Fortinet FortiManager pros and cons

It would normally take us a handful of days to install one FortiGate instance on one site. But with this technology, zero-touch deployment, we need just one hour or maybe as little as 30 minutes to install one site. It is much more efficient.

The solution is very stable.

The most valuable features are the centralized management of the firewalls.

It has multiple features in one box, which helps to avoid needing a lot of equipment. This is something that makes them unique.

For the whole security fabric from Fortinet, with a simple click you can see if some workstations or services are affected by an attack. You can really easily quarantine it, check the solution, and fix it.

Fortinet has the option of synchronization in the cloud, so you can manage everything if you have a cloud account.

Everybody is quite happy with the way that the graphical user interface works.

We look at the traffic to segment the network and it improves and increases the performance. When we have a mobile connection and local laptops are on the same network. We have seen a big performance upgrade.

A fully integrated solution.

The most valuable feature is the central configuration for firewall policies.

Troubleshooting for Fortinet products is more difficult than competing products like Cisco and Palo Alto.

The GUI could be updated. It's not as good as it could be and is something the solution should improve in an upcoming release.

It's a difficult process to transfer one interface from one virtual domain to another.

We have some visibility issues with the reporting.

Fortinet is releasing quite a lot of new versions and I would say that most of the versions are not well tested before they're pushed out. Even the new versions sometimes are a bit buggy before it's all correct.

The response times from technical support need to be a bit quicker.

We have experienced a series of minor bugs that necessitated contacted technical support on several occasions.

Performance issues should be improved. We have problems when we have more mobile connections than local devices. Most of us have two to three devices.

Can be difficult to configure.

Having FortiManager work with all of the Fortinet products would be a good improvement.