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Tangential, but are Fortinet products annoying as well as dangerous? What should I tell a boss who is considering their devices in front of their ISP line?

rishabhd 7y ago
Show him this - 1) Fortinet tries to explain weird SSH 'backdoor' discovered in firewalls - https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/12/fortinet_bakdoor/ 2) Fortinet Finds More SSH Backdoors - https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/fortinet-finds-more-ssh-backdoors-a-8826 3) Fortinet backdoored fortios or hackers did for monitoring since last 5 years - https://www.securitynewspaper.com/2019/08/29/fortinet-backdoored-fortios-or-hackers-did-for-monitoring-since-last-5-years/
- gruez 7y ago
  Please don't use blockquotes as they're unreadable on mobile. > 1) Fortinet tries to explain weird SSH 'backdoor' discovered in firewalls - https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/12/fortinet_bakdoor/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/12/fortinet_bakdoor/ > 2) Fortinet Finds More SSH Backdoors - https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/fortinet-finds-more-ssh-backdoors-a-8826 https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/fortinet-finds-more-ssh-bac... > 3) Fortinet backdoored fortios or hackers did for monitoring since last 5 years - https://www.securitynewspaper.com/2019/08/29/fortinet-backdoored-fortios-or-hackers-did-for-monitoring-since-last-5-years/ https://www.securitynewspaper.com/2019/08/29/fortinet-backdo...
chedabob 7y ago
We run one of their firewalls and it's pretty good, but between the security issues, and overhauling the licensing between 6.0 and 6.2 release, it's got me considering ditching it when we upgrade our network in the new year.
- ericcholis 7y ago
  Out of curiosity, what are you considering? I'm shopping as well.
  - altmind 7y ago
    Palo alto is highly regarded among the firewalls.
    - yumcimil 7y ago
      We're having absolute misery with their support at present. Panorama's not been logging data for 45 days now. They've just completely missed the last two teleconfs.

rishabhd 7y ago

Show him this - 1) Fortinet tries to explain weird SSH 'backdoor' discovered in firewalls - https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/12/fortinet_bakdoor/ 2) Fortinet Finds More SSH Backdoors - https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/fortinet-finds-more-ssh-backdoors-a-8826 3) Fortinet backdoored fortios or hackers did for monitoring since last 5 years - https://www.securitynewspaper.com/2019/08/29/fortinet-backdoored-fortios-or-hackers-did-for-monitoring-since-last-5-years/

gruez 7y ago
Please don't use blockquotes as they're unreadable on mobile. > 1) Fortinet tries to explain weird SSH 'backdoor' discovered in firewalls - https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/12/fortinet_bakdoor/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/12/fortinet_bakdoor/ > 2) Fortinet Finds More SSH Backdoors - https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/fortinet-finds-more-ssh-backdoors-a-8826 https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/fortinet-finds-more-ssh-bac... > 3) Fortinet backdoored fortios or hackers did for monitoring since last 5 years - https://www.securitynewspaper.com/2019/08/29/fortinet-backdoored-fortios-or-hackers-did-for-monitoring-since-last-5-years/ https://www.securitynewspaper.com/2019/08/29/fortinet-backdo...

chedabob 7y ago

We run one of their firewalls and it's pretty good, but between the security issues, and overhauling the licensing between 6.0 and 6.2 release, it's got me considering ditching it when we upgrade our network in the new year.

ericcholis 7y ago
Out of curiosity, what are you considering? I'm shopping as well.
- altmind 7y ago
  Palo alto is highly regarded among the firewalls.
  - yumcimil 7y ago
    We're having absolute misery with their support at present. Panorama's not been logging data for 45 days now. They've just completely missed the last two teleconfs.