Fortinet

Benefits for deploying UTM appliances in your network include:

• Reduced complexity: The UTM approach simplifies product selection, integration and support.
• Synergy with high-end software solutions: UTM appliances can be used in remote sites where the customer has no security staff. The appliance can be installed then managed remotely.
• Less management overhead: Depending on the size of implementation, the UTM approach can reduce support overhead as well as improving security.
• Troubleshooting ease: When a box fails it is easier to swap it or install another box, rather than troubleshoot.

Fortinet's main product is the FortiGate range of appliances. They provide a complete, cost-effective security solution for all sizes and types of organization from small office to large corporations, and primary schools to universities, on a unified, integrated and purpose-built hardware platform.

The FortiGate series of ASIC-accelerated, security hardened appliances offer a range of security features:

• Full stateful inspection firewall
• Full IPSec site-to-site and SSL remote access VPNs
• Content security (e.g. blocking downloads/mail by file type)
• Application Control / Traffic Optimization
• Anti virus, anti spyware and anti malware for HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP3 and IMAP downloads
• Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)
• Full database category web URL filtering (including malicious sites)
• Anti-spam (junk email blocking) with FortiMail appliance

The appliances can work as either bridges or routers and easily fit into any network architecture. The features can be used independently or all together.

A common use of FortiGate appliances is as secondary or additional cost-effective protection installed as a bridge behind an existing network security solution. This can be used to add full category web URL filtering or email anti spam and virus checking to an existing network with little or no reconfiguration of existing systems.

An additional benefit of FortiGate appliances is that they are available with a bundle of FortiGuard subscription services. These subscription services are updated and managed by a global team of Fortinet security professionals who work 24/7 to ensure that the latest attacks are detected and blocked before they can do harm.

When you by an annual Fortinet "Bundle" license, your firewall, IPSec/SSL VPN, application control/traffic optimization and layer 2/3 routing, anti virus, intrusion prevention, web filtering and anti spam capabilities are all included in the price.

All appliances have an unlimited user license.

FortiOS provides the foundation for the operation of all FortiGate appliances, from the core kernel functions to the security processing feature sets. FortiOS provides multiple layers of security for a variety of applications and content including Web, Email, FTP, IM/P2P, NNTP, and others. The main security features of FortiOS include Firewall, Virtual Private Networking (IPsec and SSL VPN), Antivirus, Intrusion Prevention, Web filtering, and Antispam.

With the release of FortiOS 4.0, Fortinet has redefined network security again by extending the scope of consolidated security and networking capabilities within FortiGate multi-threat network security platforms. With over 40 new features, FortiOS 4.0 delivers on its mission to enable secure business communications while offering the best security, performance, and total cost of ownership possible.