Customers require Next Generation Firewall features, UTM, URL filtering, and application filtering.
Fortinet FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall
Fortinet Inc. | 7.6.3Linux/Unix, Other 7.6.3 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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A cost-effective and single-box solution that has a simple configuration
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
FortiGate Next Generation Firewall has a simple configuration.
What needs improvement?
FortiGate Next Generation Firewall's performance and threat intelligence could be improved.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) for the last six years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I rate FortiGate Next Generation Firewall a seven out of ten for stability.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The solution’s scalability needs to be improved. I rate FortiGate Next Generation Firewall an eight out of ten for scalability.
How are customer service and support?
FortiGate Next Generation Firewall has a good technical support team that responds fast.
How was the initial setup?
The solution has a straightforward initial setup.
What about the implementation team?
It takes three to four days to deploy FortiGate Next Generation Firewall. Only one engineer is required for the solution’s deployment and maintenance.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Users need to pay for one-year, three-year, and five years licenses. FortiGate Next Generation Firewall is a very cheap solution.
What other advice do I have?
We recommend FortiGate Next Generation Firewall to people from the SMB segment looking for a cost-effective and single-box solution.
Overall, I rate FortiGate Next Generation Firewall an eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
A highly stable and scalable solution for security with easy setup
What is our primary use case?
We are a distributor of Fortinet products. My role primarily involves importing these products and delivering them to our partners and resellers, who in turn sell them to the end customers.
What is most valuable?
FortiGate is a rapidly growing vendor with a wide range of ready-to-use products. Their delivery time is remarkably quick, usually between two to four weeks. They provide excellent support, especially when it comes to helping resellers who may encounter implementation issues with Fortinet. The technical presales and support teams are readily available to assist them. So, there are definitely several benefits to working with Fortinet.
The interface, pricing, and support are good. FortiGate release new patches and offers regularly. In the integration file, they don't have anything to add because they have a very wide portfolio and models in the next-generation firewalls. FortiGate has a variety of add-on license tools that can be applied to the firewall.
FortiGate should continue to push them to continue to grow up as they've been growing for the last eight years.
What needs improvement?
FortiGate NGFW can improve technical support. The engineer who answers the technical support call, email, or phone call, whatever the medium may be. The response time is very bad.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with FortiGate Next Generation Firewall for eight years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
We don't have broken devices to be repaired or replaced with new ones, so they are very stable while working.
I rate the solution’s stability a ten out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I rate the solution’s scalability a ten out of ten.
We have all types of business models and customers in our portfolio, such as the midsized business, enterprise, entry-level, and small businesses. We are working with all of that with all of the Fortinet solutions.
How are customer service and support?
The customer support is very slow. The engineer who answers the technical support call, email, or phone call, whatever the medium may be. The response time is very bad.
On the other hand, Cisco takes one or two hours to respond, while Fortinet takes a few days. This is an area that they could improve on a global scale.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Neutral
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup of the solution is easy, which is the most important feature for in-domain-wide resellers, partners, and customers. In the end, if you want to use Fortinet as a firewall administrator in your network, it is highly recommended because it is extremely easy to set up, especially for first-time users.
Even if you have previous experience with Cisco or Check Point, setting up Fortinet is easy. It is a very user-friendly configuration.
I rate the solution setup a ten out of ten. It is very user-friendly.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall is cheaper than Cisco or CheckPoint or Palo Alto and more expensive than Barracuda or Sophos or any smaller brands. The prices fit right where they are on the global market.
What other advice do I have?
I advise you to buy it ASAP because it's a very good product.
From my experience as a distributor, some customers don't buy technical support on the devices. They buy only devices. I will advise them to buy the technical support of FortiCare service. In that case, they will have technical support by phone call, or by mail. They will have a replacement if anything is broken 24/7.
Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Good support and highly stable solution
What is most valuable?
There are numerous features and benefits depending on the specific use case. Fortinet offers comprehensive security solutions for various purposes. I can deploy different solutions and more.
