Fortinet's multi-threat security systems enable manufacturing firms to secure their networks and protect the flow of information to and from customers, partners, and their extended supply chain. Powered by Specialized FortiASIC™ processors purpose-built for content and network processing, FortiGate® systems provide full, multi-layered security that scales from remote-office appliances to multi-gigabit core network or data center platforms. Every FortiGate system offers complete threat protection within a single solution: firewall, intrusion prevention system (IPS), VPN, traffic shaping, antivirus, antispyware, antispam, web content filtering, and application control. The available FortiManager™ and FortiAnalyzer™ management and reporting appliances enable centralized control of any size deployment, including vulnerability assessment and logging/archiving for regulatory compliance. And Fortinet database security and compliance products offer centrally-managed database hardening; fast, comprehensive policy compliance; and vulnerability assessment for improved data security across the organization.

• FortiGate systems provide scalable, comprehensive protection against network-level and content-level threats without degrading performance of critical applications, network availability, or uptime, optimizing network availability throughout product lifecycles to support discrete manufacturing processes.

• An easy-to-implement Virtual Private Network (VPN) solution with IPsec and SSL in FortiGate appliances offer the right mix of authentication and encryption to enable remote users to safely access business-critical web-based manufacturing applications.

• Multi-layered defense in depth helps integrate supply chain and other parts of the extended enterprise without increasing security vulnerabilities, minimizing costs and cycle times.

• FortiGuard® Security Subscription Services provides continuous, automatic updates for antivirus/antimalware, intrusion prevention, Web filtering, and antispam functionality to keep manufacturing firms ahead of the latest threats.

• Easily-managed platforms with integrated, multi-threat protection reduce management burden and capital expenditures for lower TCO to better support build-to-order or project-based manufacturing methodologies.
• FortiClient PC™ end-point security agents provide comprehensive, centrally-managed security for remote personal computers and mobile laptops.

• Available FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer appliances ensure data integrity for accurate measurement of yields and performance monitoring of critical quality-assurance data with extensive logging and archiving capabilities.

• Secure monitoring of privileged user access to database applications with FortiDB help safeguard use of change control systems for flexible engineering, and available FortiDB database security products protect critical database resources with hundreds of pre-installed policies covering standard industry best practices.

• Monitor and audit controls in FortiDB database security products help manufacturers maintain a centralized database with inspections and audits records correlated back to suppliers, minimizing error in automated calculations that may signal changes in performance, delivery or quality standards.

• Extensive virtual domain and security zone capabilities deliver fine-grained control of network and application access.

• Traffic shaping and application control (e.g., IM and P2P) preserve network bandwidth and help control inappropriate network usage.

• Simple per-device/unlimited-users licensing reduces costs.

• Any and all security functions available on every FortiGate system for easy addition to existing solutions and incremental deployment without additional investment in hardware or software.