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Over 1 year ago
Answered a question: Which firewall solution would you recommend for an SMB with 50 employees and around 100 devices?
Jay, Peter below is taking you to the best product. Fortinet (I am a user at home with an FG40) is the only appliance with hardware acceleration that can really handle the loads. It is not only a "firewall" as such but Intrusion Prevention, Virus, Web filtering, SPAM for…
Over 2 years ago
Answered a question: Would you recommend replacing Cisco ASA Firewall with Fortinet FortiGate FG 100F due to cost reasons?
Confusing, costs? Cost is an elastic term that with time will determine choices.
Fortinet is KING!.
Cisco ASA could not come anywhere near. Not sure reasons for going to ASA, in the first place.
The Forti OS system and the hardware appliances on most models have custom…
Over 2 years ago
Replied to Luis Apodaca Would you recommend replacing Cisco ASA Firewall with Fortinet FortiGate FG 100F due to cost reasons?
@Luis Apodaca no they are not. It is chalk and cheese.
Over 2 years ago
Replied to Kehinde Bankole What are the biggest differences between Cisco Firepower NGFW and Fortinet FortiGate?
@reviewer1171122 I am a Cisco Academy Trainer. I would not use ASA and Java, simple as that. Fortinet most important feature as many others, lies that is the only thing in the market that has ASIC chips (semiconductors) that can handle traffic and inspection. It does not…
Over 2 years ago
Replied to Kehinde Bankole What are the biggest differences between Cisco Firepower NGFW and Fortinet FortiGate?
@reviewer1171122 I am a Cisco Academy Trainer. I would not use ASA and Java, simple as that. Fortinet most important feature as many others, lies that is the only thing in the market that has ASIC chips (semiconductors) that can handle traffic and inspection. It does not…
Over 2 years ago
Answered a question: What are the biggest differences between Cisco Firepower NGFW and Fortinet FortiGate?
If you need a performance appliance, Cisco is not the one. Once you start adding policies, IPS and others, it chokes.
Fortinet has customs semiconductors that can handle hardware with a tremendous amount of efficiency compared to anyone else.
I am a Cisco Academy trainer…
About 3 years ago
Answered a question: Which is better - Wildfire or FortiGate?
What type of network is? how many users?
Fortinet products are unique in that they have specific chips to work on hardware rather than overcharging a CPU to 90%, as happens with some Sophos boxes and others.
Things in the cloud... the cloud is a name, it is software…
About 3 years ago
Answered a question: How do I choose between Fortinet FortiGate and pfSense?
PfSense is the only product that would perform in a Symmetric NAT. Painful but OS-fingerprinting and impossible to do UDP NAT hole punching. Skype, Zoom uses that and even Kerio Operator, but that is all
It is a very broken product and when you need IPS (the " free one" is…
Over 3 years ago
Answered a question: What firewall to choose to support 500-1000 concurrent SSL VPN users?
As Mike says, listen to him. I totally support Fortinet. It is not only what I say.
I am a Cisco Academy Trainer and many things more....................forget ASA. Sorry, Cisco
You need Fortinet, believe me, you do.
https://www.fortinet.com/conte...
The above link will…
Over 3 years ago
Answered a question: Which firewall is better and why: Sophos XG 210 or Fortinet FortiGate 100E?
Today I have deployed a small FGT40F with OS 7 build 006. This is replacing a 3 years old FGT30E. In both cases even under heavy attack, memory in the FGT30E would jump to 77% and CPU would reach the 90%. I would then block those addresses and CPU would go down to 1 %. Again…
Over 3 years ago
Answered a question: Which firewall is better and why: Sophos XG 210 or Fortinet FortiGate 100E?
I can see answers with the word "budget", What is cheap may end expensive. CAREFUL
Fortinet is a clever company who had put ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuits). They use silicon, chips, so they are not only fast but can guarantee throughput. I have since…
Over 3 years ago
Answered a question: How is FortiGate-VM different from the physical FortiGate firewall?
The root of all is VM. A virtual environment is software running on someone else machine/s. Welcome to the the cloud. Sadly, no one stops to think but with the excuse of "lower costs" many fall for it. Performance is the key word. Avoid VMware and the likes. What appears…
Over 3 years ago
Answered a question: Is your NGFW compatible with Azure? Looking for recommendations
You must be told that performance and handling capacity is of outmost importance. Fortinet ASIC dedicated chips can handle traffic in hardware like no other can. Sophos is a turtle and some Cisco product as well. Once IPS, web protection and other features are added, CPU is…
Over 3 years ago
Answered a question: Is your NGFW compatible with Azure? Looking for recommendations
Whatever you do, in my own experience, Fortigate is the product. Nothing beats them. They have the best solution.
