Fortinet FortiGate Primary Use Case
FortiGate is a hardware firewall that we deploy for our customers. I work on the system integration team and install whichever solution the clients choose. We also provide support, including maintenance and service. The customers contact us if they have any problems.
The firewalls are deployed on-premise, but you can also implement FortiCloud, which can integrate with public or private cloud platforms. If you have five or six locations in various countries, FortiCloud can provide centralized security support for those offices.
View full review »Fortinet FortiGate is our primary security solution for network communication. It enforces segregation between the IT and OT networks. All communication, integrations, and other traffic between IT and OT must pass through the FortiGate, which inspects and controls it.
FortiGate also serves as our VPN concentrator. Both internal users and partners connect their VPNs to FortiGate. We manage the entire VPN process, including access control and security policies.
All web traffic within the organization flows through the FortiGate for inspection and security controls. We leverage FortiGate's UTM capabilities, including web filtering, intrusion prevention, and application control.
While we have several websites running behind FortiGate, they are primarily static content sites with limited business activity. Therefore, we utilize the basic WAF functionality within FortiGate instead of a dedicated WAF device. This approach has proven effective for our needs due to the low volume of transactions and sensitive data on these websites.
FortiGate also manages communication between our internal IT units. With five units in operation, efficient inter-unit communication is critical. FortiGate ensures secure and controlled data exchange between these units.
View full review »Our organization utilizes Fortinet FortiGate for SD-WAN. All business units within our organization connect to the SD-WAN, which is constructed using Fortinet devices.
The primary reason we implemented Fortinet FortiGate was to enhance connectivity. Our previous reliance on MPLS resulted in low bandwidth and high costs. By transitioning to SD-WAN devices and leveraging common ISP connections, we have achieved two significant goals: substantial cost savings and increased flexibility in configuring device communications across our various plants.
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Fortinet FortiGate
April 2024
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Will Alfaro
IT Consultant at Escuela de Comunicación Mónica Herrera
I primarily administrate the solution as a firewall. It's a perimeter solution. We filter content in order to ensure protection. We use it to publish services on-premises.
View full review »We are using Fortinet for administration over local users that need to connect with our wireless. We have users that come from different domains, and there are certain limits and restrictions that need to be implemented.
View full review »There are various use cases for Fortinet FortiGate, including firewall protection for internet access, data centers, branches, and SD-WAN. We use the firewall in multiple locations throughout our network, taking advantage of its many features, such as the promising CDR feature and security profiles like the WAF filter and application DNS security. We deploy these features in different parts of the network. Additionally, some customers use Fortinet FortiGate in the cloud to safeguard their cloud servers within platforms like Microsoft tenants.
Our customers are using Secure SD-WAN for connecting different branches. For example, oil and gas companies have different branches all over Egypt, which are not in the main city, so they need a secure connection and stability for certain protocols, such as voice and things like that. They also need visibility. They need to understand which applications are consuming SD-WAN.
Some of the customers are also using SD-WAN for load balancing. For SD-WAN, you need at least two internet connections, so some of the customers are using it as a load-balancing technique. Overall, there are a lot of features for which customers are using SD-WAN.
We primarily use the solution for security purposes. We use it as a firewall for protection.
View full review »I am a project manager and I have implemented this product in several different projects. The deployments are for enterprise clients, government agencies, and several universities.
View full review »For IPS, IDS, traffic management, SDWAN, high availability, we leverage Fortinet FortiGate as a virtual appliance to secure our data center, internal office infrastructure, and site-to-site VPNS Site to client VPNS for our internal lab controls, rather than using physical Fortinet FortiGate hardware.
We implemented Fortinet FortiGate as part of our compliance requirements to address the high volume of intrusion attempts we were experiencing. This solution provides us with a insight on Intrusion to block these attacks and gain insights into who is trying to access our network. Essentially, we aim to understand the nature of incoming and outgoing network traffic.
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James-Jiang
IT Security Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees
We utilize Fortinet FortiGate appliances at six branch offices, one data center, and one DLP site. Our network is driven by SD-WAN, and we employ FortiGate as our firewall, FortiEDR for endpoint protection, and FortiSwitch for alerting on all layers of the network.
For me, the best practice is to deploy on-premises for data centers. However, for small branch offices with over ten to twenty staff members, I can deploy the devices remotely. We can provision our cloud and push the configuration to those devices from the cloud.
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reviewer1116360
Project Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I'm primarily using the solution for security purposes, and also for managing the network for various companies. I am deploying it for uniting management statuses, in order to be able to manage everything inside and to control security policies. It can fight against attacks to the system or for email searches. It is basically a central management security appliance.
View full review »We use Fortinet FortiGate as our security and routing solution.
We implemented Fortinet FortiGate to enhance our security posture by blocking and restricting access to certain websites and securing our VPN traffic.
View full review »The use case varies depending on the customer, but we use all of FortiGate's features, including policies, web filtering, routing, etc.
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Denis Orellana
Network Solutions Architect at Yazata Solutions
We use FortiGate for security. Some clients use the whole Fortinet solution, including FortiSwitch, FortiAP, and FortiExtender, but FortiGate is my bread and butter.
We have a hybrid deployment. A lot of it is onsite, and we have data center collocations. Some customers do collocations with us, but others request connectivity to Azure or another cloud services provider. Fortinet has plugins for Azure, AWS, or Google that make it easy to configure VPNs out of the data center or off-site.
Typically, we stick with Azure because their support is better, but we do have a handful of customers that choose AWS. We have the solution deployed across Canada. One of our biggest customers is a retail company with many little stores under their umbrella. We cover everything from British Columbia to a couple of sites in Newfoundland. I estimate that we have around 1,200 users.
View full review »We use Fortinet FortiGate to safeguard our online users, who are primarily students, around the clock.
Over the past seven years, we've utilized Fortinet FortiGate to address a wide range of security challenges. Initially, we implemented a firewall to secure our network perimeter. Subsequently, we sought to protect internal network segments. Next, we implemented application-level security measures. And most recently, we've implemented selective service controls to manage access to applications like Google services, WhatsApp, and video conferencing platforms. These measures have addressed evolving security needs over time. Currently, we're focused on enhancing authentication and remote access security. To achieve this, we're implementing security tokens to verify user identities and ensure authorized access.
