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Product

Fortinet's next-generation firewall line of hardware appliances running FortiOS, from branch to data centre, including rugged industrial models. It is available as a hardware appliance. Recorded capabilities include application control, central management console, deep packet inspection and high availability. Its record also notes intrusion detection (ids), intrusion prevention (ips), sd-wan and ssl/tls inspection. It is aimed at Enterprise, OT / ICS, Service Provider and small and medium business buyers.

Current Version: 8.0.2
Product Page: fortinet.com/…/next-generation-fi…
Market: EnterpriseOT / ICSService ProviderSMB
Licence: Paid
Price: Quote
Record Created: 2026-09-19
Last Updated: 2026-10-28

Vendor

Fortinet was founded in 2000 by the brothers Ken and Michael Xie and is one of the largest security companies in the world by units shipped — a Fortune 500 company with more than a million customers and over 17 million appliances shipped. Ken Xie had previously founded NetScreen, so the firewall lineage runs back further than the company does. FortiGate, the firewall appliance, is the centre of the business and runs FortiOS; the strategy around it is what the company calls the Fortinet Security Fabric, which is the argument that the pieces are worth more when bought together than separately. Its range is unusually wide — over 50 products, nearly all named Forti-something: FortiEndpoint (formerly FortiClient) and FortiEDR at the endpoint, FortiSandbox for detonation, FortiWeb, FortiMail, FortiAuthenticator, FortiSIEM, FortiSOAR, FortiNDR and FortiDeceptor among them. FortiGuard Labs supplies the threat intelligence the subscriptions deliver. What appears in this index is the firewall and endpoint end of that range. For a buyer, the thing to weigh is that Fortinet sells an integrated stack rather than a best-of-breed component, and its pricing and management assume you are buying more than one part of it. Vendor page →

Website: fortinet.com
Country: United States
Headquarters: Sunnyvale, United States
Year Established: 2000
Customers: 1M organisations
Users: 17M devices protected
Revenue: $6.8B (2025)

Platforms

Hardware Appliance

native

Target Market

Enterprise secondaryOT / ICS secondaryService Provider secondarySMB primary

Capabilities

Specifications

Pricing

Plan	Licence	Priced per	Billed	Price
Summary	Price on request	not stated	no recurring charge	Quote

Versions

8.0.2platform not recorded

The newest release each source names per platform, not every release the vendor has shipped. A release date is shown only where one is recorded.

Independent Tests

At a glance — latest result per lab test

NetSecOPEN Network Security Test

Tested: FortiGate 601F2024-02-01lab report ↗

Each bar is one lab’s own figure on that lab’s own scale. Labs test different models at different times, so the figures are not combined into one score.

All results

NetSecOPEN Network Security TestNetSecOPEN — FortiGate 601F, FortiOS 7.2.6 build1575 (EANTC)2024-02-01

Exploits Blocked: 99.98%HTTPS Throughput (inspected): 3.484 GbpsHTTPS Connections/s: 2742

NetSecOPEN Network Security TestNetSecOPEN — FortiGate 500E, FortiOS 6.0.6 build0272 (EANTC)2020-02-19

HTTPS Throughput (inspected): 5.41 GbpsHTTPS Connections/s: 3103

Certifications

Common CriteriaEAL42 active16 expiredshow 18 certificates ▾

FortiGate/FortiOS 7.2activeissued 2025-10-09
Fortinet FortiGate™ Next Generation Firewalls with FortiOS 6.2.7EAL4activeissued 2021-10-15
Fortinet FortiGate/FortiOS 7.0expiredissued 2024-07-18
FortiGate/FortiOS 6.4expiredissued 2023-03-10
FortiGate/FortiOS Version 6.2.7expiredissued 2022-01-14
Fortinet FortiGate/FortiOS 6.0.9expiredissued 2021-01-05
Fortinet FortiGate 6000 Series w/ FortiOS 5.6expiredissued 2020-07-29
Fortinet FortiGate w/ FortiOS v5.6.7expiredissued 2019-05-22
FortiGate SoC2 appliances running FortiOS 5.4expiredissued 2018-04-04
FortiGate NGFW appliances running FortiOS 5.4expiredissued 2017-12-19
Fortinet FortiGate™ Next Generation Firewalls and FortiOS 5.2.7 CC Compliant FirmwareEAL4expiredissued 2016-10-03
FortiGate™ UTM appliances running FortiOS™ 5.0 Patch Release 10expiredissued 2016-01-13
Fortigate UTM appliances running FortiOS 5.0 Patch Release 10expiredissued 2015-03-24
Fortinet FortiGate™ Unified Threat Management Solutions and FortiOS 4.0™ CC Compliant FirmwareEAL4expiredissued 2012-01-23
Fortinet FortiGate™-1240B Unified Threat Management Solutions and FortiOS 4.0 CC Compliant FirmwareEAL2expiredissued 2011-03-23
Fortinet FortiGate™-200B and 620B Unified Threat Management Solution and FortiOS 4.0 CC Compliant FirmwareEAL4expiredissued 2011-03-02
Fortinet FortiGate™-50B, 200A, 300A, 310B, 500A, 800, 1000A, 3016B, 3600, 3600A, 3810A-E4, 5001SX, 5001FA2, 5001A-DW and FortiWiFi-50B Unified Threat Management Solutions and FortiOSTM 3.0 CC Compliant FirmwareEAL4expiredissued 2008-11-28
Fortinet FortiGate™ -50A, 60, 100A, 200A, 300A, 800, 3000, 3600,5001 Antivirus Firewalls and FortiOS™ 2.80 FirmwareEAL4expiredissued 2005-02-28

