Fortinet 高性能 SD-WAN 獲 NSS Labs 推薦

數碼轉型期間，企業往往要過五關斬六將。而其中一個大將，便是解決網絡數據問題。移動辦公方式嘅出現，令雲端服務應用及語音視像通話需求大大增加，咁就需要大量數據支撐，但現今的網絡收費愈來愈貴，企業應該點做？

SD-WAN 新技術出現

SD-WAN 嘅出現就解決呢個問題。SD-WAN （軟定義廣域網絡）將軟體定義網絡（SDN）技術應用在管理廣域網絡（WAN）中，簡化資料中心的管理工作，公司就可以用低成本的網絡存取方式，建立高效能廣域網絡。所以，依家越來越多企業從傳統 WAN 轉用 SD-WAN。而市面上咁多 SD-WAN 解決方案，唯網絡保安供應商 Fortinet 嘅FortiGate SD-WAN 成績最突出。佢運用保安處理器單元（SPU）的專利科技，高效降低整體擁有成本，為企業於數碼轉型提供優勢。

Fortinet 獲 NSS Labs SD-WAN 推薦

全球權威安全研究及評測機構 NSS Labs 最近公佈首個 SD-WAN 測試結果，Fortinet 成為業界唯一一個在 SD-WAN 及 NGFW 組測試中獲得「推薦」等級的解決方案商。其中優勢包括：絕佳的 VoIP 體驗、最低整體擁有成本 （total cost of ownershop）以及原生下一代防火牆（NGFW），三個優勢分別提升企業級語音和視像應用程式穩定性、成本效益及安全問題。

價格合理，成效超卓

NSS Labs 行政總裁 Vikram Phatak 表示：「Fortinet 在 NSS Labs 集體測試中持續表現良好。 FortiGate SD-WAN 為語音和視像提供高質素體驗，而且具備出色的 VPN 表現及良好的整體擁有成本。任何尋求價格合理且成效超卓的 SD-WAN 產品的機構都應該考慮 Fortinet 的 FortiGate SD-WAN，該產品結合 NGFW 的安全性和高性能的 SD-WAN。」

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Fortinet Security Shines in SD-WAN Study

While its popularity is growing, SD-WAN is still in its infancy, which means there’s still a fair amount education needed for this rapidly maturing technology. Taking a cross section of the industry is vital to deliver the level of insight required for digital-first firms to make intelligent decisions when moving into the modern era.

 

 

Last week, I reported on NSS Labs’ SD-WAN Group Test, a first of its kind industry exploration. Digging a little deeper, we put the focus on Fortinet’s (News - Alert) FortiGate SD-WAN  today as its security expertise was showcased within the report.

Three statistics stick out for the SD-WAN provider. The FortiGate SD-WAN promises the lowest TCO per Mbps at $5@749 Mbps. Fortinet innovation deserves the credit here, owing kudos to custom-built security processors. Secondly, the SD-WAN solution features Native NGFW security, which during testing blocked 100 percent of evasions and saw a 99.9 percent security effectiveness rate. Last but certainly not least, FortiGate SD-WAN touts the highest QoE, with a score of4.26 out of 4.53 for video application delivery and 4.38 out of 4.41 for voice applications.

“Fortinet continues to perform well in NSS Labs group testing. FortiGate SD-WAN delivers a high quality of experience for voice and video, excellent VPN performance and good total cost of ownership. Fortinet’s FortiGate SD-WAN should be considered by any organization looking for an affordable and effective offering that combines NGFW security and high performance SD-WAN,” explained  Vikram Phatak, chief executive officer of NSS Labs.

Enterprise security is nothing to shake a stick at, neither is network performance. The WAN is in the midst of a software-defined makeover, offering a path to the cloud and driving a new day.

What’s in your WAN?

Curious to learn more about SD-WAN? SD-WAN Expo 2019 will be here before you know it to introduce attendees to the market leaders, what lies ahead and most importantly, what this up-and-coming technology can offer.

Already an SD-WAN expert? Interested in speaking at SD-WAN Expo 2019? Shoot me an email at mnagle@tmcnet.com. 

Edited by Maurice Nagle

資料來源:
https://www.sdwanresource.com/articles/439112-fortinet-security-shines-sd-wan-study.htm

Fortinet Security on the Google Cloud Platform: The Future is Multi-Cloud

Fortinet Cloud Security Now Available Across Top Five Cloud Providers 

We’re excited to announce that our flagship FortiGate virtual machine is now available for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) through the Cloud Launcher marketplace. The FortiGate VM helps Google Cloud customers securely achieve the scale and elasticity of the public cloud with the integrated security, control, and visibility of on-premises infrastructure. This announcement also marks the first time that a single enterprise firewall solution is available across the top 5 cloud providers.

Protecting corporate and consumer data and users is critical, not just for those organizations adopting cloud computing models, but for our increasingly Internet-connected lives. Which is why providing critical firewalling, intrusion prevention, and other Layer 7 threat protection for the users of Google’s infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and PaaS platforms – one of the top tier public clouds being used by leading enterprises and startups today – is critical.

Google Cloud Platform has been one of the pioneers and innovators in cloud computing, with key innovations such as per-second billing, container services, and machine learning.  All of these serve to enhance the scalability and elasticity of the cloud, and are helping to drive and accelerate digital transformation and digital business initiatives in enterprises large and small.  Also noteworthy is that Google Cloud was one of the fastest-growing public clouds in 2017, in year-over-year percentage terms, increasing their enterprise penetration by 50% compared to 2016. 

As public cloud adoption increases, and organizations gain confidence in migrating workloads and applications to the public cloud, they have begun to aggressively adopt a multi-cloud model for their workloads and infrastructures because they are choosing to use more than one IaaS/PaaS provider. In fact, a recent survey found that enterprises now use an average of 1.8 infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) clouds, while another discovered that companies use an average 16 cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications to help run their business. While these organizations often leverage one provider for specific functionality and another for location or cost, often choosing to use the right cloud for the right application, cloud diversification also provides a measure of redundancy, which also helps enterprises meet their business continuity commitments while avoiding cloud vendor lock-in.

Of course, migrating to a multi-cloud model raises additional security concerns for many organizations. Enterprises already grappling with securing their hybrid cloud environments, i.e. both on-premises data centers and public clouds, now have to deal with an expanded digital attack surface that spans across multiple IaaS clouds. Furthermore, they also need to consider their multiple SaaS application providers as part of their multi-cloud model as well, as SaaS is really just another form of public cloud with enterprise data in a hosted and shared multi-tenant environment.

While many cloud providers like Google have a variety of security measures in place, they generally apply to the security of the cloud itself. Subscribers usually bear the responsibility for their activities in the cloud, especially when data and workloads span multiple cloud environments. Which is another reason why this latest Fortinet announcement is an important milestone: it marks the first time that a single enterprise firewall has been made available across all five top public cloud platforms!