View full review »I use Fortinet FortiGate to secure the internal network and perform unified threat management, forward filtering, and application control. This is crucial for the organizations and products I collaborate with on projects. The solution effectively addresses high availability through SD-WAN load balancing. Additionally, we rely on Fortinet FortiGate to resolve remote access issues for our clients.
View full review »In our current data center, we use eight Fortinet firewalls. These firewalls serve multiple tiers of the network, including internet users, server farms, and DMZ ports. This gives us multiple approaches to our system and network. As a result, we are able to receive all reports before the analyzer.
In 2011, we were using a Cisco ASA 5540 fixed firewall. We moved to Fortinet because their UTM appliance was a next-generation firewall that offered more than one solution in a single box. This meant that we could handle the network, server, and client parts of our infrastructure with a single device. We also chose Fortinet because of the ease of its GUI and its ease of implementation in multiple locations. Currently, I have three data centers. We are using a consolidated console with a broader view of the network traffic. This is why we moved to Fortinet. We had previously used Juniper and Cisco, but we found that Fortinet offered a better solution for our needs.
We deployed the solution on-premises because, while the private sector in Kuwait has begun to move to the cloud, government entities are not permitted to do so.
View full review »The majority of use cases have been around UTM. Initially, they were famous for their UTM solution because nobody was offering what Fortinet was offering.
We most probably use the latest version.
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Prasanth P.
Global Chief Information Officer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use FortiGate for our firewall. We have a typical business environment that includes end-user workstations, an ERP, web hosting solutions, etc. It's around 600 endpoints.
View full review »This solution is configured as our primary gateway to the internet in and out of the network.
View full review »We use Fortinet FortiGate for VPN. We connect the branches together for the HQ. That's why we are using the VPN, and we publish some of the websites in the HQ, and the users can access that website from outside with the two-factor authenticator and a token key. We are using FortiGate to control the connection between the branches. But, for the software, we are using this to collect the data to extract reports.
We use it for managing access to our data center, regulating the communication tools employed among servers, and ensuring overall security.
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reviewer1336140
Senior Network Engineer at a government with 201-500 employees
I use it for a VPN. I use it as a gateway between locations. That's what I use it for.
They're Point-to-Point Networks, Metro Ethernet Networks, and over across the internet. We set it up with an AD VPN tunnel in between the various connections.
We use it for interconnectivity between the various sites to provide VPN tunnels. In contrast, service providers, even on Metro Ethernet and Point-to-Point Networks, cannot provide a secure connection between two points.
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Philimon Kaitano
Network Manager at a tech company with 1-10 employees
We implemented Fortinet FortiGate SD-WAN for a small company that had two internet service providers. The goal was to configure the two links to operate independently, ensuring that they don't share the load. This way, when one link reaches a certain threshold, we can seamlessly switch to the other without any issues.
We use SD-WAN to connect the checking role between our branch offices, like Yap installation or fire shooting. We use Fortinet FortiGate to control the different segmentation.
View full review »We primarily use the solution for security purposes and for UTM web profile applications.
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Eric-Smith
Solutions Engineer/Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
We are a managed services company, and we are also a partner with Fortinet and Cisco Meraki. The firmware that I just started using is 6.4.4. Most of the FortiGates that I sell are 60E and 60F. For some of our larger customers, I have got a handful of FortiGate 80, 100, and 200.
Fundamentally, its primary purpose is security at the edge of the network. I have got some clients who are starting to use the SD-WAN feature for a multi-location setup. I have got other clients who are using a lot of IPSec tunnels. I also have some clients who, with the increase in remote workers, are taking advantage of the FortiClient product that ties in. They are using that for remote VPN connections.
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Andrew S. Baker (ASB)
Cybersecurity & IT Operations Professional (VirtualCxO) at BrainWave Consulting Company, LLC
I have deployed several of the following models for customers: 200D, 60E, 60D. This review focuses on the FortiGate 200D.
View full review »I used this solution while working with my last organization. I handled plain firewall deployment as well as SD-WAN deployment.
View full review »Our primary use cases for FortiGate are SD-WAN and the next-gen firewall.
View full review »I am using Fortinet FortiGate as a firewall appliance.
View full review »We use Fortigate, and we have a relationship with Fortinet. We are working with the Fortigate 100F firewall. It is mainly for firewalling, but we would also use them for network demarcation as a DHCP or NAT router. We're also working with our Fortinet account manager to try and push further forward using an SD-WAN controller.
In terms of deployment, it comes through to the build lab. We configure it and then ship it to our customers. We are reviewing how to obviously do zero hands with FortiCloud, but what we've done so far has been conventional configuration and shipping.
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Andrei Vaskin
Specialist at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
Our customers use these devices as security devices, and we sell these devices to our customers. We also use it ourselves. We have the entire lab, and we use some of the functions in our local network.
View full review »We are using FortiGate as a perimeter firewall.
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reviewer930837
Senior Manager (Engineering Department) at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
We have been using it for our internal infrastructure, but mainly, we are providing it as a service to our customers.
In one of the use cases, a customer is using FortiGate, and they also use FortiAP. To collect the usage and monitor the traffic, they use FortiAnalyzer. So, they have FortiGate, FortiAP, and FortiAnalyzer. It is not a very big deployment. It is a midsized company with less than 50 people.
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reviewer947427
Technical Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
I am using Fortinet FortiGate as a perimeter internet firewall.
View full review »Our primary use case is for social network blocking and for unusual applications in our network as well as for intrusion prevention. We are a department store.
We use Fortinet FortiGate mostly for a data center firewall.
View full review »We use this solution for security and to protect our internal network from the internet.
This solution is deployed on-premise.
My company has 300 people at HQ. We have about 60 users in practice and 10-15 users per branch.
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reviewer1289523
Network Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
In most cases, we use the solution as a firewall to access the internet. For example, we use Cisco Wireless for our clients to have access to the network and we use within the same solution the FortiGate Firewall for them to access the internet as well.
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reviewer1959201
Operation Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
We use Fortinet FortiGate for end-to-end advanced firewall protection.
