the big BUT is if you dont maintain your service contract, the UTM shuts off, there is some cobblef*^kery you can do to use it to a degree, but for the most part its done. They do pretty good trade ins, you just have to sign a certificate of destruction on qualifying devices youre replacing, I think the last one we did they gave us a couple hundred off for an old watchdog router. They make their money on the support, so you can get the hardware for really good pricing in bundles
On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 10:15 AM, That One Guy /sarcasm < thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 <li...@mtin.net> 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 >> j...@mtin.net >> >> --- >> 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 <j...@kyneticwifi.com> wrote: >> >> Fortinet. Sonicwall is quite a "joke" and has been that way for many >> moons. >> On Feb 4, 2016 8:08 AM, "Wireless Administrator" <wirel...@htn.net> >> 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. > -- 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.
