FortiClient Reviews & Product Details

With the COVID-19 we shifted to working remotely from home for over a year with few in-office workdays. Our company chose this software to make a secure connection to our work systems. I provide after-hours support, so I still need this essential software when providing support from home. We are now back to 4 days a week in-office as of this week. I love how I just log in to FortiClient and I am quickly secure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have not encountered a dislike, if I lose connection; I can quickly log in again. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Very user friendly interface, pretty straight forward.

Doesn't take long to set up and integrate, if there's any issues, there's a ton of guides online on the fortinet cookbook that go in detail.

Support has always been quick and effective, I've personally had three issues over the years and the issue was always resolved on the same day. (Though we do own the fortigate firewalls so we had access to premium support)

You don't have to pay for the vpn client, it connects on the free version as long as you have a fortigate router.

Back up and restorable configs for ease of distribution.

I utilize forticlient on a daily basis and it blows all other client's I've used out of the water (Especially the windows vpn client) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

To access some features, you do need to get the paid client but even then all the settings you need are available on the free version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You can enforce all your policies from your FortiGate to end users through FortiClient, you don't need to install additional secure apps, you have all in one app, NDM, 2FA, VPN and ZeroTrust Access. Performance and troubleshooting tools are top of the line, few VPN clients offer such kind of details when you collect logs. FortiClient is silent and don't impact on the performance of your computer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are few points of improvement, but I would add possibility to include Profiling on VPN connecitons, like configure XML files locally. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like how easy it is configured. We don't need to add many details to set up our vpn connection to our domain controller. We have an option to minimize the certificate that is shared by server.

Setting up a VPN is easy, you dont need anything other than Public IP, credentials and port allowed for connection. it connects in no time and services come up real quick.

Notification option is really awesome about updates done by the software or required by the software.

It provides an alert automatically when there is one available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes VPN doesn't work and you have to reboot your machine. there is weird bug in this software that doesn't allow to run VPN for longer time.

VPN should disconnect itself when machine is on sleep mode but it keep connected , but doesn't work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's integrated with their firewalls which means no punching holes to get through a firewall. It also has a pretty simple configuration.

Intergration with Entra ID is possible by pointing to an NPS (RADIUS) server on premise with the Entra ID by using the NPS extenstion from MS. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/authentication/howto-mfa-nps-extension Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The client on a PC has multiple .exe files in the zip, and it seems like overcooking it. I don't like that unless you buy up to EMS, their is no support. I did find a bug and was told they can't help me as I don't pay for EMS.

If you change the group of traffic you want to bring over the split tunnel it drops all connections instantly vs waiting till clients reconnect to push the config. This causes issues where your users are effected and you have to plan this simple change as maintenance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Our company uses FortiClient for VPN access. I like that the software seamlessly launches at startup, and primarily lives in the system tray, allowing for easy control at all times. Within seconds of logging into my local workstation, I'm able to right-click the FortiClient icon in the tray, and connect to our VPN. It really is as easy as that.

If you ever do need to actually open the program's UI, it is very clean and simple, with easy access to all of the features that you may need as a user. I use FortiClient for 8+ hours every day, and I rarely have issues with the connection slowing or dropping out.

A VPN client is best when it simply works with no interruption to the user, and I can confidently say that FortiClient does this the vast majority of the time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

On the other hand, when FortiClient doesn't work, it can be frustrating to get it back into service. For example, there have been times where my VPN refuses to connect. I've learned that this isn't an issue with our VPN, and instead an issue with the FortiClient software.

To rectify this, I usually just restart the software and/or my local workstation, but it can still be frustrating while in the middle of working on a project.

Again, this doesn't happen often (maybe twice a month, when using it for 40+ hour work weeks), but it occurs just enough to be a point of minor frustration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

FortiClient is a VPN and I personally use for my corporate work, it is one of the best VPN for official purposes and internet speed are also good after connected to the FortiClient VPN and it's easy to install and easy to handle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I use Remote Desktop so I need to connect FortiClient but sometimes I lose connection, so I need to connect again or if you don't have a good internet speed like you are using a mobile hotspot so it's difficut to connect with the FortiClient VPN Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Forticlient helps me to safely establish a connection through which I can easily access company network from anywhere in the world remotely.

Forticlient also scans for malicious activities and vulnerabilities to make the connection safe and private.

It allows me to configure more than one vpn connection at a time although only one can be used at a time. It is easy to implement on the systems which requires very less time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It doesn't allows to connect to more than one vpn at a time.

It frequently disconnects from the network whenever it is left connected for a long time.

Application should provide automatic updates.

It should be a little cost effective. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Forticlient keep data and computer secure and best tool to improve security. Easy to install. Forticlient provide great features like centralized management, user friendly interface, FortiToken, etc. Forticlient provide best customer support when required. I am using this on daily basis to connect databse. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometime connection disconnected after reach above 90% and no information about what went wrong. Sometime when click on disconnect the connection then there is a delay in the process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is one of the best vpn out there , used in my office for connecting to servers hosted in office , it is easy to setup , easy to use , configurations are very easy , just put ur ip username pass and you are ready to go Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I dont think so i found any dissadvantages while using this vpn , only 1 thing was that it requires a medium speed internet connection , else it will disconnect , but this is a basic requirement in any of the online apps . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.