Fortinet FortiGate is deployed both on-premises and in the AWS and Azure clouds.
View full review »We use it for the network security operations of our customers. We've many different use cases, such as client security, server security, or DMZ sites.
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reviewer2129880
Head of IT at a educational organization with 51-200 employees
We use Fortinet FortiGate to prevent intruder connections to our internal network.
View full review »We manage FortiGate firewalls for our customers. We are working with 100F, 100D, and 60D.
All our FortiGates are installed on-premises, but we can manage our customers' firewalls remotely.
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Darrell Elias
Technical support engineer at a comms service provider with 1-10 employees
It's mainly used to secure our clients' network access because they do not have any servers. The only things we have connected to the FortiGate firewall are access points, CCTVs, and a printer. It's just used for web browsing and internet access.
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administ2171925
IT Engineer at a aerospace/defense firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
We utilize the Fortinet FortiGate firewall to safeguard our network and provide secure VPN access from external locations.
We implemented FortiGate because we needed a firewall to protect our data.
View full review »We use Fortinet FortiGate for the protection of our perimeter, VPNs, web filtering, application filtering, and general edge protection.
The use case for this product has to do with security and visibility. When you are inside the business and when there are different departments and branches, it is used for the visibility of some packets. It can also be used for SSL inspections, to check if the SSL is right and that it is not phishing.
View full review »We use this solution for mid to large enterprise companies with around 500,000 users. We are resellers of this solution based in Pakistan and we have a partnership with Fortinet.
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Shaik Sayeed
Information Technology Solutions Manager at UBG
Fortinet FortiGate can be deployed on the cloud, hybrid, and on-premise. We use a combination of private and hybrid for the deployment.
We are using Fortinet FortiGate for parameter security, network isolation, and web filtering.
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Jans Lien
Senior Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
We use Fortinet FortiGate for a UPP solution. For example, DNS filtering, IPS, and VPN access.
View full review »We've deployed FortiGate on some customer premises. We've also deployed other Fortinet products, such as FortiMail and FortiManager. We often bundle Fortinet devices. We use FortiGate as a firewall. It is for security and protection.
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Shewraj Anoop
IT Manager at SICOM LTD
It controls the inflow and outflow of all the communication between different sites and so on.
We are using its latest version.
View full review »It is used as a defense mechanism for securing the internal network from the external network. We also use it to have VPN tunnels between us and our partners and the support organizations we work with.
We are using FortiGate 200F.
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reviewer1127952
Network Engineer at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees
We are using it in our data center. It is being used at the perimeter of our data center to protect the applications that we have inside the data center. We are at the beginning of its installation in our data center. We have recently installed a new cluster for IPS functionality, and we have to check if this cluster does the job.
We are using its latest version.
View full review »It is our primary router here in the office with all the firewall policies.
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David Oparinde
Managing Director with 51-200 employees
We use Fortinet FortiGate to filter information, to ensure that we secure our network. Additionally, it's for overall security and to ensure that no information is leaking out.
View full review »Our primary use case is mainly for firewalls. We tried FortiClient as well and FortiToken, but we mainly use it for the firewall.
The solution is deployed on-prem. We are using the latest version.
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KrishnakumarNair
IT Manager at KSB MIL Controls Limited
We primarily use the solution for a firewall plus as an overall UTM. We do not, however, use it as an SD-WAN.
View full review »We use the solution for network security.
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Ashleigh Gilson
Senior Director Information Technology at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use Fortinet as a perimeter firewall. The solution is deployed on-premises.
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IrfanShaikh
CEO at Acme Technologies
We are selling FortiGate 60E and 200E. I mostly look after imports and finance, and my sales team and my corporate manager look after the business. Currently, we are buying renewals for our customers from a local distributor.
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reviewer1294776
Owner at a consultancy with 1-10 employees
I specify, configure and deploy firewalls in organizations with 500 or fewer employees and 15 or fewer sites. Primarily I choose between Cisco, Sonicwall and Fortigate small and medium sized appliances. Occasionally I deploy virtual appliances in AWS. I prefer to use Fortigate firewalls for several reasons- remote access is simple and the included client works with MacOS Windows and IOS devices. The level of security works well for most clients and the authentication with AD/LDAP makes the solution easier to deploy. I also find that the clients appreciate the lower price point than other vendors.
View full review »Fortinet FortiGate is used as a network firewall.
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JackTrantham
Technical Account Manager at DSM Technology Consultants, LLC
We are an IT service provider. We provide solutions to our customers based on what their needs are.
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Mike Kajubi
ICT/Presales Manager at Balton Uganda
We use Fortinet FortiGate for basic network security and people accessing through VPN.
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reviewer2152560
Technical Project Manager at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
The primary use case is for security purposes, mainly at the gateway level and for internal security, such as virtual training. We also use it for cybersecurity and internal communication, like having a portal. The main goal of implementing the product is to resolve security problems.
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MahmoudSaleh
Quality Trainer at MOH
We are using Fortinet FortiGate as a central firewall for our ministry, but nowadays we are preparing to join every site we have to our main data center. Fortinet FortiGate firewall will not satisfy our needs.
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Thendo Ndzimeni
Network Administrator at Automated Outsourcing services
We use Fortinet FortiGate for web filtering, IPS reporting, and firewall policy routing.
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reviewer1285998
Product Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
In my previous company, which was a silver partner, we installed 300 and 301 for a few use cases. The most selling product at that time was FortiGate 100E.
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AnilKumar12
Solution Architect at TNS Networking Solution Pvt. Ltd
We are partners with Fortinet, so we are system integrators. We are the bridge between Fortinet and the customer.
View full review »The purpose of this solution is to provide intrusion protection and more robust endpoint security for small offices. We are providing an enterprise solution for a small business by adding endpoint protection coupled with Intrusion Detection and Protection. For small offices needing HIPAA compliance, we need to make sure we are providing robust protection instead of the default modem gateway provided by the ISP.
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Chingiz Abdukarimov
Director at a integrator with 11-50 employees
We used FG-90D as UTM device to protect some users and servers, and also to enable inter-vlan routing with advanced security policies inside our lab zone. Also used FG-500D in transparent mode in front of Cisco ASA for advanced and high performance protection by applying IPS, AV, AntiSpam, App.Control and DoS-protection profiles.