Fortinet is proud to be unique in offering the same FortiGate security in the marketplaces of ALL of the top public cloud platforms of choice, including single pane-of-glass management and orchestration through the Fortinet Security Fabric, to consistently protect the entire digital attack surface, including physical, virtual, and multi-cloud environments.

Read the full news release online.

Download our paper on securing dynamic cloud environments.

 

 

by Warren Wu  |  Feb 05, 2018  |  Filed in: Business and Technology

資料來源:
https://blog.fortinet.com/2018/02/05/fortinet-security-on-the-google-cloud-platform-the-future-is-multi-cloud
 

Fortinet Security Fabric Earns NSS Recommendation for Breach Prevention

NSS Labs recently unveiled a new test of Breach Prevention System (BPS) technologies in December 2017, designed to assess the ability of security solutions to not only simply detect, but also actually prevent unknown (and little known) threats within 15 minutes. This is a critical capability for organizations concerned with today’s sophisticated threats, especially for IT teams that are accountable for securing business initiatives and yet are understaffed to provide continuous monitoring, investigating, and manual response to security incidents.

What this new testing process found (among other things) is that the Fortinet Security Fabric – with its integration of advanced threat detection into a broad set of security solutions deployed across the distributed attack surface – dramatically changes the game from traditionally time consuming detection and response to automated and highly granular detection, prevention, and response. Specifically, the Fortinet solution – comprised of FortiSandbox, FortiGate, FortiMail, and FortiClient – demonstrated a block rate of 99.6%, with 0 false positives.  Combined with outstanding performance and exceptional TCO, Fortinet earned another NSS Recommended rating. This Recommended rating for BPS is in addition to existing 2017 NSS recommendations for NGFW, DCFW, WAF, NG-IPS, BDS, and AEP.

Threats Evolve

Failure is the Mother of Success. How true that is when applied to cyber threats. Every failed and half-baked cyber campaign contributes to the evolution of these attacks, both in terms of sophistication and persistence. Which is why attacks today are so difficult to detect and repel. We are now increasingly seeing complex, exploit-driven malware combined with automated, self-evolving, and persistent attacks delivered via a wide range of attack vectors, including phishing, malvertising, worms, infected watering-holes, and more to establish a toehold within an organization. In fact, Verizon’s’ 2017 DBIR shows that 99% of all malware are distributed over email and web. Combine this with a rapidly evolving network ecosystem of clouds, mobile devices, IoT, and applications and today’s understaffed IT Security teams have their hands full with managing a multitude of disparate security policies, isolated security products, management consoles, and alerts. It can certainly be overwhelming at times. To effectively respond, defense systems need to evolve as well.

So Does Technology

Fortinet built the Security Fabric to augment an organization’s security architecture to correlate threat intelligence to quickly identify sophisticated and highly evasive threats, simplify threat response management, and accelerate threat response times. This begins by providing protection across a broad set of threat vectors through the integration of Fortinet and non-Fortinet products so they can share local and global threat intelligence through a central intelligence hub. Second, fully automating the prevent-detect-mitigate lifecycle across the entire attack surface not only provides an effective mechanism to counter even highly automated attacks, it also goes a long way towards solving the cyber security talent shortage.

Breach Prevention vs. Detection

The advent of this new group test from NSS is a reflection of the fundamental maturation of advanced threat capabilities, requiring security to expand beyond detection to detection and prevention. Over the past four years of BDS testing we have seen solutions improve significantly in terms of accuracy and efficacy as well as in affordability. The maturation of this technology is reflected in the results of this new Breach Prevention test.

Keep in mind, an organizations security posture determines how prevent-detect-mitigate threat response lifecycle is applied. There are organizations that have a higher risk tolerance while focusing more on user productivity/experience and there are others that are more risk adverse while fully aware the small burden of inconvenience placed on its users. Fortinet ATP solutions such as email and endpoint security integrated with sandbox by default allow users to run their day-to-day applications and based on sandbox detections to automatically apply mitigating actions. However, a good security practice to eliminate "patient zero", is to allow pre-inspection before users have access and this is easily enabled via one-click “hold for sandbox” option in our solutions.

An important nuance between BPS and BDS

The BDS group test measures the detection of exploits, malware and evasions within 24 hours, which is used to calculate the security effectiveness in the BDS Security Value Map (SVM). The BPS group test, on the other hand focuses on blocking exploits, malware and evasions within a 15 minute window that is used to calculate the security effectiveness in the BPS Security Value Map (SVM). Furthermore, the BPS total cost of ownership calculations factors in samples that were additionally detected by the solution since it helps reduce the operational burden associated with the cost of remediating infections and breaches.

BDS v4.0 Test methodology

BPS v1.1 Test methodology

Proven Technology.

For this new, rigorous BPS test, Fortinet submitted FortiGate, FortiMail, FortiClient, and FortiSandbox, which are all part of the Fortinet Security Fabric solution. Based on the default configurations of our solution, the NSS Labs BPS result highlights include:

• 99.6% Block rate
• 100% in blocking and additionally detecting across all malware categories except HTTP (at 99.8%)
• 0% for False Positives
• Low 3-year TCO

FortiSandbox had already proven itself effective in the 2017 BDS test with a 99% Breach Detection rate, earning a Recommended rating four out of four years. And now, integrated with other Security Fabric components – namely, FortiGate, FortiMail, and FortiClient – it has achieved another NSS Recommended award with this latest 2017 BPS test. This latest accolade, combined with our growing list of Recommended awards for other Fortinet solutions, is a testament not only to Fortinet’s commitment to independent testing, but also an assurance that we are committed to continually evolving Fortinet’s Security Fabric technologies to enable organizations to securely achieve their digital transformation objectives.

Report: The full BPS report can be downloaded here.

Learn more about Fortinet’s Security Fabric. See how customer’s benefit from adopting the Security Fabric. To understand how Fortinet’s ATP solution works, read more.

Also, for more information, download our paper and learn about the top threats that enterprise security leaders are being forced to address and the security approaches to evalutate to protect against them.

資料來源:
https://blog.fortinet.com/2018/01/08/fortinet-security-fabric-earns-nss-recommendation-for-breach-prevention

Global Adoption of Fortinet Secure SD-WAN

The compelling benefits of SD-WAN (software-defined wide area network) architectures are catching the attention of companies around the world. SD-WAN offers application-awareness combined with increased performance, flexibility, and simplicity when compared to fundamentally more expensive legacy WAN technologies.

Until recently, however, despite its inherent advantages, the inability to implement true enterprise-grade security across SD-WAN infrastructures has proven to be a significant shortcoming and gating factor. A recent Gartner publication, for example, highlighted the criticality of factoring supplemental security into SD-WAN projects. However, things are quickly changing for the better: More and more companies are turning to Fortinet to implement SD-WAN security and SD-WAN networking capabilities that surpasses the demands of even the most exacting CIO.

Indian Supermarket Chain

An example of a successful and secure SD-WAN implementation is found in its deployment by a major supermarket chain, with hundreds of locations throughout India. Looking to improve on the ROI from its legacy MPLS network, the company implemented Fortinet SD-WAN solutions to secure its infrastructure. Key features included the ability to perform Internet-based IPsec tunneling and support of multiple WAN links to provide path-aware intelligence, such as dynamic fail-over capabilities.

