Fortinet FortiGate Reviews

Needed to get off of EOL Cisco ASA platform and we evaluated Checkpoint, Palo Alto, and FortiGate 1500 and 3000D. We chose FortiGate, FortiAnalyzer, and FortiManager as our solution.

• Better visibility into traffic patterns
• Lightening fast troubleshooting and reduced management complexity overall.

• Live traffic viewer
• Packet capture, and
• The option of using GUI and CLI interchangeably.  

FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer helps us manage multiply firewalls.

The speed of synchronization between FortiManager and FortiGate could be improved, but that could be because we host them in Azure.

My primary use case for this solution is using it as a key net and as a firewall.

For Fortinet Fortigate,I have to have a Fortigate access point. In my opinion, it should have been a universal access, which supported the universal access point. At this point, our campus is large with some 10 thousand students and staff on board at any given time. Every time I have to use Fortigate, the access point portal has to be a universal type. It would be nice if I did not have to "marry" Fortigate for everything.

The only feature is that I don't have to be worried about categorization of the websites. I am able to put on the policies for the blog because this is an institution.There are several restrictions out there to get onto the websites. It creates a "headache free" environment for us.

A couple of things I've seen that need improvement, especially in terms of a hard coding. The driver-level active moment really is out-of-the-box and we have to have contact the customer support and sometimes it is difficult to resolve.

My only solution would be please don't make it as a closed source. Don't make it as
a closed source. Give some kind of a power to the user so that they can consider it
according to their determine that it should have some flexibility on concurrent
connections not be restricted. I agree that to some concurrent connections the CPU and
the box may be a lower model and it need some higher scale level with this. But, there
should be a provision. There should be a provision to go to at least to 60-70% onto the
threshold to go beyond the designed capacity of something. Like we call it as a design
capacity, and since 70% addition to the 100% of it.

If I compare with the open source, it has really frustrated me for a couple of things. Whenever my students or faculty goals increase, then in Fortinet, I need to change the model for going with the higher model, or better model more better first tier it can deal with it.

It should have been scalable. But, it is not quite so. There are limitations, I need to change the box or I have 1500 D. That means I can make 1000 connections, but some kind of vestibules are going on and the advances are going on. Then, I find it very difficult to give  a connectivity simultaneously and upon current connections. As a result, I have to deprive my faculties, my staff, or my students of certain functions.

Tech support is not very efficient in India.

We have considered the Linux Suite and HP BSM.

As I said, that at least one part I am "headache free" that I don't have to categorize all the websites and that security has been pre categorized by the people, and that the services are getting updated. At least one part of my problem is over.

My primary use case of this solution is as a data center. It performs very well.

It has very easy management and an amazing ETM configuration.

I would like to see more advanced developments of a wireless controller in the future.

I think the product is stable. It is amazing.

It is amazing, but sometimes there are issues with Fortinet Integrations. But, I know they are now trying to rectify the problem.

We have good technical support from the vendor.

It was very straightforward. An easy installation process.

I think when you look at this product, you must realize that the box hardware and software are vary stable. And, the pricing is perfect.

We primarily use this for the Security Fabric feature. It works together with other Fortinet products like FortiWeb and FortiMail, as well as with Amazon products. There is a lot of integration. 

It enables our organization to become more productive. Also, it protects our NEtWare from viruses and malware.

I think the only issue that needs improvement is the interface.

It is a very stable product.

Sometimes the solution is not scalable.

Our experience with technical support has been very positive. 

It was very straightforward an easy for us to initially install.

We always consider:

• Price
• Product success

The price, in comparison to other products is very cheap.

Other products considered were Sophos and CiscoMaraki.

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.

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.

Our primary use case is for our small company. It is basically for users on the LAN-side. So, it is just for browsing mostly.

The most valuable feature is the policy routing and application control. In addition, the firewall will act as a call-switch. So, the performance within the LAN is good.

The UI could be improved. 

We sometimes wait 30 to 40 minutes to get a tech engineer. But, then they are pretty good. Whenever I call for a problem they will assist me and correct me and they will fix up the call. Only one they are sure we have solved the problem will they disconnect from the call. Whenever the issue arises, they're available to help.

I also have prior experience with SonicWall.

The initial implementation was straightforward.

I do not have personal experience with the pricing of the solution because my boss has been taking care of that aspect of the relationship with the solution.

SonicWall has a better UI solution.

I use Fortinet Fortigate. First of all, I use them as perimeter firewall. Secondly, I use it for a  data center firewall for internal segmentation.

The main benefit is the grouping of our security monitoring. I have all of my solutions from the same brand, Fortinet. I have only one console, one dashboard, all the security incidents that occurs on the network.

The Fortinet FortiGate product has original features that we use. 

These features include:

• IPS
• Anti-Malware
• Web Application Firewall

I am looking to implement key authentication for admin access for the Fortinet product.

The technical support is great. 

I was involved in the initial setup. When we decided to use Fortinet, we were already a customer of Fortinet. So, my previous firewall also was Fortinet and the experience with the brand and with the provider was very good. We have no issues. We like to keep with the same brand.

Fortinet is a very good solution. It would not be a mistake to choose Fortinet as a solution.

In the past, we had evaluated Palo Alto and Cisco as possible solutions. 

E-commerce environment, enterprise data center.                                                                                                                                                                                                        

It has improved the security posture and visibility of our traffic. The OS and the firmware updates are very straightforward.                                                                                         

All the features are very good, straightforward licensing, Fortinet product integration, standardized FortiOS and automatic uninterruptable firmware upgrade. Easy to use support and licensing portal as well as activation process.                                                                 

I would like to see improvements made to the dashboard and UI, as well as to the reporting. I would also like them to consider offering more predefined security templates.                       

One to three years.

No issues.

No issues.

Customer Service:

An eight and a half out of 10.

Technical Support:

They are able to identify an issue and resolve it within a pretty short period of time.

We previously used Cisco ASA. We switched to Fortinet Fortigate because it was easy to manage, and it uses a Single OS for the whole product. We were also able to learn how to use it very quickly.

It is very straightforward.

We implemented it ourselves with some assistance from vendor. Because of the limited assistance from the vendor, we do not know what the level of expertise was.

No

They have very competitive solutions across the entire product line.

They also offer very clear licensing and pricing.

Checkpoint, Cisco, Palo Alto, Sonicwall, Huawei, and Sophos.

I found that the memory usage for the Fortigate firewall are relatively higher than other firewall brand when compared to same traffic volume. It might be the scan engine do their job well or the scan engine not well tuning. If there is a details information about this would be good.