We manage FortiGate firewalls for our customers. We are working with 100F, 100D, and 60D.
All our FortiGates are installed on-premises, but we can manage our customers' firewalls remotely.
We manage FortiGate firewalls for our customers. We are working with 100F, 100D, and 60D.
All our FortiGates are installed on-premises, but we can manage our customers' firewalls remotely.
It is useful for protecting and segregating the internal networks from the internet. Most of our customers also use the FortiGate client to connect to their offices by using the VPN client, and of course, they usually activate the antivirus, deep inspection, and intrusion prevention services. They are also using it for web filtering and implementing various policies dealing with forwardings, NAT, etc.
A sandbox would be good in order to be able to inspect the emails containing spam and be able to validate the emails that contain malware, prior to delivering to the customer.
Its initial setup could be simpler.
I have been using this solution for about five years.
Its stability is great.
We have not had the necessary size to experience extendability.
They supported us in many of our projects when we needed the expertise to configure the devices properly according to the customer's specifications.
It could be simpler. Sometimes, it is very difficult. Policies tend to mix up sometimes, and it can be difficult to have clear policies for one particular thing.
We recommend this product to customers with up to 200 or 250 people. This size is considered large by Greek standards. If a customer is located in one single building or two or three buildings, and they do not have a complicated architectural infrastructure, this product is ideal for them. It is not recommended for customers with a complex infrastructure and a lot of buildings.
I would rate it a nine out of 10. It is a fantastic product. It fits the customer requirements very well, and the vendor is great. We are very pleased with it.
It's mainly used to secure our clients' network access because they do not have any servers. The only things we have connected to the FortiGate firewall are access points, CCTVs, and a printer. It's just used for web browsing and internet access.
It definitely helps with intrusion prevention. When managing a firewall, you need to create policies to dictate the traffic flow within your environment. And once you enforce a policy, it has an intrusion prevention assistant that you can activate, so it's not just acting as a firewall.
Like most next-generation firewalls today, it helps control network traffic. I don't have any problem managing the network traffic within our network. It's very easy to access and manage.
FortiGate has also helped reduce the risk of cyberattacks. If such an attack happened, the main consequences for us would be data breaches, where some of our company's most important information might be leaked and used by other people. That would endanger our production and security.
And with the System Events page, I can easily access and see the events that are happening within the device and the network. It's easy to track if something has happened and, based on that, make a decision about the next step that I should take. I can see if it is severe or if it is just something that is not critical but more than a nuisance. Even in that case, I have to think about the steps that I will take to prevent it from happening again.
Mostly, it's about protecting the internet access of our end users in the production area of our company. It protects us during our web browsing and from internet-related activities.
The feature I like most is the SD-WAN. It allows you to manage more than one ISP at the same time. And there is a high-availability mode, so if one of your ISPs is down, you still have a backup.
It also provides us with visibility because we are able to track the IP addresses, as well as the type of device, OS, vendor name, and the name of the devices.
In addition, Fortinet Security Fabric helps us meet regulations and compliance requirements.
The built-in APIs enable us to integrate with different vendors, such as TP-Link and Luigi. We did not have any problems with the integration. It's very easy to configure and connect. This helps reduce deployment time, but that has more to do with network knowledge than with the product. If you're familiar with basic networking, it would be easy for you to understand the application of a certain device and integrate it with the API of your choice.
I've been working with Fortinet FortiGate for about 10 months.
I would like to see improvements in the support from Fortinet. Here in the Philippines, whenever we have problems with a Fortinet product, we mostly ask for support from distributors and resellers and not directly from Fortinet.
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I don't know why our company acquired FortiGate because I'm not the account manager. I'm just the technical person who installed the product. But I can assume they just looked at other companies that are securing their networks and decided to secure their internet access like those companies do.
Including the reconfiguration of the network setup, the deployment took at least five days. But the actual deployment of the device only took one day. There were four people involved.
I have no idea what the difference in pricing is if you buy it from a reseller or distributor compared to Fortinet, or even if Fortinet gives that option. The pricing is justified. It's a little pricey, but what you pay for is what you get.
I can't say how much it has reduced MTTR because I have not experienced any issues with FortiGate.
When I first built the FortiGate firewall, it enabled me to learn more about the network security field.
We use Fortinet FortiGate for web filtering, IPS reporting, and firewall policy routing.
What we like about Fortinet FortiGate is that it's fast. You can also use it immediately, e.g. you don't have to wait and apply the policy before you can use it. It's robust and offers immediate usage, unlike Check Point, which we noticed was a slow product.
Fortinet FortiGate is also more secure, depending on how you set up the SD-WAN technology.
We also like the zero trust access, arrays, and the EDR features on this product. It's also 100% more user-friendly, e.g. even when I worked with them configuration-wise. The availability of the support hotline and their knowledgebase articles, e.g. the Cookbook, help a lot. Those articles are accessible to everyone, and they're free.