Application awareness was another unique element of the Fortinet solution for the supermarket chain: Fortinet’s cloud-based service delivers first-packet classifications and multi-path awareness intelligence to efficiently assign individually identified applications to specific WAN links for enhanced application performance. The Fortinet library of more than 3,000 supported applications is dynamically updated, and executes the real-time capture of all related IP addresses and port numbers. This information is utilized to support highly granular analysis and tuning across a company’s entire physical, cloud and hybrid infrastructure locations.

The FortiGate’s ability to scale and natively secure hybrid environments, coupled with the industry’s best IPSec VPN protection performance, ensured the seamless transition from the supermarket chain’s legacy MPLS infrastructure.

Latin-American Process Manufacturer

A Latin American company’s latest SD-WAN deployment showcases what is now possible through the optimal selection of key components: The company is one of the world’s largest chemical and petrochemical manufacturers. To support its dramatic growth, the company embarked on a major initiative to rearchitect its IT infrastructure, with a heavy focus on embracing cloud-based services and technologies, including SD-WAN.

After extensive research, the company selected components from the Fortinet Secure SD-WAN portfolio, including placing multiple FortiGate enterprise firewalls at distributed locations, a FortiManager for single-pane-of-glass centralized security, and the cloud-based FortiSandbox for advanced threat detection.

The initial goal of the project was to establish a limited SD-WAN deployment across a handful of the company’s smaller remote offices. However, the combination of performance, connectivity, and security demonstrated by the Fortinet solution during testing outpaced even its closest competitor. These elements, as well as TCO, became the catalyst for a significant expansion of scope for the project.

Fast forward several months and the first phases of the Fortinet-secured SD-WAN implementation have been successfully completed. As SD-WAN-ready security devices, their FortiGates have proven to be extremely easy to deploy, provide complete application visibility, and maintain SLAs. The FortiGate’s ability to deliver zero-touch provisioning is facilitated by the FortiDeploy service with FortiManager that can complete final configuration changes and provide ongoing management.

North-American Financial Services Firm

Further evidence of the effectiveness of SD-WAN deployments coupled with Fortinet solutions came with a recent announcement by Edward Jones – a leading North American investment firm – that it was partnering with Fortinet to create a high-performance, automated network architecture for access across its data centers and more than 13,000 offices in the United States and Canada. This is the industry’s largest SD-WAN solution worldwide.

Fortinet’s unique combination of industry-leading solutions coupled with integrated networking capabilities, such as routing and switching, were instrumental in reducing management complexity and the overall cost of the infrastructure rollout. With limited technical staff at each office location, the zero-touch deployment of the Fortinet branch solution consolidates a broad set of capabilities into a single FortiGate unit to enable a seamless rollout at each office.

Further, the automated policy deployment and logging capabilities of the FortiGate delivers significant assistance in complying with the rigorous regulatory requirements prevalent across the financial services sector. In addition to its standout dual-active VPN, IPS, and endpoint protection capabilities, attributes like reduced latency and higher throughput to boost overall speed of business were factors in the investment firm’s decision to utilize FortiGate.

Canadian District School Board

Yet another example of a highly successful, highly secure SD-WAN deployment is from the Upper Grand District School Board, located in central Ontario. The school board has 65 elementary schools, 11 high schools, 34,000 students, and covers over 1,500 square miles.

The FortiGate enterprise solution was selected for multiple reasons, including SSL inspection capabilities, throughput, and deployment flexibility. To complement their FortiGate deployments, the school board also uses Fortinet’s FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer solutions. The ability to centrally manage and push out templates across its SD-WAN infrastructure provides significant operational savings for the school board, and is a huge advantage when responding to security incidents.

Leveraging the Fortinet Security Fabric architecture also enables the rapid exchange of threat intelligence between Fortinet devices and other vendors’ products. The Fabric facilitates coordinated protection across the school board’s SD-WAN infrastructure without impacting performance or increasing management overhead.

Making Theoretical Benefits a Secure Reality

These examples are just a small sample of numerous successful Fortinet SD-WAN deployments. The release of the Fortinet Secure SD-WAN Solutions portfolio is enabling organizations around the world to securely realize the full benefits of what promises to be a global game-changing technology. 

Read more about how Fortinet is driving the adoption of secure SD-WAN for distributed enterprise branches.

For more information, download our paper and learn about the top threats that enterprise security leaders are being forced to address and the security approaches to evalutate to protect against them.

資料來源:
https://blog.fortinet.com/2017/12/15/global-adoption-of-fortinet-secure-sd-wan
 

When It Comes to Intrusion Prevention, FortiGate IPS Stands Alone in the IPS Market

Malicious Intrusions Remain a Problem—and One That is Growing

Malicious intrusions are a big problem. 42% of security leaders in a recent Forrester Consulting study said they have experienced a security breach during the past two years. Another study by ISACA found that 80% of security leaders believe their organization will experience a security attack this year. This projection makes sense, considering that over half of those same security leaders believe the number of attacks is going to increase.

While defense and protection most certainly need to be tied to advanced threat detection and mitigation capabilities, intrusion prevention systems (IPS) still remain a critical detection linchpin in an enterprise’s security strategy. But to be effective, IPS should be integrated into the broader security fabric, giving organizations visibility into users, devices, endpoints, and applications across the distributed and elastic network of physical and virtual ecosystems. This is exactly our approach with the FortiGate IPS, which serves as a critical component of the Fortinet Security Fabric.

NSS Labs “Recommended” Rating for FortiGate IPS

Fortinet takes industry recognition and evaluations seriously, and we were very pleased when in their 4th Next Generation Intrusion Prevention System (NGIPS) Test report and Security Value Map, NSS Labs rated Fortinet FortiGate IPS as “Recommended,” their somewhat understated way of according a product their highest rating. For organizations concerned about intrusion prevention, the FortiGate IPS is a solution you should seriously consider. Let’s take a look at some of the findings from NSS Labs.

To begin, the NSS Labs NGIPS test is tough, encompassing more types and methods of attack and evasion than any other IPS test we’ve seen. Compared to other IPS solutions that were tested, the FortiGate IPS surpassed most other vendors, blocking 100% of all evasions thrown at it. In addition to being one of the most effective IPS solutions, FortiGate was also rated as the most cost-effective IPS solution NSS Labs tested, with a total cost of ownership of approximately $4 per Megabits/Second (Mbps) of throughput.

FortiGate IPS: Engineered to Be the Best

If this sounds a little too good to be true, there are solid reasons behind the FortiGate IPS solution’s outstanding performance. For example, Fortinet has engineered custom silicon-based security processors for the FortiGate line of security appliances and integrated them in a unique parallel processing architecture to speed deep and thorough traffic inspection and intrusion detection functionality. Specifically, Fortinet’s network processors accelerate assembly and normalization, while our content processors speed content inspection and decryption. Architecting these elements to perform packet processing, policy management, and content inspection in parallel not only results in unmatched raw performance, but it gives our designers plenty of headroom to keep the FortiGate IPS line at the forefront of the industry in the years ahead.

