Fortinet Security Fabric

2021

As part of a remote security solution

On November 12, 2021, Fortinet announced the launch of a solution that allows organizations to ensure the safety of remote work from anywhere in the world. By combining a portfolio of Zero Trust, endpoint, and network security solutions within Fortinet Security Fabric, Fortinet provides security, services, and threat analytics that seamlessly follow users on the go, at home, or in the office, delivering enterprise-level security and productivity. These capabilities are designed to take into account the peculiarities of doing business in the era of working from anywhere. More details here.

Fortinet Fortinet Security Fabric Technology Vision

2020: More integration and automation with FortiOS 6.4

On March 5, 2020, Fortinet announced the release of FortiOS 6.4, the latest version of the flagship operating system for Fortinet Security Fabric. With 350 additional features, FortiOS 6.4 offers extensive automation, scaling, performance, and AI capabilities to protect your entire digital infrastructure. More details here.

2019: Fortinet Secure SD-Branch

On June 18, 2019, Fortinet introduced Secure SD-Branch, a solution for protecting WAN and peripheral access, as well as creating a secure network infrastructure that is designed for distributed enterprises. Fortinet Secure SD-Branch complements the Fortinet Security Fabric portfolio and extends SD-WAN capabilities by providing network access protection and integrating WAN and network security management into a single integrated platform. This convergence improves security and transparency, reduces infrastructure complexity, improves performance and flexibility, and reduces overall IT costs on the network periphery.

"To compete successfully in today's digital economy, enterprises need high-quality cloud connectivity and secure access for devices and users. Usually, companies combine their network and security solutions, resulting in architectures that are very slow to adapt and lead to operational problems. Fortinet Secure SD-Branch is a unified solution for WAN peripherals, secure WiFi networking, network switching and access control that provides integrated automated WAN and edge access protection from a single console. " noted' John Maddison, executive vice president of products and solutions at Fortinet '

As noted in Fortinet, most customers are in the midst of their own, digital transformation they use hybrid cloud architectures for both remote and local computing, as well as for deployment, SaaS applications while creating several network peripherals in addition to WAN and border access infrastructure. This explosive growth of peripherals, each of which requires protection, forces organizations to spend a lot of effort on implementing the appropriate level of security throughout the distributed enterprise. The difficulties in managing these peripherals, including due to the abundance of often very difficult, cross-functional point products and equipment, make this task even more difficult. The increase in the number of devices connected to branch networks, IoT as well as their growing diversity, open up new opportunities for hackers those who seek access to confidential ones. to data In addition, customers implementing SD-WAN are faced with the need to tighter their integration LAN platforms to leverage Secure SD-WAN capabilities to work with their entire network to improve security and management capabilities.

As digital transformation continues to fundamentally change how businesses do business, it is important for organizations that all parts of the network are protected and aligned with each other, so as not to jeopardize the capabilities of the digital business. In order for affiliates to realize their full potential, they need secure, real-time access to data and resources wherever they are located.

To help today's distributed businesses cope with emerging challenges, Fortinet has introduced a complete Secure SD-Branch solution that enables customers to manage security and network access as one and extends Fortinet Security Fabric's portfolio to branch level. Fortinet Secure SD-Branch consists of firewall the Next-Generation FortiGate, Firewall FortiNAC Network Access Control, switchboard FortiSwitch access points , and FortiAP Access Points. According to the developer, the solution provides security in two key areas:

• Network Edge - In addition to the firewall, customers gain access-level protection with the FortiSwitch switch and FortiAP access points. The solution consolidates the infrastructure through the convergence of security and network access control features and is the architecture that is optimal for deploying Secure SD-Branch. Access Points WiFi 6 FortiAP Access Points have increased capacity and bandwidth to meet growing network resource requirements, and multi-gigabit switchboards FortiSwitch provide high PoE power for IoT power-intensive devices.
• Device Edge-The Network Access Controller FortiNAC implements the automatic discovery, classification, and security of IoT devices as soon as they connect to the network. Version FortiNAC release 8.6 improves the detection of anomalies in traffic scanning, while FortiGate acts as a sensor, and branches do not need to install additional equipment.

According to the developer, this combination of technologies forms the Secure SD-Branch solution, which provides even more comprehensive integration of LAN and WAN platforms and offers the following benefits for customers:

• Integrated security: FortiGate extends firewall functionality to the network access layer by integrating wireless network management and switching. By offering Network Access Control (NAC) using FortiGate as a means of control, the solution improves the discovery of new devices and the transparency of the infrastructure, as well as the ability to detect security anomalies for equipment used in branch offices.
• Simplified management - Automated deployment and integrated management with a single tool makes it easier for branch offices to deploy infrastructure. Flexible architecture allows you to scale to support branch offices of all sizes, taking into account their possible growth.
• Lower total cost of ownership: Lack of licensing fees and the need to purchase network traffic sensors, and simplify management processes with fewer interfaces to train employees, reduce day-to-day administrative tasks, take less time to deploy systems, and save organizations time and money.

Fortinet views network infrastructure through the security lens, offering customers secure network solutions within the Fortinet Security Fabric platform. With Secure SD-Branch, Fortinet offers its customers the ability to manage distributed branch networks, allowing them to maintain security at the right level, and helps them not only manage SD-WAN, but also operate at the access level.

