Organizations are facing a revolution in the way their employees access internet based data as the traditional approach of blocking specific ports to prevent access to specific applications no longer works in today’s dynamic IT environment.
A new approach is needed where network traffic undergoes deep packet inspection to perform application fingerprinting and to inspect it for malicious activity.
Fortinet Next Generation Firewall
Fortinet next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) provide highperformance, consolidated security for end-to-end protection across the entire network. Through awareness of applications, users, and content within network traffic, FortiGate NGFWs offer comprehensive protection against known and unknown threats (e.g., ransomware, malicious botnets, zero-day, and encrypted malware). They offer scalable throughput of advanced security services, flexible network interfaces, and top performance delivered by Fortinet’s powerful security processors. Our market-leading FortiOS operating system ensures superior price per performance and security efficacy. With wired and wireless network support, single-pane-of-glass management, and end-to-end visibility, FortiGate firewalls also help minimize deployment complexity and save IT resources. Included FortiGuard services offer full-featured network firewall, application control, intrusion prevention, sandboxing, anti-malware, and web filtering. FortiGate firewalls are optimized for the enterprise edge, cloud, and data center, as well as distributed and remote locations. FortiGate NGFWs can also be deployed in internal network segments to increase threat visibility and enhance breach discovery and mitigation to stop the uncontrolled spread of threats within the network