Unknown Becomes Known in the IPS Space

While we are (as yet) not the most well-known vendor in the IPS space, we are gaining good customer traction for our FortiGate IPS systems. For example, a global automobile manufacturer recently replaced an incumbent standalone IPS vendor’s solution with FortiGate IPS. A large aerospace manufacturer in Europe seeking greater flexibility and performance also recently elected to use FortiGate IPS to replace its longstanding traditional IPS products. Stories like this are becoming more and more common as organizations see the advantages that Fortinet’s IPS brings to them in terms of power, performance, and efficiency.

We’re clearly gaining ground in the IPS marketplace, but it’s been a quiet, steady rise. While I couldn’t say we’re taking the world by storm, we have been stealthily delighting customers with outstanding performance combined with a compelling total cost of ownership, which are clearly making a name for Fortinet in the IPS arena—not to mention helping organizations protect their systems and information from bad actors around the globe.

For more information on the NSS Labs Test Report and Security Value Map, download a copy today.

by Nat Smith  |  Nov 07, 2017  |  Filed in: Business and Technology

資料來源:
https://blog.fortinet.com/2017/11/07/when-it-comes-to-intrusion-prevention-fortigate-ips-stands-alone-in-the-ips-market

 

Fortinet FortiGate Virtualized Security Available for VMware Cloud on AWS

Provides secure application mobility and consistent policies across enterprise hybrid clouds

 

LAS VEGAS, Aug. 28, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VMworld US 2017

John Maddison, senior vice president of products and solutions at Fortinet
"Enterprises are increasingly adopting hybrid cloud architectures, integrating on-premises private clouds with advanced public cloud resources to take advantage of the scale and performance benefits, yet consistent security is a top priority. VMware and Fortinet have a long-standing relationship delivering virtualized security for software-defined data centers, and today we are extending our collaboration to VMware Cloud on AWS customers to provide the security control, visibility and segmentation capabilities required to seamlessly transition to hybrid cloud environments."

News Summary
Fortinet® (NASDAQ:FTNT), the global leader in high-performance cybersecurity solutions, today announced that its FortiGate Virtual Machine (VM) is available to customers of VMware Cloud™ on AWS.

• Launched today with initial availability in AWS US West Region (Oregon), VMware Cloud on AWS brings together VMware's enterprise-class Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) software and elastic, bare-metal infrastructure from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to give organizations a consistent operating model and application mobility for private and public cloud.
• The FortiGate VM enables an existing VMware-based private cloud to securely extend to the public cloud with site-to-site connectivity, cross-cloud segmentation, and consistent security policies for customers of VMware Cloud on AWS.

Seamlessly Extend Security Policy Visibility with FortiGate VM on VMware Cloud on AWS
As enterprises transition to hybrid cloud infrastructure, 51-percent of recent survey respondents indicate that security remains a top challenge. FortiGate VMs provide VMware Cloud on AWS users with a combination of advanced threat intelligence from FortiGuard Labs with the industry leading security operating system, FortiOS, delivering complete security control, workload visibility and management across physical, virtual and cloud environments. Enterprises can now move workloads from the data center to the AWS public cloud securely without jeopardizing policy visibility.

Fortinet virtualized security has long been available to global enterprises and service providers running VMware vSphere, providing visibility into east-west traffic in virtualized data centers and private clouds. With FortiGate VM for VMware Cloud on AWS, organizations can expand their on-premise network to AWS with secure site-to-site VPN connectivity and Fortinet Security Fabric visibility capabilities for application mobility. Organizations can ensure that an application running on vSphere has the same security posture throughout the hybrid cloud, regardless of whether the application is on-premises or in VMware Cloud on AWS, while providing proper segmentation of users and data between clouds.

VMware Cloud on AWS technology partners enable customers to deploy the same proven solutions seamlessly in both the public and private cloud. VMware simplifies the deployment and eliminates the need for partners to refactor solutions for VMware Cloud on AWS. If a partner solution works on-premises in a VMware vSphere® environment, it will easily support VMware Cloud on AWS. VMware technology partners complement and enhance native VMware Cloud on AWS service and enable customers to realize new capabilities.

Supporting Quote
"VMware Cloud on AWS provides customers a seamlessly integrated hybrid cloud offering that gives customers the SDDC experience from the leader in private cloud, running on the leading public cloud provider, AWS," said Mark Lohmeyer, vice president, products, Cloud Platforms Business Unit, VMware. "Solutions such as FortiGate VM enable IT teams to reduce cost, increase efficiency and create operational consistency across cloud environments. We're excited to work with partners such as Fortinet to enhance native VMware Cloud on AWS capabilities and empower customers with flexibility and choice in solutions that can drive business value."

Additional Resources

• Read more on the Fortinet Blog about how seamless hybrid cloud security is critical for VMware Cloud on AWS customers.
• Read more about Fortinet's Cloud Security Solutions.
• Follow Fortinet on Twitter and LinkedIn, and Facebook.  

About VMware Cloud on AWS

Delivered, sold and supported by VMware as an on-demand service, and running on elastic, bare-metal AWS infrastructure, VMware Cloud on AWS is powered by VMware Cloud Foundation™, the unified SDDC platform that integrates vSphere, VMware vSAN™ and VMware NSX® virtualization technologies. With the same architecture and operational experience on-premises and in the cloud, IT teams can quickly derive business value from use of the AWS and VMware hybrid cloud experience. For more information on the VMware Cloud on AWS partner ecosystem, visit: http://cloud.vmware.com          

About Fortinet
Fortinet (NASDAQ:FTNT) secures the largest enterprise, service provider, and government organizations around the world. Fortinet empowers its customers with intelligent, seamless protection across the expanding attack surface and the power to take on ever-increasing performance requirements of the borderless network - today and into the future. Only the Fortinet Security Fabric architecture can deliver security without compromise to address the most critical security challenges, whether in networked, application, cloud or mobile environments. Fortinet ranks #1 in the most security appliances shipped worldwide and more than 320,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses. Learn more at http://www.fortinet.com, the Fortinet Blog, or FortiGuard Labs.    

FTNT-O

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資料來源:
http://investor.fortinet.com/releaseDetail.cfm?releaseid=1038361

See What Healthcare Leaders Are Saying About Fortinet

Gartner Peer Insights for Enterprise Firewalls: See What Healthcare Leaders Are Saying About Fortinet

by Trish Borrmann  |  Aug 18, 2017  |  Filed in: Industry Trends

 

The healthcare industry requires technology that can keep pace with the speed at which medicine is evolving in order to provide patients with the best possible care. Additionally, this technology must meet HIPAA compliance standards to secure protected health information (PHI) from the growing number cyberattacks targeting the healthcare industry. This comes at a time when more devices than ever are accessing healthcare providers’ networks, including the proliferation of connected medical devices in the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), and through bring your own device policies that allow devices from both healthcare professionals and patients to access network resources.

