Fortinet FortiGate IPS Reviews

We primarily use the solution for security purposes. 

Some security features are used for side blocking and antivirus and application control and bandwidth control. These are important for us.

The initial setup is straightforward. 

It's a reliable tool.

The product is scalable. 

There could be more modifications. Some features are enabled, however, compared to Fortinet, some features are not easy. 

Sometimes the dashboard does not open properly. When we add more options, SD-WAN features, and user control features, the opening is very slow. It does not sync properly.

We've used the solution for one or two years. 

The solution is stable and quite reliable. There are no bugs or glitches and it doesn't crash or freeze. 

The solution is scalable. There is no hardware. There are many clients and we have not had any complaints so far in regard to the product.

Technical support is good, however, they do not respond quickly. They respond late. When we log the case, there's no priority with service. You can't get a response, for example, within an hour or two unless you have priority. Cisco, in contrast, divides its services into P1, P2, or P3. That way, if something is recognized as a P1, they get help much faster. 

I also work with Cisco. I'm also aware of Palo Alto as an option. 

The initial setup is straightforward and not complex. It's easy compared to Palo Alto and a few others.

Our deployment of Fortinet FortiGate took two years.

We are resellers. We are able to handle the setup and deployment.

We are resellers. 

The Fortinet 201 and 900 series are very good.

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.

We used Fortinet FortiGate IPS as a perimeter firewall in our data center and offices. Major offices with more than 50 people were using Fortinet FortiGate IPS.

Fortinet FortiGate IPS has an easy-to-use interface and configuration. The solution supports protocols like OSPF and BGP.

The solution’s stability could be improved because we sometimes face some drops. It was not due to the box, but it was due to some misconfiguration on our end.

I have been using Fortinet FortiGate IPS for three years.

I rate Fortinet FortiGate IPS a nine out of ten for stability.

Fortinet FortiGate IPS is a very scalable solution. We had very few users using the solution in our data center. Around 50 users use the solution in our offices.

The solution's technical support is quite good.

The solution's initial setup is quite simple. We could transfer the configuration file from the earlier FortiGate, and we were up and running in a very short time.

Fortinet FortiGate IPS was deployed in our organization through a vendor. Since Fortinet FortiGate IPS is very simple to use and very easy to configure, its deployment time is very less.

You can recover the investment of Fortinet FortiGate IPS in a short time. The solution is not that pricey.

Fortinet FortiGate IPS' licensing is quite simple to understand.

Before choosing Fortinet FortiGate IPS, we evaluated Check Point. We chose Fortinet FortiGate IPS because Check Point was quite pricey.

We used the latest version of Fortinet FortiGate IPS.

We require a basic network engineer for the deployment of Fortinet FortiGate IPS.

Overall, I rate Fortinet FortiGate IPS an eight out of ten.

Our company uses the solution to prevent traffic that is not supposed to be traveling through our firewalls. When we find log issues, we easily fine tune the IPS to block that traffic so it cannot penetrate our environment. 

We have 300 users in a hospital-to-hospital environment where traffic is transmitted through the firewall and intercepted by the IPS for monitoring. 

The solution effectively blocks unwanted traffic. 

It would be helpful to have a better tool for migrating all policy rules using an automatic script. The current tool does not place entire configurations in their desired locations. It takes time to manually configure for compatibility across different platforms or vendors. 

I have been using the solution for five years. 

The solution is very stable. 

I have not needed technical support. 

We migrated from Cisco to the solution. 

The setup is simple and straightforward. Knowledge-based documents are available and useful for setups. 

We implemented the solution in-house. We migrated from Cisco to the solution so it was more of a deployment situation. 

We had some deployment challenges but managed to overcome them. It took an entire day to get the environment running because we could not use the scripting tool for naturals so had to do them manually. 

There is no ongoing maintenance because the solution is not a device, but rather  a software blade provided as a checkpoint within FortiGate. 

The pricing is based on a licensing model for each IPS in your environment. The solution is included as part of the IPS license and automatically updates to the latest version when firewalls are updated. We are currently on a three-year licensing model. 

The solution is a good tool to have in place. Most vendors provide a software blade with their firewalls but it is disabled because it uses too much CP or memory. It is important to enable the tool every time to prevent environments from being intruded by attackers or threats. 

I rate the solution an eight out of ten.  

We're a healthcare company and use the solution in many ways. It builds a tunnel between the customer and our office. We use it for directing applications. It clears application problems based on latency and packet loss. People working from home can connect to the VPN in a secure way as well. 

We like the accessibility it provides.

Every process we do is underwritten under Fortigate. 

When we have to access the tunnels, we can use a VPN to access applications from the customer. 

We can dig into the security and enforce security policies. Everything is controllable from the server. 

It is easy to set up. 

The solution is stable.

It's reliable.

Technical support is helpful and responsive. 

Fortigate is always innovating. I'm not sure if any improvements are needed.

We'd like to have multi-factor authentication via fiber.

I've used the solution for six to seven years. 

The solution is stable. I'd rate it eight out of ten. There are no bugs or glitches, and it doesn't crash or freeze. 

The solution scales very well if it is the cloud. If there are hare hardware pieces involved, and more users are added, we have to swap out the hardware box. 

Most SMBs are on this solution. We have 20 to 50 customers on the product.

Technical support is very good. 

Positive

We have a mixed environment. We have Cisco and Fortigate. Whatever is needed is what we will use. 

The initial setup is easy. I'd rate the ease of setup nine out of ten. The deployment depends on how long it depends on the design and implementation needs. It might take about a month. Most of the infrastructure is static. 

Right now, we have three people who are able to handle deployment and maintenance. It does depend on what kind of network it is. 

