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Updated 13th October 2025
What is FortiGate: Next Generation Firewall (NGFW)?
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It Associate
50M - 250M USD, BankingFAVORABLE
“FortiGate NGFW Provides Reliable Performance and Usability Across Multiple Environments”
I have an overall good experience with the Fortigate NGFW. I like FortiOS because the CLI commands are universal to the entire ecosystem. Fortigates are so easy to use I configured one for my home network/lab. CBTNuggets and other online learning platforms have a lot of good videos on how to build a network of physical and virtual appliances.
We've upgraded from 200Ds, to 201e's and now we're looking at the 200g. Converting or migrating to a new firewall typically means getting a forticonverter license. The performance of the SD-WAN has remained reliable across multiple retail locations, campuses, and datacenters. We use SSL deep inspection, advanced threat protection, and application control functions, and the hardware acceleration via Fortinet's Security Processing Units (SPUs) without many conflicting issues with streaming services like VOIP or Teams Meeting calls.
Fortinet's TAC support has been useful when troubleshooting our NGFWs. In our experience, TAC provides knowledgeable, responsive assistance, especially when dealing with tough cases or firmware-specific stuff. The fortigate documentation and community resources are available through Fortinet. If you're not sure how to setup something they have 4-hour fast track courses.
Overall, FortiGate continues to impress with usability, depth, performance, and ecosystem support. Whether you're deploying a single device or managing a few dozen across branch locations, the platform scales well and provides robust, feature-rich network security.
Engineering Manager
<50M USD, IT ServicesCRITICAL
“Strong Performance and Scalability Noted, but Support Responsiveness Lags Behind”
The experience with this vendor has been average. The product itself is strong and technically capable, especially in terms of performance and scalability, but some operational and support-related challenges prevent it from being a top-tier experience. Deployment was generally smooth and once configured the solution is stable and reliable. However, areas such as support responsiveness and advanced configuration flexibility leave room for improvement.
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Founded more than 20 years ago in Sunnyvale, California, Fortinet continues to be a driving force in the evolution of cybersecurity and the convergence of networking and security. Securing people, devices, and data everywhere is our mission. To that end, our portfolio of over 50 enterprise-grade products is the largest integrated offering available, delivering proven cybersecurity everywhere you need it. More than 680,000 customers trust Fortinet solutions, which are among the most deployed, most patented, and most validated in the industry.
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Public
Year Founded
2000
Head office location
Sunnyvale, United States
Number of employees
10001+
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- It Associate50M-1B USDBankingReview Source
FortiGate NGFW Provides Reliable Performance and Usability Across Multiple Environments
I have an overall good experience with the Fortigate NGFW. I like FortiOS because the CLI commands are universal to the entire ecosystem. Fortigates are so easy to use I configured one for my home network/lab. CBTNuggets and other online learning platforms have a lot of good videos on how to build a network of physical and virtual appliances. We've upgraded from 200Ds, to 201e's and now we're looking at the 200g. Converting or migrating to a new firewall typically means getting a forticonverter license. The performance of the SD-WAN has remained reliable across multiple retail locations, campuses, and datacenters. We use SSL deep inspection, advanced threat protection, and application control functions, and the hardware acceleration via Fortinet's Security Processing Units (SPUs) without many conflicting issues with streaming services like VOIP or Teams Meeting calls. Fortinet's TAC support has been useful when troubleshooting our NGFWs. In our experience, TAC provides knowledgeable, responsive assistance, especially when dealing with tough cases or firmware-specific stuff. The fortigate documentation and community resources are available through Fortinet. If you're not sure how to setup something they have 4-hour fast track courses. Overall, FortiGate continues to impress with usability, depth, performance, and ecosystem support. Whether you're deploying a single device or managing a few dozen across branch locations, the platform scales well and provides robust, feature-rich network security. - OPERATIONS MANAGER50M-1B USDIT ServicesReview Source
Stable performance and integrated capabilities in Fortigate versus complex management
My experience with Fortigate has been solid and consistent across various environments (mid-sized businesses, multi-site, and hybrid cloud). Fortigate offers comprehensive protection on a single platform that combines deep packet inspection, IPS, application filtering, antivirus/antimalware, URL control, and network segmentation. From my perspective, it stands out for its high performance even with SSL/TLS inspection enabled, which is crucial for modern architectures where most traffic is encrypted. - Engineering Manager<50M USDIT ServicesReview Source
Smooth navigation and cloud integration, technical support delays impact experience
The Fortigate NGFW contains excellent features to customize policies across orgs, locations and even policy or user specific. The graphics are easy to navigate and understand with the management console. The reporting for threat prevention across multiple blades of the firewall is accurate. Cloud integration takes about a couple of hours but the status checks and performance can be handled both in person and with remote access. - It Manager50M-1B USDBankingReview Source
Centralized administration allows for real-time management of threats and resources.
These are modern, highly efficient, and fast devices; their operation does not limit network speed, and they have a wide range of equipment to suit the number of users in your company. - Chief Information Security OfficerGov't/PS/EdEducationReview Source
Fortinet NGFW Integration Simplifies Network Management for Less Experienced Teams
I have used Fortinet NGFW in both the public and private sector. Overall, we've found this to be a very robust solution and their easy integration of other Fortinet devices in their security fabric makes management easy for more junior staff. While we have had some issues with support over the years, the product itself has proven to be an excellent security solution and the filtering engines have yielded better results than any other solutions we've tested.
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