Fortinet FortiGate IPS is a firewall that can be deployed on-premise, as an appliance, or you can be deployed on the private cloud as a VM or public clouds such as Microsoft Azure or Amazon AWS.
One use case is where traffic is coming in, and it is scanned because all traffic is untrusted, even within the network. You want to scan the traffic within your network. Most of the use-cases are internal networks and external networks.
The most useful features of Fortinet FortiGate IPS are you can create a virtual firewall within it, most other firewalls do not have this feature. You are able to manage your network and have network segmentation within your firewall. Additionally, you can create virtual switches within the firewall and have policy management, such as firewall and access policy.
Fortinet FortiGate IPS could improve the configuration. In some use cases, there can be some configuration conflicts.
I have been using Fortinet FortiGate IPS for approximately four years.
Fortinet FortiGate IPS is a highly stable solution.
I have found Fortinet FortiGate IPS to be scalable.
The support from Fortinet FortiGate IPS is good.
I rate the support from Fortinet FortiGate IPS an eight out of ten.
The initial setup of Fortinet FortiGate IPS was not completely easy, it is in the medium range of difficulty.
I would rate the initial setup of Fortinet FortiGate IPS a seven out of ten.
The licensing policies need to be fixed because if our license expires for Fortinet FortiGate IPS then all the functionality and internet do not work. However, with other vendors when the license expires the internet continues to work but some functionality is limited. Once my license expired before I even knew it, I could not continue with my business functions.
If you compare the price of Fortinet FortiGate IPS to other firewalls, Check Point is priced very high followed by Palo Alto and Sophos. Fortinet FortiGate IPS price is more reasonable.
I have evaluated other solutions, such as Check Point, Sophos, and Palo Alto.
I rate Fortinet FortiGate IPS a nine out of ten.