Whenever you implement a solution, you can run through Cookbook, then you can install the Fortinet certificate if you aren't able to, if you're stuck, but most of the time you are likely to get it right. The Cookbook explain everything straight to the point, and this makes it much easier.
Fortinet FortiGate can be integrated with different platforms. They have integrations in place, but I can't say they're 100%.
I've used Fortinet FortiGate for three years, and the last time I used it was last year.
The product is very stable. It's a powerful product.
Fortinet FortiGate is a scalable product.
Installing Fortinet FortiGate is straightforward. The Cookbook tells you where the issue is, then the packs that come with the software, they are quick to advise on what bugs you can expect, and how those bugs can be fixed. I enjoyed installing the product.
The initial setup for Fortinet FortiGate took less than a week. We spent another week migrating the policy, or recreating the policies on the new object, because of the incompatibility with Check Point. We had to recreate the policies, otherwise, the change was quick, and we just had to mount them and connect the HA link and the other internet link. The setup was quick.
The product has different licensing models, depending on what you're going to do. For the IoT service, initially the program was for free, then the IoT service and the mix firmware that we had, we had to pay.
Services are separate in terms of Fortinet FortiGate license models, e.g. you could have IPS, AV scanning on high availability, etc. The license could be on annual renewal.
I evaluated Check Point, but my problem was that it was too slow to install, and you have to wait long while your environment is down. With Fortinet FortiGate, it was instant. Fortinet FortiGate is very easy to install, unlike Check Point. Fortinet FortiGate is a better product.
I have experience with Fortinet FortiGate. I used to manage the product in the past, but in a different company. I transferred to another company into a new position, and Fortinet FortiGate is being used in my current company.
This product can be deployed both on-premises and on cloud. We use version 300E for on-premises, and VM04 on cloud.
They are doing a lot of things to improve Fortinet FortiGate, that I can't think of anything else I'd like added to it. There's zero trust access, the EDR, and the arrays. I can't really say that there's anything that they have not started. They're able to provide what I want.
We started with 100 users of Fortinet FortiGate in the company, then it went up to 270 users, because we also had a child company with end users of this product.
We didn't have to contact technical support for Fortinet FortiGate, because we had a third-party guy who was helping us, and we seldom contact him. If we find an issue, we just email, and he'll write back to us. We also get advise on the old firmware, for example, that there's a higher chance it's static and could be affected by vulnerabilities. Any help was done quickly, and it was nice. Nowadays, we are doing all the work, e.g. not having to contact our third-party guy.
We don't really need a team for deployment and maintenance. There's another engineer we're sharing ideas with, otherwise, deployment and maintenance are both very straightforward. You just need to know what you're doing, e.g. a good path, IPsec channels, etc., and it'll be much easier.
I can recommend Fortinet FortiGate to others, especially because I understand it the most now. We do know everybody won't choose it, because Check Point, Cisco, and other competitors are coming up with robust devices. Everyone wants to win against their competitors, but I'm happy with FortiGate. It's a product I can recommend to others.
I'm rating Fortinet FortiGate a ten out of ten, because it doesn't give me any issues. It's very easy for me to rate it a ten.
We utilize the Fortinet FortiGate firewall to safeguard our network and provide secure VPN access from external locations.
We implemented FortiGate because we needed a firewall to protect our data.
FortiGate helped us meet our ISO requirements.
In the time we have been using FortiGate, we have not had any security breaches.
FortiGate has reduced the risk of cyberattacks that can disrupt our production. Since implementing FortiGate we have not dealt with any such attacks.
I'm unsure whether centralized FortiGate management enhances efficiency, but our experience with it has been exceptional. We haven't encountered any issues, and the operational aspects have been seamless. Additionally, there was no downtime, which is crucial for our operations.
Our Fortinet security fabric has enhanced security across our industrial control system. By safeguarding our production environment and ensuring the security of VPN access granted to individuals, we have achieved comprehensive data protection. We have not experienced any incidents that would have occurred if our firewall was inadequate.
FortiGate does a lot of research, and the product is regularly updated, especially in the ransomware area. I know of a couple of other companies around us that had some ransomware incidents, but we never have. From that perspective, FortiGate has helped mature our approach to cybersecurity a lot.
The email protection and VPN features are the most valuable.
The process of configuring firewall rules appears excessively complex. While FortiGate offers greater functionality than other firewall solutions, its user interface could benefit from simplification.
I would like the log viewing process to be improved to provide a clearer understanding of the logs.
I have been using Fortinet FortiGate for five years.
I would rate the stability of FortiGate ten out of ten. We have never had any issues.
We used the limit of our FotiGate firewall which was around 150 users and we never noticed any performance issues.
I would rate the scalability of FortiGate eight out of ten.
The technical support is good.
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Our decision to switch from FortiGate to Sophos was solely driven by the seamless integration with our existing Sophos antivirus system. Had this integration not been an advantage, we would have maintained our FortiGate system.
The initial deployment was straightforward due to our understanding of the product and its operation. It was completed in one day by a team of two.
The price of FortiGate is comparable to that of most other firewall solutions and is more affordable than Cisco.
