Fortinet has always been adhering to the concept of putting users first and focusing on user experience. In 2023, we are proud to be named a Gartner Peer Insights™ Customers' Choice for Network Firewalls for the fourth consecutive year! This honor is based on more than 500 real feedbacks on FortiGate NGFW released by users on Gartner's official website. Winning the title of "Customer's Choice" means that the overall experience, user satisfaction and deployment rate of Fortinet's products and services have exceeded the market average.
In addition to FortiGate receiving high praise from users in the above three evaluation items, as of March 2023, among the 504 comments submitted in the network firewall market comment area of Gartner Peer Insights™ official website, 93% of the commenters expressed their willingness to actively recommend Fortinet NGFW. At the same time, Fortinet was also awarded the title of leader with the highest execution capability in the latest 2022 Gartner® Network Firewall Magic Quadrant™ Report, which also proves that Fortinet NGFW products are widely recognized by users and the industry.
Why FortiGate NGFW is favored by users
FortiGate has always been far ahead in terms of customer satisfaction. With convenient deployment, unified management and excellent reliability, it provides the industry's top security and industry's best performance, and supports multiple deployment forms, adapting to branch offices, enterprise campuses, and data centers. Deployment in different environments, different forms, and different scales, such as cloud and cloud environments, helps users comprehensively protect networks from various threats such as malware attacks, threat intrusions, and denial-of-service attacks (DoS). FortiGate is strongly supported by a single operating system, FortiOS, which can meet the growing security needs of users in the field of Hybrid Mesh Firewall. Hybrid Mesh Firewall is a security platform that provides collaborative protection across multiple areas of enterprise IT.
The Gartner Peer Insights™ report also covers several Voice of the Customer segmented views. Vendors placed in the upper right quadrant of the graph are recipients of the Customer's Choice designation. Fortinet was named "Customers' Choice" in 8 of 10 segment views.
The following are the unanimous recognition of the key advantages of Fortinet NGFW by the majority of users:
ease of use
Fortinet NGFW is designed for ease of use, even a novice in IT management can easily operate, equipped with a user-friendly interface, configuration and management of security policies is quick and easy.
An objective review of FortiGate's ease of use by an IT associate manager at an energy and utility company
"Fortinet makes work easier"
"Overall, it's a great product, rich in security features, easy to use and deploy...easy integration with other Fortinet products."
performance
With multiple advantageous technologies such as hardware acceleration and traffic shaping, FortiGate NGFW performs well even in high-traffic environments.
Real feedback on FortiGate performance from a software development company leader
"Best in class. Powerful and comprehensive security solution for organizations of any size."
"Value for money: Best value for money based on power, throughput, and performance. Ease of use: User-friendly interface with clear and intuitive menus and options. Performance: No compromise on performance even with all advanced threat detection features turned on."
Comprehensive Comments from a Chief Network and Telecommunications Officer in the Real Estate Industry
"Great performance and great value."
"FortiGate is powerful, reliable, intuitive, and centrally managed, which saves a lot of time. Its security features are the best of the products we tested, and the built-in VPN benefits are obvious."
safety
FortiGate NGFW adopts a unique solution that converges network and security, and is equipped with various top-level functions to realize rapid detection and response to threats such as malware, intrusion, and DoS attacks.
Comments from an Energy and Utilities Company's SAS and Communications Leader
"FortiGate NGFW - Delivering Comprehensive Network Perimeter Security"
"The product is really good! After initial evaluation, we brought in Fortinet NGFW to meet the security needs of specific applications, its advanced features of Fortinet products for deep traffic inspection, such as application control and industrial signature, intrusion prevention system and antivirus software, helping us deploy security measures that fit our current architecture."
reliability
Next-generation firewall products need to be reliable and uptime for a long time. FortiGate can calmly deal with unexpected events such as power outages and hardware failures, ensuring network security no matter what kind of emergencies it faces.
Feedback from a healthcare and biotech company web executive
"The best firewall on the market"
"The product performed better than expected. Compared with other vendors, the hardware performance is superior, and it is easy to manage and easy to troubleshoot."
Feedback from a senior network administrator at an energy and utility company that relies on Fortinet products to protect its network
"Great and considerate support service"
"We have used FortiGate hardware devices and cloud services for more than 5 years, such as Fortinet NGFW and AP products. Fortinet products have reliable performance and considerate service. For this, we express our sincere gratitude and hope to continue to cooperate!"
When you are searching for key network and security solutions around the world, the pertinent comments given by enterprise users of the same scale in the same industry will obviously provide great reference value for your purchasing decision. The Gartner Peer Insights™ official website comment area is an excellent source for seeking real feedback from users! Fortinet sincerely appreciates the wide recognition of users, and will continue to uphold the "customer first" service concept to ensure the safety of users' digital assets from intrusion.