Fortinet FortiGate IPS Reviews

Fortinet FortiGate IPS are used for intrusion prevention and for protecting from intrusion.

Fortinet FortiGate IPS has helped increase the efficiency of our network operations and we are experiencing fewer queries in the network and security domain.

The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate IPS is its efficiency.

I have been using Fortinet FortiGate IPS for approximately one year.

Fortinet FortiGate IPS is highly reliable and stable. We have not had any major issues in network operations due to this firewall and security enhancements.

The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate IPS is good.

We have approximately 1,000 users using the solution. We plan to increase the usage of the solution.

I have contacted the support from Fortinet FortiGate IPS. The service was good but the speed could be better.

The initial setup of Fortinet FortiGate IPS is straightforward. The implementation can be done in two to three days. However, it depends on your network infrastructure and the configurations.

The implementation of Fortinet FortiGate IP can be done in-house if you have a good sizable team. However, in our case, we took the services of a consultant to migrate it.

We have a team of two to three people who can do the deployment and migrations.

I recommend this solution to others. It's a very stable, reliable, and scalable solution.

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 have FortiGate with all the licenses - antivirus, IPS, and advanced threat protection. It's a combination of protection in the perimeter. We have configured some rules for IPS protection in the FortiGate perimeter.

We use it as part of a combination of protections because we have the DMT virus, the IPS, and WOFF option. We protect our services like Apache, our website and the internet.

We configure the rules for the Windows server, the Linux server, and Apache and AIS.

The feature that I find most valuable is its protection of the websites.

I would like to be able to generate reports about the protections that we have. I would like a report feature.

For example, I would like to see that in VPN and FortiGate, that the equipment that connects to the network is evaluated. Right now, FortiGate validates the users in the active directory and the users have the right permissions to connect. I would also add the user and the computers that are allowed in the active directory. It evaluates the actual active directory, and some computers are allowed but not all. Only the computers that are in the active directory. Right now, when you connect to the VPN, FortiGate checks the active directory. They have the check feature but it should be improved.

This solution has records but I would like to see that in IPS you could define your rules - we have almost 10 or 15 rules, and see if these rules provided protections over the month. For example, to track a specific rule across the IPS solution.

I have been using Fortinet FortiGate IPS for five years and Cisco for about eight years.

Yes, it is stable. The solution protects us from attack. We have heard that other companies are being attacked, but we are not since we installed FortiGate.

The way the configuration was supplied was correct and we don't have any events. But we heard about other, similar companies, that do have events, but we don't.

Fortinet FortiGate IPS is scalable.

In our case, we are a company of 100 employees and we selected a solution for 250, so we didn't have the need to scale because we designed it from the beginning for more people. We are still using it after five years. We have to change the equipment because they don't allow us to migrate to a new version. In the renewable licenses, they offered me a trade-in and I returned the last FortiGate and they gave me the new FortiGate. I have the FortiGate 600D model. After five years we had to change the equipment. With Cisco, for example, you can keep going. I have the same model with Cisco for eight years and I didn't have to change it. But in FortiGate, after five years, I had to trade it in.

The technical support is excellent. I prefer to open a case directly to FortiGate because I can have a session with a technical contact, and we can review the case directly with the support. We also have some protocols, like BGP in the perimeter, and in two cases, I needed the support person to connect me to another person for technical support to help me with our special protocol.

The support is 24 hours.

The initial setup us is easy and friendly.

It took almost a month. In a month, we deployed all the FortiGate with the features and the rules.

My advice to anyone considering Fortinet FortiGate IPS is that it is important to set the right rules and set all the configurations to make them preferred for a partner. The partner makes all the rules that the company needs because if you stay the course, although it's easy and friendly in the beginning, some configurations need a common line and require you to design how it works right around the network. So it is important that you take a partner who has experience with designs and can implement the correct solution for your company.

