We are a fortigate shop, as long as you abide by their sizing chart, its a good solution, FAST RMA support, very little buggery in that. They do production release on firmware a little faster than I like, but they are prompt to address bugs and theyre open about it when vulnerabilities are found.
Theyre GUI driven if thats your bag, but they change layout with every firmware, the most recent seems to have made sense. If youre a CLI guy, they can do alot, you just dont have alot of GUI visibility into much of the CLI stuff thats not in the GUI. The SSL portal VPN is slick, easy, end user friendly You get 2 fortitokens and 10 managed forticlient licenses with office models which is nice if you need two factor for a couple users and are dealing with a shop that wont invest in real client AV The forti AP integration is nice for managed local and remote wireless too, pricing on them has gotten much better Theyre not cheap, but if you break down all you get, there is a good value, assuming you want the UTM, if not, may not be priced competitively. USE THE SIZING CHARTS The one thing I hate about them is power flops will corrupt the firmware easily, the fix is simple, but requires console access and a current backup They have a free 1gb forticloud account for logging and reporting as well as fortiap management, theyre always changing whats in the "free account" but if you purchase it you can do firmware configuration management, advanced granular reporting (the reporting is awesome with Active directory integrated UTM, customers love reports that tell them which staff are practicing fuckery) On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 9:57 AM, Justin Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > Any type of firewall like this you need to be very mindful of the product > lifecycle. Most issues arise when folks don’t keep up on service contracts > or are using EOL hardware. > > > Justin Wilson > [email protected] > > --- > http://www.mtin.net Owner/CEO > xISP Solutions- Consulting – Data Centers - Bandwidth > > http://www.midwest-ix.com COO/Chairman > > On Feb 4, 2016, at 9:15 AM, Josh Reynolds <[email protected]> wrote: > > Fortinet. Sonicwall is quite a "joke" and has been that way for many moons. > On Feb 4, 2016 8:08 AM, "Wireless Administrator" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have a business customer that will be replacing their existing Firewall >> and is considering Fortinet rather than SonicWall. Seems like UTM (Unified >> Threat Management) is the buzz word that replaced Deep Packet Inspection >> from days gone by. Does anyone have an opinion on which company has the >> better product. A web search on this subject produces many links to pages >> that share similar language, almost like one person did a review and others >> are just repeating the original results. >> >> >> >> Your thoughts? >> >> >> >> Steve B. >> > > -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
