Fortinet FortiCWP (Cloud Workload Protection)

2019: Announcement of FortiCWP

On October 14, 2019 the Fortinet company presented the solution FortiCWP (Cloud Workload Protection) for protection of cloud workloads which helps clients to observe regulatory requirements and to minimize the risks connected with implementation of IaaS of applications.

According to the company, insufficient coordination between implementations of different security systems quite often results in lack of the centralized idea of critical configurations of services, activities, network traffic, events of security and hygiene of data. All this is only aggravated when the organization begins to use several platforms from different suppliers of cloud computing at once.

To help the organizations to cope with this fundamental problem when ensuring cloud security, the Fortinet company presented the solution FortiCWP (Cloud Workload Protection). It returns to the organizations transparency and control over their dynamic multicloud infrastructure again, providing them the most integrated and dynamic solution for security management in a multicloud environment.

FortiCWP is closely integrated with different public cloud infrastructures, including uses native cloud API interfaces from AWS, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure for assessment of configurations, monitoring of activity in cloud accounts, the analysis and scannings data, monitoring of cloud network traffic and formation of complex reports on observance of regulatory regulations.

To guarantee work only with up-to-date information about threats, the solution FortiCWP is also connected to FortiGuard Labs services and regularly obtains updatable data with the analysis of threats. Besides, it is integrated with FortiSandbox service for the analysis of the data which are stored in a cloud regarding harmful content. Thanks to support of these FortiCWP services provides the good level of transparency and control over a status of cloud security, even in multicloud infrastructures. Thanks to it IT departments can control and manage with confidence the cloud environments.

According to representatives of the company, FortiCWP it is created for the solution of a number of the most important tasks which the organizations at the organization of security of the cloud environments face. To provide the necessary level of transparency about configurations of a cloud and activity of accounts, FortiCWP is closely integrated with infrastructures of the leading suppliers of public cloud computing – Amazon AWS Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform – that allows to scan configurations and settings and to compare them with the advanced practicians, requirements of regulatory bodies and provisions corporate the politician.

Being the most integrated and dynamic solution for security of cloud computing and owing to the close integration with the multicloud Fortinet Multi-Cloud Dashboard control panel, the solution FortiCWP provides to IT department a possibility of integrated management of security on different cloud platforms.

• FortiCWP supports model of joint liability ('shared responsibility model') at any cloud deployment and estimates settings of a configuration of the supplier of cloud services and also setup of a configuration in the organization.
• FortiCWP helps to solve a problem of uncontrollable (ungoverned) of cloud data at the expense of the cloud DLP solution with high capacity and support of inspection of data regarding harmful content.
• FortiCWP helps the organizations to provide observance of industry standards of security by comparison of activities and configurations to the politicians regulated by standards, including PCI HIPAA, SOX GDPR, ISO 27001 and NIST.
• The first completely integrated solution for ensuring cloud security
• When using FortiCWP with the solution FortiGate VM for cloud security of the arriving and outgoing data and the solution FortiWeb for protection of web applications and API interfaces, they form the single closely integrated cloud solution which ensures complex safety of network infrastructures, web applications and cloud platforms. It supports IaaS-applications and will serve as ideal addition for FortiCASB which is created for management, ensuring transparency and control of the SaaS-applications.