[AusNOG] Fortigate | input/thoughts

[Shane Chrisp]

On 16/10/13 20:47, Richard Ham AusNOG wrote:

I totally agree with Richard, although I may be a bit biased as I am a 
Fortinet Gold Partner. However we have quite a large install base now
with many of those in High Availabilty configuration and they work 
flawlessly. The typical complaint we have encountered
from users who were not happy with them, has been due to the units not 
being spec'd up correctly for the task at hand or
more commonly, simple misconfiguration. Since the introduction of 
FortiOS v5, the reporting features which are built into the
units are greatly improved, however if you are looking to consolodate 
logs from many Fortigates into single reports, then a
FortiAnalyzer is the way to. They are available as a hardware or VM 
solution. I tend to suggest the VM as it scales beyond the
Hardware versions for locations where they may be additional growth in 
the future.

I am also happy to answer any other questions.

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Regards

Shane Chrisp
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*** Fortinet Gold Partner ***


> Hi John,
>
> I have used/administered multi-tennant (VDOM) based Fortigates for 7+ years
> now and am as happy with them as I was after reading the marketing blurb
> when I first assessed them against competitors. They are a solid unit and
> features are aggressively upgraded from major firmware release to firmware
> release. The Fortigate units are good at generalist firewalls/utm and do
> well as generalist firewall/utm where as the Fortimail units or similar are
> better as specific functions in filtering email etc.
>
> I can't really comment about reporting as I haven't used the Fortianalyzer
> units in the last 4 years.
>
> Feel free to email me for specifics,
>
> Thanks,
>
> Richard
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of
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> Sent: Wednesday, 16 October 2013 8:54 PM
> To: ausnog at ausnog.net
> Subject: [AusNOG] Fortigate | input/thoughts
>
> Hi all,
>
> I recall a few posts back there was talk of Fortinet/Fortigate as a
> firewall. I am Looking at this product to fill a void and interested in the
> opinions of others who use it in Mutli tenant scenarios with all the key
> features (utm, ips/ids, correlation, reporting). If you could lend
> experiences, thoughts etc it would be much appreciated., Off list of-course.
>
>
> Hope all are having a good night and sorry for the disturbance.
>
> PS: not interested in a sales person contacting me.
>
> Many thanks
>
> John in Sydney.
>
>
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