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Amgad Soliman
Senior System & Security Administrator at a legal firm with 51-200 employees
We use Fortinet FortiGate 100E for a VPN. We also use the solution for word filtering. These are our primary business requirements.
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Benison Shroffe
Assistant Manager - Network & Security at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Fortinet FortiGate is used to secure internet gateways.
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reviewer1249359
Executive at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
We mainly use the solution as a firewall.
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Daniel Gorham
Senior Network Architect at Combat Networks
Our clients' main use case for Fortinet FortiGate is for the firewall on the outside perimeter to the internet. Some of them have started using it for SD-WAN.
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UzairBaig
Solution Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We are a system integrator and Fortigate is one of the firewalls that we implement for our clients. I am a solution architect.
Our primary use for this firewall is the IPS.
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Miguel Ortiz
Security Solutions Architect at Verizon Communications
We are currently using manual router failover that can be configured on the Fortinet security appliance’s second network interface to provide network edge redundancy if the primary managed router fails. If the edge router fails, traffic can be moved to the security appliance with a simple cable swap.
We are looking for a fully redundant solution with automatic failover between both Fortinet Security appliances. I am currently looking at battle card information between Fortinet and Zscaler. I have to do a competitive analysis.
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Anand Navik
Technical Specialist at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
We have deployed this firewall for many companies. Our clients are financial and medical companies.
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JeanSpiteri
Infrastructure Engineer at a hospitality company with 51-200 employees
Fortinet FortiGate is a firewall that protects your assets and data. We have 15 people using this solution. I am an infrastructure engineer. We require 3 people to maintain the solution.
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reviewer1392267
Fraud Risk Analyst at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use Fortinet FortiGate for the internet, particularly to provide protection against internal and external threats.
View full review »FortiGate covers multiple schemes. I am using the firewall for basic protection. The work console and access console are powerful tools.
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reviewer1779540
Security Presales Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Fortinet FortiGate is a firewall used for network security.
View full review »We use Fortinet FortiGate as a transparent firewall, it is covering the LAN. Whereas, I have a Cisco firewall, which is covering the internet outside. We have two layers of security. FortiGate focuses on the LAN traffic, which is outgoing from the servers in the LAN.
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Mohsinoddin Mohammed
Information Security Principal at Alkhorayef
We are using the FortiGate firewall for multiple purposes including network antivirus, Application Control, Web Filtering, IPSec Tunnels, and SSL-VPN using soft FortiTokens.
For the past year, we have also been using this technology for Secure SD-WAN. This added a lot of value in terms of technology, such as datacenter connectivity using IPSec tunnel-added security filters, with less cost by canceling MPLS.
My primary use case for this solution is using it as a key net and as a firewall.
View full review »We primarily use the solution for security. I've deployed it for some customers for protection. It is used for firewalls. I have experience with the secure SD-WAN version.
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reviewer1784364
Founder / Principal at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
We're a Fortinet partner and reseller. We work with FortiGate models 40 through 600, and our customers have hybrid and on-prem deployments. The cloud providers are Microsoft Azure and Wasabi.
Its use cases are related to increasing the security posture, SD-WAN implementation, simplified management and licensing, and cost savings.
View full review »Fortinet FortiGate is being used in our company.
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reviewer1448721
Deputy Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
We primarily use the solution for the firewall for the most part. It's to help us with security on our network.
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Md Mohiuddin
Assistant Manager IT at Urmi Garments Ltd
Our primary use case is providing cybersecurity applications to internet (IT) clients throughout India.
View full review »Fortinet FortiGate is used as a firewall.
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Rehan Khurram
Systems & Network Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
In my company, I'm using SSL VPN to connect external users who connect to our firewall to do some maintenance work. We have approximately 50 sites in our company and most of them are using Fortinet FortiGate.
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reviewer1255635
Head of the Satellite Infrastructure and Operation System Department at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use it for a multi-tenant virtualized environment for public cloud services. We provide cloud services for the public sector.
We have two clusters with the latest version, and we also have two clusters that I would like to replace with the latest version. We have support from the vendor, and we're going to buy two new clusters.
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UmerSiddique
Sr. Network Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We have created a virtual cloud on-prem, providing services to our different IT domains in terms of software, database and ERP. We've also created a virtual firewall handling the security and protecting servers in the network. No unwanted or unauthorized user can access the servers. That's a good sign of security and the handling of the network. It provides us with oversight. I'm a senior network engineer and we are customers of Fortinet.
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reviewer967515
Network Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
I primarily use the solution for network security - especially for the VPN connection, the remote site connection.
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PTLNet3112
PTL Network Administrator at a non-profit with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's a firewall that secures our internal network. I have been using it since 2013, and I find that most of the features are advanced, and very user-friendly.
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Nicholas Chan
Sales Director at Visualize Technology (M) Sdn. Bhd.
The case of FortiGate is for firewall and VPN connection. We are partners and resellers of Fortinet and I'm a director. Our company is based in Malaysia.
View full review »My primary use of FortiGate is for general enterprise modeling.
View full review »I am using Fortinet FortiGate for security on all devices, VPN, and IPsec.
View full review »Fortinet FortiGate is a firewall that protects all network data. We use it as our primary firewall in the office.
View full review »Fortinet FortiGate is used for its firewall solutions, VPN firewall, IDS, IPS, and antivirus.
View full review »We primarily sell FortiGate to clients. We have customers such as pharmaceutical companies and hospitals that require the security on offer. It is a great firewall.
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Amar Patil
Security Engineer at Hitachi Systems, Ltd.
Most organizations use the Fortinet firewall as perimeter security at the gateway level.
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Naseema Ap
Manager systems at HOCL
We use Fortinet FortiGate as a firewall. On some particular days, when our network traffic is very busy, we use a separate debit line. We need additional monitoring to know whether our production was cut by peak rates or not.
The major function of this solution is traffic shaping for end-users. You can use a specific appendix for the specific manager.
We are using the latest version of the solution: 100D.
The solution is deployed on-premises.
