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FortiGate

Score8.3 out of 10

395 Reviews and Ratings

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What is FortiGate?

FortiNet FortiGate is a firewall option with high integrability. It offers a variety of deployment options and next-gen firewall capabilities, including integration with IaaS cloud platforms and public cloud environments.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features FortiGate has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
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Top Performing Features

  • Proxy Server

    A proxy server changes your IP address and masks the origin of your network traffic

    Category average: 8.5

  • High Availability

    Built-in capacity to prevent exposure if primary firewall stops working

    Category average: 9.2

  • Stateful Inspection

    Stateful inspection analyzes packet headers and contents of packets

    Category average: 8.8

Areas for Improvement

  • VPN

    VPN's implement encryption and anonymize IP addresses

    Category average: 9.1

  • Visualization Tools

    Visualization tools present administrators with data on applications traversing the network, who is using them, and the potential security impact.

    Category average: 8.1

  • Reporting and Logging

    Custom and summary reports, and log files enabling analysis of security incidents, application usage and traffic patterns

    Category average: 8.3

Most Frequent Users

Top 3 industries using Fortinet FortiGate.
Based on HG Insights installation data
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#1 most frequent

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

23.7%

1,697 installations of 7,147

#2 most frequent

Manufacturing

13.2%

940 installations of 7,147

#3 most frequent

Information

11.4%

818 installations of 7,147

Reviews

What users are saying about FortiGate.
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All Rounder Next Gen FortiGate Firewall

Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Use case : Its deployed at Network Perimeter.
Who handles, In out traffic in the corporate network. Allowing legitimate and Blocking unwanted traffic and keeping corporate network safe from cyber threats.
UTM - NGFW provides best UTM features, Web Filtering, App Control , Antivirus,IPS, HTTPS Inspection etc.
SDWAN- Gives granular level of control to stearing WAN traffic.
Integration - Integration with Identify Service Provider to configure user based policies.

Pros

  • Advance Threat Protection
  • SDWAN
  • HTTPS Inspection
  • Application Control, Web Filtering, Antivirus, IPS
  • AD VPN

Cons

  • Export Policies option for SDWAN Rules

Return on Investment

  • Less disruption in corporate network
  • Security from advance cyber threats
  • So users are focused on their desire tasks.
  • As there is high availability which indirectly impacts on organisational growth.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

CheckPoint

Other Software Used

CheckPoint, Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention, SonicWall NSA Series

Robust Network Security with Room to Grow A Practical Review of Fortinet FortiGate

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Product Management (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It helps to protect our organization from cyber attack. Moreover, it helps us to block suspicious website and apps when user tries to access it. It provides report for the threat detection and get us the analysis. We can easily protect our branch offices as well as our data center through this Fortinet FortiGate.

Pros

  • It helps us to block social media during office hour
  • It helps us to protect us from DoS attack
  • Check HTTPS before entering into a website

Cons

  • The license cost is high
  • Sometimes it's difficult to find a feature from web portal

Return on Investment

  • Fortinet FortiGate has increased productivity since no more attack
  • FortiGate replaces VPN , web filter, IPS which reduces the cost
  • Quick deployment and scalability has allowed faster expansion

Usability

Other Software Used

FortiManager, VMware ESXi, Splunk Attack Analyzer

Excellent Next Generation firewall

Incentivized
Vishnu Yadav
IT executive in Information Technology at Origin Logistics pvt Ltd (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using the Fortinet FortiGate firewall to protect the organization's network and resources from cyber threats. It not only provides you with a comprehensive cyber security solution but also offers you advanced features like load balancing, failover, application control, website filtering, bandwidth optimization, VPN, etc. It comes with a user-friendly interface that simplifies configuration, monitoring, and management of firewall settings.

Pros

  • It protects organization's network and resources from various cyber threats
  • Fortinet FortiGate firewall manages high traffic efficiently and maintains low latency.
  • It helps your organization meet various security and compliance requirements
  • It supports zero-trust architecture
  • It offers excellent web filtering and application control features

Cons

  • Pricing should be competitive
  • The Fortinet VPN client is available only on selected Fortinet firewalls.

Return on Investment

  • It is protecting our organization's network and resources from various cyber threats.
  • With its web filtering and application control feature we able to optimize bandwidth uses
  • It ensure us higher availability

Usability

Alternatives Considered

SonicWall TZ

Other Software Used

AnyDesk, JioMeet, Foxit eSign, Foxit PDF Editor

Fortinet FortiGate for eveyone

Incentivized
Julien Guffroy
Network Engineer in Information Technology at Boulanger (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The Fortinet FortiGate are actually used in our organization for sdwan topology (spoke and hub) and some other clusters are used for north/south filtering. We're using all the featured on different branches and also have a great view of the solution. In addition, we're managing devices through Fortimanager for some of them, and we're collecting all the logs to our FortiAnalyzer.

Pros

  • SDWAN
  • Webfiltering
  • Security Fabric
  • Documentation

Cons

  • FortiOS has a lot of CVE published
  • Upgrade time has CVE patching
  • Change in code between 2 major release

Return on Investment

  • The price is cleary the first ROI
  • Easy way to find administrator is a postive impact
  • Centralization of the solution with our entities is a great impact

Usability

Alternatives Considered

FortiAnalyzer, FortiManager and Fortinet Secure SD-WAN

Other Software Used

FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, FortiOS

Fortinet FortiGate is a partner for Network Securtiy Blue Team

Incentivized
Gustavo Mendez
CyberSecurity Leader in Information Technology at Mutual Jerarquicos Salud (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

There are many uses of Fortinet FortiGate solution.
We are using at first time how Perimeter's Firewall soluction. We knew its technology when migrate Cisco`s ASA to this vendor.
Inmediatly we detected many other uses case such as Wireless solution (FortiAP), Web Application Firewall (FortiWeb) an another more.
Don't forget that Fortinet FortiGate have a concept like an ecosystem; its name is "Fabric".

Pros

  • Have many solution for resolv diferente requirement. All of them have full internetworking.
  • The interfaces to manage its soluction are really easy to learn.
  • Bring solution to different type of customer. As small much as Huge.

Cons

  • Make easier than cisco asa deply vpn service.
  • Full integration with all componente tu Forti Analyzer (FAZ).
  • Really effective to use SSO from link to Microsoft Active Directory

Return on Investment

  • The Fortinet FortiGate's project deployment are fast and cheap.
  • In the next weeks atther that desploy Fortinet FortiGate, we have been seen complete information about security visibility and incidents stops for these securtiy controls.
  • We achieve easier ISO 27002 compliance.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services

Other Software Used

Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365, Kaspersky EDR Optimum, Tenable Security Center