Scalability, flexible management, and analytics

FortiGate models range from being appropriate for small offices to large campuses of thousands of APs. There are management options for multiple locations, whether the need is a few retail locations, a small school district, up to a major Managed Service Provider (MSP) with thousands of customers.

FortiGate Cloud is a service portal that provides remote cloud management of multiple FortiGates and the LAN Edge components connected to them. It has a multi-tenant option that can be used either by service providers to separate customers, or even by a single organization to divide administration. It includes configuration, backup and upgrade, as well as reporting, log retention and traffic analysis.

FortiLAN Cloud – Needs are not the same for every network. There may be any number of reasons to deploy FortiAPs or FortiSwitches, or both, in standalone mode rather than FortiGate controlled. FortiLAN Cloud not only provides simple cloud management of FortiAPs and FortiSwitches, but also monitoring, reporting, and analytics.

FortiManager is the ultimate NOC-SOC operations tool, built from the ground up with from a security perspective and supporting a massive scale of devices—10,000 or more. Granular Administrative Domains and Management extensions support the most demanding Service Provider environments, but the analytics and management extensions often make it a good choice for small organizations, depending on their needs. FortiManager is available as an appliance, as a VM and as FortiManager Cloud.

FortiAnalyzer provides massive log retention, security fabric analytics, and automation to provide better detection and response against cyber risks and network anomalies. FortiAnalyzer can gather and analyze logs from Fortinet and over 25,000 third-party devices. It is a necessary component when deploying FortiAIOps. It is available as an appliance, virtual machine or, if the log volume is not excessive, FortiAnalyzer Functionality can be enabled on FortiManager.

FortiWLM provides enhanced and aggregated monitoring of FortiGate administered wireless networks. It includes an extensive set of troubleshooting and reporting tools. FortiWLM is available as an appliance or a Virtual Machine, or as a FortiManager Management Extension.

FortiAIOps is an Artificial Intelligence with Machine Learning (AI/ML) solution for network troubleshooting. In conjunction with FortiAnalyzer's quick collection of data, FortiAIOps provides identification of network anomalies and event correlation, identifying wireless and wired connection problems, all while performing network operations center (NOC) optimizations.

FortiPresence is a Wi-Fi Presence and Analytics and Customer Engagement Solution for public venues. FortiPresence leverages existing onsite Fortinet access points to detect visitors' smartphone Wi-Fi signals. Analytics provides insight into the behaviors of visitors within a site both in real time and across time periods. Data from FortiPresence can be used to increase business efficiencies, improve visitor experiences, and positively impact the business' bottom line.

FortiPlanner is a graphical Wireless LAN planning and post-deployment site survey tool. Using FortiPlanner ensures planning accuracy through sophisticated signal propagation ray-tracing algorithms. After deployment, a real-time coverage heat map shows the areas that need fine-tuning, such as coverage holes or especially congested areas.