FortiGate Mid-Range Network Firewalls In Bahrain
It is difficult to secure traffic at today’s internet edge. Enterprise branches and campuses are now directly connected to the internet, increasing the number of vulnerable network edges that must be managed and secured. Making matters worse, 95% of internet edge traffic is encrypted, rendering legacy solutions obsolete because they cannot provide the level of inspection required without crippling network performance.
Simultaneously, the continuous addition of the most recent security point products to the network—nearly 30% of enterprises have more than 50 security solutions installed—increases IT complexity, multiplying dashboards and ramp-up time for IT teams. Purchasing more products and services that do not integrate as part of a platform turns IT into a sunken cost center. How can businesses improve their security posture, reduce complexity, cut costs, and ultimately deliver seamless user experiences if they spend nearly a third of their time building and managing workarounds to manage their collection of point solutions?
Fortinet is the answer. With over 8 million units shipped globally, FortiGate Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFWs) are the most widely deployed security product in the world. They safeguard businesses from branch to campus, data center, co-location, and cloud. And our new FortiGate mid-range models combine the security performance and value that many organizations have come to expect from Fortinet with new features designed to assist businesses in managing their latest digital initiatives, whether in retail, industrial fields, healthcare, finance, government, or elsewhere.
The FortiGate 600F, which was recently released, protects your network in several critical ways:
Keeping the Campus Edge Safe
The campus is large and crowded. These are large buildings with numerous access points to support a large number of users, whether they work for the company or are visitors to the site. Mobile, Internet of Things (IoT), and (in the case of manufacturing or industrial companies) OT devices are also supported on campuses.
While many campuses continue to use local hosting and small storage servers, the majority of campuses also connect to data hosted off-site, either in a private data center or across multiple clouds. As a result, IT must examine user and device behavior, as well as egress traffic and applications used.
Screenshot of an end user attempting to access the chat feature within Gmail, which is enabled by FortiGate’s function-level policies.
FortiGate provides granular application control. In this case, the administrator can disable Google Chat in Gmail while still allowing users to access Gmail.
The key to success in this area is visibility. FortiGate Network Firewalls feature a purpose-built ASIC SPU architecture designed to perform critical security and networking functions at the hardware layer, allowing you to decrypt TLS traffic without sacrificing performance. As a result, your IT team can see everything at the internet’s edge and prevent threats from causing organizational harm. FortiGate Network Firewalls also provide detailed information on applications and users, allowing IT administrators to better control policies and protections. Finally, FortiGate Network Firewalls provide the best threat-protection performance in the industry, allowing you to consolidate security point products into a single device to improve network performance while lowering management overhead.
Graph depicting FortiGate’s various networking functions
FortiGate can also perform a number of critical networking functions for campus IT.
Convergence: Security and Networking Product Reduction Sprawl
Every day, businesses add new digital services. These services’ traffic volumes and data require high-quality networking, whether switching and routing or wireless access. However, new networking services cannot be added unless appropriate safeguards are in place. Otherwise, the enterprise’s risk profile and attack surface expand. Instead, networking must always be built on a solid security foundation, which Fortinet provides through multilayered FortiGuard services such as IPS, antimalware, DNS, video and URL filtering, as well as more advanced features such as in-line sandboxing, in-line CASB, and advanced posture reassessment and enforcement using the industry’s only in-line ZTNA.
Many networking vendors are simply incapable of providing the simple, integrated security services that today’s networking products necessitate. Their networking products frequently do not fully integrate with security solutions, necessitating the use of multiple consoles and ongoing efforts to align policies. Some vendors even rely on third-party integrations, which can complicate matters and introduce unintended security gaps. In either case, management and licensing are complicated, which adds risk as well as unnecessary expense to the organization.
Each FortiGate is more than just a firewall. It also serves as a central management console for the various networking services required by businesses, such as fully integrated Secure SD-WAN, switching, wireless access, wireless WAN, and more. Furthermore, all networking and security functions are consolidated into a single pane of glass and unified on a single FortiOS operating system—there are no complicated acquisitions, faulty integrations, or third-party parties to add organizational risk.
FortiGate dashboard screenshot displaying the user’s campus security rating.
In your FortiGate dashboard, you can see your campus security rating.
Automate Your Security Positioning
Securing enterprise networks extends beyond security controls. Continuous operations, training, and metrics are also required. IT must also provide actionable information to its security operations center (SOC). This must include an ongoing assessment of its attack surface, areas for improvement, and overall enterprise risk—its security posture.
Mid-range network firewalls from FortiGate provide excellent campus management and data via the FortiGate dashboard. Application signatures, users, and devices, as well as the network’s overall security rating and gaps in the overall security architecture, are visible to administrators. FortiGate also provides a variety of snapshots and reports for distribution throughout the organization, as well as deeper technical dives for relevant staff.
