The initial setup is not easy, and as well as it is not too difficult. It is a moderator, so I would rate my experience with the initial setup a seven out of ten, where ten is easy, and one is difficult.  

The initial setup is not complex. It's very straightforward and quite simple. 

It has an easy initial setup process. Three people we involved in the setup process.

We first set up the basic policy, and then we did an IPsec VPN, and then, based on the access requirement of each business vertical, we manage the setup. We define the access website URLs that will be restricted or allowed, including port blocking, et cetera.

The time it takes to set up varies. Sometimes it's a night or a few hours, sometimes it's up to ten days. A basic setup will not take one or two hours.

We enlisted some assistance with the implementation process. The setup was pretty easy. It wasn't overly difficult.

We have three people who are able to maintain the solution. They include me and two team members who are both engineers.

The initial setup was easy for us as we had assistance. 

For the deployment, one person was involved from the outside, and two people we assisting from our side. In total, three people were involved.

The deployment itself took a few days as we were rebuilding policies as well.

The initial setup is very good. I'm a Cisco guy; I'm used to the command line interface. Therefore, right now, from my command line point of view, I like it. The hierarchy of the command line is very clear and it's very easy to change as needed.

If you are a novice person that has never worked with any firewall and don't really understand the concepts, you may find it challenging to set up. However, there are help files, online tutorials, and videos that guide you on any of the topics you have in it.

It really helps you a lot to get to it in order to do the configuration. So it varies. It depends on how you install it. It may be fairly easy for your average user at home or for an average enterprise guy. However, for a process environment, it may be a bit more challenging since there are different approaches that we follow in order to install it. That said, Fortinet itself is not very difficult to use and its knowledge base and help are very extensive.

We only need one person to deploy the solution.

How long deployment takes depends on the customer requirements and what they require for their network that we need to implement. For the actual deployment of the FortiOS and the initial testing, you're looking anything from a day to about four days' worth of work.

That said, your pre-prep, in other words, all your pre-definition of your firewall rules and what security model you need to run and what security level in your Purdue model that you need to implement, can take a good couple of months to do since it's purely based on how you apply the IEC 62442.

It also greatly depends on what the customer needs are. The pre-prep work is actually the most important. The actual configuration is quick. However, the pre-prep work takes quite a while.

The initial setup is very simple and straightforward. It's not overly complex or difficult. You only need one person to implement the solution. 

The deployment will take only one hour, however, the policy web creation based on the user requirements may take time. That is the nature of every firewall. Usually, the deployment takes only one to two hours.

We did the initial setup ourselves, so it was easy. The learning curve was that great once you have any experience with any firewall or any experience with any security appliance, you can pull around it. We did get some help from our providers. But that was basic.

While the initial setup is not an issue, the SD-WAN configuration is a little complex.

There are three people here who are maintaining the firewalls.

The initial setup is straightforward. It's not complex, You should know where it exists in the OS. Then you can work with it easily. Otherwise, the complexity is something you have to contend with for a new user.

Fortinet FortiOS's installation is easy.

The initial setup is not complex. It will take around two or three days to deploy. Product cleaning, readjustment, and screening are continuous tasks, as the nature of the work requires tuning and adjustments. To connect the PC to the console, we assign the networking settings, including data capabilities, and then reconfigure them on the web interface (UI). Some settings are also presented in a web-based format in the CLI because they are easier to navigate.

It offers a pretty simple and straightforward setup. I'd rate it four out of five in terms of ease of implementation. It's not something that's too complex or difficult. 

The initial setup was not very easy but the solution does integrate without much complexity. 

The initial setup of Fortinet FortiOS is simple.

The solution is very simple, very straightforward. It's not complex a all. 

How long it takes to deploy depends on the client's requirements. 

For a mid-level customer, we can deploy within an hour. We can complete everything and have it up and running, and the users get internet access. If they need more rules, they need more things, then it could take time, depending on the configuration.

The initial setup is easy, it only requires one engineer, and the main interface is self-explanatory. 

Users who are familiar with the solution can always dig further in the CLI to change the properties. 

The initial setup was very easy to configure.

Initially, the solution can be a bit complex to set up. It’s not simple. There’s a learning curve. You need to train on it a bit first.

We have ten to 12 people on hand who are specialized in FortiOS and can handle deployment and maintenance tasks. We have a total of 20 people working on maintenance.

The initial setup is not too complex; it's simple.

The initial setup is very straightforward, especially if that person understands security.

The initial setup of Fortinet FortiOS is straightforward.

The initial setup is straightforward.

The initial setup is very straightforward. I wouldn't describe the process as complex.

Deployment takes one to two hours. Everything happens pretty fast.

The initial setup was straightforward. It's pretty much just plug and play. It takes hours. 

The initial setup of Fortinet FortiOS was very easy. The configuration was simple to do. The whole implementation took approximately two weeks.

It is extremely easy to set up.

The solution was easy to set up. 

Fortinet FortiOS initial setup is simple and it is user-friendly. To do the whole process of transferring the firewall configurations and updates took approximately one day.

Fortinet FortiOS's initial setup is simple.

We have a team of around 10 engineers that manage FortiOS-based devices and all other firewall brands. 

The initial setup is easy. It's the easiest firewall installation process on the market. I work with three or four other products and this one is the easiest. 

The time it takes to deploy will depend on the needs of the company and how complex they are. A basic installation will take one hour. 

