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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

Reviews

What users are saying about FortiGate.
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Fortinet FortiGate use case

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Two of our major sites are currently protected by Fortinet FortiGate Enterprise level products. Both sites have an HA Fortigate solutions ensuring network segmentation, network protection (IDS, WAF, Firewall, SSL inspection, .....) and IPSec VPN connection towards our cloud services, telco operators and remote sites. Our cloud services and remote sited aren't using Fortinet technologies and are a mix of other brand security appliances and products but the integrations has been quite easy. Actually, even if we can find similar services and products offered by many other companies, I find the Fortinet line of products a bit easy to maintain while leveraging all the availability, resilience and security we need.

Pros

  • WAF
  • IDS/IPS
  • Network segmentation
  • QOS

Cons

  • The interface, even if intuitive, has room for improvement. Sometimes, The WAF and IDS/IPS are a bit too much aggressive and need careful tuning (even if this problem is quite common).

Return on Investment

  • Compared to the previous products we were using in our two datacneters, the Fortinet FortiGate ensured a 250% ROI in three years thanks to the easier maintenance, performances (compared to the entry level price) and quite complete "ecosystem".

Usability

Other Software Used

WatchGuard Network Security, Cynet 360

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

FortiGate UX

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using a Fortinet enterprise solution for our production site and the D/R site. In both cases we have a cluster of FortiGate appliance which addresses our security issues, VPN access, network segmentation and QOS.

Pros

  • VPN
  • Network segmentation
  • QOS
  • WAF

Cons

  • GUI

Return on Investment

  • The ROI of network security and management has been extremely positive compared to similar prpducts because of the ease of use and high resilience.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

FortiClient, FortiGuard IPS Service and FortiGuard Web Filtering Service

Other Software Used

WatchGuard XTM - Discontinued Product, pfSense

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