Fortinet FortiGate IPS Reviews

We manage all the IT for airports and airlines. We have some data centers for providing different services, such as tickets, to customers. We use Fortinet FortiGate IPS to secure the environment.

It is a good product. It does what we want it to do so. I didn't find many false-positives or things like that. We mainly use the IPS and URL filtering features, and they are pretty good.

They can probably improve the reporting feature. Reporting and report alerting are the main key features of this solution. They can always find ways to improve these.

I have been using Fortinet FortiGate IPS for four years.

It is doing good in terms of stability. It is a good product and a good feature within the firewall. 

We haven't tried to scale it. 

I have contacted them. Their technical support is good. They are pretty responsive and knowledgeable.

The initial setup was straightforward. Basically, it is quite easy to set up. You just need to follow the guidelines because they are well-made for Fortinet FortiGate IPS. 

We are currently evaluating a Palo Alto solution, and the pricing could be a reason for going for Palo Alto. 

I'm a part of the team that is testing the Palo Alto solution. We are only responsible for testing to ensure that it matches what we want, but we are not responsible for making the actual decision. Another team will decide which solution to go for based on the contract in terms of money and other things. Technically, either FortiGate or Palo Alto will be able to provide what we want.

I would rate Fortinet FortiGate IPS an eight out of ten. It is a good product. 

It's a great solution for security and a big solution when you consider the functionality and skills. It also has IPS and Secure Web Gateway embedded and we can spawn a lot of solutions in the same box because we use the on-premises version.

I prefer FortiGate because it has a lot of other solutions embedded within it and is the easiest for our technicians to operate. It also has strong security factors, and it comes with SD-WAN.

The price of the solution could be cheaper. 

I have been using this solution for about six years.

The solution is very stable. 

I think it is easily scalable. Our company has about 100 employees and 50% of them are technicians that work with this solution.

I'm located in Brazil and we have technical support available in Portuguese, which is our native language, so I think that the support is a good service.

It was easy to set up this solution. 

FortiGuard keeps the IPS up-to-date for new threats, so my main advice is to keep your license up-to-date because if you forget to update your license, the protection will not be very effective.

I would rate this solution as a nine out of ten.

This solution is the gateway for protecting our network. We are customers of Fortinet and I'm a system administrator. 

The solution has allowed us to get more data than we were previously able to and we also employ the FortiGate analyzer to provide more data on the usage patterns of our clients which provides us with security metrics. FortiGate gives us a better picture of what's going on in the network and how best we can approach improving the service or addressing any security issues.

We're currently relying heavily on the VPN capabilities, given that a lot of users are working remotely and that's been particularly useful for us. FortiGate has an extensive library for support so you rarely need to reach out to them, it's all easily accessible. 

The solution is quite expensive and I'd like to see the cost reduced. I think Fortinet could raise their level of security. Their VPN service for users gives them the ability to direct remote users to exactly where they're supposed to go. It's good but some other solutions don't give access for remote users to come on to the network. Rather the cloud platform relays or reflects the application that the remote user would've wanted to get access to on the network. It means that remote users don't get to the physical network of the company and that's good for security. 

As long as you know what you're doing, it's a pretty stable solution - they push out firmware updates pretty regularly and I haven't noticed any update that breaks anything.

The solution is scalable and adaptable depending on network activity or clients having a network. There's a solution for everything and it's pretty granular for each individual appliance. It gives you leeway and room to work. We have around 100 users in the company, everybody is connected; our staff are security administrators, systems administrators and database admins. We're planning to increase usage. I think FortiGate has a ZTNA service as well and we're in talks to determine the best solution.

We haven't had much contact with support but they're pretty good. You do need to schedule a time for them to get back to you so the solution isn't immediate. The support is quite comprehensive. 

We used SonicWall before moving to Fortinet. It was a good product but it was pretty complex and complicated when it came to implementing certain things. We needed a solution where anyone could come in and get the job done without having to research deeply. 

We used a Fortinet partner for implementation because we were busy with other projects at the time. They did a great job for us. Deployment took about a week but it could have been done in less time if we hadn't had some scheduling issues. We have three people involved with maintenance.

We used to have issues with data, internet usage, and controlling our users' access to the internet. It impacted other areas of the company. With Fortinet, we're able to control how users utilize resources and pull back on certain things while allowing more access in others. It would include things like online calls, IP calling or use of Teams for legitimate business. Having control over that means there are fewer break ups, and fewer dropped calls because we have more control.

People with BYOD's can hog the network but with that level of granular control, we can decide where the priority is. In terms of ROI, there are fewer expenses, less time wasted addressing issues related to reporting, whereas before it was quite chaotic. Fortinet provides the ability to create more order and the ability to better analyze exactly what it is that is going on in the network.

The solution is expensive although I'm not sure of the cost. It does include support and updates.

This is a good solution, it provides an extensive library for any issues or for when you're building out a new solution. It has different appliances for different tiers. Planning is important, knowing what's in the environment, where you expect it to go, and then ensuring that you develop or acquire a solution necessary to address that situation.

I rate this solution eight 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 Fortinet FortiGate IPS as a firewall. 

I like its ability to prevent external intrusion into our database. It's so fun.

It would be better if they had a dashboard where we could see what attacks were happening. It would be good to see who's trying to get into our network.

I have been dealing with Fortinet FortiGate IPS for about three months. 

Fortinet FortiGate IPS has been stable so far. 

It's a scalable solution so far, but we're not a very big organization. We have about ten nodes at the moment.

The initial setup was okay, but I didn't do it.

The implementation was done by some pretty good people.

The price is okay, so far so good.

We evaluated different solutions and chose Fortinet FortiGate IPS because we found it to be the best.

I would tell potential users to buy it. I recommend this solution.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give Fortinet FortiGate IPS an eight.

We use this product to provide network security functions to our customers.

This solution has a unique range of features that are not available with any other product.

We also appreciate that this solution is easy to maintain and manage.

We would like to see an improvement in the consistency of the product's performance levels.

We have been using this solution for around five years.

The stability of this solution has been good, in our experience.

We have found this solution to be easily scalable.

The technical support for this product is very good; they always respond to us quickly when we raise issues.

Positive

We switched to this solution because it offered the best range of features in its category.

The initial setup of this solution is very straightforward, and deployment only takes between 30 minutes to an hour.

I would rate this product a 10 out of 10, and I would recommend it to any business that is in the market for a security solution.

We have three offices across Gujarat State in India. We mainly use SD-WAN features over the Fortinet and the antivirus IPS, web content filtering applications control.

FortiGate's SD-WAN capability is the most useful feature for us. 

FortiGate's logging and reporting could be improved. I would also like to see Fortinet add a guest management portal. 

I have been using FortiGate for the last nine years.

Fortinet's scalability and stability are fine because I have three units across India, and none have gone down so far. 

I get technical support from Fortinet and my reseller. It's fine. I never have any issues with support. 

We previously used Cyber, but we switched because Fortinet is an established international brand. It is international, stable, and scalable. 

Installing FortiGate is straightforward. Anyone can install, configure, and troubleshoot. Deployment takes only one or two hours. One technician is more than enough to deploy and maintain the solution. 

We have a three-year license.

I rate FortiGate IPS nine out of 10. I would recommend implementing FortiGate to stay secure. 

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.