We handled the implementation ourselves. We are certified in Fortigate. We only depend on a vendor for the hardware part and any related warranties. We can do the configuration and building of the firewall. 

I'm not sure of the exact pricing. My understanding is it is pretty pricey. I'd rate it seven out of ten. 

We are a customer and end-user.

Fortigate is a one-stop solution for all network needs. There are many features that are embedded into the firewall. The more you use it, the more options will be revealed. It's very strong on the market.

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten overall. 

Our infrastructure includes both FortiGate (81E series) and Cisco Meraki appliances, and we have fully integrated FortiGate IPS with these devices. Essentially, whenever I secure the WAN and LAN and enhance them with security profiles, I will use the IPS's Web Filtering and Application Control features.

The most useful feature of FortiGate IPS for me is Application Control.

FortGate's IPS reporting could be made better by giving more details regarding the source and destination of network traffic when it comes to the overview section. This would allow me to more easily follow the flow of traffic based on IP addresses, without having to integrate the IPS with other products that perform more sophisticated traffic analysis.

Another improvement, that may only tangentially relate to the IPS, would be to include more functionality and details regarding SD-WAN (such as the ISDB), in order to make it more secure.

I've been using Fortinet FortiGate IPS for about seven years. 

The stability is fine, but it would be even better if we were to deploy another appliance for higher availability of access, such that there is no downtime at all.

The scalability of the IPS fits my current needs well. If we were to take on more users, however, we would likely have to change both our appliance and the license.

The support is good because, although the response time for tickets may occasionally take some time, at the end of the day they have always solved the issue at hand. What is also nice is that they can connect with you remotely and help support you at any point.

Positive

The setup was easy for me because I deploy appliances off all kinds and sizes, large and small. I would give the setup a 4/5 in terms of ease.

I pay €1,200 per year for the license along with Fortinet's 81E firewall appliance. I would rate this pricing as 3/5 stars, and I believe the price is reasonably similar to its competitors in the market, being somewhere in the middle.

Given my experience and the fact that FortiGate are a leader in the market, I would rate FortiGate IPS a nine out of ten.

The solution’s initial setup is very easy.

The solution's real-time connection with the cloud could be improved.

I have been using Fortinet FortiGate IPS for four years.

Fortinet FortiGate IPS is a very stable product.

I rate the solution’s stability ten out of ten.

Fortinet FortiGate IPS is a very scalable solution.

I rate the solution’s scalability an eight or nine out of ten.

I have previously used Cisco.

The solution’s initial setup is very easy. The solution was deployed by a network engineer or security engineer.

On a scale from one to ten, where one is difficult and ten is easy, I rate the solution’s initial setup a nine out of ten.

Fortinet FortiGate IPS is cheaper than other solutions like Cisco or Check Point.

I would recommend the solution to other users.

Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.

We use this solution for our small clients, companies with less than 30 employees, and we use it to protect the security of their internal networks. I'm a senior technician and we're third-party resellers. 

I would say the GUI is the most valuable feature, it's a good interface.

The initial deployment could be minimally improved. It's fairly good right now but it could be better. 

The initial setup is straightforward. We have two people who deal with maintenance. I deal with insulation at the customer site and we have someone who can configure remotely.

We manage a university and we're dependent on Fortigate to monitor everything including our research activities. All our network related services are logged by Fortigate. I'm a network administrator and we are customers of Fortinet. 

Fortigate has been helpful in mitigating ransomware attacks and we receive notification of threats from the cloud services. 

We've found the most valuable feature to be the very user-friendly interface. The solution doesn't require any prior knowledge and that's not the case with other firewalls. Fortigate can mitigate all attacks, it can handle a lot. It has a good set of UTM features, a good bandwidth shaping mechanism, and other features. It has efficient algorithms and it competes well with Palo Alto and TechPoint. In terms of VPNs, it has an unlimited count, better than other solutions and it's included in the package. 

We sometimes have issues when carrying out inspections because the system slows down and our clients complain about it. The only other drawback is that we have to manually insert certificates for our clients. Most social networking sites have dependencies and to completely block them requires a deep inspection profile. For protection, we need to put the certificates in for all of our clients. It's a major drawback not having it embedded in the system. I would very much like to see Forticlient's new TNA technology included with the original license for Fortigate. It currently requires an additional license which is quite costly for us as a middle-size organization. We could include it with VPN for our clients. 

I've been using this solution for 10 years. 

This is a really stable product and one of the main reasons we've stayed with it for the past eight years. 

The solution is completely scalable, we have over 8,000 users. Almost half of those are students and the rest are teaching staff and researchers. We also have 500 people involved as part of the system support team, IT engineers, and software engineers. The solution requires maintenance and regular upgrades and we have a 9-person team for that.

I'm happy with the technical support although we don't require it much. 

The initial deployment took us around one month back when it was a software-based solution. We had to completely migrate all existing policies to Fortigate. We didn't use any third parties for the implementation. 

We purchase a license annually and it's a little expensive. We pay extra for SA. You need a decent budget for Fortigate but once you have that, it's completely scalable. 

We previously used Palo Alto and had a ransomware attack they did not detect so we switched to Fortinet. Aside from that, we preferred Fortigate because it's so user-friendly. Admin can configure all the policies easily using the graphic interface in Fortigate. Palo Alto requires a specific application for all admin aspects and some of them can only be done with command line tools. It's really tough for normal admins to do day-to-day configuration.

We also tried Salesforce but felt that we were unable to depend on it for the entire system. We've implemented it for 2,000 people but it's not as user-friendly as Fortigate and without any expertise it's difficult to use. It's mainly command-line technology. It's time-consuming and budget-wise it can't compete with Fortinet. 

I recommend this solution for a mid-level or enterprise organization and rate it nine out of 10.