Fortinet FortiGate Reviews

I use Fortinet FortiGate to secure the network.

The features I found most valuable in Fortinet FortiGate include their SD-WAN features and their VPN. They are good and very useful. My remote user and I are using them all the time. The URL filter is also good.

I started using Fortinet FortiGate five years ago.

I'm satisfied about the stability of this solution.

The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is good.

The initial setup of this solution wasn't complex at all.

This solution was implemented in-house. I was the one who implemented it.

Licensing for Fortinet FortiGate is on a yearly basis. Pricing for it is a bit high. It could be cheaper.

Deployment of Fortinet FortiGate took one to two days, because I needed time to put my existing environment and what we have, and what we intended to do with our network, to convert it into the Fortinet FortiGate system.

We were on another platform which was a concurrent platform and it wasn't a good one, and it was our first time to go on Fortinet FortiGate, so we had an issue and it took me a few days to deploy.

Maintenance of this solution requires two people. The number of users of Fortinet FortiGate in our organization depends on whether it's direct or indirect. If indirect, it will be all the users we have in the organization, but if it's direct, it could be just the administrator. If indirectly, it'll be a hundred users on our actual site, and 2000 to 3000 users on the other site, all done remotely.

I didn't have to contact Fortinet's technical support, so I can't evaluate their level of responsiveness. I was able to make all the configurations I wanted, without needing to contact support. This solution is good for me.

I'm rating Fortinet FortiGate an eight out of ten.

I'm recommending this solution to be deployed for a new user. I'm really happy with it.

We are a sister company of Fortinet FortiGate. Our organization has more than 3,000 users.

I would like to see improvements with the antivirus and IPS as they are not working properly all the time.

I have been using Fortinet FortiGate for twelve years.

Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution.

This solution is very scalable.

Prior to choosing Fortinet FortiGate you should make sure you select the right box. Be sure of the capacity and have a capacity plan before installation. I suggest you do a failover and redundant together, compact boxes together.

I would rate this solution an 8 out of 10.

We use this for bandwidth management and user security when accessing specific internet service devices.

Before using this solution, we had many problems accessing our resources because we don't have a lot of internet bandwidth. And by using application control and traffic shaping, we were able to manage users to quickly access services that are important. This tool has aided in the simplicity of our day-to-day management.

I value it's IPS and application control solution.

I would like to be able to see more log details.

I have been using this solution as an integrator for the past five years.

The solution is pretty much stable.

The solution is scalable and we are planning to increase usage in the future.

Customer service and support is great.

We used Sophos in the past. We switched after seeing a presentation on Fortinet FortiGate IPS where we concluded it would be easier to use and more secure for our company.

I think that setup was easy or medium depending on number of resources. Deployment took about a week. We wanted to have control over all of our users so it took some time to create each user on the device one by one and allocate a security profile to specific group of users.

We have this for about one hundred users which include the administrators, IT security and network manager.

Implementation was done via in-house team.

There are currently five team members maintaining the tool.

We do not have physical data for this, but we know that this product has allowed us to have less people working on the security side which provides the company with more human capital to work on other projects. 

It's a year based license.

We evaluated Cisco Meraki. The main difference was between the configuration and the security option that they give to us. With FortiGate we have so many security features that we never have to make any sophisticated configurations making it easy to manage.

Potential customers should first approach Fortinet pre-sales. Our pre-sales agent was able to give us good advice. His technical and buying advice made implementation of the solution easy. 

There are also many resources available on the web that make implementation easy.

I would rate this an eight out of ten.

We use this solution as a firewall proxy. I'm the company manager. 

Valuable features include the performance, stability, and virtual domain ability as well as the management that it provides.

There are some limitations to the solution such as publishing multiple servers with a single IP. I'd also like to see some improvement in the support system. 

I've been using this solution for two years. 

The solution is stable. 

I think the scalability could be improved.

Technical support is a little slow and needs to be improved.

The initial setup is reasonably straightforward. 

Compared to other vendors and other firewalls, the Fortinet pricing is reasonable.

Fortinet FortiGate IPS is used for network security.

The Fortinet FortiGate IPS has a good interface and integration.

The solution could improve the integration.

I have been using Fortinet FortiGate IPS for approximately eight years.

The solution is stable, we have not had a problem with it becoming unstable.

Fortinet FortiGate IPS is scalable.

We did not have a problem with the cloud configuration.

My advice to others is to study the current technology and the existing network well before starting the implementation. Additionally, it is important to collect the data in the right way.

I rate Fortinet FortiGate IPS an eight out of ten.

We primarily use FortiGate IPS for security tasks like forwarding, firewalling, attack detection, etc. All of our internet and portal connections are routed through FortiGate IPS. For example, we use it in our entire wireless setup, including the guest wireless and our internal LAN for wireless distribution. All public internet traffic is filtered through Fortinet. 

We like FortiGate's website change feature.

I've been using FortiGate for about five or six years. 

I think it's stable now. Yeah, exactly.

Right now, it's not really scalable, but it's okay for us. However, looking ahead to three years from now, we might have a problem with scalability. We foresee a little risk down the road. The stability is okay for now. 

Our usage is measured by the number of sessions in FortiGate, and it's divided by zones. In the French market zone, we have around 10,000 users.

We also use Juniper in some cases. In some ways, Juniper is more useful because we use this in our switch core for the internal LAN, so it's maybe more critical. Our sector depends more on Juniper than FortiGate. Three years from now, we might completely replace Juniper with FortiGate.

It is not difficult to set up FortiGate, but we have support helping us detect and troubleshoot difficult situations. FortiGate is easier to deploy than Juniper. 
We need a few people for maintenance, but we have some support working with us, and we need that. 

We have a FortiGate license for UTM, routing, firewalling, HTTPS, and some web features.

I rate FortiGate IPS eight out of 10. I would rate it higher if it had more features, stability, scalability, etc. For our requirements, I can rate it eight out of 10, but not more than that.

We use Fortinet FortiGate IPS for its firewall and filtering.

The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate IPS are firewall and filtering.

The web filtering categories could improve in Fortinet FortiGate IPS. There are too many websites under the category of Unknown and the other categories are not featuring all the necessary sites.

I have been using Fortinet FortiGate IPS for approximately 15 years.

Fortinet FortiGate IPS has been stable in my usage.

The solution is scalable.

We have approximately 100 users using this solution.

We are using this solution extensively in my organization but we do not plan to increase usage.

The implementation is complicated.

We have an internal team that did the implementation of the solution.

We do not need many people for the maintenance of the solution.

We pay for the license of Fortinet FortiGate IPS annually. There are not any extra costs.

I rate Fortinet FortiGate IPS a seven out of ten.

FortiGate IPS is really easy to use. I don't have any problems with this.

I've been working with FortiGate for close to three years.

FortiGate is stable.

FortiGate IPS is scalable. We've deployed it across about 150 servers.  

Fortinet has local support in our country, and it's really good. 

Deploying FortiGate is hard.

I rate FortiGate IPS 10 out of 10. I work with many companies, and I recommend it all the time. We build a solution based on what the company wants, and we often recommend it.