Fortinet Advances its Network Security Platform

By Mandira Srivastava, TMCnet Contributor

In corporate and mid-size businesses, IT managers have to manage network performance and network security concerns, which are the biggest concerns for to the enterprises - and now Next-Generation Firewalls has come with solution to this thorny problem.

Fortinet (News - Alert), a high-performance network security has introduced next-generation enterprise firewalls with new features within its FortiOS 5 operating system.

FortiOS 5 operating system serves as the foundation for the company’s award-winning FortiGate network security platform. The new updated enterprise firewalls includes a variety of security configuration options, including: High Speed Firewall, NGFW, ATP (News - Alert), Web Filtering, UTM and others.

It offers organizations with real-time and historical insight on network use based on application, user and device.

Fortinet Network Security provides choices for specific enterprise requirements. With Fortinet Feature, the companies can quickly and easily configure their FortiGate appliances based on their unique business and security requirements.

FortiOS 5 has come up with new contextual visibility that provides administrators deeper insights into historic or real-time network activities using detailed analytics.

The new FortiGuard Advanced Threat Protection Service protects a network from vulnerability, undiscovered malware, phishing emails and/or password hacks. The features within the ATP service include botnet blacklisting, antimalware signatures and cloud-based sandboxing.

John Maddison, vice president of marketing for Fortinet in a statement, “In order to increase protection, simplify management and reduce costs, enterprises today are migrating away from multi-vendor firewall environments in favor of a single-vendor model. For example, an enterprise may have high-performance firewalls for its datacenters, NGFWs for their campus perimeters and UTMs for their distributed offices. With its singular focus on innovating security and security-focused R&D, only Fortinet provides a true Network Security Platform with a wide array of robust security functionality for datacenters, campus perimeter and distributed offices.”

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