Secure Digital Acceleration

Never before has expanding and scaling a digital business while protecting a distributed infrastructure been so crucial or difficult. Network modernization enables digital acceleration by placing networks at the centre of innovation. Secure Networking by Fortinet converges networking technologies with AI-powered security across all boundaries to close security gaps and improve the user experience for organizations.

The Secure Networking of Fortinet

Digital acceleration has caused a rapid expansion of attack surfaces and the emergence of new network interfaces, such as LAN, WAN, 5G, remote workers, and clouds. Secure Networking is the only converged networking and security platform in the industry. This convergence enables AI-powered protection of today’s highly dynamic environments, as well as enhanced productivity and user experience.

Innovative Networking and Security Technologies

The FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall is the linchpin of Secure Networking. FortiGate is powered by the FortiOS operating system and security processors (SPUs) designed for this purpose. By eliminating the need for point products, these advancements permit the most comprehensive convergence of networking and security. On any network edge, our unified offering of SD-WAN, NGFW, SWG, ZTNA enforcement, LAN edge, and wireless WAN 5G/LTE is deployable. FortiGuard’s security services provide real-time protection against known and unknown threats.

Key Features of Efficient NGFW Solutions

As businesses employ a variety of network security solutions, such as secure access service edge (SASE), solid-state-wide-area network (SD-WAN), and zero-touch network access (ZTNA), network security is becoming increasingly complex and difficult to manage. To effectively keep up with the ever-expanding networks of the modern world, as well as to adapt to multi-cloud environments and 5G, an integrated approach that provides unified network-wide protection is required. A firewall strategy for the next iteration provides the ideal solution.

It is essential to integrate three critical functions – Protect, Consolidate, and Scale – to ensure contextually coordinated security across the network environment of an organization, whether in data centres or multi-cloud networks.

Protect

Network security is a fundamental requirement for Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) solutions, which must be cognizant of the entire application lifecycle. In addition to web filtering and advanced image recognition, the NGFW should defend against known threats with an intrusion prevention system (IPS), anti-malware, and feeds of threat intelligence. To ensure comprehensive protection against current and emergent threats, it must integrate seamlessly with other cybersecurity measures such as endpoint detection and response (EDR), web application firewalls (WAFs), and other defense methods.

Consolidate

NGFWs provide the visibility required to protect against sophisticated attacks concealed within HTTPS channels. NGFWs also consolidate networking and security functions into a single, on-premises, or cloud-based SASE service offering. To ensure proper access control, these firewalls require proxy capabilities that are integrally integrated and multi-factor authentication for users/devices requesting network access. Lastly, a consistent policy orchestration must be enforced across all environments using single-pane-of-glass administration so that security follows transactions from beginning to end.

Scale

To rapidly process massive amounts of data, modern data centers require ever-increasing processing speeds, making firewalls a crucial component in protecting networks from high-speed attacks. Due to their reliance on off-the-shelf processors when everything functions on custom chips, traditional firewalls are incapable of keeping up with the demands and lack hyper-performance capabilities. In the digital age, IT and security budgets are strained to the limit, making security an increasingly difficult challenge. To combat this issue, firewall functionality must be provided without compromising performance or taxing resources.

Zoomline understands that network security has grown in significance for enterprises. Fortinet distributor in UAE offers a highly scalable hardware solution with incorporated SD-WAN and its advanced FortiGate firewall technology, making it well-suited for this challenge. This combination of features makes the system user-friendly and provides robust network security against potential attacks.