"Many customers who upgrade their network infrastructure to SD-WAN have identified peripheral security in the WAN as a priority. Fortinet Secure SD-Branch offers even closer integration of WAN and LAN platforms to provide a more uniform approach to security and management, helping us expand our reach and work not only at the SD-WAN level, but also at the access level. " noted Joshua Knight, Vice President and General Manager for Cybersecurity at Dimension Data Americas

2018: FortiSandbox и FortiCASB для Azure

On October 1, 2018, Fortinet announced the expansion of Fortinet Security Fabric, which now supports Microsoft Azure and offers customers more effective protection of the extended attack surface of the hybrid cloud.

Fortinet offers an extensive line of security solutions for Azure, including the next generation firewall FortiGate, FortiWeb, FortiMail, FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer.

Fortinet extends this line and offers FortiSandbox support for Azure FortiCASB and Azure solutions. IaaS Microsoft Office 365 SaaS Fortinet has also added a powerful firewall next-generation auto-scaling feature FortiGate and an extension to Office 365 Security for Azure.

As organizations migrate their workloads to one or more public cloud infrastructures, this expands the digital attack surface. Protecting today's expanding networks requires security solutions that can easily cover multiple environments without complicating the infrastructure. At the same time, the flexibility of cloud technologies that enable organizations to adapt to changing traffic volumes and workflows requires that security solutions scale with the cloud infrastructure.

The FortiCASB extension for Azure provides tracking, compliance, data protection, and threat management capabilities for IaaS services. FortiCASB provides information about resources, users, their behavior, and the status of data stored in the cloud, as well as management tools that enable security policies to include not only resources within the network perimeter, but also IaaS Azure and SaaS applications.

FortiSandbox for Azure offers powerful features for identifying advanced threats and automatically addressing, analyzing, and deploying them flexibly to identify and prevent known and unknown targeted attacks. Cross-platform features enable effective security threat detection and response across a distributed enterprise network. The complex of the FortiMail, FortiCASB and FortiSandbox systems proposes to the enterprises the reliable solution for application protection of Office 365 SaaS without consumption of additional traffic which is necessary for going beyond cloudy infrastructure of Microsoft, providing more exact compliance to regulatory requirements by means of the increased safety.

An enhanced auto-scaling feature for the FortiGate firewall has also been announced to help you leverage the flexibility and scalability of your cloud infrastructure to adapt security services to your application usage patterns.

Adding these solutions makes Fortinet Security Fabric a complete set of integrated security solutions for Azure. It is a suite of security solutions that offers a complex of multi-level systems: NGFW, WAF, email protection, sandbox and CASB solutions for Azure, providing an integrated approach to the security of a multi-cloud distributed enterprise infrastructure. With the introduction of Fortinet Security Fabric on the Azure platform, customers can leverage a fully integrated security solution that easily covers multiple local and hybrid clouds.

2017: Security Fabric Upgrade

On April 24, 2017, Fortinet announced the modernization of the Fortinet Security Fabric network security system. The development is carried out by optimizing automation, control and management functions for all types of cloud environment, increasing performance indicators: from private and public clouds of the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) model to software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications.

According to the company, the main functions of the system architecture have been developed to provide security and exchange data about threats in the cloud, at the same level as physical corporate networks. The latest changes are part of FortiOS 5.6 and provide protection for the cloud environment of organizations and service providers^[1]

Fortinet Security Fabric, (2016)

The company optimized virtualized technology FortiGate striving to provide enough performance to protect private and public clouds. According to developers, the throughput of virtual machines (VMs) per core is three times higher than previously recorded. The result is an increase in the power of virtual machines whose CPU contains 16, 32 or more cores.

A six-core virtual machine delivers speeds of up to 132 Gb/s. This level was achieved using Fortinet acceleration technology and security processors (SPUs).

Virtual technology solutions that provide comprehensive network and content protection are now available on demand on the Azure Marketplace platform. Fortinet technologies with support for automatic scaling and orchestration are available both for AWS on demand and under the own license usage model (BYOL).

author = John Maddison, First Vice President, Product and Solution Marketing, Fortinet Companies create flexible and scalable infrastructures with private and public clouds. In this context, it is essential to ensure that resources are protected in a reliable and consistent manner. Fortinet is expanding adaptive network security to include private clouds as well as infrastructure and application (SaaS) clouds. Enhancements include scalability, public cloud features, and SaaS tracking with CASB. All of these measures provide optimal security performance at the cloud level.

2016: Fortinet Security Fabric

As of April 22, 2016, Fortinet Security Fabric technology integrates networks, access layer, applications, data centers, and clouds into a single solution to ensure the security of end-user information.

Fortinet Security Fabric is an adaptive network security system. It supports the implementation of detailed security policies based on factors such as identification of users, applications, location, and device types

Security tools are available through a single management interface.

Fortinet Security Fabric View, (2016)

In April, the company introduced its Fortinet Security Fabric, a combined security platform that brings together its network security capabilities in one architecture. This includes infrastructure security, wired and wireless networks, end-user devices and IoT devices, access levels, public and hybrid clouds, software-configurable networks, and virtualization. The products are backed by FortiGuard Labs support and technical integration with the company's partners.

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