Protect your entire network from IoT to the cloud and everywhere in between with the industry—leading security, intelligence, and collaboration of the Fortinet Security Fabric™. Fortinet™ next generation security product family blends software and hardware to help you inspect and control all traffic that passes through your network—ensuring apps are fast, available, and secure. Fortinet™ works with other leading technology companies to create solutions that improve manageability, strengthen security, and speed app deployment. The Fortinet Security Fabric™ enables the security devices across your entire network to work together to cooperatively remove threats by monitoring devices and traffic, intelligently segmenting your network, and sharing global threat intelligence. The role of the network in your business strategy is more important than ever, and ensuring it’s both fast and secure is critical to your success. Having an effective security strategy for your entire network can determine whether you are running a smooth, safe organization or about to become a security breach headline. Cyber threats are becoming more powerful, networks are becoming more complex.

To enable an effective defense, the data and security elements across all of your various environments must be well—integrated, able to share intelligence, and visible. The Fortinet Security Fabric™ gives you control, integration, and easy management of security across your entire organization, from IoT to the cloud. It also closes any gaps that were most likely introduced when disparate security products were added, data centers migrated, and/or networks expanded. The Fortinet Security Fabric™ allows security to dynamically expand and adapt as more and more workloads and data are added, and at the same time, seamlessly follow and protect data, users, and applications as they move back and forth between IoT, smart devices, and cloud environments throughout the network. The Fortinet Security Fabric™ is built around three key attributes. The Fortinet Security Fabric™ covers the entire attack surface. Security can be applied to the network, endpoints, access, applications, and cloud. The Fortinet Security Fabric™ uses security processors to reduce the burden on infrastructure, delivering comprehensive security. The Fortinet Security Fabric™ enables a fast and coordinated response to threats. All elements can rapidly exchange threat intelligence and coordinate actions.

DDoS And Ransomware Attacks

Recent DDoS and ransomware attacks have grabbed the attention of healthcare organizations around the globe. Ransomware isn’t going away any time soon. Every time organizations think they have a handle on this, ransomware developers come up with a new variant designed to evade detection. Nemucod is a malware Trojan tool that is often used to drop a variety of ransomware variants, such as Locky, Teslacrypt, and .CRYPTED. After a couple of weeks of reduced activity (perhaps either the developers or targets were on summer vacation), its activity has spiked, taking two of the top three spots on our malware tracking list. One interesting development is that this week our Fortinet FortiGuard Labs™ team started detecting and tracking a new Visual Basic Script (VBS)—based Nemucod malware, called VBS/Nemucod. It’s a classic example of how security teams need to be extra vigilant, because criminals are always looking for a way to sneak in that you haven’t considered yet. Security threats never die. It is interesting to watch attacks and attack vectors rise and fall. Things like spam will drop off, and then return with a vengeance.

High Performance Data Center Firewall

Fortinet FortiGate Network Security Platform™ provides the backbone of your Data Center Security Solution by providing increased segmentation, tenant isolation and confidentiality in today’s consolidated, multi tenant and hybrid data center environments. Internal segmentation firewall (ISFW)—protect your enterprise network from the inside out. With many different ways into an enterprise network today, Advanced Threats once inside take advantage of the flat and open network. The solution is a new model of firewall—internal segmentation firewall (ISFW)—that sits at strategic points of the internal network. Next gen firewall (NGFW/NGIPS)—better security, more control and 5 times faster performance. Enterprises today are faced with more applications, more devices, more threats, more users and more traffic than ever. Fortinet™ will help you keep up and stay secure with Fortinet’s™ innovative, NSS Labs recommended and tested Fortinet FortiGate™ next generation firewall (NGFW). The Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) introduces a paradigm shift in the way storage, networking, computer, and security are deployed.

Features And Benefits

Centralized control—an intelligent framework provides complete visibility that allows you to deploy and manage application services more easily. Deliver consistent services, consolidate your infrastructure, and reduce costs with a single management interface. Completely programmable—a single platform gives you the flexibility to quickly adapt to evolving business needs, support new apps, accommodate a growing workforce, and maximize operational efficiency. Unmatched scalability—a single platform gives you the flexibility to quickly adapt to evolving business needs. Support new applications, accommodate employee growth, and achieve operational efficiencies with agility. Cloud computing provides elastic and scalable infrastructure for applications, storage and data that changes the way the world does business. Optimize WAN investments with better security and more control. The Fortinet™ Secure hybrid WAN solution is delivered by Fortinet’s™ network firewall platform, which combines advanced security features, link load balancing and deep application visibility into a single platform. Platform based visibility and control.