A growing percentage of content-based network attacks, such as viruses, worms and Trojans, are being introduced into organizations via seemingly innocuous activities such as Web browsing or remote wireless network access. This trend will continue as organizations turn increasingly to real-time communications, like Web-enabled applications, Voice over IP and instant messaging, as the means to remain responsive and competitive.
Unfortunately, conventional network protection systems, such as firewalls and host-based antivirus software, are limited. They lack the dedicated hardware processing required to perform the deep packet analysis, content reassembly, and application-level screening. These are necessary to detect these threats without imposing unacceptable delays on real-time network applications. As a result, most organizations are dangerously exposed to content-based attacks from real-time Web, email and peer-to-peer traffic.
At SMSAM SYSTEMS LTD, we’ve successfully secured a legitimate franchise from Fortinet Inc, USA to design, deploy, implement , support and maintain fortinet’s flagship solutions.
Fortinet’s FortiGate™ Multi-Threat Security Systems for the first time provide cost-effective network-level and content-level protection at the network core and edge with real-time performance. Each member of the scalable, flexible FortiGate family is a dedicated, easily managed system that delivers a full suite of best in class capabilities. Each system’s capabilities are supported by an industry leading eight (8) ICSA-certifications including virus protection and content filtering, along with network-level services including firewall, intrusion prevention, VPN and traffic shaping functions. Fortinet’s
FortiClient software has ICSA-certifications for desktop antivirus detection, antivirus cleaning, antispyware detection.
How We Do It.
With 20 patents pending, FortiGate appliances leverage breakthroughs in chip design, networking, security and content pattern recognition analysis. The unique, ASIC-based architecture analyzes network content and behavior in real-time, enabling all key network services — including real-time Web applications — to be screened for both network and content-level threats without impacting network performance.
Fortinet Advantages
Better Value and Lowest Total Cost of Ownership
Fortinet’s security systems, management and reporting products offer best in class choices for seven key security components. In September 2004, IDC first named Fortinet’s technology as the worldwide leader in the Unified Threat Management (UTM) security category with more than 29% market share. In August 2005, IDC again named Fortinet as the UTM leader for the prior year.
By offering enterprises the ability to eliminate multiple security devices and collapse them into an inline network capability, Fortinet decreases a company’s Capital Expenditure (CAPEX) and Operating Expenditure (OPEX) costs for the overall lowest total cost of ownership. With Fortinet’s simple “per box” licensing, ongoing maintenance, support, and product update costs are greatly reduced compared to competing products licensed on a “per user” basis.
Leading Edge Technology
Fortinet security systems offer unparalleled security and performance in each of its products. To provide strong security without performance penalties, Fortinet developed a high-performance security ASIC (FortiASIC™) and patent pending Content Pattern Recognition Language (CPRL) specifically designed to speed up the computationally intensive routines commonly associated with complete content protection.
This technology goes beyond the deep packet inspection capabilities that many competing firewalls are just starting to implement. FortiGate’s ability to perform stateful firewalling, antivirus inspection, and intrusion prevention leverages new security algorithms and behavior-based heuristics to take advantage of the shared information between its security components — giving FortiGate systems the ability to stop malicious threats that are non-signature based and previously unknown. This technology allows Fortinet to increase its detection capabilities against modern, zero-day attacks that are designed to bypass traditional security defenses such as stateful firewalls and intrusion detection systems.
Complete Security Solution
Fortinet understands the importance of a complete solution and offers customers robust logging and reporting through its FortiAnalyzer™ and FortiReporter™ products, automated updates with four FortiGuard™ subscription update service offerings - FortiGuard Antivirus, FortiGuard IPS, FortiGuard Web Filtering, and FortiGuard Antispam. For an even higher service level agreement, Fortinet offers a premium 3 hour Virus response time through the FortiGuard Premier Service.
The company fills out its product portfolio by coordinated central management with FortiManager™ system and FortiClient™ software. FortiClient offers an additional layer of protection for hosts at the edge of the network (either in the office or away from the office) through VB-100 certified
software delivering client-based antivirus, spyware detection and removal, personal firewall, and VPN capabilities. Passing additional IPS testing with the world renowned NSS Labs further attests to Fortinet’s leading edge technology and its ability to fully detect and stop modern network threats.
With ICSA certification and NSS IPS testing as well as numerous industry accolades, customers are assured that high industry standards are met and can feel confident about the security solution they have chosen to implement in their corporate and service provider networks.
