Unified Threat Management Solutions
Maintaining a secure network environment using existing network security technologies is a significant challenge due to a number of reasons:
- Increasingly sophisticated and rapidly evolving cyber threats evade one or more standalone security technologies.
- The costs and complexities associated with managing an increasingly distributed network with no clear perimeter add strain to already taxed resources.
- The performance and processing power required to provide complete content level protection is difficult to achieve without purpose-built hardware.
Most standalone network security offerings generally consists of a single-purpose security software deployed onto PC-based hardware platforms, and provide basic network security functions like firewall and VPN services. These standalone network security products, however, fail to provide the comprehensive security, network deployment flexibility and the performance necessary to combat complex, network-level and content-level security threats.
In other to solve the security problems for businesses and service providers, the Unified Threat Management ( UTM) market has emerged. UTM devices incorporate firewall, intrusion prevention and gateway antivirus in one device. Many vendors have attempted to UTM capabilities by cobbling together existing firewall and VPN offerings with antivirus and intrusion detection/prevention technologies from other vendors. Others have simply relabeled their existing network security products, which offer limited threat management capabilities across different technologies areas.
In other to address the challenges faced by the modern organization, an effective UTM solution must deliver a network security platform comprised of robust and fully integrated security and networking functions. Protection must be provided against the next generation of threats and offer centralized management from a single console, all without impairing the performance of the network.
THE FORTINET SOLUTION
Fortinet is a leading worldwide provider of Unified Threat Management network security solutions. Fortinet supplies a comprehensive UTM solutions comprised of the FortiGate network security platform, the FortiGuard security subscription services and an integrated suite of management , reporting and analysis products.
Fortinet UTM solutions enable customers to cost-effectively defend against current and next generation network and application layer threats without slowing down their networks. Fortinet UTM solutions are built from ground up offering truly integrated hardware software and services for the best security and performance possible.
FORTIGATE
The FortiGate unit is a dedicated, easily managed security devices that delivers a full suite f capabilities including;
- Application-level services such as virus protection, intrusion protection, spam filtering, web content filtering, IM, P2P,and VoIP filtering
- Network-level services such as firewall, intrusion detection, IPSec and SSL VPN, and traffic shaping.
- Management services such as user authentication, logging, reporting, administration profiles, secure administrative access and SNMP.
The FortiGate relies on the dedicated Fortinet Global Threat Research Team that researches and develops protection against known and unknown security threats. The dynamic protection forms the basis of the FortiGuard security subscription services, which results in continuous updates for antivirus, intrusion prevention, web filtering ad antispam services.
FORTIGATE NETWORK SECURITY PRODUCT PORTFOLIO
From the FortiGate-50 series for small businesses and branch offices to the Fortigate-5000 series for large enterprises and service providers, all FortiGate appliances include a proprietary technology platform, which includes the proprietary FortiASIC processor specifically designed for accelerating certain security functions.
Also part of the Fortigate technology platform is FortisOS, a proprietary operating system that provide the foundation for all security functions. Fortigate platforms incorporate sophisticated networking features, such as high availability for maximum uptime and virtual domain capabilities to separate various networks requiring different security policies.
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