Almost 5 years ago
Answered a question: What are the biggest technical differences between Sophos UTM and Fortinet FortiGate?
I would also like to elaborate on the reporting part in FortiCloud. There is no need to pay any extras. Every box connects to ForticCoud service, and if you want reports to be greater than 7 days (meaning to be kept longer than that in their memory system) then you have to…
About 5 years ago
Answered a question: What are the biggest differences between Cisco Firepower NGFW and Fortinet FortiGate?
I am not going to mention the price because, at the end of the day, the price of something cheap turns very expensive
I had a Cisco ASA and got fed up. That Java interface, that extra module for IPS, it was a total headache.
Fortinet has spent serious money with ASIC…
About 5 years ago
Answered a question: If you could go back, would you change your decision to buy that firewall and why?
I read below the following: QUOTE Sophos XG Firewall a couple of years ago came up with the deployment wizard option. This has made a really easy deployment. UNQUOTE
I read this and it comes to my mind that because of this the product is really effective? What is the…
About 5 years ago
Answered a question: If you could go back, would you change your decision to buy that firewall and why?
I am a Cisco awarded trainer and used to have a Cisco ASA 5506. I got rid of it straight away. I will not touch it ever again. Yes, it may sound, but you are a Cisco trainer, ok? Yes, and I do like and respect Cisco when it comes to routers and switches but I purchased a…
Over 5 years ago
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We must have complete dissolution with advance care protection but we are finding out that we need more Symantec technical specialists
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In regards to this semantic English expression, above ( porque de alli viene la raiz..........since the root comes from…
Over 5 years ago
Answered a question: Compare Microsoft Windows Defender and Symantec Endpoint Protection. How Do I Choose?
Sid, you just hit the nail in the head. Sadly, I see here one comment from someone that appears to have CISSP certification saying MS is good for the home user that is ultra fantastic, so just for being a home user nothing will ever happen to them, even if they have a Roku…
Almost 7 years ago
Answered a question: What Would You Rate Barracuda Networks NG Firewall?
The following link is a good one to read
https://www.watchguard.com/wgrd-resource-center/nss-report
I would strongly recommend FORTINET product as unique and vastly
superior.
Almost 7 years ago
Answered a question: Compare Microsoft Windows Defender and Symantec Endpoint Protection. How Do I Choose?
Good afternoon and thanks for allowing me to put a grain of salt
In summary, Symantec Endpoint Protection is the only of the two products that will protect more. The MS solution is useless. Believe me, I had many customers infected by relying on this. Symantec product is…
About 7 years ago
Answered a question: Comparison of Barracuda F800, SonicWall 5600 and Fortinet
Fortinet is THE BEST. Period, no other product will have the power they have. Fortinet invested around 9 million dollars in specific semiconductors to handle the traffic on silicon. I have one at home and been attacked many times, and never had a problem. I did have a Cisco…
About 7 years ago
Answered a question: Sophos XG 210 vs Fortigate FG 100E
Just reading the email............"cheap"? What is the definition of
cheap
So price fixes all the problems? With that in mind.......
Fortigate is a good product. Sophos is an end point solution and I would
go for Symantec Endopoint Security.
Two different things, the…
Over 7 years ago
Commented on Top 5 Firewalls for 2022
I am not surprised for a minute ! I took out the ASA 5506 FX and replaced with Fortigate. Fortinet has got a product !!!!!!!!!!! No questions asked, just brutal !!!!!!!
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Highly experienced tech sales engineer, business development manager and key account manager with a solid and consistent track record of notable wins in highly competitive segments despite entrenched market challenges and product limitations.
Pioneered the introduction of millimetre wave equipment in the 60Ghz band in 2006. In addition introduced DAS (Distributed Antenna Systems) in railways, transportation projects. Responsible for obtaining the PPP train contract utilizing Sencity Rail antennas for covering cellular and wireless frequencies in one resonator and partnering with Microlab FXR in USA for combining these services.
Introduced IoT to TAFE SWSi in 2012 with equipment from Libelium (Spain) consisting of radio systems supporting WiFi, Zigbee and cellular in conjunction with sensors for UV light, CO2 detection in the Diploma of Network Security at the Lidcombe campus.
Having spent a brief period sharing my industry expertise in vocational education and change project management, I am now poised to return to my core area of expertise in tech sales and convergent technologie
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