FortiGate VM

Virtual FortiGate firewall appliances for private and public cloud deployment. It is available as a cloud instance and a virtual appliance. It is recorded as supporting 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 and Service Provider buyers.

Current Version

8.0.2

Product Page

fortinet.com/…/fortigate-virtual-…

Market

EnterpriseService Provider

Licence

Paid

Price

Quote

Record Created

2026-09-19

Last Updated

2026-10-28

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)