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reviewer1798890
Works at a non-profit with 51-200 employees
It is mainly for the SD-WAN network.
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Alexandros Tzampazis
Network Administrator at Hellenic National Meteorological Service
I am using Fortinet FortiGate as a firewall.
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reviewer1295655
Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
We have several sites spread geographically across Latin America and Asia that use FortiGate. Some of them are unable to support cloud services so we have deployed it on-premise in order to provide ourselves with a fast and secure network.
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Raghunath Venkatesh
Business Development Manager - Security at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
We primarily use the solution for security.
View full review »Depending on the final cost and any additional costs we deploy Fortinet FortiGate in the cloud or we can deploy on-premises in data centers.
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Mushtaq Ahmad
Manager IT at Riphah
We primarily use the solution for security, including threat prevention.
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Kshitij Singhai
Owner at Computech Associates
We are basically system integrators. We design and implement firewall solutions for our customers. We also provide after-sales services.
We have deployed this firewall for different types of clients. We are providing solutions starting with FG-30E, which is the lowest model in the FortiGate series, and up to 1000 series.
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Jeroen Hein
Engineer at The Learning Network
Our primary use case of this solution is for the firewall and IPS; the security on behalf of our network, to support north and south traffic. We are customers of Fortinet and I'm a systems engineer.
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Narendra Singh
Solution Architect at Brillbean Ventures Pvt ltd
I have deployed FortiGate with multiple organizations such as universities, government institutions, healthcare, and ISP providers. I have worked with FortiGate models 30-500 series and I have deployed the 3200D model for one of the broadband service providers located in India, Namely Sikka Broadband.
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NipontChartkul
Director, CFO at IT Green Public Company Ltd.
Fortinet FortiGate has many use cases: firewall, security, and wifi controller. We use the solution for our project's internet gateway.
View full review »Our primary use case of this solution is for intrusion detection and prevention.
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Diana Nongera
I.T. Manager at Pacific Cigarette Company
When we looking for a device, we wanted to control incoming and outgoing traffic into our network to protect our organization, like have a barrier before anyone could send something in or anyone could send something out. We also use this for our DHCP.
MA
Mina Aziz
Senior System Engineer at Effvision
Fortinet FortiGate can be deployed on the cloud, on-premise, or hybrid setups.
Our clients use Fortinet FortiGate as a firewall for their business.
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MichaelZhang
IT Director at Guangdong Technion Institute of Technology
This Fortinet product is a firewall system, acting as our perimeter firewall. Generally speaking we use this system as a security product to defend from any attacks and to protect our internal network. We are very happy with the security features afforded by this product.
RJ
reviewer1457472
Firewall Engineer at a marketing services firm with 1-10 employees
We primarily use the solution for its security features and performance. We enable features that assist with web filtering, application consoles, and IPS.
SK
reviewer1441512
Deputy General Manager Information Technology at a media company with 201-500 employees
We use it for routing and restricting user access.
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Sagy Haham
CEO at SAYCOM
We are resellers. We provide products and services to our customers.
It's not just one product. We have been using and installing different kinds of solutions for more than ten years.
View full review »VS
reviewer895482
ICT Officer at a non-profit with 5,001-10,000 employees
We have been using the FortiGate antivirus software for a couple of years, as of mid-July. The hardware solutions for the firewall, we have been using for less than a year.
We are using FortiGate 80E for a medium-sized office. I am pretty satisfied with it. It has performed well. The primary use is to protect the internet traffic for a medium-sized office, up to fifty users, using a local domain with a not so intensive cloud traffic. Generally, it is just to protect the internet access for all the users in the network.
Also, we are using VPN at external locations to the office, which FortiGate supports.
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Krzysztof Morański
Systems Engineer at Vernity
The solution is mostly used for the connection with VPN clients. We use the solution for network security and network segmentation.
View full review »MS
reviewer1470960
Lead Architect at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
We use this solution for different reasons.
We use it for the firewall with SDWAN functionality
We use it in some use cases as a VPN Server.
We use it as a Wi-Fi controller on some sites.
We use if for internal network segregation and routing
View full review »JT
reviewer1091898
CEO/CTO with 201-500 employees
We primarily use the solution as a hardware firewall. In China, there's a lot of content that would be available in the West that isn't allowed here. We're able to block certain content from getting through filters.
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reviewer1238928
Sales Engineer - Sênior at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
We primarily use the solution just for internal segmentation and connection of some ranges using IPSec.
View full review »DB
reviewer1344861
Security Systems Analyst at a retailer with 5,001-10,000 employees
We have some that are doing IPS, and we have some that are for AV. That's basically their main role. We are using one version below the current release.
View full review »JC
Jan Christiaan
Network Security Engineer at Social Security Commission
We primarily use the solution as a firewall.
View full review »EP
reviewer951024
Director of IT with 51-200 employees
We primarily use this solution as a firewall.
It's our main firewall, but we're planning to replace it with a pfSense for reasons I will discuss.
View full review »SK
reviewer1420032
Lead Program Manager at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
We have both on-premises as well as virtual firewall servers. We have quite a few FortiGate firewalls as part of our infrastructure. We are using Check Point more from the perimeter perspective. It is only there on the perimeter.
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VeerSharma
Branch Manager at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
Our primary use case for this solution is to manage bandwidth for our customers. This is done by setting the appropriate firewall rules and policies.
View full review »PM
reviewer1232469
Responsabile ced with 1-10 employees
We use FortiGate to protect our company network. We have a wireless plan (WLAN) environment.
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Arkadiusz Świerczek
IT Specialist at Divante
IPS is the main use case because we want to protect our devices, users, and data from external dangers.
We most probably are using the model of the last year. If the services connected to the hardware are possible on the cloud, we always prefer the cloud. The hardware must be placed on-premises.
View full review »Our primary use case for Fortinet FortiGate is for the center firewalls. We use the VMware server. That seems good and acceptable to the customers.
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reviewer1450398
Product Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use this product as a perimeter firewall and also in the role of a firewall as a service for our cloud.
View full review »ME
reviewer1256787
Technical Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
We primarily use the solution for the firewall. We use it for a perimeter firewall or access firewall inside the network to allow some zones to be disabled from one zone to another zone.
