Fortinet FortiGate-VM Benefits
The solution has given us a good revenue stream and a better solution for our customers for network security. The product can take our customer’s basic firewall and take it to the next level and give them much more visibility and control over the traffic.
View full review »For our customer, this product holds paramount importance. It is critical for them as we collaborate with government agencies, financial institutions, and oil and gas companies. Inspecting and controlling traffic, especially pertaining to credit cards, is crucial for their operations.
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Arunkumar Vaidynathan
Cloud Consultant at Tata Consultancy
We are a services company that provides IT solutions for many other customers. As an IT service provider, we have different requirements from different customers and support them.
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Fortinet FortiGate-VM
April 2024
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Peter Salerno
Owner / Principal Consultant at Stratus Concept LLC
It performs the functions it needs to perform and it's been reliable. It didn't need to be modified and we didn't have problems where things would just crop up. After months configured it's been rock solid, which is good. That's why I haven't touched it in a year and a half.
Fortinet FortiGate-VM improved security within our virtualized environment.
However, I would rate the ease of management a seven out of ten, with ten being the best.
View full review »It provides greater security and flexibility. Instead of just opening it all up, it allows access to only those people who should have access. The network itself is pretty open, and with FortiGate, we can lock down exactly what they have access to.
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reviewer1331304
Deputy Director at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
Both the hardware and virtual versions offer comprehensive capabilities required for perimeter network protection. Positioned at the network perimeter, they provide profiles that can be easily configured, including antivirus, DNS protection, web filtering, IPS, and application awareness for over five thousand applications. This allows for tailored configurations based on specific application usage within our network.
The scalability and flexibility of FortiGate VM have greatly benefited our organization. Its exceptional scalability allows us to adapt and expand according to our evolving needs.
Integrating FortiGate VM with our existing systems was straightforward, as I recall no difficulties during the process. I would rate it a solid ten out of ten for ease of integration.
The performance and availability of FortiGate-VM in our setup vary depending on the specific models chosen. We refer to data sheets and comparison tables to identify devices that meet our specific requirements. This involves considering factors such as performance metrics, encryption and decryption capabilities, and the number of secure connections supported. By comparing different models, we can select the one that best suits our needs.
The GUI of FortiGate is exceptional.
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ThendoNdzimeni
Network Administrator Team Lead at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
It made the routing of traffic seamless and it helped us with SD-WAN as well as load balancing.
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Bilal-Khan
Ecommerce Project Manager at Equine World
The main use case is for organizations that can't afford or procure hardware appliances. They can install the VM and license it as a cost-effective alternative.
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Mohammed-Rafi
Manager, Infrastructure Support at Al Jaber Group
We got a PCL segmentation instance that has been replaced with a virtual instance. This has benefitted our organization by quite a bit.
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reviewer1619175
Principal & CTO at Constructure Technologies at a construction company with 11-50 employees
The geofencing and blocking capabilities for all non-domestic countries lower the attack surface by approximately 85%.
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reviewer1028589
Head of IT at a mining and metals company with 10,001+ employees
It's allowed us to have fewer personnel requirements in relation to maintenance.
View full review »This solution allows us to easily access the stores from where we are. It also blocks a lot of websites that we don't want to allow access to during working hours. It has also made our network more secure, and it's now much harder for people to intrude into our network.
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reviewer1641246
Senior Security Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We were able to take advantage of their management tool, FortiManager, to get a single pane of glass. FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer do not have a single panel glass. Rather, they are two panes of glasses to manage and monitor the firewalls where previously we were using Cisco. I don't want to call them legacy firewalls, however, with Cisco firewalls, we didn't have that management or logging visibility.
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Richard Domikis
Chief Technology Officer at cornerstone defense
It's improved our operations by not being overly problematic.
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reviewer1504884
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
FortiGate-VM is easier to deploy than physical solutions that require you to have an RNE as then you need to wait a couple of days or months for another physical appliance to be delivered. With VM, if we already have available servers in the network, we can just deploy FortiGate.
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reviewer1054542
Consultant at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
It improves an organization because it's a single vendor solution for edge management.
It allows us to handle multiple types of connections at the edge and provide the proper routing and firewall services.
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reviewer2339445
Cyber Security Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The tool ensures inbound traffic, specifically on a specific port. We have Fortinet FortiGate-VM as well as F5 for application support.
There is an interesting possibility of building a tunnel to a firewall from access points. We use this feature for small branch offices with one to two employees with access to central RDP servers.
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Edd Bautista
Engineering Manager at Primatel Communication Snd Bhd
Some customers prefer VM, especially those customers already leveraging the virtual machine environment. Typically, they don't want to spend on the hardware because they already have all these VMs, so they choose the VM option. But in most deployments, they still prefer the hardware for their firewall because it's already hard-coded.
View full review »In our organization, Fortinet is one of the trusted partners. We have offered the solution for a medium-size entrepreneur
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Lindsay Mieth
CISO at a religious institution with 501-1,000 employees
Together with the FortiAnalizer we have a better grasp of our security position and understand the type of adversary attacks our installations.
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reviewer1428657
IT Director at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Using this product protects our company from attacks that come from outside of our network. At the same time, we get better speed and performance when connecting to the internet.
View full review »From security changes to VPN setup to web filtering, changes happen now more quickly.
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Rupsan-Shrestha
Associate Pre Sales at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
The Security Fabric feature is beneficial allowing us to have centralized visibility of all our devices and traffic on our network in one place. This is not typically offered on traditional firewalls.
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reviewer1764255
Systems Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
Most customers are moving to SD-WAN, so with FortiGate-VM, when solutions are traditional WAN, limitations have been addressed by the SD-WAN.
View full review »It is a firewall. We use it to ensure that our network is properly protected from viruses and malware.
View full review »Before using Fortinet, the company had an attack (DDoS) from the outside and had many points of failure, when they started to use Fortinet, I think the attacks stopped. The DDoS attacks were no more. This was from 2015.
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Leandro Birri
Responsable de Ingenieria at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
It has allowed us to centralize every network service into one appliance, administrating all traffic going in and out of my company. Its given us only one point of monitoring and auditing, getting us visibility of all network traffic in an easy way.
View full review »There's routing and then there is control. For routing, there is quality. The security site has anti-virus and web filter applications. I'm used to all of them, so I wouldn't pick one or the other.
View full review »The improvement was felt in the traffic use. Without the firewall, there is unauthorized traffic coming in from the Internet. We can’t be sure whether it is legit traffic or something malicious. With this solution, all unauthorized traffic is filtered out.
View full review »There have been no improvements. We would just use another device if this one did not exist.
View full review »Use of this product does not require daily interactions, like our previous firewall service option.
View full review »High network throughput while providing leading edge network security technology for a competitive price.
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Fortinet FortiGate-VM
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about Fortinet FortiGate-VM. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
767,667 professionals have used our research since 2012.