Fortinet FortiGate Reviews

I use this product on AWS. FortiGate's VM GUI is slightly different than the hardware devices.

It is a one box solution, which covers most of the edge device’s requirements.

I have found FortiGuard Services to be valuable.

It needs to improve its ISP load balancing.

No issues.

No issues.

I would rate technical support as a seven out of 10.

We had a previous solution, but switch because FortiGate is a one box solution.

Initial setup was not complex.

Easy to understand licensing requirements.

• Palo Alto Networks
• Cisco ASA

Easy to implement, and it is also reliable.

• IPS
• Web filtering

We are making use of the VDOM feature to segregate the traffic, and apply policy to control that traffic.

This product can't show the NAT status or NAT logs.

I've been using ForitGate for over two years alongside FortiManager 300D.

I have an issue with NAT only, in that I can't allow traffic from outside to inside using a NAT pool.

There was a bug related to device stability with HA configuration. We face many attacks on the network which causes the CPU usage to become high and, with the older device, we started losing the heartbeat and control messages, causing HA split-brain and lag flapping.This issue has been fixed in the new release.

No issues encountered.

They're good.

They're very good.

No previous solution used.

It was complex to setup.

We used a vendor, ALU to help implement it.

I use Fortinet FortiGate mostly for security purposes.

Fortinet FortiGate is easy to use. 

The sniffing packets or packet captures can be simplified and improved because it's a little confusing. The automation feature has some limitations and could be better. 

I've been using Fortinet FortiGate for over four years. 

Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution.

Fortinet FortiGate is a scalable solution.

The technical support was quite good.

I think it's very easy to implement this solution because one person can do it. There aren't too many fancy things to do. I think you can implement FortiGate in less than an hour. We implement it by ourselves. Three administrators can do it because our clients aren't big enterprises, just SMEs. 

Setup costs and pricing depends on many variables, but it's mostly affordable.

I would recommend Fortinet FortiGate to potential users.

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

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.

• Load Sharing
• VDOM
• Security Profiles
• Vulnerability Assessment

6 Years

Yes, bugs.

No.

Poor.

FortiGate is used as the primary firewall and malware detection device for the company.

This solution allows solid VPN service for access from the field, and the anti-virus/anti-malware detection works well.

SSL-VPN is very useful for us and has been very reliable.

The user interface could be improved to make it less confusing and easier to set up. There are too many pull-down menus.

I have been using FortiGate for five years.

Our primary use for this solution is as an SMB boundary firewall, and we now use their Security Fabric.

This is a quality product with ok support, and it is better than the competition we've tried.

Security Fabric makes VLANs a breeze. It impresses customers, as well as saves them money over the long run when comparing apples to apples.

FortiOS is not simple. Too many people think it should be simple to use, but the complexity of the product makes that impossible.

The support for this solution is ok.

Our primary use case is as a firewall. 

Customers want to load balance more than six internet lines. FortiGate is the only solution that can accomplish this. 

The monitoring and the visibility, in this proxy, is very weak. I would for them to develop better visibility, monitoring, and reporting.  

It's not always stable. When there's heavy traffic, we get hardware problems. 

Their technical support is very good. 

The configuration was very easy. I didn't have any problems with it.

 It depends on the project, but I don't need a lot of resources to maintain it. One or two staff are enough to deploy and maintain it.

I integrated it myself. 

Our licensing costs are on a yearly basis. 

I would rate it a seven out of ten. Not a ten because of the monitoring and the stability issues.