FIPS 140-31 activeFIPS 140-3 #5481

IEC 62443-4-2SL41 activeFortiOS 7.6 on FortiGate and FortiGate Rugged (certifying body not named)

NetSecOPEN CertificationCertified2 activeshow 2 certificates ▾

FortiGate 601F, FortiOS 7.2.6 build1575 (EANTC)Certifiedactiveissued 2024-02-01
FortiGate 500E, FortiOS 6.0.6 build0272 (EANTC)Certifiedactiveissued 2020-02-19

Change History

This record was created 2026-09-19. Everything below is what has changed since.

2026-10-28New versionNew version: 8.0.2evidence
2026-10-13New versionNew version: 8.0.1evidence
2026-10-07Test result addedNew NetSecOPEN Network Security Test resultevidence
2026-10-07Test result addedNew NetSecOPEN Network Security Test resultevidence
2026-10-07Capability addedCentral Management Console: built inevidence
2026-10-07Capability addedDeep Packet Inspection: built inevidence
2026-10-07Capability addedHigh Availability: built inevidence
2026-10-07Capability addedSSL/TLS Inspection: built inevidence
2026-10-07Capability addedIntrusion Detection (IDS): built inevidence
2026-10-07Capability addedStateful Inspection: built inevidence
2026-10-06Certification addedCertified: IEC 62443-4-2 (SL4)evidence
2026-10-06Certification addedCertified: NetSecOPEN Certification (Certified)evidence
2026-10-06Certification addedCertified: NetSecOPEN Certification (Certified)evidence
2026-10-06Certification addedCertified: FIPS 140-3evidence
2026-10-06Capability addedVPN Gateway: built inevidence
2026-10-06Capability addedSD-WAN: built inevidence
2026-10-06Capability addedApplication Control: built inevidence
2026-10-06Capability addedIntrusion Prevention (IPS): built inevidence
2026-10-02Certification addedCertification expired: Common Criteriaevidence
2026-10-02Certification addedCertification expired: Common Criteriaevidence
2026-10-02Certification addedCertification expired: Common Criteriaevidence
2026-10-02Certification addedCertification expired: Common Criteriaevidence
2026-10-02Certification addedCertification expired: Common Criteria (EAL4)evidence
2026-10-02Certification addedCertification expired: Common Criteriaevidence
2026-10-02Certification addedCertification expired: Common Criteria (EAL4)evidence
2026-10-02Certification addedCertification expired: Common Criteria (EAL2)evidence
2026-10-02Certification addedCertification expired: Common Criteria (EAL4)evidence
2026-10-02Certification addedCertification expired: Common Criteria (EAL4)evidence
2026-10-02Certification addedCertification expired: Common Criteria (EAL4)evidence
2026-10-02Certification addedCertification expired: Common Criteriaevidence
2026-10-02Certification addedCertification expired: Common Criteriaevidence
2026-10-02Certification addedCertification expired: Common Criteriaevidence
2026-10-02Certification addedCertification expired: Common Criteriaevidence
2026-10-02Certification addedCertification expired: Common Criteriaevidence
2026-10-02Certification addedCertified: Common Criteriaevidence
2026-10-02Certification addedCertified: Common Criteria (EAL4)evidence
2026-09-20Pricing plan addedPrice: price on requestevidence
2026-09-20New versionNew version: FortiOSevidence
2026-09-20Platform addedRuns on Hardware Applianceevidence
2026-09-19Product updatedSold to: SMBevidence

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Stateful Inspectionkey	native
Intrusion Prevention (IPS)key	native
Intrusion Detection (IDS)	native
SSL/TLS Inspectionkey	native
VPN Gatewaykey	native
SD-WAN	native
Application Controlkey	native
High Availability	native
Deep Packet Inspection	native
Central Management Console	native