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    FortiGate

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AFortiNet FortiGate is a firewall option with high integrability. It offers a variety of deployment options and next-gen firewall capabilities, including integration with IaaS cloud platforms and public cloud environments.N/A
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    FortiGate
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    FortiGate
    Free Trial
    Yes
    Free/Freemium Version
    No
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    No
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsFortiGate pricing starts at $250 for home office use, up to $300,000 for large enterprise appliances. Must contact sales team for pricing.
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    FortiGate
    Considered Both Products
    Fortinet
    Chose FortiGate
    FortiGate has inbuilt SDWAN features along with Next Gen Firewall. CheckPoint Firewall dont have inbult SDWAN
    Incentivized
    Chose FortiGate
    Some of them are great products, but overall Fortinet gives more for less. Also it is really easy to manage for almost everyone. As you should have at least a double layer, with different manufacturers, this is a great choice
    Incentivized
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    We choose Fortinet FortiGate because it provides AI-powered security services and offers more advanced threat protection and response capabilities than SonicWall TZ
    Incentivized
    Chose FortiGate
    We migrate from Cisco ASA solution to Fortinet FortiGate solution.
    The technical feactures and easy operation were the most driver of our evaluation.
    Finally the high level of Cost over Benefit was very relevant in the project evaluation.
    Incentivized
    Chose FortiGate
    The Fortinet products have been chosen because of our previous experience with them. The FortiClient is always used with our roaming users together theRedHAt authentications services and the IPS and Web Filtering addons are used, together the WAF, to strengthen our network …
    Incentivized
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    One of the biggest advantages over competitors that Fortinet FortiGate leverages well is its remote virtual private networks options. Licensing is included with Fortinet FortiGate units at no extra cost. We find that the telemetry is easier to compile and most importantly …
    Incentivized
    Chose FortiGate
    Great subscription services and easy branch office VPN configuration. Also a big plus for 2FA via Forti Token integration.
    Incentivized
    Chose FortiGate
    Money is the sinews of war but clearly Fortinet FortiGate and other product like FortiManager for extend and adminstrate remotes sites with dedicated or template of configuration is perfect, same thing with the wortianalyzer as you can find quickly any log from trafic log to …
    Incentivized
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    The FortiGate is a next generation firewall and has more features and more flexibility compared to the Sophos UTM devices and the older SonicWall devices. Technical support from Fortinet is far superior to SonicWall and Sophos.
    Incentivized
    Chose FortiGate
    Better than Juniper, and CheckPoint. Not as good as the Palo Alto although it cost less so I would still make the choice to go with Fortinet
    Incentivized
    Chose FortiGate
    Integrated security features multiple security in one platform, cost effective, centralized management, saclability like its models are availble from small to large enterprise for provide proper throughput according to size we can select model.documentation of all features are …
    Incentivized
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    Fortinet FortiGate is an all-round Network Security solution with advanced Next Generation Firewall features. The purpose built hardware provides unparalleled performance when compared to other similar solutions. The licensing model is very flexible and accommodates networks …
    Incentivized
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    Fortinet FortiGate is above other products in the market.
    Incentivized
    Chose FortiGate
    An excellent ratio of functionality and cost of the solution, the UTM subscription and a wide partner network determined our choice of the Fortinet FortiGate. The solution met all the defined requirements, including personal data protection. Local vendors like UserGate were …
    Incentivized
    Chose FortiGate
    Has more features and it's easier to understand.
    Incentivized
    Chose FortiGate
    As mentioned in the previous sections, Fortigate is best suited for our use cases of SDWAN, load balancing, SSL VPN, IPSec Tunnels, Bandwidth allocation (per IP, per user based ). Comparing with Palo Alto NGFW and Cisco ASA, the SD WAN and link load balancing based on the …
    Incentivized
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    I stick with this program because of many reasons like it is extremely robust and scalable, as well as simple to set up. Protecting an organization's data is one
    Incentivized
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    [Fortinet] FortiGate is not only cost effective but it gives the comprehensive security against the APT attacks and gives the complete traffic visibility and granular control. You can easily create the VDOMs (Virtual firewall) within a Fortigate firewall and customize the …
    Incentivized
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    Cisco ASA is [a] good product but you can't say this is providing the security from every points. Lots of features are missing in Cisco ASA but Fortinet [FortiGate] is fully loaded and all the advanced features are available for secure your company.
    Incentivized
    Chose FortiGate
    We are previously using Cisco ASA in our environment & always concerned regarding security because ransomware attacks are increasing day by day. After implementing Fortinet FortiGate we are getting a bucket of security features at almost the same cost with the best technical …
    Incentivized
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    We have both devices Fortinet FortiGate and ASA with firepower services, but [the] main difference is price. The price is [less for] Fortinet FortiGate and we are getting the all features. Email filtering and DLP is extra features and very advanced which we will get only in …
    Incentivized
    Chose FortiGate
    [Fortinet] Fortigate saved us with raising our availability a lot.
    Incentivized
    Chose FortiGate
    Sonic wall as a firewall also gives us its main function as the Fortinet FortiGate. Sonic Wall is best suited when you want to use it to connect your cloud environment to your private on-premise network. But on reputation most vendors prefer or recommend Fortinet Fortigate if …
    Incentivized
    Chose FortiGate
    ASA Firewall
    PaloAlto
    Sophos
    Incentivized
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    Fortinet code configuration is a little bit cleaner, it has sub-modules for different components. One of the nice things about Juniper and pitfalls is that you drop out to the FreeBSD command line if there are any issues. Fortinet and Cisco do not have that capability. …
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Features
    FortiGate
    Firewall
    Comparison of Firewall features of Fortinet FortiGate
    Feature
    Fortinet FortiGate
    8.9
    40 Ratings
    Identification Technologies8.638 Ratings
    Visualization Tools8.538 Ratings
    Content Inspection9.439 Ratings
    Policy-based Controls9.040 Ratings
    Active Directory and LDAP9.039 Ratings
    Firewall Management Console8.640 Ratings
    Reporting and Logging7.440 Ratings
    VPN8.640 Ratings
    High Availability9.535 Ratings
    Stateful Inspection9.538 Ratings
    Proxy Server10.028 Ratings
    User Ratings
    FortiGate
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (67 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.9
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.6
    (26 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.8
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.0
    (1 ratings)