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Fortinet delivers industry-leading, next-generation firewall protection, purpose-built for the cloud. As the world’s most deployed provider of network firewalls, Fortinet empowers you to secure your digital transformation journey with confidence, agility, and simplicity.
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Purpose-built cloud network security
Virtual appliance and cloud-native firewall service offerings
Security across clouds, branches, and data centers
Fortinet’s cloud firewalls are part of a hybrid mesh firewall architecture able to span branch offices, data centers, and clouds. They also tightly integrate with cloud-native services provided by cloud platforms, including central security management, SIEMs, SOARs, and more.
Fortinet cloud firewalls can be automatically and programmatically deployed, configured, and managed. In addition, they can automatically trigger response to threats among our firewalls and a broad range of security tools ranging from endpoints to WAFs to data center security tools. Key capabilities include:
FortiGate VM seamlessly extends and secures the network, including SD-WAN, across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. By integrating with cloud transit solutions like Azure vWAN, AWS Cloud WAN, and Google Cloud Interconnect, you can secure your traffic through and between clouds.
Cloud Integration
Integrate across clouds and with your platform’s network and security services
Consistent Security Everywhere
Improve effectiveness and reduce operational overhead with consistent security across clouds
AI-Powered Security
Get timely protection and streamlined operations with integrated, AI-powered threat intelligence
Premium performance
Boost performance by bypassing the kernel with vSPU and vNP to utilize user space and DPDK
Elastic and scalable
Dynamically adjust capacity to handle fluctuating traffic and variable workloads
Security-as-code
Deploy, configure, and manage network security automatically, programmatically
Faced by complex compliance risks, shadow AI threats, and AI-supercharged malware, your organisation's security must be comprehensive and adaptable. FortiGuard AI-Powered Security Services provide the defense you need against these critical attack vectors while offering the flexibility to tailor protection to your specific requirements. Choose a-la-carte or select from our powerful, building-block bundles: The ENT bundle for comprehensive security, the UTP bundle for web + network security, and the ATP bundle for the first line of defense, are available to ensure you receive the precise real-time protection and maximum value your organization requires.
What it is: Ultimate security for your entire attack surface - networks, web, file, SaaS, data, and devices. Includes ATP and UTP.
Why ENT? Protect against AI threats, meet compliance, scale, and future-proof security with the lowest cost per service.
What's included: All ATP + UTP features, plus, DLP, attack surface security monitoring and risk scoring, AI-based inline malware prevention, and IoT detection and vulnerability correlation.
What's not included: OT-specific device and protocol recognition. Add the OT Security Service for OT environments.
What it is: Advanced protection across the network and web. Includes ATP services. Blocks more threat vectors. Included in the ENT bundle.
Why UTP? Protect against the rising tide of web-based threats, intrusions, and malware.
What's included: Everything in ATP + URL/DNS filtering, video filtering, and anti-botnet/C2 communication services.
What's not included: Advanced DLP, inline malware protection, IoT detection, attack surface monitoring. Consider the ENT bundle (above) for comprehensive security.
What it is: Protection against known network intrusions and malware. Included in the ENT Bundle.
Why ATP?: Provides core security services necessary to protect your core network and file-based threats.
What's included: Foundational security services including: IPS, antivirus, FortiSandbox SaaS, application control, and inline CASB.
What's not included: Critical web/DNS security (URL/DNS filtering, anti-botnet), DLP, inline malware prevention service, IoT security, attack surface monitoring. Consider the ENT bundle (see above) for comprehensive security against the modern threat landscape.
“Fortinet has been a solid partner in the continuous improvement of our security posture. FortiGate helps block entire unwanted types of traffic in a dynamic manner that minimizes our visible attack surface area.”
"Overall it's a very good product having rich set of securities and easy to use and deploy... it can be easily integrated with other products in Fortinet Family.”
“Price of the Devices: Great price for the power, throughput and performance. Easy to use: Really great UI and intuitive menu, options, etc. Performance: no performance issues even if all the UTM features are turned on.”