Fortinet provides the healthcare industry with security tools that are designed to keep patient information secure without slowing down physicians and hospital staff in the process. With Next Generation Firewalls, United Threat Management, sandboxing, secure access points, switches and more, our goal is to keep hospitals seamlessly secure.

We have been excited to read the many positive reviews from Fortinet users in the healthcare field posted on Gartner Peer Insights that show our efforts have paid off.

Gartner Peer Insights provides a platform for IT professionals across industries to review their experiences with various solutions, helping taking the guesswork out of selecting technology for their industry peers. Fortinet currently has nearly 700 reviews* posted, across a range of products.

Below are some of the enthusiastic comments Fortinet customers in the healthcare sector have posted regarding their experience with Fortinet solutions and support during and following implementation.

"In Order To Have Success, You Need A Successful Team" - Infrastructure and Operations Professional

“Working with Fortinet for 10+ years in various roles has proven an amazing track record for the agility their products bring to the table. From their hardware stability to innovative FortiOS, Fortinet has given us the ability to provide a safer Internet experience for our members and users alike. Our project was a complete over haul from the current FortiGate devices, the account team was a tremendous help from start to finish. They were able to guide us from selecting the right FortiGate for our various environments while at the same time providing cost-effective security and support features. The implementation was a breeze with Fortinet's ability to migrate the older configuration to the new OS with minimal repercussions. I am completely satisfied with the outcome of our continued success with Fortinet.”

"FortiSandbox Is An Excellent Product" - CIO

“This is a great product. It has already paid dividends on threats it has caught.”

"Product Had Key Features Needed To Support Our AWS Virtual Private Cloud Design" - Enterprise Architecture and Technology Innovation Professional

“The FortiGate firewall has specific features which were needed to support our [AWS] cloud design. We were already a Fortinet customer prior to developing our virtual private cloud architecture, so it made sense to evaluate the FortiGate firewall for its compatibility with our proposed network design. Within the last year, we have been assigned a new Fortinet account team, who been very responsive to our questions and concerns regarding new deployments and upgrades for both on premise and AWS cloud deployments, so we're happy about that.”

"Fortinet Technology Is Extremely Reliable At A Cost Well Below The Competition" - Operations Manager – IT Services

“We have worked with the Vendor and Reseller over several years implementing Fortinet technology. During that time, we have had highly successful fault tolerant infrastructure. Support at all times has been of the highest quality.”

"Great Experience! Low Cost, Strong Products and Services" - Infrastructure and Operations Professional

 “The vendor was very engaged and I felt a strong partnership with them.”

"Seamless Integration With Existing MERU/FortiGate Mesh WIFI And Managed Switches" - CIO

“Excellent. We needed to provide multiple networks and VLANs throughout our existing managed switches and WIFI network. We chose a FortiGate 100D, which enabled us to have a primary and secondary internet link installed direct to the device as well. Now, if we need to setup a new VLAN to provide internet access, we can do so with ease. We've also setup the primary internet connection to be shared to two different VLANs - with one (for Doctors) getting 80% of the available bandwidth and the remaining 20% for guest WIFI. Since installing, we have been able to configure our BMS system and others to use this link - all done via the FortiGate. The team at BlueConnections have been fantastic with their support. The onboarding process was incredibly straightforward for us - I don't know how they did it as the old vendor left very little information to assist. We could not be happier with both BlueConnections or FortiGate sales/support.”

"Great Firewall, Wireless, Security Solution" - CIO

“The hardware is very solid. Firewalls have been in place for over 3 years now with little to no downtime. Very satisfied with the product and high-level support from Fortinet.”

"Fortinet - Performance And Visibility At An Affordable Price Point" - Network Security Architect

“FortiGate firewalls have permitted us to achieve significant risk mitigation and technology refresh while improving visibility, and reducing cost. Vendor has significant local and regional support that is comparatively easy to engage. VARs have supplemental resources to assure continuity and improve experience.”

"FortiGate Implementation Was Easy And Worth It" - Infrastructure and Operations Professional

“Implementation was very successful and mostly seamless. Fortinet did an excellent job in creating a path to deployment and retiring of old hardware.”

"Smooth Product Implementation" - Network Engineer

“Product implementation and configuration was easy and transparent to the users. Fortinet tech support was very helpful and knowledgeable.”

"Easy Implementation And Management" - Infrastructure and Management Professional

“Fortinet allowed us consolidate security services. Easy management and integration with a high performance.”

We are proud to offer a set of products and a support team that has been so helpful to, and so well received by, the healthcare community. We encourage IT professionals searching for new solutions to consult Gartner Peer Insights to better understand how different products perform in the unique healthcare environment.

Gartner Peer Insights reviews constitute the subjective opinions of individual end-users based on their own experiences, and do not represent the views of Gartner or its affiliates.

Let’s get a conversation going on Twitter! What is the biggest challenge Fortinet solutions have helped your healthcare organization solve?

*Reviews as of August 8, 2017

by Trish Borrmann  |  Aug 18, 2017  |  Filed in: Industry Trends


資料來源
https://blog.fortinet.com/2017/08/18/gartner-peer-insights-for-enterprise-firewalls-see-what-healthcare-leaders-are-saying-about-fortinet

 

FortiGate Moves to the Leader’s Quadrant

FortiGate Moves to the Leader’s Quadrant

by John Maddison  |  Jul 11, 2017  |  Filed in: Industry Trends

 

Fortinet’s FortiGate solution has just shifted into the leader’s quadrant in the 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls report. This report acknowledges the ‘completeness’ of our Security Fabric vision, along with our ability to execute, as factors for our advanced placement.

We believe the Magic Quadrant results provide a great opportunity to highlight key innovations that are driving our vision for the future of enterprise firewalls. FortiGate is the most patented security solution in the world. Its advanced security technologies are central to achieving the Security Fabric’s goal of driving visibility and control deep into the network. It is developed around a universal security operating system, leverages highly optimized software and custom security processors, and receives minute-by-minute global and local threat intelligence updates. The combination of these innovations enable Fortinet to deliver an enterprise firewall that effortlessly scales across the infrastructure to secure data wherever it is located.

Since our founding, we have been challenging the traditional concepts of network security promoted by most other vendors. Rather than simply developing isolated security tools, our driving goal has been to also build highly integrated and adaptive security solutions designed to interoperate in order to extend and expand critical visibility and control across the enterprise. This approach allows organizations to correlate threat intelligence and response as well as centralize management and policy orchestration. As a result, today’s enterprises are able to better meet the demands of the new digital economy by protecting themselves at the speed of business, anywhere across their extended ecosystem of networks. 

By weaving our market-leading FortiGate enterprise firewall technology together with other Fortinet and third-party security and management solutions, we are able to deliver a broad, powerful, and automated Security Fabric approach that can better meet the demands of today’s digital business than any single, isolated device or platform. This integrated approach allows today's enterprises to change the way they implement security, from the endpoint to the cloud, so they can quickly and securely adapt to changing customer and market demands.