View full review »TA
Thameem Ansari
Senior solution architect at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
The typical next-generation firewall use case is to restrict access to the users by using a firewall.
View full review »TD
Ted De Vos
President at simnet
Typically, we use Fortinet FortiGate with edge devices for businesses.
We also use them to integrate with a SIEM product and we use it for detailed analytics.
View full review »ZS
Zhargal Solovyev
Network Engineer at Concentus
We use this solution for edge protection in SOHO and K-12 environments.
View full review »FN
Fernando Neto
Network Analyst at Aloo Telecom
Our primary use case for this solution is the provision of services to our customers, the end users.
View full review »VB
Vineeth Babu P
IT System Administrator at emirates hospital
We use Fortinet FortiGate mainly for web filtering and site-to-site VPN connectivity. We establish filters based on the type of application for filtering purposes.
View full review »RK
Robert Kaczorowski
System Administrator at HAMMOND LUMBER COMPANY
We use Fortinet FortiGate as our firewall and Layer 3 switch. Together, they connect all our locations for internal and external access with an MPLS as the primary connection and a backup VPN over a secondary DSL/Cable ISP.
View full review »IK
Issam-Kawash
Sales project manager at Saraha
Fortinet FortiGate is used for the overall protection of companies.
View full review »KM
reviewer940329
ICT Systems Administrator at a philanthropy with 11-50 employees
Our use case for Fortinet FortiGate is that it's a firewall for managing our security.
View full review »IR
reviewer1197741
Group IT Infrastructure Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We are a sister company of Fortinet FortiGate. Our organization has more than 3,000 users.
View full review »QV
reviewer1465347
IT Infrastructure managerInformation an Communication Services Manager at a agriculture with 5,001-10,000 employees
We've used this solution for the guest portal for our client and we also use it to secure the network of our firm. I am the IT infrastructure manager and we are customers of Fortinet.
View full review »JT
reviewer1451103
Chief Information Officer at a analyst firm with 10,001+ employees
We use it for our paralegal security, our internet operations, and network zone segmentation.
View full review »EM
Effort Moyo
Technical Services Manager at ProComm technologies
We're using it as an edge or a perimeter firewall. We have also used it to segment our LAN in terms of the endpoints and the servers, and we're also using it for remote access using SSL VPN. We have two other sites that we connect through FortiGate by using an IPSec, and we have integrated it with FortiAuthenticator for two-factor authentication and FortiAnalyzer to analyze logs and things like that. We are currently using the FortiGate 1200D series and running the latest software.
View full review »AN
reviewer1316841
System Administrator at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
The primary use case of this solution is as a firewall.
View full review »IY
Iz
Assistant Manager (Infrastructure) at SISTIC
E-commerce environment, enterprise data center.
View full review »WK
Waseem Khan
Network/Systems Administrator at TRSP
We are using Fortinet FortiGate for our security needs in an organization. You can have application and transport-based security. It functions according to the needs of the customer and there are additional add-ons that can be provided. Overall it is a good product.
View full review »ML
reviewer1254792
Network Engineer at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
We use both newer and older models of Fortinet FortiGate.
Fortinet FortiGate is used for protecting the perimeter network. Our customers require a solution that secures the network traffic or the communication with the central site.
The communication between the remote site and the central site is with the VPN and we need to analyze the traffic to assure security. Additionally, we use antivirus and IPS for protection. We can see the traffic when applying these objects with security.
MK
reviewer1392531
Dy General Manager at a real estate/law firm with 501-1,000 employees
We use the solution for network security protection.
View full review »AY
Adriana Ymeri
IT Infrastructure Engineer at Communication Progress
Our primary use case of this solution for our clients is for protecting internal networks with data center firewalls, internal segmentation and next generation firewalls.
We are a gold partner of Fortinet.
View full review »RW
reviewer1425057
Documentation Manager at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
I used FortiGate only for the firewall.
View full review »TF
reviewer1458159
Officer / General Manager Software R&D Laboratory at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
We primarily use the solution for the VPN.
View full review »RV
reviewer1346826
Manager - IT at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
We are dealing in the payment business where we provide services to end-users, and FortiGate is part of our security solution.
The customers swipe their cards into our product, which transmits the data through another server to the acquirer or bank. The server is hosted behind the FortiGate firewall, so all of the traffic that comes in and out goes through the firewall policies, intrusion detection, and instruction prevention systems.
View full review »SC
Simon Coombs
System Administrator at a media company with 11-50 employees
I primarily use this solution for external security of our network.
View full review »DY
DaleYeh
Principal Mining Consultant at senhwabio
We use Fortinet FortiGate out of fear for malware on the internet, to protect our users from malware. We also use FortiGate to prevent connections to the internet.
View full review »JC
MnG32
Manager and General Attorney with 51-200 employees
The main use is to protect from outside attack, from any side. Because we work with sensitive data, we have to protect our work. We use it mainly for security, not only for content control.
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EranjayaKumarasiri
Security Engineer at Eguardian lanka
We use Fortinet FortiGate as a network firewall.
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Phil Horst
President at Integral Design Software
I am primarily using FortiGate to provide a hardware VPN or an equipment base of VPN to a central office. I am only using a small fraction of its capabilities, so I'm not pushing it at the edges.
View full review »MP
MaheshPatel
Sr. Corporate Marketing Executive at Amity Infosoft Pvt. Ltd.
VPN Over 3 Location Across India and We Get SD-Wan + UTM from Fortinet and Final got Solution SDWAN as well as UTM for Every Location
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reviewer1457472
Firewall Engineer at a marketing services firm with 1-10 employees
I use the solution primarily for the VPN connections in local area. In some cases, I use it at universities in order to secure the local network in the university, such as servers and backup devices.
I have also used the solution as a load balancer and the EMS functionality, which I use as a controller for wireless devices.
View full review »GI
reviewer743844
Mgr. IT Infrastructure and Network Operations at a media company with 11-50 employees
- Security
- Monitoring and controlling
- VPN
- Active Directory integration
- Servers
- All components related to an enterprise environment.
We primarily use the solution for security - for the firewall.
