Fortinet FortiGate Cloud Reviews

We primarily use the solution for firewalls and VPN only.

It's easy to use. There are no specific features that stand out as such, based on my experience. I don't interact with these tools. My job is to just identify a product and get it deployed.

Technical support is good.

The solution is stable.

So far, it's been serving all the required purposes. We've not seen any areas for improvement. No missing features come to mind right now. 

I've been using the solution for more than five years. 

The stability is great. There are no bugs or glitches. It was reliable. It doesn't crash or freeze. 

We haven't had to scale yet. I'm not sure how scalable the solution is. 

We have a small deployment of about 1,200 users. It's all at the engineering level.  

I've been in touch with technical support. They are good. We are satisfied with support. 

Positive

We use CrowdStrike Falcon and FortiGate.

I'm not sure if we have used anything before this solution. 

I'm not the end user for these tools. However, I do know about the deployment. It's easy to set up and not complex at all. It takes three to four days. 

The deployment was handled by three people. 

I don't handle the licensing. I can't speak to the cost of the product.

We are engineering partners with Fortinet.

We're using the latest version of the solution. It was recently patched. 

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. 

I would recommend the solution to other users and companies. 

Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is used primarily for network and application protection.

The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate Cloud are ease of use and the simplicity of maintenance and configuration. Additionally, the modularity of the solution is very easy to handle, it is convenient.

I have been using Fortinet FortiGate Cloud for one year and a half.

I have found Fortinet FortiGate Cloud to be highly stable.

Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is scalable.

We have approximately 1,000 users that use the solution in my organization.

Fortinet FortiGate Cloud's initial configuration is very straightforward. After the deployment, it does not take more than a week to have it fully configured and in production.

We needed to do some training to be able to implement Fortinet FortiGate Cloud and after the training, we did the implementation in-house.

We are not measuring the return of investment (ROI) from a specific point of view, because we are using it in the information technology area. We are not selling services through this particular security element, we don't have that measure at this moment, but from our point of view, the ROI is fine. 

The license for Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is annual.

I rate Fortinet FortiGate Cloud an eight out of ten.

The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is the logs are stored longer on this cloud version. If you have the on-premise version you will not be able to store the logs for more than one or two months.

Fortinet FortiGate Cloud could improve security. Some of my customers do not trust on-cloud solutions.

I have been using Fortinet FortiGate Cloud for a few years.

Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is stable because it is a cloud solution.

The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is good.

We have approximately 20 people using Fortinet FortiGate Cloud.

The technical support from Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is good and they are responsive.

We have a coordinator who looks after the maintenance and support of Fortinet FortiGate Cloud.

If you purchase any Fortinet firewall, they will give you FortiCloud for 100 GB for free. You can access Fortinet FortiGate Cloud freely up to certain limits.

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate Fortinet FortiGate Cloud a seven out of ten.

FortiGate Cloud's key features are the user interface and ease of access.

It would be better for us if Fortinet provided a private cloud, and they should provide more security on the public cloud. There are some minor issues with security with the public cloud. For example, anyone with a link can access the public cloud.

I've worked with FortiGate Cloud for approximately seven months.

FortiGate Cloud is stable.

FortiGate Cloud is scalable.

Fortinet support is awesome.

Setting up FortiGate Cloud is complex, but the Fortinet team completely set the solution up, so we didn't need to do anything on our end. They only gave us the username and password.

We used the Fortinet team.

I rate Fortinet FortiGate eight out of 10. 

Our company has a partnership with Fortinet and we use the solution to provide dual authentication and BPM connection services for customers. We also help customers with product upgrades. 

The solution's ecosystem is very robust and includes a strong firewall. 

One firewall box can contain various top-of-the-line services that are packaged together for easy administration. 

The console or demonstration tool could be more user friendly. 

Better marketing is needed to elevate the solution. 

The solution partners with many vendors but some of them do not want to help or share information that would ensure good integrations. 

The EDR could use improvement to be more robust and in line with Darktrace. 

