
What is Fortinet Fortigate NGFW?
FortiGate enterprise firewalls reduce complexity and improve overall security posture by providing full visibility into users, devices, applications and threats on the network, with the ability to apply advanced threat protection anywhere in the network.
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92 Likeliness to Recommend
98 Plan to Renew
85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
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+93 Net Emotional Footprint
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Pros
- Security Protects
- Reliable
- Respectful
- Continually Improving Product
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Fortinet Fortigate NGFW Reviews
Blake R.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Education
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Jan 2022
Excellent features and very intuitive
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Fortinet Fortigate NGFW from other similar products?
Addons such as Fortiauthenticator and FortiAnalyzer.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The interface is incredibly easy to use and CLI is even built into the web interface!
What do you dislike most about this product?
Some features only support MS Windows.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Get a trial unit and test it for yourself!
Pros
- Security Protects
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
Cons
- Less Efficient Service
- Less Effective Service
- Wastes Time

Francisco F.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Jan 2022
Very efficient and competitive NGFW firewall
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Fortinet Fortigate NGFW from other similar products?
With Unified Threat Management (UTM), many elements have been integrated that fight against all kinds of woes. This software contains a series of corrective agents and attack prevention and retention agents that can be managed appropriately. Protects against intruders, it includes a first-line antivirus and a web application firewall, which gives us first-class protection with simplified administration and complete reports. It is straightforward to manage IP policy and content filters for any communication protocol.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
In my organization, I solve problems of slowness or difficulty of the content block by categories and stability in other resources, such as the ease of configuring and using client VPN. FortiGate facilitated the administration of web permissions by users associated with an active directory.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Sometimes it can become challenging to block content from a website with web filtering because web pages contain websites that consume other resources. Administration on a mobile device is very complicated, it does not adapt to the screen of smartphones or tablets, and the option of FortiExplore has an additional cost in online stores.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I recommend the tool to everyone if you need to have a unified security control in your company. It contains all the necessary tools to perform as a good insurer of your network and to know the operational risks. It is very easy to manage your web administration is very friendly and allows you to understand everything easily. Firmware updates are costly and easy to manage.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing

Rommel L.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Other
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jan 2022
Easy to setup Easy to configure Lightweight
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Fortinet Fortigate NGFW from other similar products?
much more easier to manage and user-friendly
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Can integrate to Active Directory without any implication or risk Easy to troubleshoot Lightweight for desktop app Globally community supported A lot of material that can help you troubleshoot and optimize the settings.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Things that I don`t like about this app are when it wasn`t able to detect the gateway address, something crushing its own, and WLAN configuration changes.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you`re looking for VPN? Get this application as stated above, you won't found it difficult to use and manage
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing