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Fortinet Firewalls Overview

What is Fortinet Firewalls?

High threat protection performance with automated visibility to stop attacks

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Product Description

High threat protection performance with automated visibility to stop attacks


Seller Details
Seller
Fortinet
Year Founded
2000
HQ Location
Sunnyvale, CA
Twitter
@Fortinet
152,053 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
14,397 employees on LinkedIn®
Ownership
NASDAQ: FTNT
Total Revenue (USD mm)
$2,594
Description

Fortinet makes possible a digital world that we can always trust through its mission to protect people, devices, and data everywhere. This is why the world’s largest enterprises, service providers, and government organizations choose Fortinet to securely accelerate their digital journey.


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Rick J.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Can't Beat Fortigate"
Fortinet has an excellent reputation as a leader in network/security. We upgraded from another leader in the industry, and these are much better a...
Clyde F.
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Clyde F.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
3.0 out of 5
"Fortinet Experience"
Ease of use but yet very good cli to troubleshoot issue which helps learn traffic flow
Ümit G.
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Ümit G.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Easy manage and Install"
You can manage all forti appliance via web gui interface. It is very user friendly.

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What do you like best about Fortinet Firewalls?

The advanced features and user-friendly dashboard are the best features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fortinet Firewalls?

N/A is nothing to dislike in my opinion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fortinet Firewalls solving and how is that benefiting you?

Manageability of our network, complete view of our network Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nilkanth P.
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What do you like best about Fortinet Firewalls?

Simplification of rule implementation and Natting VIP object, routing, new zone creation, vdom creation allows multiple firewalls cluster within single device Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fortinet Firewalls?

No such dislike in fortinet firewal and how we can intigrateskybox Or any other tools to implement rules automatically Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Fortinet is amazing firewalls with centralised management with fortimanager and fortianalyser Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fortinet Firewalls solving and how is that benefiting you?

Trying to build automate solution with fortinet firewall rule implementation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Fortinet Firewalls?

The User Interface makes the Fortigate easy enough for an intermediate user to make necessary changes. It has all the functionality you would want from a Firewall! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fortinet Firewalls?

There isn't the level of Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning that you'd get with other higher-cost platforms, but as a basic firewall, it is a complete solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fortinet Firewalls solving and how is that benefiting you?

Everyone needs a firewall, and since we have 4 locations we have 4 devices that are configured to connect via Virtual Private Network (VPN) to give us the connectivity we need Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

vinoth k.
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Technical Lead -Infra
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What do you like best about Fortinet Firewalls?

Since it is a pandemic situation people prefer to work from home, Fortigate has helped us to overcome this. We use NAT options to configure the wfh remote

desktop connection. We also integrated our DHCP through FortiGate it works flawlessly. Post fortios7.0 update they have added themes options to set as per our likes which takes experience to next level. It also has SD-WAN capability out of box. Web filter tool is also more effective against blocking unwanted websites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fortinet Firewalls?

Licensing cost is a bit high. Also, their firmware updates sometimes have some kind of bugs.

their customer support could have been better. Response time is quite long. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Fortinet Firewalls:

Best security product which you can trust and invest in. Since it is user-friendly even beginners can also manage this firewall. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fortinet Firewalls solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using fortigate as our primary security option in our organization. We use it to monitor our daily internet traffic, We have also integrated our DHCP server into FortiGate. VPN is also configured for people who want to connect to office networks from the public internet. We can control our internet bandwidth for each user through FortiGate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Fortinet Firewalls?

Easy to set up, reasonably simple interface and navigation compared to WatchGuard, excellent support. Good VPN functionality and wireless AP management. Powerful CLI interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fortinet Firewalls?

Interface can be confusing, as well as the terminology for different features (IPSec tunnels, IPv4 policies, etc.). Traffic logging isn't very intuitive, nor is the built-in web filter. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fortinet Firewalls solving and how is that benefiting you?

Intrusion protection, network functionality, VPN access, wireless AP management. Saving time managing network access for our appliances. Zero downtime with fast support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Fortinet Firewalls?

Fortinet NGFW helps us to control our application filtering and data usage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fortinet Firewalls?

Fortinet NGFW support provides for the technical issues Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fortinet Firewalls solving and how is that benefiting you?

Fortigate help us to identify malicious application usage of our employees Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Benjamin L.
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What do you like best about Fortinet Firewalls?

Ease of management. Support is top-notch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fortinet Firewalls?

I don't really dislike anything about the Fortigates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Fortinet Firewalls:

Consider the value-added. VPN, SD-WAN, and other features that usually have associated costs with other vendors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fortinet Firewalls solving and how is that benefiting you?

Fortigates integrate well into our existing infrastructure. They have become the foundation we built or network security on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Fortinet Firewalls?

This firewall acts as one of the best load balancer for distributing draffic between the WAN links... Setup and deployment is just a matter of few clicks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fortinet Firewalls?

Pricing is comparatively higher than other vendors, licensing pricing needs to be revised. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fortinet Firewalls solving and how is that benefiting you?

We set up this firewall for most of our clients to solve there security problem.

Fortinet webfiltering is the most powerful and exceptional security features among all firewalls.

Ssl vpn, app control, gateway av are top notch for fortinet devices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amrit T.
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What do you like best about Fortinet Firewalls?

In fortinet firewall, i liked the most was its mulitiple integrated feature like, IPS/IDS, Tunnel Management, Web filter, Routing and security Policy mangement. It is very easy to use and can operate easily with its GUI. It has the best security features in comparison to others and stands out in the performance also. We are implementing FG Firewalls in our many data centers and till date it is giving best result. It is very easy to setup, configure the security rules, mange access. we can integrate with many other products very easily for many other purposes like SIEM. We can achieve high availability and can assure that, we offer very reliable service to our users. We can ensure most secure network operation within organization with better SLA. We can offer best services to our users and customers as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fortinet Firewalls?

There is not any thing that i disliked in FG firewall. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Fortinet Firewalls:

I strongly recommend to use this product as a major security device in your network. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fortinet Firewalls solving and how is that benefiting you?

We were having secuirty issue within our workspace and tried many other security devices in our network gateway, but did not achieved result that we need. So we later decided to try out with fortigate and was really perfect for us. not its been about 10 years we are using this in our all major DC and workspare as well. We are not able to run our services with very less downtime and most of our firewalls are running in HA environment, which ensures maximum uptime and guaranted service delivery to our customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Fortinet Firewalls?

FortiGates are like a Swiss Army Knife. They pretty much do anything you could want them to do. Are all the features best in breed? Maybe not, but the core functions are great and the ability to enable so many other functions if required is a bonus. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fortinet Firewalls?

Management may not be as refined as some other vendors. Also due to the wide range of functionality, there is more potential for experiencing issues during deployment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fortinet Firewalls solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have proposed, designed and deployed FortiGates for many clients to address a wide range of use cases, from Edge firewalling, datacentre firewalling, Proxy replacement, SD-WAN, etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.