FortiGate Features that work after subscriptions expire
License-less FortiGate Protections One of the things that I like about FortiGate firewalls is the fact that the majority of features are available without a license. As a general rule, Fortinet will want you to pay a subscription for any feature that has ongoing costs for them to run, such as: - FortiGuard Updates (including Web Filtering, AV, IPS/IDS and WAF) - Firmware Updates To provide a more comprehensive list, the following features continue to work after your FortiGate subscriptions expire, the only exception are the virtual FortiGate firewalls which require a base license for this functionality: When you are running a FortiGate without licenses (as a lot of lab units end up doing), there are ways to get dynamic updates. These are through the use of the External Threat Feeds. An external threat feed is a way for a FortiGate to pull a list of URLs, IPs, Domains, or a Malware Hash from a web site - generally as a text file. As with most things on the internet, there are paid feeds