Fortinet Next-Generation Firewalls

FortiGate NGFWs enable organizations to build high-performance, ultra-scalable and security-driven networks. Fortinet provides a wide range of FortiGate products, from entry level to ultra-high-end as well as virtual appliances.

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Scaling for High-Performance Security 6 Criteria for Choosing Next-Generation Firewalls White Paper
Protect Campus Deployments With Fortinet FortiGate NGFWs Solution Brief

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A True Converged Platform Starts with a Powerful Network Firewall

Building and managing networks is hard. It requires specialized skills and training, especially today, when networks must be designed to automatically adapt to the constant pressures of digital acceleration.

May 12, 2022

6 min read

Article Fortinet Secure SD-WAN

The Need for a Zero Trust Edge Strategy

Today's hybrid workers require access to distributed applications deployed in the datacenter, multi-cloud environments, and SaaS locations.

May 12, 2022

6 min read

Article Check Point NGFWs

What Is NGFW? A Primer on the Third Generation of Firewalls

Learn about the competitive difference NGFW has over traditional firewalls, types of organizations that benefit most from NGFS and competitive vendors in the space.

Sep 16, 2021

6 min read

Lab ATC

Fortinet NGFW Foundations Lab

The Fortinet Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) Foundations Lab is a capability of the Advanced Technology Center (ATC) designed to provide an environment to gain hands-on experience with the fundamental features of the Fortinet NGFW solution. The environment that supports the lab is completely virtual, removing any hardware dependencies associated with physical infrastructure.

Jun 8, 2021

1 min read

Lab ATC

Fortinet SD-WAN Foundations Lab

The Fortinet SD-WAN Foundations Lab is a capability of the ATC designed to provide an environment to gain hands-on experience with the Fortinet SD-WAN solution. The environment that supports the Fortinet SD-WAN Foundations Lab is completely virtual, removing any hardware dependencies associated with physical infrastructure.

Feb 17, 2021

1 min read

Article Cyber Resilience

Managing Ransomware Risk

Understanding how criminals are now targeting enterprise for huge ransomware payouts is critical in proactively managing risk for an enterprise.

Oct 13, 2020

6 min read

Video Equinix Network Edge

Equinix Network Edge With Fortinet SSL-VPN

In this video, Steve Hollar will discuss how to deploy a virtual Fortinet FortiGate Firewall using Equinix Network Edge to support remote access VPN users.

Apr 20, 2020

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Article Check Point NGFWs

Application Segmentation Solutions: Top 10 Features

Evaluating solutions for application segmentation is challenging. There are countless unknowns that are difficult to expose without essentially living with each solution. As time does not typically allow for such a luxury, this article intends to help you zero in on those things that are most important to the average customer, and to draw upon our experience to help you more quickly establish a securely segmented architecture.

Apr 14, 2020

7 min read

Article Fortinet Next-Generation Firewalls

Four Main Cybersecurity Challenges for Financial Services Firms

According to the FBI, cybercrime losses have doubled in recent years, reaching over $3.5 billion. Account Takeover (ATO) losses have tripled, most notably in the financial services sector. Ponemon Institute says the average cost of a security breach is now almost $4 million. Given these alarming statistics, information security professionals are tightening the screws on security, but may be hindering compliance, digital transformation and customer experience initiatives in the process.

Mar 10, 2020

9 min read

Lab ATC

Fortinet FGT integration in ACI using PBR Service Graph redirection Lab

The goal of this lab is to show how policy based redirection to a L4-7 device can be used with a single bridge domain needed for Application Centric (ACI) fabrics. The use of a single bridge domain and single PBR redirection is known as "one-armed mode."

Jan 10, 2020

2 min read

Article OT Security

Segmenting Mixed IT/OT Environments: Challenges and Where to Start

An overview of the risks associated with integrating IT and OT environments; segmentation and discovery techniques; plus, solutions from Fortinet and Nozomi Networks that mitigate risks while maintaining ICS safety, availability and integrity.

Oct 25, 2019

8 min read

Workshop Check Point NGFWs

Enterprise Segmentation Workshop

Sep 5, 2019

1 min read

Article Fortinet Next-Generation Firewalls

Fortinet's FortiGate Next-Gen Firewall Optimal for Service Providers

Service providers need a scalable, high-performing Next-Gen Firewall to help limit cyberattacks. Fortinet's FortiGate product family offers one of the most comprehensive solutions in the industry.

Sep 5, 2019

5 min read

Article Universal Customer Premise Equipment or uCPE

Evaluating the FortiGate-VM04 inside the Advanced Technology Center

We have a customer who wanted to evaluate a new branch location strategy using a solution with Universal Customer Premise Equipment (or uCPE). uCPE could potentially save customers a substantial amount of investment dollars in physical IT infrastructure by collapsing several physical hardware devices into Virtual Network Functions (or VNFs) that live on a virtual compute platform that serves as the uCPE.

Aug 26, 20

10 min read