FortiGate-500A-HD

Company: Fortinet
Price: $11,495
 

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FortiGate-500A-HD

Fortinet's FortiGate-500A-HD appliance is another 1U rack-mountable unit but, being half-depth, is smaller than some similar products. It's claim to fame is as a "multi-zone network protection solution." Fortinet says it enables organizations to segment networks into independent security "zones", each with unique access and security policies.

FortiGate-500A-HD

The FortiGate-500A-HD is a united threat management (UTM) appliance with SSL VPN capability. The web interface covers a lot of ground, but is not too overwhelming. We found that setting up the VPN on this device was a little complicated, due to the fact that the functionality is tied to the firewall and there are extra configurations that need to take place. We found the configuration of the appliance to be awkward at certain points.

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