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Kofi Osei-Appaw
Consultant at WorldNet ICT Solutions Limited
We use this solution for our company firewall.
View full review »KS
Kevin Stephens
ICT Administrator at a mining and metals company with 11-50 employees
Our primary use case is for our company firewall. We use it for intrusion prevention and anti-virus.
View full review »AK
Ahmed Konsowa
Senior Security Consultant at SEE "Systems Engineering of Egypt"
My primary use case of this solution is as a data center. It performs very well.
View full review »YA
Yousef Altaj
Tech Manager at Global tec
We primarily use this for the Security Fabric feature. It works together with other Fortinet products like FortiWeb and FortiMail, as well as with Amazon products. There is a lot of integration.
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Hugo456456
Works at El loco hugo
We use it because it is a good device.
DD
Dale Dobeck
Consultant
Firewall/Web Filter management. We have over 30 sites, and it is imperative that one person (myself) can plan, implement, and deploy these devices to our sites and manage them when finished.
View full review »MC
Madalena Carvalho
System ADM at a recreational facilities/services company with 501-1,000 employees
We use this solution as our Firewall.
FortiGate is a service, and because of that, I don't use it very much. The equipment is for the operator that monitors who is on the internet, nothing more.
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Leo_Wong
Consultant at Resolve Technology Limited
We mostly use the solution for our internet-facing firewall.
View full review »JM
reviewer1193787
Network Manager at a transportation company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We use it as a firewall for securing our HQ and branch.
View full review »DA
Directcust4564
Directorate at a wholesaler/distributor with 51-200 employees
Our primary use case for this solution is to protect ourselves against email spam.
View full review »My company is a system integrator in Brazil, and we are also a partner. We mainly use it for SD-WAN purposes. It is being used in the public sector and the commercial sector.
In terms of deployment, some customers deploy it on-premises, and some customers deploy it on the cloud.
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Anderson Guedes
Specialist of IT Solutions at InterNexa
I use Fortinet FortiGate for my customers to have a secure network.
View full review »LM
reviewer1784964
Head Of Technology at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
We are a system integrator and Fortinet FortiGate is one of the products that we have implemented for our clients.
It is primarily used for VPN and remote access. More recently, we have been using it for SD-WAN.
View full review »MP
reviewer1282434
IT Operations Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We primarily use the solution for edge protection as well as the VPN and SD-WAN.
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Ahamed Ali Hameed
IT Manager at Hadef & Partners
The primary use case of this solution is as a firewall and UTM machine.
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Panos Kre
Works at GOldair Handling
We primarily use this solution for our firewall, Application Control, QoS, IPSec, and SSL VPN.
View full review »ES
Emmanuel Salamat
Solutions Architect at Universal Access and Systems Solutions
We use Fortinet FortiGate as the firewall for our networks and as a security device. Fortinet FortiGate is used in our organization for:
- making policies
- security profiles
- identity management
- blocking applications on websites
- making objects
- future groups
- user management
- network reports
- data analytics
- other stuff
FortiGate is not just a security solution, but also a network solution, because it can do SD-WAN which provides innovation to security.
Our primary use of Fortinet FortiGate is for a firewall. I use it as the firewall system and protection from spam. I mainly use Fortinet FortiGate for protection and security.
View full review »RO
Randy Obanon
IT Manager at Soporte Antivirus Ltda
Our primary use case is for checking sites, threat prevention, ransomware, and email check.
View full review »CB
Camilo Benavides
System Administrator at Udenar
We use FortiGate for edge protection by avoiding attacks to the servers of the institution, also, by protecting the LAN network.
View full review »ZR
reviewer1136826
Manager at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
We use this solution as a firewall proxy. I'm the company manager.
View full review »SW
reviewer1485723
Compliance Officer at a venture capital & private equity firm with 11-50 employees
We primarily use this solution for our network, as virtual security of the network. It helps protect us and keeps us safe.
View full review »AM
Avantha Malalage
Chief Information Officer at teamddt
We use Fortinet FortiGate to implement firewalls for our customers.
View full review »NN
reviewer1084257
IT Infrastructure Specialist at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
We utilize the services to ensure the stability of our network and clients protection from external treats. With the recent pandemic mobile working have increased in demand and Fortinet have easily bridge that gap to continue to support employee needs.
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Vandy Va
Head Of IT Infrastructure at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Our primary use case is for a data center firewall. I've been using Fortigate but I'm also currently evaluating Cisco and Check Point. We are customers of Fortinet and I'm in IT infrastructure.
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NomanSaleem
IT & PPN Coordinator at a manufacturing company
Our organization has 45 branches. We use the Fortigate 200 models at our data centers and have centralized connectivity between our different branches and our data centers.
RJ
reviewer1192146
Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We have used the solution as a perimeter firewall. We are using it as an anti-ATP solution also.
View full review »IH
Ibrahim El Sayed
Network & Hardware Administrator at Nile Projects & Trading Co.
We use this solution for securing and controlling our company, as well as to improve VPN services.
View full review »DS
Derrick Slaton
IT Specialist 3 at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
We use this solution as our firewall.
View full review »AM
InfoSec301
Information Security Analyst at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
It is performing fine, there is no problem from FortiGate. The firewall engine is very good, Very suitable for picking up Zero-day threats. It has protected us from two or three instances, thanks to this engine.
View full review »BT
Eric TOURE
System & Network Administrator at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
I use Fortinet FortiGate to secure the network.
View full review »SP
reviewer1474071
Data Center Operations and Customer Support Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We use FortiGate as our primary firewall that acts as the perimeter between the internet and our on-premises network. It is used as a security measure for about 2000 users that go out to the internet from here.
Along with FortiGate we also use other products like F5 for our network and app security. And for network equipment, we use Cisco products.
MV
reviewer1456182
Senior Information Technology Auditor at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use it as an end-server and to block traffic.
View full review »Our primary use case of this solution is for the UTM it offers and the access to VPN. We have branches in Rio, Singapore and the UK. I'm an information security manager and we are customers of Fortinet.
View full review »IK
reviewer1448211
System Administrator at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
We use this firewall as part of our security solution.