I have been using the solution for seven years. 

The solution is very stable. Some customers have been with the solution for four years with no issues. 

The solution is easy to scale in comparison to other products. 

In general, technical support is okay and issues are handled well 90% of the time.  Support could improve by being more aggressive with ticket follow ups. 

Technical support is good for us but that may be because we have a business relationship with the provider. Some of our customers have reported problems with ticketing. 

The initial setup is easy. Configurations take longer for large companies due to their complex infrastructures. 

We install the solution for customers. We have a highly skilled and experienced technical team so implementations are easy for us. A standard implementation can be done by one or two technicians. A large implementation for a company with at least 500 people can be completed by three technicians. 

Our process begins with an initial planning meeting. We configure the solution in our office and take it to our customers for deployment. Onsite work is easy and only requires a few connections and configurations. The customer sees an easy process because we prep by doing the complex work in our office. 

The solution is mid-priced when compared to other products. Cost is a factor for most customers in Costa Rica and the solution is a less expensive than Palo Alto.

Some customers follow the Gartner Magic Quadrant so they are looking for good products. The three main firewalls are the solution, Cisco, and Palo Alto.

In Costa Rica, the solution's main competitor is Cisco. The solution is easy to use but is constantly compared to Cisco which some customers say is more user friendly. The solution's console or demonstration tool seems to be the main issue with users. 

Palo Alto has a good reputation so some customers purchase it without comparing the price or characteristics of competitor products. The solution has better features than Palo Alto so it is important that its reputation gets elevated in the market.

I rate the solution a nine out of ten. 

The Fortianalyzer is the most valuable aspect of this solution.

The initial setup was straightforward as we used a third-party implementor. 

Support has been helpful. 

The analysis could be better. 

We do find we get a bit of a lag. 

The integration could be better.

Beyond that, it is meeting our needs.

I've used the solution for around eight months. 

We have around 100 people using the solution. 

Technical support has been great. We are satisfied with their capabilities. 

It was a straightforward setup as we had a third party manage the process. 

We using a company here in Brazil to deliver the solution for us. It's a third-party company.

I'm not sure which version of the solution we are working on. We likely updated it in the last two months. 

We're a reseller and Fortigate partner. 

It's worked perfectly for us, and we are happy with the product. 

I'd rate the solution nine out of ten. 

My clients are using Fortinet FortiGate Cloud for network protection. 

The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate Cloud are the protection of internal and remote systems.

The interface and dashboards should improve in Fortinet FortiGate Cloud. Other solutions have better graphical interfaces.

We have been using Fortinet FortiGate Cloud within the past 12 months.

Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is stable.

The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is good.

The technical support is very good.

The initial setup of Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is simple.

We have a team that does the implementation of Fortinet FortiGate Cloud.

My advice to others is to review all the solutions in the market but I think Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is a very good solution for many use cases.

I rate Fortinet FortiGate Cloud a nine out of ten.

Most of the use cases for the solution are as point products for remote sites coming back to a central hub where the gateways control the flow back into the outward sites, kind of a spoke and hub thing. There are multiple sites that are large enough to support small offshoots, and then it comes back. So you might think of it as four or five small data centers coming into two or three big data centers.

An example of how the solution has improved the organization for my client was when they had a mixed environment previously where they had Cisco and COBOL; it was ancient. What they were able to do is standardize for our product, which made their teams more efficient. When you're leveraging a fairly small backend support system, having the ability to have a robust, remote management capability and update capability, and the ability to spare and put another one in pretty quickly, those things are really important and to standardize on it. So that's what they've done. They use the old Meru wireless access points, which plug into Fortinet up until just recently.

It's a pretty robust product. Features we've found most valuable are that it's easy to manage with the management interface, it's really simple and quick. When you've got a lot of them deployed, it's a big deal. The user experience is pretty good. The efficiency and the workflow type of arrangements you can set up where you can monitor and manage remotely, and then push out updates and that kind of thing, is a big deal to my clients. Most of them are self-managed, meaning that we don't manage the solution for them. They've got their own reasons for liking it, but when I talk to them, those are the two big ones. They're easy to manage, they're easy to deploy, they rarely break.

