The initial setup process is straightforward and manageable. It is essential to grasp the network topology of the organization. Understanding the flow of incoming and outgoing email traffic is crucial. Once you've identified these paths, you can proceed to establish policies, rules, and profiles that align with this topology. This early stage ensures clarity in terms of what constitutes inbound and outbound email, and what specific settings need to be configured.

The solution's setup was easy and it took us three to four weeks to complete the deployment. 

The product's initial setup is straightforward and simple, making it an easy-to-use tool.

The solution is deployed with the cloud services offered by AWS.

Fortinet FortiMail Cloud's installation phase was easy and did not take more than a day to complete.

The initial setup is straightforward. After that, you need to configure some policies and then you are up and running.  

Going forward, and as you gain experience and see the behavior of that product, you can start to enhance the results with new policies. So at first, you might leave everything open and then you will start closing things. You start adding to the white list, you start adding to the blacklist, then you start considering the greylist or start configuring for domains. The product needs someone working with it who knows about email and who has knowledge of flow and the terms. These are the two main things that need to be known by people who are going to administer FortiMail. They need to have an understanding of email communication system knowledge but they do not need to be experts. There are a lot of policies that require that the administrator is familiar with the terminology.  

The time it takes to have a stable deployment is longer than just the setup. You can deploy it initially in a straightforward way without much configuration. But to have it stable, it needs not less than three or four months of attention. That is the amount of time just to have it to the point where you know it is safe and performing at an optimized level. As long as you use the solution you will constantly be making adjustments. For example, for three years now we have been implementing this solution and for the three years, every year we have some improvements to our internal policies and updates to apply from the vendor. So it is an ongoing configuration. But to have it stable, you need not less than three months. It could even be more depending on the size of the company or the volume of usage.  

If the company that has 100 users and they don't have that much email traffic, then one month could be more than enough to have the system working well. But you if have the same volume per user and one thousand employees, you will work on the first configuration for not less than three months to have it fully operational.  

We require two people for maintenance and administration. Two is more than enough to manage the system. We use one administrative person and one system engineer. So only two people, and really not more in almost any situation. Of course, I have staff that can do the administrative parts for IT hardware and for supporting infrastructure. But to do the main tasks of configuration, monitoring, and deployment on an ongoing basis, there really is only a need for two people maximum.  

Deployment of Fortinet FortiMail took four months. We had a consultant, a Fortinet expert to assist us.

We are now in production of the solution to ensure our policies are correct and we can ensure it is safely implemented. The first month, we blocked everything and watched to ensure it was running correctly.

The initial setup for me was complicated because I am just learning.

There were two people to deploy this solution, me and a consultant. It took one week to deploy.

It's an easy setup and deployment for the product. You just buy the service and you can access all the things on your side. The deployment itself took only four days.

The initial setup was straightforward. It took less than a week to deploy this solution.

The licensing in terms of the provisioning process was complex for the initial setup.

The initial setup is straightforward. The deployment took a day but the implementation and testing took about a week. 

There is no installation as it's an integration with the cloud. If I have a customer who wants to integrate with FortiMail, he will ask me for the parameters and he will do that through the cloud.

No one does any installation through FortiMail. I will give the vendor the parameters, ID and some parameters from the email server, he then will input the information on his own and give me permission or access.

No implementation and nothing technical is required.

The initial setup is complex because there are government restrictions on the use of the cloud here in Ukraine. Data cannot be sent to another country if it belongs to a government organization.

It is very simple to deploy and you need one or two engineers to maintain this solution.

If you have an experienced engineer it takes one day to deploy.

The initial setup was very easy.

The complexity of the initial setup depends on the implementor's experience. If you know what you're doing then it's easy, but if you don't then I think it's complex.

I don't think that Fortinet is complex at all. It requires setting up the domains and the users, but it is not complex.

The initial setup of this solution is straightforward, as far as I remember.

This solution is easy to install. The deployment takes about forty-five minutes.

I update this solution regularly.