We are proud of our placement in the leader’s quadrant in the 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls report. FortiGate has also been recognized by numerous third party tests, certifications, and hundreds of thousands of organizations  as a leading, world-class security solution with the single largest deployment in the world. And as part of the Fortinet Security Fabric architecture, it is the first solution ready to defend today’s advanced network environments.

You can read about the 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls report here.  We also invite you to take some time to learn more about the FortiGate Next-Gen Firewall and the Fortinet Security Fabric.

Magic Quadrant for Enterpries Network Firewalls, Adam Hills, Jeremy D'Hoinne, and Rajpreet Kaur, July 10th, 2017

Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product, or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

資料來源:
Fortinet
https://blog.fortinet.com/2017/07/11/fortigate-moves-to-the-leader-s-quadrant
 

Fortinet Expands the Security Fabric with Enhanced Software-Defined Wide Area Networking Capabilities

New SD-WAN Functionality Combined with Security Fabric Features Enable Distributed Enterprises to Increase Flexibility with Reduced Cost and Complexity

SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Apr 4, 2017

 

John Maddison, senior vice president of products and solutions at Fortinet
“Increasing adoption of public cloud requires Wide Area Networking infrastructures that can reliably and efficiently connect branch offices to corporate resources. SD-WAN technology offers flexible connectivity options, quality of service features, automated network connection services and simplified deployment to keep up with the shifts in enterprise traffic usage. The benefits and capabilities of SD-WAN are now built into FortiOS 5.6 to deliver a seamlessly integrated solution that simplifies our customers’ transition to a more flexible, scalable and secure software-defined network infrastructure.”

News Summary
Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT), the global leader in high-performance cybersecurity solutions, today announced the latest expansion of its Security Fabric, featuring enhanced SD-WAN functionality that is integrated with Fortinet’s proven security capabilities. FortiOS version 5.6 consolidates advanced security with software-defined networking functions. This integration enables distributed enterprises to simplify their infrastructures, reduce WAN costs and securely provide their users with direct access to the public cloud, datacenter and SaaS services they need to successfully compete in the digital economy.

Facing the increasing access and connectivity demands of today’s digital economy, businesses are looking to SD-WAN solutions to overcome the limited scale, higher costs and increased complexity characteristic of traditional WAN architectures. Despite these advantages, many enterprises are hesitant to adopt SD-WAN solutions due to the security concerns of allowing direct access to sensitive SaaS services and data, along with rising threat trends like SSL encrypted malware, ransomware and an ever-increasing volume of advanced intrusion attempts.

High-Performance Security for SD-WAN
Fortinet’s enhanced SD-WAN solutions address these challenges by consolidating its Security Fabric protections with SD-WAN functionality to reduce complexity without sacrificing security effectiveness or network performance. Deployment options include  FortiGate Enterprise Firewalls and FortiHypervisors to give distributed enterprises the flexibility to tailor implementations to meet their individual security and networking needs.

Fortinet delivers these enhanced SD-WAN capabilities leveraging its proprietary Security Processing Unit to accelerate security and networking-specific tasks. This optimized architecture delivers deep security analysis and inspection capabilities that meet and exceed enterprise-class, general-purpose CPUs that power competing products.

• Scalable and secure VPN performance is critical for distributed enterprises to connect their global users and branch offices to sensitive corporate resources. Fortinet delivers the Industry’s highest AES-256 encrypted and IPSecured VPN throughput with the scale to support thousands of distributed branch offices and locations.
• Fortinet’s latest threat research report found that more than 50% of enterprise traffic is encrypted which blocks traffic visibility and hinders optimized SD-WAN routing. Fortinet enhanced SD-WAN supports industry mandated SSL encryption ciphers and delivers the industry’s highest SSL inspection throughput to ensure that SSL traffic is delivered securely and efficiently.
• Fortinet is the only vendor capable of providing these high-performance security capabilities for SD-WAN.

Optimized SD-WAN with Security Fabric Control and Visibility
Distributed enterprises can leverage the benefits of centralized management, visibility and automation capabilities of the Fortinet Security Fabric to reduce complexity and increase IT efficiency. Fortinet enhanced SD-WAN includes zero-touch deployment options and new orchestration and service chaining capabilities.

• Expanded Fabric Topology visualizations that enable distributed enterprises to dynamically monitor both the physical and logical network topology and link utilization.
• Complete visibility into the applications and users on the network arms IT with information on traffic patterns and utilization so they can intelligently allocate IT resources.
• Integrated Smart WAN Link Load balancing and granular health monitoring metrics enable distributed enterprises to select the most efficient route for their business-critical traffic and automatically reroutes traffic if the connection degrades.
• Dynamic Cloud application data-base supports hundreds of SaaS applications and dynamically updates IP addresses to enable efficient routing and reduces IT troubleshooting.

Security Fabric Ecosystem of SD-WAN Partners
The open nature of the Security Fabric gives distributed enterprises the flexibility of leveraging Fortinet’s expanding ecosystem of Fabric-ReadySD-WAN partners. Fortinet’s well-defined APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) enable deep integration with the Fortinet Security Fabric and partners undergo solution validation with a commitment to ongoing interoperability as part of the program. The Fabric Ready program simplifies implementation and operation of multi-vendor SD-WAN architectures.

Availability
Fortinet’s enhanced SD-WAN features will be included in the FortiOS version 5.6 update available April 11.

Additional Resources

• Please visit Fortinet SD-WAN Solution homepage for more details about Fortinet’s enhanced SD-WAN solutions.
    o  Attend Fortinet’s SD-WAN Webinar on April 11 to learn more.
• Follow Fortinet on Twitter and LinkedIn, and Facebook.  
• Join the conversation on the Fortinet blog.
    o Empowering Distributed Enterprises with Secured SD-WAN (blog)

資料來源：Fortinet Website
https://www.fortinet.com/corporate/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/2017/new-sd-wan-security-fabric-distributed-enterprises.html

Fortinet Partners with Ixia to Test and Validate World’s First Terabit Firewall

Test results and first public demonstration scheduled for RSA Conference 2017, February 13th – 17th

CALABASAS and SUNNYVALE, Calif., – February 9, 2017 – Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT), the global leader in high-performance cybersecurity solutions, together with Ixia (NASDAQ: XXIA), a leading provider of network testing, visibility, and security solutions, today announced the results of Ixia’s CloudStorm™ and BreakingPoint™ testing solutions used to validate the performance of Fortinet’s recently announced FortiGate 3980E and 7060E enterprise firewalls.

Ixia’s rigorous testing methodology resulted in Fortinet’s FortiGate 3980E enterprise firewall demonstrating 1 Tbps (Terabit per second) firewall performance, and the FortiGate 7060E enterprise chassis firewall delivering 100 Gbps (Gigabit per second) of NGFW throughput. The testing results, along with the first public demonstration of the performance testing, will be available in the Fortinet booth #3627 during the RSA Conference scheduled for February 13th – 17th, 2017.