The initial setup was easy and could be done without an integrator or other external assistance.

The solution's initial setup process is easy.

The initial setup was easy.

The initial setup of this solution is relatively easy.

The deployment of Fortinet FortiOS is simple. The speed of the deployment depends on a lot of factors, such as a number of policies, features we need to enable, and security specifications.

The difficulty of the initial setup depends on who is handling it. Definitely, there are challenges, but if you have a proper understanding of what you're supposed to do, then it is straightforward to work with.

For me, I think that the physical box is more straightforward to work with, but it depends on who is doing it. If you get your architecture right then it is a pretty straightforward deployment. If you don't, then you run into issues that you will need to troubleshoot.

The initial setup is straightforward. You need about two to three people for deployment and maintenance.

The initial setup is quite straightforward. 

The initial setup was very simple and was completed within a week.

The initial setup was straightforward. It comes with a quick book, a manual, and without any experience from day one, I implemented successfully without any help. It was pretty straightforward.

The initial setup was straightforward. I would date the setup a six out of ten. The deployment takes few minutes time. 

I go about initial setup by just implementing the configuration using CLI (Command Line Interface) to propagate the components. I think the initial setup is straightforward.

If I have to implement through the Fortinet FortiOS I have to go through multiple screens. For example, if I need to configure a simple VPN, and a site-to-site Sec VPN channel, in Fortinet FortiOS, I may have to go through multiple GUI pages or screens. Whereas, in SonicWall, everything can be done on one page.

When comparing the ease of configuration and management, with SonicWall, I find Fortigate needs some improvement. If it was improved it would make it a lot easier for implementers.

I think that the setup was a bit complex because we have a complex network. Because of that, we had to do some interoperability testing first and that made the initial setup take longer than it would in another, simpler environment.  

The initial setup is one other area that could be simplified.  

The initial setup is straightforward, and it is very customer friendly. Fortinet FortiOS quickly provides many complex solutions when we deploy a simple firewall. So it's named one of the most customer-friendly OSs in the industry in Sri Lanka and globally. Therefore, customizability allows you to deploy the boxes and register a serial number. Eight people on our technical team are involved in deployment. I rate the initial setup process as nine out of ten.

The installation was straightforward.

Because we have been doing installations of this product for five years, the installation is fairly easy. It was not very easy the first time but now we have a lot of experience in doing installations so, for us, it is easy to set up.

Installation takes two minutes.

The initial setup is pretty straightforward.

It wasn't technical people doing that deployment for the proof of concept, so it took about a day. We also hadn't set up all the features and capabilities. 

When you build a VPN from site to site, you have to make sure the tunnel you select has the same option on both sides to make it work, but you have to also make sure that the routing exists, the mapping exists, and the firewall role exists. 

If one of them is not there, even if you create a site-to-site VPN with the other side and everything, there is no error, the VPN will not go up. 

On SonicWall, it's different. You build a tunnel, you put the same encryption, the same password on both tunnels, and you click up and it's up. If it's not working, it's because you didn't create yet the firewall rule, you work on the VPN, you click, then connect, and it's up.

Then if it's still not working, you create a firewall rule and it's up, or if you forgot the net rule, etc. You do that step-by-step, and it's working, but unfortunately if one of them has a mistake, even if you have no error on the site-to-site VPN setup, it's not going up.

With SonicWall, you can do it step by step and have it working, but with Fortinet, you have to do it all at the same time with no errors.

The initial setup was straightforward and I did it myself. I downloaded it, read the instructions and started the deployment, which took only about an hour. 

The installation is straightforward and simple to deploy.

The initial setup of this solution was straightforward. The deployment took at most three hours. When the deployment was complete, the only job that was left was for the system administrator on the client's side.

According to our customer, they have not experienced any difficulties.

The initial setup was straightforward in comparison to other firewalls. Our implementation took approximately one hour, but it may differ for others depending on their customer requirements.

The initial setup is complex. The deployment takes eight to nine months. 

The initial setup was simple.

The initial setup of Fortinet FortiOS is simple.

Setting up Fortinet is straightforward. It takes about 10 to 15 minutes to deploy. We have a team of five engineers to deploy, maintain, and manage Fortinet.

The solution is not complex at all. I'd say it's very easy. There's a learning curve, however, once you're used to the device, it's very easy to set up a firewall. It's fairly straightforward.

I did the installation myself but I can't remember if the initial setup was easy. I remember the deployment took about five days. It was very long ago, so I can't remember well.

The implementation is simple and the full implementation took approximately three days.

The initial setup was straightforward and it took us about two to three days to deploy the program.

I have been doing the installation of Fortinet FortiOS for five years and I am used to doing them. For someone who is new, I do see some difficulties for them to learn how to do it.

The process could be better.

I never set it up from the beginning. I joined in the middle of this project.

The initial setup was straightforward. 

The initial setup of Fortinet FortiOS was straightforward, with the new inclusion of SDWAN there are some learning still to be done but in general, if the planning is done correctly the intitial setup is a breeze.

I'm quite comfortable with the solution, so for me the process of installing the solution is quite straightforward. I would say it's very straightforward, and it's easy to learn, especially because they offer a very good GUI. It's not as easy to set up as, for example, FortiGate, which is an application on FortiOS. FortiOS is just a bit more complex.

The deployment time varies. It largely depends on the number of security policies that demand attention. It's most likely one day or so, so it's not too long. However, it can vary. You only need one person to deploy the product.