Our Security team supports the firewalls, so I am not the authority for this, but I can say that our Cisco FWSM was replaced by Fortinet FWs and everyone seems happier with it. One thing I can say from a Windows perspective is that RPC works now without having to specify any ports besides the endpoint mapper port.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff Sent: Monday, July 14, 2014 7:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Fortinet 100D I know no direct experience with, and therefore nothing good or bad to say about, Fortinet. However, we went through a feature comparison cycle a while ago (later Winter, early Spring this year), and both PaloAlto and StoneSoft (now McAfee) firewalls looked better. We have roughly 300 staff, with around 220 of them in the US office. I don't know pricing on Fortinet, but pricing on others was reasonable, IMHO. Both PA and McAfee were pretty hungry. We weren't much interested in SonicWall, but if their pricing is good (and I'll bet it would be for getting an upgrade) and you like it, and the features of the newer, bigger sibling, that's pretty powerful incentive stick with it. Kurt On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Stefan Jafs <[email protected]> wrote: > We have outgrown our current firewall SonicWall NSA 240, I have the > choice of going to a large SonicWall and simply copy the configuration > over. Or switch to Fortinet as recommended by my guys that manages our > important infrastructure, with at least 1 day of configuration, > however I want something that will last for some time to come. And BTW > I have about 300+ users. > > > > Does anyone have experience good / bad with Fortinet? > > > > __________________________________ > > Stefan Jafs > >
