It is very user-friendly, easy to configure. Any system engineer with prior networking knowledge can manage this device, no need for a firewall expert. This device can handle your entire organization with VPN, multiple ISP, with various security tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fortinet Firewalls?

This device works well for what he made. Only GUI needs to improve. Apart from that, everything is good enough to handle your company's security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Fortinet Firewalls:

Check your Business requirement, user strength, workstations, number of ISP, internal IT Policy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Benefits like Cost-effective, we can choose models based on my organization's workstation strength. This firewall helps to protect unauthorized access to the internet, restriction level for unauthorized access of other websites, failover management, data management, DHCP management, Guest user management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bhuwan C.

Technical Sales Specialist

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/27/2021

"Fortinet is a Leader in Gartner Quadrant for NGF (Next Generation Firewall)"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Fortinet Firewalls?

Fortinet NGF comes with SDWAN Capability to connect multiple sites with TLS encryption-enabled device. With easy to configure & deploy & excellent after-sales services Fortinet is a leader in the NGF segment globally. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fortinet Firewalls?

Fortinet is ASIC based architecture, where hardware is based on the particular application & sometimes it takes time to encrypt & decrypt the packet & result in latency of firewall throughput. Fortinet needs to work on Layer-7 capability & comes with App IDs & session IDs to be less latency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/11/2020

"Good firewall"

4/5

What do you like best about Fortinet Firewalls?

It’s interface is super easy to navigate, for most of the features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fortinet Firewalls?

Nothing, I think older versions of Fortinet firewalls had issues but they have come a long way Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/28/2021

"Feature Rich NextGen Firewalls"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Fortinet Firewalls?

Capabilities such as IPS, SAML integration for VPN and application level filtering and prioritisation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fortinet Firewalls?

Some features are not easy to configure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Fortinet Firewalls:

Highly recommended both on premise and in the cloud. One appliance meets all of our Network, Monitoring and Cyber needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Our previous firewalls did not have capabilities such as IPS, SAML integration for VPN and application level filtering and prioritisation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Luis C.

Cybersecurity Specialist

9/23/2021

"A powerful tool for today's needs"

4/5

What do you like best about Fortinet Firewalls?

Complete control for network traffic and simple setup Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fortinet Firewalls?

It does not offer more tools or services to create a better-managed environment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Fortinet Firewalls:

In a small business, a 30E is the best equipment you can get Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

My environment does not only rely on each device's Firewall control. I can manage the technological environment from just one site. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dana P.

IT Manager

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/27/2021

"Great firewalls for small business protection"

5/5

What do you like best about Fortinet Firewalls?

Friendly graphic user interface web based administration and easy integration with other fortinet products Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fortinet Firewalls?

Some functions require command line rather than GUI admin. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Fortinet Firewalls:

Proper planning and sizing of your firewall is extremely important Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Wide Area Network with VPN between headquarters and branch locations. Benefits include expanding access to windows server domain controller services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Brandon B.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/25/2020

"Best Enterprise Grade Firewall Available"

5/5

What do you like best about Fortinet Firewalls?

The GUI is easy to navigate and super easy to create policies for traffic. In the 10 years we have used Fortinet products, we have only had to call support a handful of times, and when we did, they were extremely knowledgeable and solved our problem in minutes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fortinet Firewalls?

Support is often based overseas and it can be hard to understand people sometimes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Fortinet Firewalls:

Do your research and make sure to get a properly sized firewall for your needs. The product matrix guides supplied by Fortinet are an amazing way to compare all the different models. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

7 locations throughout the midwest and southern US, tied together seamlessly. Work From Home solutions that just work, plain and simple. Split tunneling solutions that allow access to all subnets when working remotely with the FortiClient VPN. Firewall Firmware upgrading and versioning is easy to understand, and the daily reports that can be scheduled by each fortinet are amazing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Burhan K.

Network & Security Manager

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/13/2020

"My Fortinet Analysis: Multi-talented, multi-BUG"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Fortinet Firewalls?

As everyone knows, Fortinet has a user-friendly management interface. You don't need to wait for minutes to install it like in other firewalls. Everything is active when you say Apply. It's easy to integrate. I say as a CCIE, it supports all BGP functions. One of my favorite features is the Pair View mode, thanks to this mode you can ensure rule integrity. Provides you more comfortable management with zone-based viewing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fortinet Firewalls?

This part is a bit critical. You may be faced with BUGs that you will be surprised or even unbelievable. Never upgrade before the 5th minor version is released. You will have trouble. You cannot see many operations you can do with CLI on the GUI. Apart from diagnosis, you have to do many operations with CLI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Fortinet Firewalls:

You can use it as a core firewall in the datacenter for your local network. You can use it for your branch offices. But I think it's a bit risky device to use as an internet firewall due to its BUGs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The box size options are outstanding, the performance is incredible. Extremely efficient to use in your branch offices. You can easily manage all your boxes using Fortimanager. I have installed it in all my offices and manage it smoothly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Avi S.

IT/Network Support Technician

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/14/2021

"Good network provider with solid structure and constant growth"

4/5

What do you like best about Fortinet Firewalls?

Every few months new features are released. Excellent customer service. Provide Firewalls, Switches, and Access Points. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fortinet Firewalls?

Small bugs, for example, take some time to load the GUI interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Omkar k.

7/12/2020

"Fortinet NGFW"

5/5

What do you like best about Fortinet Firewalls?

Fortinet firewall is easy to use, and ease of deployment, intuitive UX, I can easily train my team on the use of the devices, FortiGuard threat labs are right up there with the best, usually, they deploy 0 Day signatures to all devices on the perimeter, giving me some time to fix the issues internally. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fortinet Firewalls?

There is no free images or an official emulator that can be inserted in special simulators or virtualizers such as GNS3 or ESXi. It would be very useful to be able to train on virtual machines if only the official images of FortiGate NGFW existed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Fortinet Firewalls:

If you are looking for a good firewall to protect your network, server infrastructure I recommend FortiGate generation, if you have staff around 1000pcs you can select series FG-500E, enough for your requirement, based on my real experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Fortigate firewall rule is very nice, integrated with feature anti-virus scan already. - deep packet inspection is very good too, I don't need to install a root certificate on client computer/devices at all, this is good if compare to another web filter. - analyze the packet very well, with the good statistic that I can check any time, bad website, high thread website. - one more thing is bit torrent, I can not find any tool that can block this, but FortiGate can solve me with this problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.