The area of the solution that needs the most improvement, the biggest problem, is they're still trying to digest that Meru acquisition. They're starting to sundown products that have been, at least in my clients, have been pretty established. It's causing some disconnect between where their business is going, and how that vision is being imparted to the people. And there's really no plan for replacement other than rip and replace. They could improve by going to either the resellers or the client, and say, "Hey, these things have to go away because they're not going to be part of our future plans. This is how we're going to help you do it." Then show them how to do it.

I've been working with the solution for fifteen years.

The solution is very stable. Other than changes being driven by the acquisition, very stable.

The solution is scalable because they have models that they do to allow it to be right-sized. They've got plenty of models, and the really, really big arm has capabilities up to 400GB, I think. It certainly could handle any client that you see, from small to enterprise.

I have clients that range from 50 users up to 16,000 on this product.

The technical support has been pretty good. Considering COVID and all the dispersal of support resources; I deal with that with all of my partners. They're probably in the top 10%. They've kept it pretty consistent.

The initial setup is largely simple. The time it takes depends on the size of the site. The way we standardized the process for ordering is that we order the same things for every site. Same thing for every size site, and I think we have four that we typically use plus the big hospitals. Basically, there are five levels, and we order the level that's appropriate. We order any wireless that's appropriate, and then we have a standardized set up for that, for the three wireless types of service that serve our clients. Then, because they have one that's dedicated, one that's dedicated but not managed, and then one that's dirty and everybody can get onto it, because they're a hospital, and they need access. The management for the actual individual firewalls is set, and we basically copy that into each one, as we take it out. So it has a consistent setup at every single site.

For the deployment to our large clients, there are usually at least a half dozen people that do this. When you've got 16,000, you've got probably a hundred, I think there are 167 sites. So you've got to have a team of a half dozen and up. And then, in the smaller and medium clients, one person can manage this.

With regards to return on investment, the qualitative assessment goes back to all of them have noticed that they're more efficient, and they are able to maintain their network security posture more easily and at a lower cost. Now, internally, those are sunk costs when you've got a team of five or six people that are doing everything across a network, or a staff of a hundred, whatever it is. What it does is it frees them up to do something else. So there may not be an ROI that they specifically calculated for Fortinet, but what they do is they sit down and go, "Hey, since we've deployed these because they're so easy to manage, I have time to do something else."

When it comes to licensing, everybody's trying to drive that recurring monthly revenue number, and we're seeing it. The costs are reasonable, and that's the real thing that most customers are looking at. Am I getting value for that dollar; not what the dollar is, but am I getting good value for it?

When considering a solution, clients look at the usual suspects. Cisco is probably the number one, although WatchGuard in this space is very, very popular. And so is Sophos in the small to medium, because they also have gone to an integrated approach for endpoint and firewall management. So there are some similarities there, but clients have chosen FortiGate Fortinet for the reason that they're comfortable mainly with the interface. It's easier than the other ones.

The solution has started to move into things like security cameras, having an all-in-one point of security contact; they've got cameras and SD-WAN and next-generation firewalls. And they've got a large portfolio now, so we're seeing more people, especially in the small and medium-size move to something like this. In the bigger clients, what we see them doing is looking at mainly having the add-on of being able to manage the wireless through the same point of management.

My advice to customers considering FortiGate is to look at the breadth of the offering rather than a specific product. The breadth of the offering, meaning that you can do switching, you can do wireless, you can do the security cameras, you can do SD-WAN, you can do 5G. You can do it on-prem, you can do it in the cloud. There are lots of different options here that give you the flexibility to deliver a security posture you feel comfortable with across on-prem and cloud-based management. There's some AI in it now that's starting to give you some real meaningful data points on security, which are nice to have.

I would rate the solution an eight out of ten.