Fortinet FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall

Entry-level hardware appliances (FortiGate 40F) start around $549 with annual FortiGuard Unified Threat Protection (UTP) bundles.

Fortinet offers a portfolio covering assessing cloud exposure or protecting running workloads, endpoint protection and incident investigation, controlling communications and inspecting traffic, protecting or governing business messaging, controlling elevated credentials and privileged sessions, applying access policy to users, applications or traffic, collecting and analyzing security-relevant events, coordinating repeatable security actions across tools and applying security rules to application requests. The entries in this catalog include FortiCNAPP, FortiEDR, FortiGate, FortiMail, FortiMail Workspace Security and FortiPAM, with 4 additional product or service profiles. FortiCNAPP focuses on cloud security posture assessment and runtime threat detection. FortiEDR focuses on endpoint threat prevention and response. FortiGate focuses on next-generation firewall policy and threat prevention. When reviewing Fortinet, compare the named products individually: a platform family, a specific module and a managed service can have different scopes and purchasing requirements. Selection should account for cloud permissions required for onboarding, the assets assessed, runtime coverage and how findings reach remediation owners. Portfolio detail - FortiCNAPP: the catalog lists Lacework-derived cloud security, Cloud security posture management, Cloud workload protection. - FortiEDR: the catalog lists Malware prevention, Policy management. - FortiGate: the catalog lists Fortinet Security Fabric context, Intrusion prevention, Application-aware policy. - FortiMail: the catalog lists Phishing detection, Business email compromise detection, Account takeover detection. - FortiMail Workspace Security: the catalog lists Collaboration application protection, Phishing detection, Business email compromise detection. - FortiPAM: the catalog lists Privileged credential vaulting, Credential rotation, Session recording. - FortiSASE: the catalog lists Zero trust network access, Secure web gateway, Cloud access security broker. - FortiSIEM: the catalog lists Security log collection, Event correlation, Behavior analytics. - FortiSOAR: the catalog lists Workflow orchestration, Playbook automation, Tool integrations. - FortiWeb: the catalog lists Web request filtering, API traffic protection. For procurement, map each required capability to a named offering and confirm the edition, dependencies and delivery responsibility with the vendor. Product-level entries below provide the operational context and evaluation questions for that comparison.