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FortiGate

Score8.2 out of 10

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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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FortiGate 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: 9.3

  • 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: 8.2

  • Reporting and Logging

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

    Category average: 8.3

Who Buys & Uses Fortinet FortiGate

FortiGate Reviews

What users are saying about FortiGate.
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Pros

  • Robust network security and comprehensive threat protection
  • Effective web filtering for application control and SSL inspection
  • Reliable VPN capabilities for remote access and secure tunnels

Cons

  • High cost of licensing and Forti-tokens
  • Firmware and software stability issues, including vulnerabilities and glitches
  • Challenges with user interface and command-line interface navigation

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

Next Generation Fortinet FortiGate Firewall - Uninterrupted Network

Incentivized
Diksha LimbachiyaView profile
Server and Network Admin in Information Technology at SSM Infotech (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Fortinet FortiGate is Gateway level security used to restrict incoming and outgoing traffic.also using for application control,web block, Antivirus ,DNS control, IPS as part of security to network devices.SDWAN used for Internet sharing load balancing and traffice shaping.main problem resolved by Site to site vpn to connect another branch and virtually connect with its system services like RDP,Web (HTTP,HTTPS etc).

Pros

  • VPN
  • SD WAN
  • Security profiles
  • Web over rating

Cons

  • live report dashboard automatically instead of customization
  • Registration and support forticloud portal use
  • changing registration mail id is very difficult process to complete in less time

Return on Investment

  • Improve Network Management and performance by load balance ,SDWAN
  • can set priority and manage traffic using Policy Route, Traffic shaping by QoS
  • Centralize manage Advance Security threats, firewall protection, intrusion prevention, web filtering, and SSL inspection
  • Applying security inspection may be impact impact perfomance by increase latency,network performance

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Cisco Firepower 1000 Series, Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services, Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series and Sophos UTM

Other Software Used

Trellix Endpoint Security ENS, Trellix ePolicy Orchestrator, Acronis Cyber Protect, Veritas Backup Exec, Microsoft Teams

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Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Fortinet FortiGate to centralise our networks, provide secure web filtering and deliver a solid security fabric integrated remote access solution to our Staff and pupils. We needed a single solution to ensure all endpoints/users are audited and robust filtering is in place. Fortinet FortiGate enables us to do all of this and assists us in safguarding our pupils from harm.

Pros

  • Remote Access (VPN tunnels and web portals)
  • SSL inspection/Web filtering
  • Ease of integration
  • Reporting

Cons

  • Firmware recovery options
  • automatic backups
  • automatic upgrades

Return on Investment

  • better organisation security posture
  • increased awareness of network traffic, types of web application or site visits
  • secure and robust vpn options of all of our endpoints and no greater unit cost for the privilege.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Smoothwall UTM

Other Software Used

FortiClient, FortiMail, FortiAnalyzer