
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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91 Likeliness to Recommend
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97 Plan to Renew
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85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+92 Net Emotional Footprint
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- Security Protects
- Reliable
- Respectful
- Helps Innovate
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Fortinet Fortigate NGFW Reviews

Adolf R.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Dec 2020
Efficient advanced protection firewall
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Fortinet Fortigate NGFW from other similar products?
This Fortinet Firewall platform differs from others because it has a very simple implementation and easy administration, it is responsible for inspecting the traffic on a large scale so that the tragic entering or leaving is only legitimate, it carries out large-scale inspections speed so that user experience is not affected, offers consolidated IPS without degrading performance to provide virtual patches so known and zero day attacks can be prevented, plus it performs fast transfer of large data sets called Elephant Flows.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
What I like best about this software is that it integrates easily with other Fortinet software such as FortiGuard and FortiSandbox powered by (AI), giving the advantage of protecting against known and zero day threats and improving operational efficiency through Integration with Fabric Management Center, which provides driven networks since it is thus possible to have high visibility of applications, threats and networks, also facilitates the management of security and its administration because it is located in a centralized console.
What do you dislike most about this product?
For beginner users, the configuration can be somewhat complex so it is ideal that technical knowledge be handled so that the process is more enjoyable, in addition to having reports and better visualizing the logs, the Fortianalyzer must be acquired, which is a separate device.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
It is important to analyze the characteristics beforehand and test the product so that you can detect if it really is what you need at the business level since its costs may be less accessible for small businesses, however because it is a solid and complete software when it comes to protection investment is worth it.
Pros
- Saves Time
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable

Irakli G.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Energy
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Dec 2020
One of the best product!
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Fortinet Fortigate NGFW from other similar products?
Fortinet Firewall has some features, which are not exist in other vendors. For example, SSL VPN in CheckPoint(May be in new versions of operation systems they have added, but I don't have information about).
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Possibility to configure security features like you need it. Very easy to understand GUI (But I dont like GUI design, for example colors of pillars)
What do you dislike most about this product?
As I have mentioned it several times in this review it's a GUI Design
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Depend of size of your organization you can choose different security devices and it's very kind. You also can find many courses which improve your knowledge which will hep you to administrate this product.
Pros
- Performance Enhancing
- Trustworthy
- Inspires Innovation
- Caring

Abdul (Alex) H.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Nov 2020
Easy to use Fantastic product
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Fortinet Fortigate NGFW from other similar products?
These are great firewalls easy to manage easy to deploy
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Manageability is great
What do you dislike most about this product?
User interface
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Don't think just go for it
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing