution. 

A lot of medium and even small companies use the solution in our country.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

If we run into issues, we can contact support. They are helpful and responsive. 

Positive

We used Cisco ASA IPS as our old IPS. It was old, and we needed a newer product. We also liked the FortiGate support of the UTM feature. It allows for the inspection of Layer 7 in a more effective way than Cisco ASA. It is advanced. FortiGate is very, very advanced.

The initial setup is very simple and straightforward. It is not a complex process. 

The deployment is quick. It only takes a couple of minutes.

We have two people that can handle any maintenance tasks. 

We search for details and watch videos and are able to handle the process by ourselves. It's a solution that's easy to learn.

We bought the solution three years ago, and it came with five days of training from the local company. It cost us around $73,000 for three years. 

It's expensive, however, compared to Cisco, it's not too expensive. 

I'm an end-user.

We are using the latest version of the solution. 

I'd recommend the product to others. 

Fortinet FortiGate is used as an inline intrusion prevention tool to detect and scan ongoing connections and data. It will take action, either by blocking or intimating in real-time.

Fortinet FortiGate's most valuable features are the UTM package which provides internet blocking restrictions and load balancing. Additionally, the solution is easy to use and the security reporting is good. The security fabric which they have launched Fortinet FortiGate IPS, it's very good in terms of giving details.

Fortinet FortiGate can improve performance. There was a huge challenge in terms of CPU and memory where the IPS engine would keep triggering. There were random spikes of overutilization in the CPU and memory resources. They have to work on CPU and memory stability considering these IPS engines. A few versions were very unstable.

The current Fortinet FortiGate IPS package has only standard options. If they could work around optimizing those packages for different needs it would be better. There might be a media company, or banking organization, which needs a different set of signatures and different bundles on priority. If they could segregate that in terms of organization and needs, or at least institutional-wise segregation, that could be great. 

I have used Fortinet FortiGate within the past 12 months.

Fortinet FortiGate could improve the stability, we used different versions and they were unstable over time which caused an overall device error.

The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is a challenge. However, the cloud version is easy.

I have had to use the support a number of times when we had overutilization of resources.

I rate the support from Fortinet FortiGate a six out of ten.

Neutral

The initial setup of Fortinet FortiGate was easy. This is a common feature across Fortinet devices.

There is a license required to use Fortinet FortiGate with all the features. It has to be updated with the threats on an ongoing basis for the signatures to prevent threats and a license is needed to receive those security updates.

The price of the solution is worth it for the features.

My advice to others would be to have Fortinet FortiGate optimized. It is a good tool to be switched on and used in a live production environment. It is important to optimize rather than directly use the pro package, the full IPS package provided by the vendor. 

Fine-tuning the solution according to the organization's needs will help in optimizing the utilization of CPU and memory because the whole bundle has too many features which might not be needed for the organization. Enabling the solutions and running it on the first default mode and then optimizing it using the customized package, would help a lot in stabilizing the device.

I rate Fortinet FortiGate an eight out of ten.

Our infrastructure includes both FortiGate (81E series) and Cisco Meraki appliances, and we have fully integrated FortiGate IPS with these devices. Essentially, whenever I secure the WAN and LAN and enhance them with security profiles, I will use the IPS's Web Filtering and Application Control features.

The most useful feature of FortiGate IPS for me is Application Control.

FortGate's IPS reporting could be made better by giving more details regarding the source and destination of network traffic when it comes to the overview section. This would allow me to more easily follow the flow of traffic based on IP addresses, without having to integrate the IPS with other products that perform more sophisticated traffic analysis.

Another improvement, that may only tangentially relate to the IPS, would be to include more functionality and details regarding SD-WAN (such as the ISDB), in order to make it more secure.

I've been using Fortinet FortiGate IPS for about seven years. 

The stability is fine, but it would be even better if we were to deploy another appliance for higher availability of access, such that there is no downtime at all.

The scalability of the IPS fits my current needs well. If we were to take on more users, however, we would likely have to change both our appliance and the license.

The support is good because, although the response time for tickets may occasionally take some time, at the end of the day they have always solved the issue at hand. What is also nice is that they can connect with you remotely and help support you at any point.

Positive

The setup was easy for me because I deploy appliances off all kinds and sizes, large and small. I would give the setup a 4/5 in terms of ease.

I pay €1,200 per year for the license along with Fortinet's 81E firewall appliance. I would rate this pricing as 3/5 stars, and I believe the price is reasonably similar to its competitors in the market, being somewhere in the middle.

Given my experience and the fact that FortiGate are a leader in the market, I would rate FortiGate IPS a nine out of ten.

Our company has 500 users of the solution. 

The solution provides an easy way to filter information and the Fortinet lab is a great place to discover new things. 

The interface and product support could use improvement. 

I have used the solution for fifteen years. 

The solution is stable. 

The solution is scalable. 

Product support could use improvement. 

Neutral

The solution is offered as an annual license. 

I rate the solution a nine out of ten. 

The solution is helping us with the base key match work operations center. They are monitoring our match work 24/7.

Overall, it's a great solution. 

The detection is great. The possibility to detect any anomaly under our match work is great. We have a quick response.

We'd like more integration with the analyzer so we can track down any problem and have a correlation to try to find the root cause.

The solution could maybe use more integration with artificial intelligence to be more proactive.

I've used the solution for eight months or so. 

We have about 100 users on the solution right now. 

I'm just using Fortinet right now.

We pay monthly for licensing. You just need to pay standard costs and do not need to pay extra fees. 

I'm using the Fortigate 60f.

We're a partner. 

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten. We are quite happy with its capabilities. 

Fortinet FortiGate IPS are used for intrusion prevention and for protecting from intrusion.

Fortinet FortiGate IPS has helped increase the efficiency of our network operations and we are experiencing fewer queries in the network and security domain.

The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate IPS is its efficiency.

I have been using Fortinet FortiGate IPS for approximately one year.

Fortinet FortiGate IPS is highly reliable and stable. We have not had any major issues in network operations due to this firewall and security enhancements.

The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate IPS is good.

We have approximately 1,000 users using the solution. We plan to increase the usage of the solution.

I have contacted the support from Fortinet FortiGate IPS. The service was good but the speed could be better.

The initial setup of Fortinet FortiGate IPS is straightforward. The implementation can be done in two to three days. However, it depends on your network infrastructure and the configurations.

The implementation of Fortinet FortiGate IP can be done in-house if you have a good sizable team. However, in our case, we took the services of a consultant to migrate it.

We have a team of two to three people who can do the deployment and migrations.

I recommend this solution to others. It's a very stable, reliable, and scalable solution.

I rate Fortinet FortiGate IPS an eight out of ten.

We use the firewall to protect our internal network and endpoints or servers and to establish the VPN with our other locations. We also use this solution to aggregate multiple WAN links using SD-WAN.

The user interface is intuitive. Anyone can configure the firewall with little knowledge of the product. The back-end is robust with good security.

All entries in the firewall are linked to all relevant items. For example, if I create one IP address for a LAN segment and I use that IP address in a particular group or if I create a policy or rule inside the firewall, it will be tagged and linked. This makes it easy to identify where and how a particular object is being used.

By clicking on a single point, we can view to all other relevant records. I found this very useful for our tech team and IT admins. 

We have experienced a number of failures when trying to upgrade firmware and the process takes a long time. We only experienced this when doing major upgrades between versions. We have not experienced this challenge with other solutions. 

Fortinet has a policy of pushing all logs into the cloud but the log management is sluggish and slow. The problem is on the site or application where the cloud is hosted.

We have used this solution for more than five years. 

This is a stable solution. I have many customers whose firewalls have been running for a couple of years without any periods of downtime.

The Fortinet back-end team are quite experienced and very helpful. In some cases they take more time than expected. The ETA for resolution could be better.

We are a partner of Fortinet and have a dedicated support team for our Fortinet customers. When they need assistance, we encourage them to contact us instead of Fortinet so that we can resolve their queries faster.

Neutral

The pricing for this solution is reasonable. 

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten. 

My primary use of FortiGate is for general enterprise modeling.

The most valuable features are the enterprise modeling and the simple interface.

The cloud features and integration could be improved. There are also sometimes problems connecting the endpoint protection to the firewall.

FortiGate is a stable product.

FortiGate is scalable.

FortiGate is very easy to set up

If the customer is looking for SD-WAN, it comes free with FortiGate.

I would give this solution a rating of nine out of ten.