Fortinet FortiGate 500D Network Security/Firewall Appliance

Overview

Roughly half of all cyber attacks target mid-sized or smaller businesses and the attack landscape continues to grow with higher volume and sophistication. Plus, network bandwidth requirements are still doubling every 18 months. Mid-sized enterprises need network security that delivers industry-leading high-speed performance and next generation security effectiveness.

5 Times Next Generation Performance
The FortiGate 500D appliance delivers superior performance through a combination of purpose-built FortiASIC™ processors, high gigabit port density and consolidated security features from the FortiOS™ operating system. It delivers 5 times better next generation firewall performance compared to alternate products and provides the best price/performance in the industry.

Deeper Visibility and Top-rated Security
This breakthrough threat prevention performance allows organizations to run NSS Labs Recommended intrusion prevention and application control and VB100 certified anti-malware capabilities for deeper inspection. Rich console views and reports together with a flexible policy engine provide the visibility and control to empower employees yet secure your enterprise.

Finally, these features of the FortiGate FortiOS Network Security Platform are routinely validated by independent real-world tests and consistently getting superior ratings in security effectiveness.

Highlights

Features & Benefits

• 5 times faster hardware accelerated next generation firewall offers best-in-class price/performance ratio
• Integrated high port density delivers maximum flexibility and scalability
• NSS Labs Recommended NGFW and NGIPS with consolidated security delivers top-rated protection
• Application control plus identity and device-based policy enforcement provides more granular protection
• Intuitive management interface enables broad and deep visibility that scales from a single FortiGate to thousands

Hardware

Powered by FortiASICs

• Custom FortiASIC™ processors deliver the power you need to detect malicious content at multi-Gigabit speeds.
• Other security technologies cannot protect against today’s wide range of content and connection-based threats well because they rely on general-purpose CPUs, causing a dangerous performance gap.
• FortiASIC processors provide the performance needed to block emerging threats, met rigorous third-party certifications, and ensure that your network security solution does not become a network bottleneck.

Content Processor
The FortiASIC CP8 content processor works outside of the direct flow of traffic, providing high-speed cryptography and content inspection services including:

• Signature-based content inspection acceleration
• Encryption and decryption offloading

Network Processor
Fortinet’s new, breakthrough FortiASIC NP6 network processor works inline with FortiOS functions delivering:

• Superior firewall performance for IPv4/IPv6, SCTP and multicast traffic with ultra-low latency down to 2 microseconds
• VPN, CAPWAP and IP tunnel acceleration
• Anomaly-based intrusion prevention, checksum offload and packet defragmentation
• Traffic shaping and priority queuing

Software

FortiOS Management UI — FortiView and Application Control Panel

FortiOS
FortiOS helps you protect your organization against advanced threats, configure and deploy your network security faster and see deep into what’s happening inside your network. It enables organization to set up policies specific to types of devices, users and applications with industry-leading security capabilities. FortiOS leverages custom FortiASICs and the Optimum Path Processing architecture of FortiGate to deliver 5 times faster throughput performance. In essence, FortiOS delivers:

• Comprehensive Security — Control thousands of applications and stop more threats with NSS Labs Recommended IPS, sandboxing, VB100 certified antimalware and more.
• Superior Control and Visibility — Stay in control with rich visibility over network traffic, granular policy control, and intuitive, scalable security and network management.
• Robust Networking Capabilities — Optimize your network with extensive switching and routing, high availability, WAN optimization, embedded WiFi controller, and a range of virtual options.

Services

FortiGuard™ Security Services
FortiGuard Labs offers real-time intelligence on the threat landscape, delivering comprehensive security updates across the full range of Fortinet’s solutions. Comprised of security threat researchers, engineers, and forensic specialists, the team collaborates with the world’s leading threat monitoring organizations, other network and security vendors, as well as law enforcement agencies:

• Real-time Updates — 24x7x365 Global Operations research security intelligence, distributed via Fortinet Distributed Network to all Fortinet platforms.
• Security Research — FortiGuard Labs have discovered over 170 unique zero-day vulnerabilities to date, totaling millions of automated signature updates monthly.
• Validated Security Intelligence — Based on FortiGuard intelligence, Fortinet’s network security platform is tested and validated by the world’s leading third-party testing labs and customers globally.

FortiCare™ Support Services
Our FortiCare customer support team provides global technical support for all Fortinet products. With support staff in the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Asia, FortiCare offers services to meet the needs of enterprises of all sizes:

• Enhanced Support — For customers who need support during local business hours only.
• Comprehensive Support — For customers who need around the- clock mission critical support, including advanced exchange hardware replacement.
• Premium Services — For global or regional customers who need an assigned Technical Account Manager, enhanced service level agreements, extended software support, priority escalation, on-site visits and more.
• Professional Services — For customers with more complex security implementations that require architecture and design services, implementation and deployment services, operational services and more.