Fortigate Scoping

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December 10, 2014
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Good day everyone,

I'm not sure if this will be the right to place this post. Anyway, I just want to ask how do you scope your clients needs to propose a certain model of Fortigate that will fit their requirements? Can you have some advice or tips how to handle clients requirements to come up with a good fortigate model. I'm asking this for I'm not certain to some particular model of fortigate if that will fit or overkill for clients requirements. Thank you.

Regards,

maeLove

Best answer by emnoc

This goes with the cyberoam post that I just replied in it, but you need to sit down and 1st determine what/where they are now and any needs or growths in the future.

Looking for any compliance support ( do they need HIPPA/PCI , is it a school and have URL or AS issues to attend,DLP, etc.....)

Do they need or deploy any windows AD structure

How about any hosted public-facing webserver or other applications

How about HA issues

SSL or IPSEC remote vpn ( this plays heavily in the sizing of the appliance )

Do they forecast a possible wireless overlay in the near future

Do they have issues with BYOD controls and separation

I can ramble on and on, but in reality you scope the unit after you conduct your query and investigations. There's no one single method, nor a template that you can just throw across the desk

But that's how I scope out a prospect & in the big picture.

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