I would rate Fortinet FortiGate eight out of ten.
Except for the firmware updates we have to do now and then, there is no other maintenance required for FortiGate.
We had FortiGate deployed in one location in a big server room. We have 150 users.
I would recommend FortiGate to anyone. FortiGate is an out-of-the-box firewall with good pricing and excellent features.
The use case for this product has to do with security and visibility. When you are inside the business and when there are different departments and branches, it is used for the visibility of some packets. It can also be used for SSL inspections, to check if the SSL is right and that it is not phishing.
The license management is very valuable. You can get a new license each year, or you can enroll every two to four years. You can get the logs, and you will get the information on the risk in your network and the entire organization. With this information, you can take action on your actives, computers, or devices. You can bring your own device as an SSE.
The simplicity of the deployment and the digitization of risk are other valuable features that Fortinet provides.
The cost is low.
The firmware needs improvement because there are bugs when a new release comes through. Sometimes, the configuration changes, and it's a bit harder to see where the fail is. The first time that you have the firmware, it tends to have some issues, and it's better to wait a bit to update the equipment.
All the development of the firmware should be fixed before the update at the page level.
API tokens need to be improved, particularly with regard to integration with other cloud solutions. In other words, proxy flow and API integration need improvement.
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I haven't had any problem with the stability of the product.
The scalability is good. You can merge other Fortinet products well with this solution.
Technical support has been good.
The initial setup is easy.
The deployment and maintenance can be done by one person.
I did it myself. To create all the policies and configurations needed by the customers, it usually takes me two days or a week at the most if the project is harder.
The price is really low. It's cheap in comparison to the cost of Cisco or CheckPoint, for example.
If you want to get this product, first you must evaluate the number of people who will use it, and then choose the product that will best fit your needs.
I would rate this solution at eight on a scale from one to ten.
We use this solution for mid to large enterprise companies with around 500,000 users. We are resellers of this solution based in Pakistan and we have a partnership with Fortinet.
I like the security that Fortigate offers; it has great URL filtering with a next-generation firewall that can do internet routing, plus give us advanced layer seven application control. It offers good features.
I'd like to see training provided for new features and upgrades, it's not currently available. They really need to work on their support. There's a huge market for enterprise business right now and Pakistan is focusing on network security. Fortinet lacks local premium support.
We've been using this solution for six months.
This is a good, stable solution.
The solution is scalable for enterprise companies.
We have two or three local engineers that help us with deployment.
My one piece of advice would be to spend time planning, rather than just purchasing a product and proceeding to deployment. It's important to research the features, read their community postings regarding bugs because it's something that might hit them in the future.
I rate this solution eight out of 10.
Fortinet FortiGate can be deployed on the cloud, hybrid, and on-premise. We use a combination of private and hybrid for the deployment.
We are using Fortinet FortiGate for parameter security, network isolation, and web filtering.
The most useful functionality of Fortinet FortiGate is the user interface, multiple engines, and their cloud with the latest integrations. Additionally, the Security Fabric tool is very good.
Fortinet FortiGate can improve by integrating the web application firewall and the DDoS protection part of the solution. Having a WAF feature, web application firewall, and proxy together would be a good benefit.
I have been using Fortinet FortiGate for approximately five years.
Fortinet FortiGate is highly stable. It has high availability.
The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is very good.
We have customers with 1,000 users using this solution and others with 100.
Engineers use this solution and all the end-users are connected to it. The whole organization is using the solution.
The technical support is very helpful. We had a very good experience with them.
The initial installation is straightforward, and the full process takes one to two days.
We have our own team that does the implementation of the solution.
The support subscription for the solution is annual. You are paying for support and there are two levels of support, professional and advanced.
I rate Fortinet FortiGate a nine out of ten.
We use Fortinet FortiGate for a UPP solution. For example, DNS filtering, IPS, and VPN access.
The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is load balancing. It can provide central management and VPNA. Additionally, it has enhanced our security environment.
The management UI is more user-friendly than Cisco's solution.
Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding FortiAnalyzer to its solution, we should not have to use another solution. FortiAnalyzer can provide more detailed information.
I hope that Fortinet FortiGate provides a software define network(SDN) solution. and provide the interface for the user. If we have the SDN interface we can develop our system to manage Fortinet devices.
I have been using Fortinet FortiGate for approximately one year.
Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution.
I have found Fortinet FortiGate to be scalable.
Our company is across many locations. For example, Europe, South America, America, China, Taiwan, and Asia. At this moment all of the sites are using Fortinet FortiGate. There are approximately 10,000 users that are using Fortinet FortiGate.
I have not used technical support.
I previously used Juniper. I did prefer the Juniper OS but not anymore because the Junos firewall seems not to be very stable. Since Juniper had stability issues is why we went with Fortinet FortiGate.
There is a license to use Fortinet FortiGate.
I have evaluated other solutions, such as Cisco.
I would recommend this solution to others.
I rate Fortinet FortiGate a nine out of ten.