Fortinet FortiSandbox Reviews

Fortinet FortiSandbox is a security-centric solution of Fortinet. The solution inspects all the predicted or suspicious files which are executed in the Fortinet FortiSandbox environment. It contains virtual machines of different types, such as Windows Server, and Windows Ubuntu. If the suspicious files are executed and there is an issue found. The user can request to discard it when the file is delivered to their system.

The solutions have extended our security posture which has helped the organization.

Fortinet FortiSandbox's most valuable feature is the security it provides against threats, such as ransomware. Additionally, it integrates well with APIs.

Fortinet FortiSandbox for approximately three years.

Fortinet FortiSandbox is scalable but you have to purchase additional licenses. 

Fortinet FortiSandbox is a network-based appliance and we have approximately 2,000 users being protected.

We do not plan to increase the usage of the solution because we are at capacity.

I rate the support from Fortinet FortiSandbox a five out of five.

Positive

I have not used another similar solution previously.

The initial setup of Fortinet FortiSandbox is complex. You cannot only deploy Fortinet FortiSandbox without deploying the stack of Fortinet solutions. The implementation and integration are challenging tasks with the device and placement in the network. We needed to do POC and offloading testing.

This is a cyber security solution, it has a very good ROI in terms of maintaining the reputation and user safety in cybersecurity.

The price of Fortinet FortiSandbox is not expensive. 

I did not evaluate other options.

The solution requires one security engineer with operational knowledge of the solution. However, they are not needed for a day to day activities, but for all the tuning, performance, and monitoring, one LC administrator is required.

I would recommend this solution to others. It is helpful for monitoring and protecting users from different kinds of attacks. I advise others to use the on-premise or cloud version.

I rate Fortinet FortiSandbox a ten out of ten.

Fortinet FortiSandbox is used for threat protection. For example, in emails and the internet.

The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiSandbox are the analysis options, artificial intelligence, and the many interfaces it provides.

Fortinet FortiSandbox can improve by decreasing the time of analysis response. Other solutions have a better response time, such as WildFire.

I have been using Fortinet FortiSandbox for approximately one year.

I rate the stability of Fortinet FortiSandbox a four out of five.

I rate the scalability of Fortinet FortiSandbox a four out of five.

I rate the support of Fortinet FortiSandbox a four out of five.

Positive

I rate Fortinet FortiSandbox a nine out of ten.

Every day, we connect to Fortinet Administrative Center and Sandbox to view emails. It's great for monitoring and reporting. 

The firmware is very good. 

I like the services and features on offer. 

Technical support is okay.

FortiGate is very easy in terms of configuration. The Web GUI is very simple and the Command Line is okay. The GUI makes administration tasks straightforward. 

The solution is stable.

You can scale the solution easily.

While support is okay, it can always be slightly improved. 

It can be difficult if you need to use the Command Line Interface (CLI). It's much easier if you only have to deal with the GUI. 

The solution has all of the features we need. 

I've been using the solution for two years. 

The product is stable. FortiGate firmware and the Sandbox are stable. We do not have problems. Even when you update, it's very reliable. There are no bigs or glitches. 

It is a scalable product.

Support has been mostly helpful. 

I have a contact from Fortinet support and my contact is very nice. I use it three to five times a year and they've mostly;y been able to support me and answer my questions. 

We do pay for support and they do provide us with help and with patches, et cetera, to help with firmware and updates and any security items. 

I have used Stormshield in the past. That was a long time ago. We now only use Fortinet for security. Fortinet, in comparison, is easy to configure. Stormshield is also a smaller solution than Fortinet. It's technically more affordable, s Fortinet is more expensive, however, Fortinet is a bigger more technical option.

Setting it up and configuring it is very easy.

It's easy to configure from Sandbox as configuration from the policy is very easy. 

I don't have much information in terms of maintenance tasks and what might be needed to maintain the product. 

We have a one-year license for the product. You can renew it yearly.

I'm very satisfied with this product.

We are using the latest version of the solution. 

We have 500 people in the organization. 

I'd recommend the solution to others. It's great, working from the cloud and the security is good. 

I would rate the solution ten out of ten.

I am using Fortinet FortiSandbox for security in the Fortinet fabric.

The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiSandbox are customization, ICAP protocol, and integration with other vendors. Additionally, the security work very well.

Fortinet FortiSandbox should improve its performance and security accuracy to keep competitive with other solutions, such as IBM.

I have been using Fortinet FortiSandbox for approximately six years.

Fortinet FortiSandbox is a stable solution.

The scalability of Fortinet FortiSandbox is good.