"Fortigate provides robust and reliable performance. Their interface is intuitive and allows for centralized management wich really saves us time. Security features are the best among what we tested. Built-in VPN is the cherry on top."
“The Fortigate firewalls offer great performance for their price point in comparison to other vendors. They have an amazing security research team to make sure you are at the leading edge of the threat landscape. The integration of their products so that they can work together through the security fabric is amazing.”
"The product is truly exceptional, I have introduced the Fortinet NGFW in my organization for specific application requirement after preliminary assessment and Fortinet Product Advanced Features for DPI like Application Control & Industrial Signtaure, Intrusion Prevention system as well as Antivirus helped me to bring adequate security measures." Reliability: Fortinet's firewalls are designed to be reliable and to provide high uptime. The company's firewalls have a variety of features to help
"The product is better than expected. The performance of the hardware is much better than the equivalent other vendors, its easy to manage and troubleshoot"
"I have utilized numerous vendors for endpoint security and edge devices including xx and others. Fortinet, by far is superior providing intuitive user interfaces and superlative customer and technical support."
"We wanted to secure our networks, after a penetration testing from an outside company, we were told that our network is very secure thanks to FortiGate."
"We deployed this NGFW at our main office 11 months ago and have enjoyed the simplicity and security it affords. IPsec tunnels to remote offices and cloud are consistent and VPN users are stable and visible through the dashboard."
"Simplicity in management and configuration. Same OS available on any model from the little one to big chassis: easy hw upgrade path without any need for reconfiguration."
"In my organization is important to be protected in all ways, for this reason I like complement security with different types of tools and brands. I have worked with several NGFW brands, and although they all have pros and cons, FortiGate is one of my favorites, mainly because it is among one of the world leaders and because of the SD-WAN solution since it balances the load professionally. FortiGate is scalable and has allowed us to grow without any problem."
"We have been using the Fortinet Fortigate solution for 4 years now, it's a stable, robust solution. It's deploy on all our sites, including one where we use the cluster in active / active mode and it works perfectly. The use of FortiEMS allows us to make our workstations compliant and protect. The whole system is easy to manage."
"Excellent quality product Easy to setup to use and set up & we are highly recommend this product"
"The FortiGate firewall offers comprehensive threat protection for your business. FortiGate offers variety of features to protect your organization from cyberattacks. It delivers high performance and advanced security. " "Excellent price-performance ratio, The equipment has a high performance in terms of security, has a very friendly user interface, Fortinet remains at the highest levels in terms of innovation keeps"
"Excellent price-performance ratio, The equipment has a high performance in terms of security, has a very friendly user interface, Fortinet remains at the highest levels in terms of innovation keeps"
"My overall experience working on Fortinet NGFW is simply Great. It provide great level of flexibility by easy admin portal."
"Using more than 5 year fortigate devices. Hardware and cloud services. NGFW, APs and etc. I would like to express our sincere apprecation for your service to us as one of our most reliable company"
"great product, very easy to use and very good support"
"Solid team in the Nordic region. Invests heavily in supporting the local market"
"Fortinet is pioneer of secure networking, can scale to any location (ROBO, campus, and Datacenter)"
FortiGuard Labs, Fortinet’s cybersecurity threat intelligence and research organization is comprised of experienced threat hunters, researchers, analysts, engineers, and data scientists. This elite team develops and enhances FortiGuard AI-powered Security Services including inline malware prevention, IPS, and DLP. FortiGuard Labs also provides valuable expert help through FortiGuard Expert-driven Security Services. Learn more about FortiGuard AI-powered Security Bundles for FortiGate.
Protects against the latest polymorphic attacks, viruses, malware (including ransomware), and other threats.
Enterprise DLP services protect against data breaches, insider threats, and data exfiltration. Explore FortiGuard DLP Service to safeguard sensitive information and ensure compliance with over 500 data patterns.
Performs AI-powered real-time inspection of files for protection against unknown threats, zero-days, and sophisticated file-based attacks.