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Gamal Al-Hamzah
Network Engineer at LinkTech
We are a reseller of Fortinet products. We use FortiGate for Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) support. This is the most important reason that we use Fortinet FortiGate.
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Ali Asvadi
President at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
To protect network perimeters.
Fortinet protects us from web attacks. We also use it to connect our remote users. I'm the IT infrastructure lead.
View full review »BS
Bi Smith
Managing Director at Converge Solutions
I am a reseller of the FortiGate solution and we use it as a firewall to protect the parameter of the network.
View full review »TK
reviewer1457130
CIO at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees
We are using this solution to filter communication to and from the website or our site.
We also use it to create a VPN connection for all of our sites in the world.
View full review »LJ
Lenos Jacob
Head of Customer Success at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We are system integrators, and this is one of the products that we implement for our clients.
The primary use case of this solution is as a firewall, with advanced capability features for sandboxing, for preventing ransomware and other related threats.
View full review »It is a UTM firewall with many features. It has helped me to control users and public multi-servers easily. It also can make the VPN connection free through advanced routing (RIP, OSPF, BGP, PBR). It gives you a seamless, simple integration into a large network.
View full review »I am using it as an IPS, intrusion protection system.
View full review »We use FortiGate for controlling traffic and policies for web caching, user profiles, IPS, antivirus, etc.
View full review »SB
Consultant76
Security Engineer at a real estate/law firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
It performs well.
View full review »Primary use would be firewalls for the central office as well as all our branch offices. For some branches, we use the wireless feature.
View full review »AJ
reviewer1368420
Telecommunications Engineer at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
We are using this solution to protect our network on every site. We are using it as a Network Firewall.
View full review »ML
Mauricio Lazaro
Director/Owner at Miodesk
We use this firewall as part of our security solution.
View full review »AC
reviewer1462002
Network Engineer at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Foremost, we mainly used it as a firewall. we also use it for low sharing between circuits.
View full review »AL
reviewer1464204
GM: Information Systems at a logistics company with 501-1,000 employees
We use it to create a WAN. We also use it for the UTM firewall.
We don't have the latest versions. We've got the 60Ds and 30E products.
View full review »JG
reviewer1262043
Junior Support Analyst at a pharma/biotech company with 201-500 employees
We use this solution for marketing and manipulation purposes.
Within our organization, there are roughly 500 people using this solution.
At the moment, we don't have any plans to extend our usage of this solution — currently, we are happy with the way things are.
View full review »IQ
reviewer943938
Branch Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
We primarily use the solution for network security and security next-generation firewalls.
View full review »Needed to get off of EOL Cisco ASA platform and we evaluated Checkpoint, Palo Alto, and FortiGate 1500 and 3000D. We chose FortiGate, FortiAnalyzer, and FortiManager as our solution.
View full review »The primary use case for this solution is as a firewall protection for our company.
View full review »YK
reviewer1255635
Head of the Satellite Infrastructure and Operation System Department at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use Fortinet FortiGate mainly for firewall and VPN purposes.
View full review »RB
Rodolfo Bento Matos
CEO e confundador at Infinity Learning
We use it to protect our or our customers' full environment by using features such as IPS signatures, VPN, endpoint protection, and antivirus.
View full review »DM
reviewer1247301
Founder, Chairman of the Board at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
I use FortiGate for perimeter security, web filtering, and antivirus purposes.
I use two different models. I use 90D and 200E.
View full review »ML
reviewer1254792
Network Engineer at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
This firewall is an antivirus, protects against spam, and is an IPS.
View full review »MR
reviewer1238931
Junior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
We are a solution provider and FortiGate is one of the security products that we implement for our customers.
View full review »AC
Anderson Clivati
Specialist of IT Solutions at INTERNEXA
We primarily use this solution as a security perimeter and for VPN. We are partners of Fortinet.
EB
Edd Bautista
Engineering Manager at Primatel Communication Snd Bhd
Our primary use is for firewall protection.
View full review »I use Fortinet Fortigate. First of all, I use them as perimeter firewall. Secondly, I use it for a data center firewall for internal segmentation.
View full review »DO
reviewer1486140
System Administrator at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The solution is recommended for medium-sized and enterprise businesses that want their sensitive information secured.
View full review »FortiGate is used as the primary firewall and malware detection device for the company.
View full review »VC
reviewer981903
IT Management at a marketing services firm with 501-1,000 employees
I primarily use this product as a firewall protection.
View full review »I use this product on AWS. FortiGate's VM GUI is slightly different than the hardware devices.
View full review »TN
Truc Ngo
Sales engineer/Technical support engineer at Vietnet
I deploy SD-WAN and we use it for a next-gen firewall.
View full review »DW
reviewer1112532
President at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Our primary use for this solution is as an SMB boundary firewall, and we now use their Security Fabric.
BB
Bruno Barretto
IT Analyst at Comdados
We are resellers of Fortinet FortiGate.
We use this solution locally and as a VPN.
View full review »MA
Mohamed Abdullah
Senior Security Engineer at crystal networks
Our primary use case is as a firewall.
View full review »NW
reviewer1487706
Head of Technical at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Fortinet products are used mostly for internet firewalls. Fortinet's has a great reputation, and all our computer operators are very happy with it. When it comes to firewalls, Fortinet packages are very attractive, which also helps.
View full review »My primary use is for border protection for connectivity out onto the Internet. This product has performed exceptionally well.
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Manjil Bhetwal
Presales Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
We are a solution integrator and FortiGate is one of the security products that we implement for our clients.
View full review »We use it for security. It performs okay.
View full review »The company has integrated the LDAP with the UTM to control user traffic in senses and have a high availability for Active/Passive to assure uptime in case of physical failure. Our company is cloud driven and downtime becomes critical.
View full review »MR
reviewer991773
Network Security Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
I use Fortinet FortiGate mostly for security purposes.
View full review »PD
reviewer1465677
Group Leader – FM Operations Team at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We're using both firewall and UTM features, as well as the inbound and outbound traffic load-balancing functionality. We are also using the VPN.
View full review »KS
Reviewer3147
Network Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Our primary use case is for our small company. It is basically for users on the LAN-side. So, it is just for browsing mostly.
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