What needs improvement?
There is room for improvement in pricing.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have almost five years of experience with FortiGate NGFW. I work with the firewall for small businesses and enterprises. Currently, I'm using the enterprise version.
As for the models, I mainly use FortiGate 6800, T, 100C, 200S, and 200P.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I haven't experienced any stability issues with this product so far. It handles everything it needs to, including server requirements, client services, and computing, without any problems. I have deployed numerous firewalls, and until now, they have been incredibly stable. There haven't been any issues related to version compatibility either. So, I would say it's stable for me.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I would rate the scalability a ten out of ten.
How are customer service and support?
Customer service and support are good. Every time I have reached out to them, they have been responsive and helpful. In fact, I have even shared news and deployment information on my LinkedIn to showcase their excellent support.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was easy. There were no issues during the setup.
The time taken for deployment depends on various factors. For example, if I deploy it today, I might install it the following day. However, if there are any issues with the network architecture provided by the IT vendor, it may take more time to resolve those issues before completing the deployment. But in terms of deployment alone, without considering logistics, it can be done in a day or a few hours.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
In our market, the pricing is a little expensive. While we can acquire a smaller package of Fortinet, it still comes at a high cost. So, I would say the pricing is on the higher side. However, when comparing it with other vendors, it's still more reasonable.
What other advice do I have?
Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten. A rating of ten would require even more efficient reporting and swift resolution of any breakout or resilience attack. If they can provide faster fixes and proactive responses, it would be perfect.
Highly scalable, user-friendly interface and ease of operation
What is our primary use case?
It is a firewall solution, so we utilize it regarding policies and security.
What is most valuable?
The solution is user-friendly and easy to operate.
What needs improvement?
The solution should have more security features and come with VPN authentication and multi-virus authentication.
For how long have I used the solution?
We used the previous model, FortiGate 600D. So, I worked with that. I have been using the solution for three years. We just procured the new solution, but we need to install it right away.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The solution is stable. I would rate the stability of the solution an eight out of ten because there are some issues with security features and aspects like logs not being up to the mark, as well as some challenges with VPN and multiple functionalities.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It's a scalable solution. I would rate the scalability a nine out of ten. There are around 600 users in our organization using this solution. We have plans to increase the usage up to 2000 users.
How are customer service and support?
The customer service and support team is good. Their response time was great.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is straightforward. It has been in use for three years. It may take around four days to make it functional.
Typically, it can be up and running in just one day. However, due to a lack of expertise, it took a bit longer.
What about the implementation team?
I got a consultant to help with the deployment process. One person is enough for the solution; it can be an admin.
What was our ROI?
I have definitely seen an ROI.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I don't want to get the full license as the technology is changing day by day. So, I have I prefer to procure a five-year license, and that's it.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We have used Microsoft Office and Cisco Switches. We have been using the FortiGate firewall.
What other advice do I have?
I advise the users to compare the solution with existing versions before using it.
Overall I would rate the solution an eight out of ten. I would like add more security features to the solution.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
A solution with good performance that is also price-wise reasonable
What is our primary use case?
First, we use the solution as a native firewall. After a native firewall, we use IPS. We also use NGFW features like antivirus, IPS, and shaping, which are very important features for companies. We also manage all of my products with FortiManager or FortiAnalyzer and collect online data. For another feature, we try to use SD-WAN products. The SD-WAN feature on FortiGate was implemented for a company with thirty or fifty branches. We had a good experience with the conversion between Cisco and FortiGate for secure access points because Now I'm a consultant for network administration, and we have a challenge with choosing one of these, and so for example, someone, if I actually choose a Fortinet product, SD-WAN based on Fortinet, sometimes someone chooses SD-WAN based on Cisco, but because my special is Cisco, I prefer SD-WAN based on Cisco.
What needs improvement?
One of the weaknesses of the solution is something we noticed, especially after comparing the tool with SD-WAN features, since, unfortunately, in a massive scale size environment, the solution is not good. It cannot be recommended for massive scaling in terms of size, especially for businesses with more than 1,000 branches.