On a scale of one to ten, I would give Fortinet FortiGate IPS a nine

I use Fortinet FortiGate IPS as an internet firewall. We are using IPS, application control, and access control.

I have found the decryption of Fortinet FortiGate IPS very good. It's called SSL deep inspection, it's working very well. This is how you decrypt access and traffic, and it is through the IPS antivirus center. Additionally, the UI is user-friendly. 

We already have the firewalls, and when I compare Fortinet FortiGate IPS to all the other firewalls, Fortinet is really useful and works very well.

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

Fortinet FortiGate IPS are very stable. However, the older versions were not stable.

The solution is scalable.

We have approximately 300 users that use the solution.

I have used technical support and they could improve. 

I would rate the technical support from Fortinet FortiGate IPS a seven out of ten.

When comparing their support with Cisco which is a lot better.

We use many Fortinet products, not only firewalls. We have Fortisand-S, FortiSandbox, Fortinet wireless controllers which are part of the Fortigate, FortiAnalyzer, and FortiMate. 

We have approximately 40 devices of Fortinet firewalls.

The installation is straightforward.

We did the implementation ourselves.

The solution does not require a lot of maintenance.

There is an annual license to use this solution. The prices have been increasing over the years.

I would recommend Fortinet if they have a medium budget and if they don't have much experience with the firewalls because it's easy to use and the administrative management is simple. Additionally, Fortinet has a good wireless solution that is very good for medium-sized enterprise organizations.

I rate Fortinet FortiGate IPS an eight out of ten.

Our company has 500 users of the solution. 

The solution provides an easy way to filter information and the Fortinet lab is a great place to discover new things. 

The interface and product support could use improvement. 

I have used the solution for fifteen years. 

The solution is stable. 

The solution is scalable. 

Product support could use improvement. 

Neutral

The solution is offered as an annual license. 

I rate the solution a nine out of ten. 

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.

FortiGate is a firewall. It protects from viruses, malware, and other threats. We deploy it along with other Fortinet solutions, including the next-generation firewall, FortiClient, and FortiProxy.

FortiGate protects and secures our clients' networks. The security is solid, and it performs well. I think they use some artificial intelligence, so I think it's excellent equipment.

The graphical interface could be improved.

We've been a Fortinet partner for 15 years, and we're the sole distributor of Fortinet and other brands in San Luis Potosí, Mexico. 

FortiGate is stable.

I thank FortiGate is scalable.

Fortinet support is good. 

Setting up FortiGate is straightforward and requires two engineers.

FortiGate's price is reasonable for this type of solution. It's competitive with other products. 

I rate FortiGate IPS nine out of 10. I like it, we have experience deploying Fortinet products. We know this product well and can explain how it works. They trust in us. FortiGate is a good appliance, and I recommend it.

We use it, for example, to protect our business application servers so nobody can hack those servers internally and illegally access the information they have.

The administration of the solution is the most valuable aspect. It's easy to manage. 

Fortinet has a very well distributed team around our region, and the product is pretty stable.

The integration is good.

We like the dashboards.

The pricing is not overly expensive. 

I have found the initial setup to be very easy.

I can't speak to coming across any missing features. 

The solution has limited scalability. The sizing is based don't eh scale of the hardware. 

I've been dealing with the solution for about five years or so. It's been a while at this point.

The stability so far has been great. there are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. 

The scalability is limited. You have to change the hardware in order to ensure the solution can scale.

Regionally, we are well covered. Technical support is good in this area. 

The implementation process is quite straightforward. It's not a complex implementation at all. A company shouldn't have any issues with it.

You only need one person to handle deployment and maintenance tasks. This is typically a technician. You do not need a huge team to manage it. 

If you use this solution, within three years, you will get your investment back. It provides a good ROI. 

We find the solution to be very reasonably priced overall.

I'm a partner. 

I'm pretty sure we have the most updated deployment, however, I'm not sure of the exact version number.

I would rate the solution at a nine out of ten overall. My experience has been positive in general.