The support could improve their knowledge because they acquired other solutions and have yet to gain the knowledge to support them.

The initial setup of Fortinet FortiSandbox was easy. It can take a few days to complete.

The maintenance of Fortinet FortiSandbox is done by two IT managers.

The license for Fortinet FortiSandbox depends on the use case.

We evaluated other options before choosing Fortinet FortiSandbox.

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate Fortinet FortiSandbox a seven out of ten.

We use Fortinet FortiSandbox to integrate FortiMail and FortiGate firewalls.

The use cases in Fortinet FortiSandbox are not good. It is difficult to upload a custom VM for Fortinet FortiSandbox. The integration of Fortinet FortiSandbox with other Fortinet or FortiGate firewalls is not good. VMs are already installed in the hardware and are working fine, but we tried to approve the custom VM many times but did not succeed.

Fortinet FortiSandbox is complex in uploading the custom VM. Fortinet FortiSandbox needs to improve the customization and the custom framework updates.

I have been using Fortinet FortiSandbox for approximately two years.

Fortinet FortiSandbox stability could improve.

Fortinet FortiSandbox is scalable.

We have approximately 300 users using this solution. We plan to increase usage of Fortinet FortiSandbox. We are moving to the next version soon.

The technical support of Fortinet FortiSandbox is good.

The initial setup of Fortinet FortiSandbox is easy, it took us a few days to do.

We used a third party to do the implementation of Fortinet FortiSandbox.

We have three engineers that are looking after the maintenance and are supporting the solution.

The price of Fortinet FortiSandbox is expensive.

Fortinet FortiSandbox is a leader in the market and they have good solutions.

I rate Fortinet FortiSandbox a seven out of ten.

FortiSandbox was a solution that we mainly sold for manual protection, however, in order to have a more compact environment, like you see the security fabric that has Fortinet, in many of our clients, we performed integration within solutions. Our clients are mainly ones that have had Fortinet solutions previously or want to test Fortinet solutions. We also encourage them to use integration with Security Fabric.

Clients mainly use it for documents, or, for example, programs or execute tools that are injected in the network through the perimeter or through the DNC and also for internal analysis. When any of the users reconnect to the network after some time it will perform a check through FortiClient. They also have interaction with FortiSandbox - everything new is put in quarantine during the user's use. These files or execute tools are analyzed in the FortiSandbox.It can also analyze for scripts between documents or inside documents - mainly office documents like Excel, PowerPoint, or PDF.

Integration is one of the solution's most valuable aspects. You can integrate even third-party solutions so that they can send the information or files they quarantine through the FortiSandbox. That's one of the main features every customer relies on or likes. 

The performance capacity is impressive. Normally, you will need a big solution, I would say, or big hardware so that you can handle all the processing you have to do. However, FortiSandbox is quite a good hardware in and of itself. You can handle it without any restrictions. 

With an on-premises solution, you can do all the analysis locally and not have the need to connect to the internet to depend on that service. 

The solution can scale, however, it needs to be planned ahead of time.

The technical support on offer is quite good.

With the 3000D we had some issues with the FortiOS version. I don't remember which one it was, however, there was an interaction problem or a performance issue. It might have been the FortiOS issue as it was a very particular, very specific issue and the performance was very high. All the indicators were in the highest levels and yet the equipment was not necessarily overloaded from doing analysis.

I haven't interacted directly with these solutions. I mainly use it for design and not how they work, and therefore I haven't interacted directly with them. It would be hard for me to comment on missing features in general.

The price just could be a little bit better, I would say, however, that depends a lot on the manufacturer. If you were to compare prices between vendors and manufacturers, you would see that the lowest equipment in the Sandbox line is quite expensive for a new customer. Those kinds of clients that don't have a very big budget or at least a medium one, need to rely on cloud solutions more than hardware, as hardware is expensive. 

It would be ideal if the product had the ability to, if it cannot detect something correctly, to be able to put it on hold until a new release. That would be very circumstantial, actually. However, it could help protect against unknown entities.

I can't really speak to the stability. I haven't checked the functionalities of how they work in the current databases. So I don't have too much info about it.

Part of the design is to know how the solution can scale. You normally try to leave some space. For example, you offer a customer the possibility to scale in the future, according to their needs, however, only if you know the customer is going to grow. If the customer doesn't have that need, it doesn't make any sense to offer them equipment with some space to grow or to have more processing capacity or more licenses in the future. I would say normally you would sell what the customer needs plus a 5% to 10% cushion for the future if needed. However, it would be a properly designed solution. 

