Cloud computing is becoming increasingly popular among enterprises looking to take advantage of the quick deployment, unprecedented scalability, and cost savings. Both public cloud adoption and private cloud infrastructure, including virtualization and software defined networking (SDN), are rapidly transforming data centers worldwide. Evolving your infrastructure means your security must evolve as well. If your security can’t keep up with the agile public, private, and hybrid cloud environments of today, gaps in protection will occur. There are a number of deployment methods being used today that require scalable security capable of keeping up with elastic workloads. Fortinet™ provides comprehensive security for private, public, and hybrid deployments before, during, and after migration—with one solution. As an innovator and leader in ASI based data center security appliances, Fortinet™ also offers the largest range of virtual appliances that provide better visibility and control of virtual network traffic. Virtual appliances also facilitate scale out elasticity, automation, and orchestration due to the containerization within a VM form factor.

Fortinet™ provides out of the box integration with leading orchestration platforms such as VMware NSX™ and Cisco ACI™, as well as rich API extensibility, so that security policy can be seamlessly applied in logical and dynamic environments. Fortinet™’s SDN security solution is certified by leading SDN, network virtualization, and network function virtualization (NFV) platforms and can be applied to any data center cloud environment.  Unfortunately, if your security is an afterthought and can’t keep up with these fast, flexible environments, there can be protection gaps or manual security processes that negate the advantages of network virtualization and SDN. The Fortinet™ SDN security framework delivers security built for these networks. It defines security evolution across the network architecture. It evolves network security in each conceptual layer of network architecture—the data plane, control plane, and management plane. Fortinet™has the only security solutions for network, endpoint, application, data center, cloud, and access designed to work together as an integrated security fabric to provide true end to end protection. Your cloud security must keep up with your cloud instances when they scale.

Fortinet Cloud Security For Amazon Web Services And Microsoft Azure

Fortinet™ secures the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud™ (VPC) in multiple Availability Zones™ (AZ) on demand, to provide highly available advanced network firewall functions, segmentation, and encryption across on premises and cloud environments. This solution securely extends cloudbursting—private to public cloud migration—with IPS, URL filtering, antivirus, and application/data threat prevention. Fortinet™ provides top—rated cloud security while offering economies of scale with flexible bring your own license and metering and billing options. Fortinet™ embeds the latest Amazon AWS Auto Scaling™ functionality and FortiGate CloudFormation™ template configuration into Fortinet™ cloud security fabric, providing automation based on resource demand from your cloud workloads. Fortinet™ delivers optimized security for applications and data in Microsoft Azure™ and avoids unnecessary security expenditures during cloud migration. FortiGate™ next generation firewall creates a purpose—built Microsoft Azure Resource Manager™ (ARM) template to deploy and provision resources for FortiGate™ in a coordinated operation to give you complete NGFW security functions.

Fortinet Public–Private And Hybrid Cloud Security

Cloud computing provides elastic and scalable infrastructure for applications, storage, and data. In public clouds, infrastructure is offloaded to cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services™ (AWS) and Microsoft Azure™, while security becomes a shared responsibility between the cloud service provider and the enterprise tenant. Fortinet™ enables secure workloads in public clouds to ensure privacy and confidentiality while leveraging the cloud benefits of scalability, metering, and time to market. Most organizations are in the process of moving from an on premises data center to a public cloud service and planning to maintain a combination of both conventional IT and public cloud deployments. Building a dynamic hybrid cloud requires open and secure migration of large volumes of data and applications, reliable site to site connectivity, and stretching of network topologies across the WAN. Support for leading network virtualization and SDN platforms including VMware NSX™, Cisco ACI™, OpenStack™ and Integrated management for consistent policy control and monitoring. The Fortinet Private Cloud™ provides a security portfolio and flexible deployment options.

Features And benefits

Security for Cisco ACI™—Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure™ (ACI) takes in FortiGate™ appliances (physical and virtual) as L4—L7 security firewall services. All policy orchestration, provisioning, and scaling are automatic and centrally profiled based on application heuristics and workloads. Cisco ACI™’s unique approach uses a common policy based operating model across a network that overcomes IT silos and drastically reduces costs and complexity. Security for VMware NSX™ F5 Networks—Fortinet’s FortiGate VMX™ solution with VMware NSX™ protects east—west traffic, which now accounts for up to 80 percent of network traffic. The Fortinet™ solution with VMware™ eliminates the previous hair—pinning process and enables policy based firewall controls on each VMware vNIC™ across the data center for east west traffic inspection. To close security gaps, the solution automatically scales the advanced security features available on each hypervisor joined to the security cluster, where consistent policies and firewall rules are applied. OpenStack™ based clouds provide the environment needed for elastic, on—demand multitenant applications.