Ixia’s CloudStorm, the first multi-terabit network security test platform, was selected by Fortinet to conduct very large-scale demonstrations and proof of concept validations to demonstrate real-world performance for their customers. Ixia’s BreakingPoint application test solution emulates a real-world mix of network traffic at the terabit level and simultaneously scales bandwidth, connection rate and concurrent flows.  This enables Fortinet customers to validate the capacity, efficiency, and resiliency of the Fortinet next gen firewall platforms, as well as make faster and more informed decisions in the vendor selection process.

CloudStorm simulates 2.4 terabits of mixed applications, as well as malicious traffic, to test the critical elements of complex data centers, including server applications, storage workloads, and network security devices. As a result, it can validate the efficacy of the application and threat detection engines of NGFW, measure the impact of SSL traffic on performance, and assess Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) mitigation techniques. This enables Fortinet customers to validate the performance of their hyperscale data centers, while improving the security resiliency of their network. 

Additional Resources

• Please visit Ixia’s CloudStorm™ and BreakingPoint™ homepages to learn more about Ixia’s testing solutions.
• Please visit https://www.fortinet.com/products/firewalls/firewall/fortigate-high-end.html for more details about the Fortinet’s High-End FortiGate Enterprise and Data Center Security Solutions.
• Connect with Ixia on LinkedIn, Twitter, Ixia Blog, and YouTube
• Follow Fortinet on Twitter and LinkedIn, and Facebook. 
• Join the conversation on the Fortinet blog.

About Ixia

Ixia (Nasdaq: XXIA) provides testing, visibility, and security solutions, strengthening applications across physical and virtual networks for enterprises, service providers, and network equipment manufacturers. Ixia offers companies trusted environments in which to develop, deploy, and operate. Customers worldwide rely on Ixia to verify their designs, optimize their performance, and ensure protection of their networks to make their applications stronger. Learn more at www.ixiacom.com.

Ixia, the Ixia logo, CloudStorm and BreakingPoint are trademarks or registered trademarks of Ixia in the United States and other jurisdictions. All other trademarks used herein are the property of their respective owners.

About Fortinet

Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) secures the largest enterprise, service provider, and government organizations around the world. Fortinet empowers its customers with intelligent, seamless protection across the expanding attack surface and the power to take on ever-increasing performance requirements of the borderless network - today and into the future. Only the Fortinet Security Fabric architecture can deliver security without compromise to address the most critical security challenges, whether in networked, application, cloud or mobile environments. Fortinet ranks #1 in the most security appliances shipped worldwide and more than 300,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses. Learn more at https://www.fortinet.com, the Fortinet Blog, or FortiGuard Labs.

Copyright © 2017 Fortinet, Inc. All rights reserved. The symbols ® and ™ denote respectively federally registered trademarks and unregistered trademarks of Fortinet, Inc., its subsidiaries and affiliates. Fortinet's trademarks include, but are not limited to, the following: Fortinet, FortiGate, FortiGuard, FortiManager, FortiMail, FortiClient, FortiCloud, FortiCare, FortiAnalyzer, FortiReporter, FortiOS, FortiASIC, FortiWiFi, FortiSwitch, FortiVoIP, FortiBIOS, FortiLog, FortiResponse, FortiCarrier, FortiScan, FortiAP, FortiDB, FortiVoice and FortiWeb. Other trademarks belong to their respective owners. Fortinet has not independently verified statements, results, or certifications herein attributed to third parties, including Ixia, and Fortinet does not independently endorse such statements. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, nothing herein constitutes a warranty, guarantee, binding specification or other binding commitment by Fortinet, and performance and other specification information herein may be unique to certain environments and likely will differ in different environments. This news release contains forward-looking statements that involve uncertainties and assumptions, such as statements regarding technology and functionality releases and release times. Changes of circumstances, product release delays or product priority or roadmap changes, or other risks as stated in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, located at www.sec.gov, may cause results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in this press release. If the uncertainties materialize or the assumptions prove incorrect, results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements and assumptions. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements. Fortinet assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements, and expressly disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements. 

資料來源：Fortinet website
https://www.fortinet.com/corporate/about-us/news-events/press-releases/2017/partners-ixia-test-validate-first-terabit-firewall.html

Fortinet Achieves 99.9% Security Effectiveness Score In NSS Labs Data Center IPS Test

 

Fortinet Earns Recommendation from NSS Labs for Highly Effective Security and Total Cost of Ownership in the Data Center

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – July 6, 2016

News Summary:

Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT), the global leader in high-performance cyber security solutions, today announced the results of NSS Labs’ recent Data Center Intrusion Prevention System (DCIPS) report. NSS Lab’s DCIPS report is the industry’s most comprehensive test to date with their Security Value Map revealing that Fortinet’s FortiGate 3000D earned the highest ratings for Security Effectiveness, blocking 99.9 percent of exploits, and TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) per protected Mbps (Megabit per second).

• Security Effectiveness: Fortinet achieved a near-perfect security effectiveness score of 99.9 percent. Not only did Fortinet perform outstandingly in overall security, but also in detecting almost decade-old exploits, while protecting against more sophisticated attacks that leverage obfuscation and evasion techniques.
• Real-World Performance: The FortiGate 3000D excelled in performance by handling data center traffic under a continuous heavy load on the IPS inspection process. The FortiGate 3000D readily handles traffic for potentially hundreds of thousands of users who require access to enterprise resources inside the network perimeter. With the FortiGate 3000D, organizations can handle exponentially increasing traffic inspection in their data center without worrying about congesting networks or that application access will be adversely affected.
• Value: NSS Labs leverages a formula that includes security effectiveness, tested performance, and finally cost to determine the true value of a DCIPS. This formula is represented in NSS Labs’ Security Value Map, in which Fortinet was again pronounced a leader in TCO based on the company’s legendary performance, and cost effective security offerings.

Fortinet Excels in All Categories

NSS Labs conducts regular testing of the top DCIPS vendors, subjecting competitive solutions to strenuous, real-world scenarios that test security effectiveness, network performance, and TCO. These results are used to generate their Security Value Map (SVM) and Comparative Reports.

FortiGate 3000D DCIPS was put to the test against competing solutions, proving to be capable of thwarting 100 percent of all evasion techniques, as well as receiving a score of 100 percent for reliability and stability. The FortiGate 3000D demonstrated consistent leadership in security effectiveness, network performance, and value, earning NSS Labs’ coveted Recommended rating.

A Recommended Security Fabric

This recent recommendation is one of many for Fortinet, demonstrating Fortinet’s commitment to products that excel even when subject to stringent third party testing. Fortinet has also received NSS Labs recommendations for their FortiSandbox Breach Detection System (BDS), FortiGuard Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW), FortiClient Endpoint Protection, and FortiWeb Web Application Firewalls (WAF), among others. This ensures that Fortinet customers can implement the very best security fabric from the endpoint to the cloud and everything in between.