Cisco is very stable, especially on the larger scale side, and it's very important for SD-WAN features. If you try Next Generation Firewall for a big company, then it is good to purchase a Cisco product. However, Cisco's price is a little high and more than Fortinet's prices. But for small companies, it is better to choose Fortinet and FortiGate products, which is important.
A company needs a tool for accounting. Unfortunately, now we don't have any accounting, especially for the quarter and control side. We don't have any solution in FortiGate. However, Sophos Firewall has it, so it is good for Fortinet's next version.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) for more than eight years. I am just a technical person, so I'm a solution designer, a network architect involved in network security.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
In FortiGate, after FortiOS Version 5.6, it is stable, and there is no problem. However, we had many problems with FortiOS Version 5.0.5 in FortiGate. Now, when we use FortiGate's FortiOS Version 7, we don't have any problems. The solution has improved, and it is a good product now. For a larger scale, my recommendation is to choose a Cisco product like Firepower Services because, in a massive-scale business, stability is very important.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
When I survey FortiGate and FortiGate products, I see that they have a good performance, especially in terms of next generation firewalls. In the future, improving such features and performance is absolutely better. Juniper has a better performance compared to FortiGate.
How are customer service and support?
Speaking about technical support, I have a good experience with design, especially in terms of security design and security architecture.
In level one support, they connect to customers directly, which is a part of our work, and we should solve customer problems. But I prefer staying in level two, where we develop, implement, and solve huge and complex problems, because I have had a good experience with this for more than ten years. Also, I think I have good behavior when under heavy pressure.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I think price-wise, the solution is totally reasonable since it has many products to serve, starting from small homes to massive scale sites. A company can choose from one of the offerings by the solution company. Also, it's very important to choose a contract support level. Some companies may choose RMA with support twenty-four hours and seven days a week. So, it depends on the contract support, I think. The Fortinet appliance is a reasonable purchase for companies.
Regarding the license costs, when you choose the 100 series, it is completely different from the 1000 series. It's very important, and so when you choose one-year support or five-year support, or seven-year support, the pricing depends on which one you choose.
In Iran, we have a massive sanction, so we don't use direct support. We don't talk about this. But, concerning my country and direct support from Fortinet, I can't speak about this event. So, in Iran, I don't have an idea about the use of support since we don't use direct support, but we do get indirect support.
What other advice do I have?
When planning to choose FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW), the scope of the company is very important. Also, it is important for a company to consider if they want one gig, ten gigs, or another concurrent pair concurrent session. Totally, a company's scale and size are very important. After that, for example, we use a prototype with a five gigabit per second, including the performance. However, if we compare Cisco, Fortinet, and other things, Firepower is very good because Cisco's Firepower is a big and active solution which is very strong compared to Fortinet. However, it's very important for a company to have a native firewall, so such companies can't choose from Fortinet series. So, it very much depends on the situation of the company. So, before that, we review a company's requirements and survey network. After that, usually, I recommend the solution. Also, it is very important to have a budget. For example, a company can first tell me about its budget, like, one billion dollars or whatever. After that, we choose a guide and recommend choosing one of the solutions.
I rate the overall solution an eight out of ten.
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Good
Nice and tried with TRANSIT VPC, Good performance. Only Issues with Remote VPN part. CLI part is good, will get more options there.
Easy to set up
I am testing this product at the AWS re:Invent 2017 in Las Vegas. The free trial was pretty easy to set up, and the support was adequate.
Works like the real device
If you are used to the fortigate firewall line there is nothing new here, the interface is the same and works the same way. Good entry level device, easy to setup and works fine.
Easy to launch and test!
I wish we had this sooner but better late than never. I really like the idea of spinning up the fortinet instance on EC2 to test configuration quickly.
It was really easy to set up like any oterh EC2 instance. It loads with the basic SSH, Telent access which is nice and has some useful configuration preloaded
on the initial build. Hoping to have fun with this.
Thanks!