We usually work with medium to large-scale organizations.

Technical support has been pretty good. I know they respond every time. It just takes a few hours. It doesn't take too much time to respond. They're helpful and you can count on them.

We are also a reseller of Palo Alto solutions.

In terms of the initial setup, I would say it is half straightforward and half complex. It depends on the scenario and it depends on the kind of things you want to do with the Sandbox, for example, the kind of files you want to analyze or which kind of OS or images you want to analyze. It also depends on the requirements. Sometimes it's harder to deploy due to the scenario, the use case.

Deployment times also vary, however, it takes, at minimum, 15 days to set everything up.

The solution is a rather sizable investment. That said, for those organizations with sensitive data, that feed to know they are protected, it's likely worth the price tag.

We are resellers of the product.

I worked as a systems engineer previously. I'm now a sales executive, however, previously, I was in charge of making all the designs and the architecture for the solutions, and therefore, I know the distribution of these products, how can they be used, and different scenarios. I know how to position, for example, a FortiGate inside of a network for network segmentation and also for perimeter protection. Working also for VPN solutions, we were using FortiClients in EMS. We can have a centralized solution for VPN and also endpoint protection.

In terms of versions we deployed, there was FortiSandbox 1000D and also FortiSandbox 3000D. 

We try to integrate solutions together so they can have some feedback on each other and they can work better to provide security and to also sharpen the attack services.

If you don't want to have any zero-day malware on your network, if you know that you will be literally exposed to those kinds of malware, it's good to have a solution such as this. That said, it's a big, big investment. It's a big investment for a business. If you really want to protect your information, if you're dealing with very, very delicate information, you need some kind of hardware or solution that can protect it from any kind of malware, especially those from zero-day. This Sandbox would be a must-have solution for those kinds of customers.

I'd rate the solution at a nine out of ten. That would be dependant on what types of third-party software a company has that the solution could integrate with effectively.

We mainly use it for incoming mail from all our domains because we have several of them. We are servicing many companies as the holding company. Every mail is passed to the Sandbox virtual machine. It is a VM. Occasionally, a link or a standalone file that we want to check is also passed to the Sandbox virtual machine.

The scanner office document as well as PDF are useful. The most valuable thing is that you can emulate different operating systems without having the danger of getting something infected. It emulates several operating systems, and as a result, you either get the file or you don't get the file. 

I don't know if it is viable to do an improvement like this. When there are passwords in the password-protected files, it can't scan them or do things like this. I don't know if an algorithm or something else could make it better. Nowadays, many legitimate office documents have passwords.

I have been using Fortinet FortiSandbox for about five to six years.

It is very stable. The only thing is that you have to manually check for some extensions. You have to do that mainly for the office documents because they change their extension. You have to manually add the new extension, but it is not a big problem. 

They are very responsive. At first, I had interacted with only the Greece branch of Fortinet, which has only pre-sales engineers, not the support engineers, and they were very helpful. For the last two and a half years, we have a contract with a dedicated team for support. They're getting bigger, better, and greater. 

It is very simple. You just specify the operating system that you want to emulate as well as the office version. It is pretty straightforward in terms of the procedure. It is easy to use and has a very useful interface.

Altogether, it is about €10,000 for the Sandbox and Email Gateway. 

I have used it within the Fortinet ecosystem. The whole Fortinet ecosystem collaborates very well. It is a standalone product as well, but I haven't tested it as a standalone product. If I had a choice, I would opt for the cloud version. I currently have the on-premises version.

I would rate Fortinet FortiSandbox a nine out of ten.

FortiSandbox is a tool we use to secure our client's data. We implement FortiSandbox depending on an organization's requirements. 

FortiSandbox helps us handle unknown threats. Every vendor is competing for who can detect an unknown threat the fastest. Fortinet is competitive in the market. 

Sometimes, there are issues upgrading the version of the firewall or the SD-LAN box. After we upgrade to the latest version of the software, we still have the same box. I think it's the same for every vendor. 

We have used Fortinet for around one year.

FortiSandbox is stable. 

FortiSandbox is scalable.

I rate Fortinet support eight out of 10. 

Positive

We use different solutions depending on the client's requirements. Sometimes we implement Palo Alto. We need to discuss it with the client and select the product that's appropriate for their use case and environment.

Setting up FortiSandbox is easy and takes about three weeks. You need to collect the asset management information and requirements to integrate FortiSandbox.

I rate FortiSandbox eight out of 10 for affordability. It's competitive and reasonable.

I rate Fortinet FortiSandbox eight out of 10.