When selecting the best network firewall for your organization, capacity, scalability, performance, and price are all critical. But so is the firewall's ability to adapt to evolving needs and work with other devices deployed across your network. The tricky part of such an evaluation, however, is often differentiating between marketing hype and reliable information. Because of this, the best sources of information often are third-party test results and feedback from actual users.

If reviews from actual customers are important to you, Fortinet may just be the go-to solution you've been looking for, because for the fifth year in a row, we have been recognized with a Gartner Peer Insights? Customer's Choice distinction for network firewalls. This recognition is based on customer reviews of our FortiGate Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFWs). We believe because this distinction is based on actual user reviews, it's a strong indicator of overall customer satisfaction in real-world applications.

FortiGate NGFWs provide security and networking convergence that can scale to any location, including data centers, clouds, campuses, branches, and remote offices. And as networks shift from a centralized model to a decentralized strategy, FortiGate solutions enable you to process data and make critical decisions closer to the edge of the network where your data is generated. This shift means edge computing platforms are crucial for handling critical data and supporting Internet-of-Things deployments at remote locations.

About the Recognition

Gartner Peer Insights includes peer reviews and ratings from organizations across all sizes and industries, and the Gartner Voice of the Customer report synthesizes those important reviews into insights for IT decision-makers. This aggregated perspective focuses on direct peer experiences of implementing and operating a firewall solution and can play a vital role in your buying process

According to this year's report, 91% of respondents are willing to recommend Fortinet, with more than two-thirds giving us a 5/5 star rating based on 205 ratings submitted to Gartner Peer Insights as of March 2024.

What Customers Say

Here is a small sample of the comments and feedback posted by Fortinet customers on the Gartner Peer Insights website.

Finance

Great Firewall

"FortiGate's Firewalls are the best; we own several of them and would recommend them to other users."

VP of IT, Banking

FortiGate NGFW: A Comprehensive Solution for Security Infrastructure

"The overall experience has been wonderful. We needed a new firewall at the time, and while looking at FortiGate and the competition, it not only provided a replacement for our current firewall but gave us additional features that we also needed without needing an additional vendor. "

Manager, IT Security and Risk Management, Banking

Government

The Solution is Amazing

"My admiration for this solution is the reason for my evaluation. This product possesses flexibility in usage and availability, making it highly practical."

SD-WAN Administrator, Government

Healthcare

FortiGate Next Generation Firewall, A Trustworthy Solution to Protect Your Network

"A world-class product comes with exceptional reliability and advanced features. Easy to configure, easy to integrate with other services, and worry-free deployment."

IT Associate at a Healthcare and Biotech Company

Education

FortiGate NGFW Is a Powerful, Carrier Grade Solution Available for All Requirements

"The Fortinet FortiGate NGFW is a powerful, configurable option for any business requirement, from SMB to carrier-grade."

IT Manager, Education

Fortinet's Superior Firewall Technology: A Ten-Year Retrospective

"We have had Fortinet NGFW for about 10 years now. I can say they are the best in the business, and I would put them against any other firewall."

Network Administrator, Education

Manufacturing

Simple But Very Solid Firewall

"They have one of the easiest-to-learn user interfaces in all of the firewalls that we tested. Functions and security features are straight to the point and easy to configure with even a basic understanding of network security, but it is no slouch either with advanced configurations."

IT Assistant Manager at a Manufacturing Facility

Robust Firewall With Industry Best Security And Performance

Truly exceptional performance. A robust firewall with all the latest features. Does load balancing also. Provides overall security and its cache rate is too good. At the same time there is no slowness in its performance. Really, a next-generation firewall."

Administrator, Manufacturing

Energy and Utilities

An Excellent NGFW With Lots Of Capability And Ease Of Use

"FortiGate is a Next Generation Firewall with AV, IPS, Web Filtering, Application, and VPN capabilities integrated into a single platform, its multi-layered security approach ensures that networks are safeguarded against both known and emerging threats in real-time."

Head of IT Security

IT Services

Straightforward NGFW from the company with experience

FortiGate is the best NGFW I've ever used. Logical and usability of the user interface. Pretty straightforward CLI command structure.

Cloud System Administrator

The Fortinet Difference

FortiOS, the Fortinet operating system is the foundation of the Fortinet Security Fabric, an integrated cybersecurity platform organically built on a common management and security framework. Supporting more than 30 critical security and networking functions, FortiOS enables the convergence of security and networking to close security gaps and simplify management.

As an integral part of the Fortinet Security Fabric, the FortiGate NGFW enables a secure networking approach. Organizations can protect any network edge and any user at scale while maintaining high performance even for processor-intensive functions such as analyzing encrypted streaming traffic.

FortiGate NGFWs include AI-powered security services provided by FortiGuard Labs, the Fortinet cybersecurity threat intelligence and research organization. These advanced services heighten prevention while reducing mean time to detection and mean time to remediation and also support automation and efficiency in workflows, so IT and security teams can scale their efforts.

Learn more about FortiGate NGFW, the world's most deployed network firewall.

Note for Gartner Peer Insights: Reviews from vendor partners or end users of companies with less than$50M in revenue are excluded from this methodology. See the full "Voice of the Customer" methodology

Gartner, Voice of the Customer for Network Firewalls, Peer Contributors, 30 May 2024

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