Fortinet FortiGate Reviews

The two most valuable features are VPN and firewalling.

Fortigate 300c is a very robust product, unlike Cisco ASA Firewall, you have already the web gui interface inside the device. Although they the same concept. Fortigate 300c has one of the easiest gui configuration compared to ASA Firewall, where you can lose your way.

I have been using the solution for 2 years. It has served as an SSL VPN server.

So far, I haven't encountered any issues and that was the first time I implemented it. I just followed some concepts with Cisco ASA firewall and 2 hours later I finished configuring SSL VPN with 3 different capabilities.

None so far.

None so far, well it depends with license of the vpn. You need to purchase it and discuss it with the vendor.

Before I was to implement ASA for SSL VPN, it was already working. My boss told me that we would be implementing Fortigate instead. He told me that Cisco's license is more expensive than Fortinet so I think that was the tipping point for why we changed to Fortinet.

Yes it was, when you plug-in to the Fortigate Manager there is this wizard that will guide you to making it work basically, and that was it.Afterwards you can add your additional features as your company needs. The initial setup took me just 10 or 15 minutes.

Through a vendor team. On a scale of 1 to 10, I would rate them 8. The representative from the vendor seems to know the basics of the product but when it comes to troubleshooting he seems to lack information. He had to come back the other day just to provide a solution for a specific issue.

We only evaluated two, Cisco and Fortinet.

The solution is recommended for medium-sized and enterprise businesses that want their sensitive information secured.

There are lots of features and most of them are deployed for internet security. Users are protected if they accidentally go to some malicious sites.

The way everything is set up could be easier. Currently, people need a lot of experience and knowledge to administer it and to link it to devices.

I have been using the solution for approximately four years.

The solution is very reliable.

My colleagues have easily switched licenses and features for the device. There was not any complication, it was really intuitive.

Technical support agents are really responsive. They are a small company, but they are providing high-quality technical support every time we contact them.

The initial set up is complicated.

The price for the device and software is high. However, the solution is of good quality and has a lot of features. Licensing is on a yearly basis, it can also be purchased for a couple of years ahead. For example, for a single year or three years. If you purchase a license for a longer period you receive a discount or some type of credit. 

We are recommending this solution to help increase the possibilities of securing internal systems of companies against intrusions.

I rate Fortinet FortiGate an eight out of ten.

On-premises

We are a reseller of Fortinet products. We use FortiGate for Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) support. This is the most important reason that we use Fortinet FortiGate.

We required our network to be more secure. We also use FortiGate for improving the speed of the internet because the network here does not perform as we would like it to.

The most important features of Fortinet FortiGate are the Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and firewall control applications.

The main aspect of FortiGate that could be improved is load balancing. Our management team does not want to buy another appliance for only load balancing.

The network routing with Fortinet FortiGate can be an issue, but it generally depends on the size of the company.

More than five years.

FortiGate is a wonderful appliance.

We have knowledge of other firewall products but FortiGate is the best.

We like the Fortinet technical support and how they have responded in the past.

The initial setup was easy and not complex at all.

There is only one issue with Fortinet FortiGate: It's the price. If the company makes its products cheaper then we can convince our clients to buy more.

I would rate Fortinet FortiGate a nine out of ten because I don't know all of the features of the platform personally.

The primary use case for this solution is as a firewall protection for our company.

It's performed as a firewall to block those unwanted traffics, and it can protect our clients and our users from some threats. I think it is the best solution to protect the network or our users from the APT attacks.

I like the UTM features, including the web filtering and antivirus.

The room for improvement is about the global delivery time period. Usually I need to wait for almost one month to deliver it overseas. So if you can shorten the deliver time it would be great.

One to three years.

It keeps improving the features and I am very impressed with the effort.

The response is very quick and they can visually resolve our problems in a short period.

In the past, we were using Cisco, the quite old firewall. And did not have the UTM features. So we switched to Fortinet to improve the security of our network.

I was involved in the initial setup and it was very easy and the features and interface are very good for us to understand what is going on.

When selecting the firewall vendor, we are considering the protection and the security features, it's the most important things we are considering. We need a good option for threat protection.

The beauty is the price performance ratio is great with FortiGate. It provides all the features we needed and the price is comparable with others' firewalls. The price is quite competitive with the firewalls with similar features.

We also looked at Palo Alto, Check Point and Cisco.

It's very easy to contact, the conversation is easy and it provides us all the features on point. It is also reliable.

Primary use would be firewalls for the central office as well as all our branch offices. For some branches, we use the wireless feature.

The product is very stable, easy to troubleshoot, and configure, so it has reduced the time it takes for support.

• Stability
• Ease of use
• Configuration
• The available feature sets

• It needs more available central management. 
• It could use better throughput on some of the smaller boxes for the branch offices.

Three to five years.

It is very stable.

Since we are not virtual, it is a physical box. It scales well if you know what to buy from a physical box standpoint. They seem to offer something for every level.

The technical support is very responsive and qualified.

Cost and convenience are probably why we switched from our previous solution to FortiGate.

The initial setup is straightforward, once you understand the operating system environment.

I was not here at the time that they were evaluating other solutions.

I highly recommend the Fortinet product because of its implementation. It is a solid product with an easy configuration and good support.

Most important criteria when selecting a vendor: 

• Experience
• Installations of similar types which met our needs
• Pricing
• Support
• Ease of implementation.

• Flexible enough to handle everything we could want
• Configuration layout is easily understandable
• Allows for firewall rules to be programmed and named in a way that makes it “readable”
• VPN support and some anti-virus protection.

It would be nice if backups could more easily migrate between different models.

I did not encounter any issues with stability.

No scalability issues, but communications is severely limited in our case by design.

They were our first firewalls on site.

It does require someone knowledgeable in routing, firewall rules, and these firewalls in particular. Once it is set up, they are easy to modify and maintain.

It is difficult as an end-user to setup continuing license contracts. It is possible to do between emails and their website, but it is practically impossible to find a phone number to call anyone directly.

We considered SonicWall .

It is an excellent product and works extremely well. If it is set up in a logical way, it is very easy to understand and modify. It is highly recommended to have a service “expert” familiar with these to set it up initially with customer direction.

We have several sites spread geographically across Latin America and Asia that use FortiGate. Some of them are unable to support cloud services so we have deployed it on-premise in order to provide ourselves with a fast and secure network.

I like that you are able to manage FortiGate from the FortiManager to create a more centralized environment.

The solution's framework needs to be frequently updated in order to have a stable solution.

We have been using this solution for a little over one year.

This is a stable solution is you are able to effectively maintain the framework.

This is a scalable solution. We have about six thousand users and have plans to increase.

My company used Blue Coat and Zscaler in the past but I am unsure why they switched.

The initial setup was not 100% straightforward, but it was also not too complicated. You have the choice to use templates or design your own so deployment length will be dependent on that.

This is a great solution for companies spread across Latin America and Asia.

I would rate this a seven out of ten.

On-premises