Dramatically reduces spam at the perimeter through a multi-layered approach to filtering unwanted and malicious email.
Allows the creation of policies to allow, deny, or restrict access to applications and keep malicious, risky, and unwanted applications out of the network.
Assesses and rates your Security Fabric infrastructure and controls against best practices and major security and compliance frameworks. Includes coverage for connected IoT devices.
Provides full visibility into DNS traffic while blocking high-risk domains including malicious newly registered domains (NRDs) and parked domains.
Utilizes the latest threat intelligence to perform deep packet inspection/SSL inspection of network traffic to detect and block malicious traffic and activities.
Extends IPS protections to identify and police most of the common ICS/OT/SCADA protocols to detect and block exploits targeting OT vulnerabilities.
Uses AI-powered behavior analysis and correlation to block unknown malicious URLs almost immediately, with near-zero false negatives.
Blocks unauthorized attempts to communicate with compromised remote servers for both receiving malicious commands and extracting information.
FortiGate-VM next-generation firewall can be deployed as a virtual appliance in private and public cloud environments, either as a BYOL instance or provisioned on-demand via public cloud marketplaces. Learn more about FortiGuard AI-powered Security Bundles for FortiGate.
Download the brief - Performance as a key attribute of Virtual Firewalls.
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12 Gbps |
vCPU |
1x vCPU core, (up to) Unlimited RAM |
Throughput |
12 Gbps |
vCPU |
1x vCPU core, (up to) Unlimited RAM |
Throughput |
15 Gbps |
vCPU |
2x vCPU cores, (up to) Unlimited RAM |
Throughput |
28 Gbps |
vCPU |
4x vCPU cores, (up to) Unlimited RAM |
Throughput |
33 Gbps |
vCPU |
8x vCPU cores, (up to) Unlimited RAM |
Throughput |
36 Gbps |
vCPU |
16x vCPU cores, (up to) Unlimited RAM |
Throughput |
50 Gbps |
vCPU |
32x vCPU cores, (up to) Unlimited RAM |
vCPU |
Unlimited vCPU cores and RAM |
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FortiGate VM supports all major clouds. Hypervisor support includes VMware ESXi/vSphere/NSX-T, Microsoft Hyper-V, KVM, Xen/XenServer, and Cisco CSP/ENCS. See the FortiGate VM data sheet for details.
Fortinet is dedicated to helping our customers succeed, and every year FortiCare services help thousands of organizations get the most from their investments in Fortinet's products and services. To achieve this, FortiCare follows the life-cycle approach and provides unique services to help our customers in their success journeys.
Technical Support Services
Various per-device options are available for efficient operations. FortiCare Elite option provides a 15-minute response time for critical products.
Advanced Support
Various per-account white glove services are available to reduce disruption and increase productivity with operational reviews by designated experts.
Professional Services
Our multi-vendor experts can design and deploy a complete best practice-based solution to help you meet your network or security objectives and adopt new capabilities.
RMA
Priority RMA options are available across the product family for expedited replacement of defective hardware to meet your availability objectives.
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Explore how Fortinet secures your hybrid networks and increases operational efficiency with unified management across all firewall deployments providing a coordinated response to threats. Hybrid Mesh Firewall: The future of network security revolutionizing your defense strategy.
Fortinet's FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) on Azure provides state-of-the-art protection and automated management for consistent policy enforcement and visibility. Our Enterprise-class solution for Microsoft Azure users protects application workloads beyond basic Azure security services. Fortinet’s Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) enables the broadest protection and automated management for consistent enforcement and visibility across your hybrid #cloud infrastructure. Try it free for 30-days on Azure Marketplace.
Fortinet provide complete integration with VMware's NSX-T Data Center 2.4/2.5, securing East-West and North-South traffic flows across virtualized datacenters, private and public clouds.
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Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Hybrid Mesh Firewall, By Rajpreet Kaur, Adam Hils, Charanpal Bhogal, Esraa ElTahawy, Feng Gao, Tiffany Taylor, 25 August 2025
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