Details about Fortinet’s certifications, including the latest NSS Lab’s DCIPS report and Security Value Map can be found here(https://www.fortinet.com/corporate/about-us/product-certifications.html).

Supporting Quotes

John Maddison, senior vice president of products and solutions, Fortinet

"Enterprise data centers are crucial to day-to-day business functions. Attacks against these server farms can have profound impacts on the overall business, which is a risk enterprises cannot afford. Data Center IPS (DCIPS) are an essential security control and validation from third-party testing holds vendors accountable to their product and performance claims. This is critical to help IT managers and businesses make informed purchasing decisions based on individual business needs and ensuring that the critical data remains secure in any situation."

Vikram Phatak, chief executive officer of NSS Labs

“Third-party testing from NSS Labs helps customers to evaluate product options based on real-world testing and the subsequent results. We have seen Fortinet perform consistently well during our various testing programs and this is another prime example of their ability to deliver industry-leading performance and receive the recommendation based on our latest testing.” 

資料來源: Fortinet website: 
https://www.fortinet.com/corporate/about-us/news-events/press-releases/2016/fortinet-achieves-top-security-effectiveness-in-nss-dcips-test.html
 

Fortinet’s New FortiGate 6040E Enterprise Firewall Delivers Unparalleled Next Generation Firewall Performance to Large Enterprises

SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 25, 2016 –
Michael Xie, founder, president and chief technology officer of Fortinet
“Enterprises are being disproportionally impacted as the adoption of cloud services and growth in remote access to corporate networks have eroded the network perimeter and steadily increased the demands on enterprise infrastructures. Facing the limitations of traditional security solutions, only the performance advantages of Fortinet’s next-generation processors powering our new FortiGate 6000 series enterprise firewalls will give large enterprises the freedom to deploy the advanced security solutions necessary to protect their organizations today and into the future.”
News Summary: 
Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT), the global leader in high-performance cybersecurity solutions, today announced the expansion of its Security Fabric with introduction of the FortiGate 6040E enterprise firewall. First in Fortinet’s new 6000 series of ultra-high throughput enterprise firewalls, the FortiGate 6040E delivers the unprecedented next-generation firewall performance, effortless scale, and superior security so large enterprises don’t have to compromise between security features or network speed disruption.

• Fortinet’s new FortiGate 6040E enterprise next-generation firewall is designed to secure the vast amounts of mobile and cloud traffic for the largest of enterprises.
• Fortinet bolsters its Security Fabric with its new FortiASIC CP9 next-generation Content Processors. CP9 accelerates the inspection of computationally intensive intrusion prevention
• New FortiGate 2000E and 2500E enterprise firewalls deliver CP9 ASIC advantages to enterprise edge and internal segments.

Security Solutions Have Become the Gateway to the Cloud
Adoption of cloud services and the ease of remote access to network assets have created a perfect storm for large enterprises, drastically increasing external demands on IT networks and exponentially expanding the attack surface. As a result, the enterprise next-generation firewall has become the de facto gateway to the cloud.
Compounding on these challenges, security leaders must overcome the limitations of the technologies used in most next-generation firewall solutions available today – forcing them to choose between enabling security features or preserving the performance of their networks.
FortiASIC Hardware Acceleration Eliminates Security Compromise 
Overcoming the limitations of traditional next-generation firewall solutions, the FortiGate 6040E is built on an innovative new processing architecture, utilizing FortiASIC content and network processors to offload and accelerate the security performance of its dual CPUs. Integrating advanced security processing, intelligent controls, and high speed networking enable the FortiGate 6040E to deliver unprecedented security and network performance in a deceptively compact form-factor.
FortiGate 6040E Technical Highlights:

• 320Gbps enterprise firewall throughput.
• 80Gbps throughput with all next-generation firewall features enabled.
• FortiASIC CP9 brings enhanced SSL decryption performance to close gaps in the attack surface.
• Intelligent networking, security, processing, and management capabilities are all efficiently integrated within a small form-factor chassis.
• Six different interface configuration options tailored to match individual customer needs:

 

FortiGate-6040E	FW / NGFW Throughput	10GbE Interface	40GbE Interface	100GbE Interface
Option 1	320 Gbps / 80 Gbps	64 x 10GbE	-	-
Option 2	320 Gbps / 80 Gbps	-	16 x 40GbE	-
Option 3	320 Gbps / 80 Gbps	-	-	8 x 100GbE
Option 4	320 Gbps / 80 Gbps	32 x 10GbE	8 x 40GbE	-
Option 5	320 Gbps / 80 Gbps	32 x 10GbE	-	4 x 100GbE
Option 6	320 Gbps / 80 Gbps	-	8 x 40GbE	4 x 100GbE

Fortinet’s new FortiASIC CP9 content processor delivers the performance needed to secure the massive traffic demands of the largest enterprises and enables support for various firewall deployment modes including next-generation and advanced internal segmentation. This frees businesses to deploy security wherever it is needed without impacting network functionality. This enables the superior defenses of Fortinet’s innovative Security Fabric.
Fortinet also announced the launch of two new FortiGate 2000E series enterprise firewalls, bringing the enhanced capabilities of FortiASIC CP9 to enterprises requiring higher next-generation firewalling and increased SSL inspection capabilities. The new FortiGate 2000E and 2500E also leverage CP9 deliver increased VPN capabilities, deep content inspection and advanced application controls.
Supporting Quotes
Mobility, the cloud and IoT has raised the complexity of security to new heights. The number of advanced and targeted threats has rendered traditional approaches to security ineffective as most point products can no longer keep up. The 2015 ZK Research Security Survey revealed that 43% of respondents admit to turning features off in security appliances to improve performance. A unified security fabric that can provide the necessary layers of security without additional complexity or slowing down the network has become vital. It's critical that security professionals look at how security appliances are being built. A study by ZK Research conducted earlier this year found that ASIC based products consistently have an 18 to 24 month lead on price/performance over ones built on off the shelf silicon.
- Zeus Kerravala, principle analyst, ZK Research
Availability
The FortiGate 6040E, 2000E, and 2500E will all be available in Q2 2016. Please contact your authorized Fortinet channel partner for pricing and details.
Additional Information
Website: FortiGate Enterprise Firewalls, FortiASIC Processors
Blogs:Securing the New Enterprise Edge, Introducing the Fortinet Security Fabric, Securing the Cloud

 

About Fortinet

Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) protects the most valuable assets of some of the largest enterprise, service provider and government organizations across the globe. The company's fast, secure and global cyber security solutions provide broad, high-performance protection against dynamic security threats while simplifying the IT infrastructure. They are strengthened by the industry's highest level of threat research, intelligence and analytics. Unlike pure-play network security providers, Fortinet can solve organizations' most important security challenges, whether in networked, application or mobile environments - be it virtualized/cloud or physical. More than 210,000 customers worldwide, including some of the largest and most complex organizations, trust Fortinet to protect their brands. Learn more at http://www.fortinet.com, theFortinet Blog or FortiGuard Labs.

資料來源: Fortinet Website