What is a Next-Generation Firewall?
Next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) filter network traffic to protect an organization from internal and external threats. Along with maintaining features of stateful firewalls such as packet filtering, IPsec and SSL VPN support, network monitoring, and IP mapping features, NGFWs possess deeper content inspection capabilities. These capabilities provide the ability to identify attacks, malware, and other threats, and allow the NGFW to block these threats. NGFWs provide organizations with SSL inspection, application control, intrusion prevention, and advanced visibility across the entire attack surface. As the threat landscape rapidly expands due to co-location and multi-cloud adoption, and businesses grow to satisfy escalating customer needs, traditional firewalls fall further behind, unable to offer protection at scale, and leading to poor user experience and weak security posture. NGFWs not only block malware, but also include paths for future updates, giving them the flexibility to evolve with the threat landscape and keep the network secure as new threats arise. Next-generation firewalls are a vital component of implementing network security.
1.Virtual Machines
Fortinet delivers both physical and virtualized security appliances to secure unique data planes. It offers on one side, unmatched performance and security capabilities while allowing for the growth and evolution of the consolidating Data Center with no service degradation or bottlenecks, no compromise on security,and with an unmatched ROI — fulfilling the outcomes of a robust software-defined security framework.
FortiGate Virtual Appliances allow you to mitigate blind spots by implementing critical security controls within your virtual infrastructure. They also allow you to rapidly provision security infrastructure whenever and wherever it is needed. FortiGate virtual appliances feature all of the security and networking services common to traditional hardware-based FortiGate appliances.
Virtual Machines includes the following products:
FortiGate-VM00
FortiGate-VM01/VM01V
FortiGate-VM02/VM02V
FortiGate-VM04/VM04V
FortiGate-VM08/VM08V
FortiGate-VM16/VM16V
FortiGate-VM32/VM32V
FortiGate-VMUL/VMULV
2.Fortinet FortiGate NGFW Entry-level Series
FortiGate entry-level next-generation firewalls are best-in-class network security appliances that consolidate advanced security and networking capabilities to protect against cyber-attacks in a compact and affordable solution. These firewalls are purpose-built with system-on-a-chip (SOC) security processors and deliver the industry’s best IPsec VPN, threat protection, and SSL-inspection performance.
3.Fortinet FortiGate NGFW Middle-range Series
FortiGate mid-range next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) provide high performance, multi-layered advanced security, and better visibility to protect against cyber-attacks while reducing complexity. FortiGate firewalls are purpose-built with security processers to enable the industry’s best threat protection and performance for SSL-encrypted traffic.
4.Fortinet FortiGate NGFW High-end Series
FortiGate high end next-generation firewalls protect your network and data center against advanced threats with the industry’s best threat protection and price performance. FortiGate high end series features purpose-built security processor innovation to deliver uncompromising security and performance with superior SSL inspection and NGFW performance for the edge, data center and internal segments.
5.FortiGate: Ultra high-end NGFW
Digital enterprises are processing vast amounts of encrypted traffic and content rich data along with an increased emphasis on optimized user experiences. The digital attack surface has spawned new, complex forms of attacks that require advanced protection to be applied at anytime, anywhere the threat is discovered. Today’s next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) must reliably handle large volumes of network and cloud traffic, provide consolidated advanced security in a smaller, more efficient physical footprint, and accommodate new security requirements such as extensive inspection of encrypted traffic for sophisticated malware without impacting performance.
6.FortiGate: Chassis-based NGFW
To be effective against today's evolving threat landscape, your security solution needs to reliably control high volumes of network and cloud traffic through awareness of applications, users, and content. To be efficient in large enterprise and service provider dynamic environments, it needs to be consolidated, simple to manage, easily scalable, and future-proof.
FortiGate chassis-based next-generation firewalls deliver scalable threat protection and high reliability for the most demanding networks. Extensive network interfaces, consolidated security services and simplified management deliver uncompromising protection from cyber threats and malware, at the edge, in the data center and core network.
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