Fortinet FortiGate (BYOL) Next-Generation Firewall
Fortinet Inc. | 7.4.1Linux/Unix, Other 7.4.1 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Core Firewall
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use, changes are immediately reflected, details logs
What do you dislike about the product?
Devices will get too slow if all the functions are enabled
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Protecting core network. Enhanced security.
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total network solutions
What do you like best about the product?
There is a product for every business need, great quality of hardware and support.
What do you dislike about the product?
new versions solving bugs but create new also
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Network security deployment easily
Recommendations to others considering the product:
great features, less CLI, great management
Guard of Environment
What do you like best about the product?
The VPN tool is one of the best supporting tool.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not a user-friendly console and faced some complications
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The NAT issue has been resolved and the traffic shaping is the food one
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Compare other products with all the security aspects
60D and 60E Firewall is good for small and mid level organization with least cost.
What do you like best about the product?
I like below feature,
1. Intrusion prevention (IPS)
2. Site to Site VPN
3. SSL VPN
4. Easy to use GUI
1. Intrusion prevention (IPS)
2. Site to Site VPN
3. SSL VPN
4. Easy to use GUI
What do you dislike about the product?
I have been using from since 4 year and there is no negative point as per my point of view.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have biggest problem to connect our small branches and after using 60D, 60E. It is resolved.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Cisco
The most successful and useful firewall
What do you like best about the product?
Rules are easy to write, management is really user-friendly. It is very successful in terms of UTM features, especially the IPS side is useful. It's great to use by adding the DNS filter part to the rule.
What do you dislike about the product?
Most new versions have bugs. It needs to be fixed, new versions should be distributed more carefully.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have configured Fortigate firewalls as internal and external firewalls. We are checking between vlans on core fw. In external firewall, we manage with a zone base structure.
best performance firewall
What do you like best about the product?
1. Software-defined WAN configuration is straightforward.
2. Firewall can be configured through the command line, and it is easy.
3. SSL VPN configuration is pretty easy and simple.
4. Configuration of HA is very simple.
2. Firewall can be configured through the command line, and it is easy.
3. SSL VPN configuration is pretty easy and simple.
4. Configuration of HA is very simple.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing to dislike about FortiGate. It is the best firewall.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1. Securing servers and the work stations with strict IPS profiles.
2. Providing RDP access with SSL VPN for the users outside of the company.
3. HA failover is very fast without any service disruption.
4. configuring load balencing profile for specific applications is simple.
2. Providing RDP access with SSL VPN for the users outside of the company.
3. HA failover is very fast without any service disruption.
4. configuring load balencing profile for specific applications is simple.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I recommend this other to consider.
FortiGate Next Generation Firewall to Secure Network Security"
What do you like best about the product?
FortiGate firewall are easy to deploy as we internally configured it,GUI is simple and easy to manage NAT,SSL VPN,Web filter, Routing and security Policy.
Easy to manage traffic with the help of firewall rule and policy.
Easy to manage traffic with the help of firewall rule and policy.
What do you dislike about the product?
Firewall gets down and we have to reboot and start it again this issue we have faced lot of time so we have migrated to Sophos XG.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
In our company as we have two isp link for redundancy we have configured Link failover and Load balancing on firewall.
We are using the FortiGate firewall for network security and protection of IT infrastructure.
Easy to manage source device traffic with the help of various firewall rule and policy.
We are using the FortiGate firewall for network security and protection of IT infrastructure.
Easy to manage source device traffic with the help of various firewall rule and policy.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
For mid range network environment you can go for Fortigate NGFW.
I have worked on Fortigate D200 model in my previous company.
What do you like best about the product?
The most helpful part is monitoring logs that help to understand and troubleshoot the problem.
What do you dislike about the product?
VPN seems to be not stable when it comes to site to site IPSec VPN.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helped me to connect different sites of our office securly and also I use it for URL filtering to restrict unwanted sites.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Try to take support contract with least amount of time.
Powerful and stable
What do you like best about the product?
We have been using the FortiGate firewall as a perimeter for over 5 years, and we are completely reliant on Next-generation firewall because we have many externally accessible web apps.
The administration console is simple, and the learning process is similarly straightforward. It's very easy to do the initial configurations. In addition, a next-generation firewall aids in the connection of various of our branch offices.We've also set up an SSL VPN for branch connectivity. During the Covid19 time pandemic situation, our staff worked from home using Next-Generation Firewall, which was integrated with Active Directory. Next-Generation Firewall enables safe end-to-end encryption.
The administration console is simple, and the learning process is similarly straightforward. It's very easy to do the initial configurations. In addition, a next-generation firewall aids in the connection of various of our branch offices.We've also set up an SSL VPN for branch connectivity. During the Covid19 time pandemic situation, our staff worked from home using Next-Generation Firewall, which was integrated with Active Directory. Next-Generation Firewall enables safe end-to-end encryption.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing to dislike, the interface could be more graphical and colourful.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
FortiGate helps to resolve lot of problems. First one is providing high security against unknown cyber-attacks. fortigate firewall helps to connect the branches via secure vpn connectivity. There are also a number of security features such as IPS, IDS, antivirus, and so on. Fortigate aids in the reduction of annual license costs. When compared to other products, the fortigate prices are lesthan other products.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I Like to recommend this product
Simplified yet Powerful Network Security with a wide spectrum of features
What do you like best about the product?
- Simple yet powerful platform to configure, support and troubleshoot
- Ability to integrate SDWAN easily on Fortigate without purchasing extra licenses
- Implementation of SDWAN significantly reduced costs of our infrastructure by eliminating expensive MPLS circuits
- Consolidated VPN Solution by deploying Forticlient EMS and using Fortigate as VPN Gateway
- Great logging system by relying on Fortianalyzer to check traffic and other Firewall events
- Centralized management of Fortigates using FortiManager
- Ability to integrate SDWAN easily on Fortigate without purchasing extra licenses
- Implementation of SDWAN significantly reduced costs of our infrastructure by eliminating expensive MPLS circuits
- Consolidated VPN Solution by deploying Forticlient EMS and using Fortigate as VPN Gateway
- Great logging system by relying on Fortianalyzer to check traffic and other Firewall events
- Centralized management of Fortigates using FortiManager
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing major. There is no way to rename existing VPN Connections. Once you create a new VPN connection, you can't change its name, and basically, the only way to accomplish that would be deleting all associated references (policies, zone, route) and re-create the VPN again with the correct name.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- Simplification and Consolidation of Network Services
- Better Performance, Higher Productivity, Redundancy, and better user experience using SDWAN
- Cost Reduction
- Ease of Support and Troubleshooting of network issues
- Better Performance, Higher Productivity, Redundancy, and better user experience using SDWAN
- Cost Reduction
- Ease of Support and Troubleshooting of network issues
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