Firewalls

We recommend Fortinet Fortigate firewalls due to their cost-effectiveness and availability of advanced security features. With Fortinet firewalls you are not nickel and dimed to death every time you want to implement a new feature or add users. Be sure to get a model that ends with a 1 versus a 0. For example get a 61F instead of a 60F because the 61F has a local SSD for logfile storage. This becomes important when investigating a security incident as the 60F model has the potential to lose as much a 15 minutes of the most recent log files. Of course the most recent files will be the ones that most need to be looked at.

Fortinet also designs it own Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) that are specifically designed to analyze incoming and outgoing internet traffic at high rates of speed. This is important because in a normal network situation, all traffic needs to be analyzed by the firewall before being passed on to the network. By creating their own proprietary ASICs Fortinet offers better performance at a lower cost.

When it comes to renew or replace your Sonicwall, Watchguard, Palo Alto Networks or other brand of firewall, please contact us for a competitive quote on an equivalent Fortinet Fortigate model.

A hardware firewall is an absolute must for every type of organization almost regardless of size. Be sure to get one that has advanced firewall features including antivirus, antispam, data loss prevention, URL filtering and protection against malware.