Cloud management and analytics for security driven networking

Some context is necessary when talking about “Cloud Security Management.” It begs the question, “managing what, exactly?” Well, at Fortinet, almost everything starts with the FortiGate.

Fortinet’s flagship product has always been, and remains, the FortiGate. FortiGate is indisputably one of the industry’s top Next Generation Firewalls (Gartner Magic Quadrant), both as an appliance and as a Virtual Machine. As a total cybersecurity company, Fortinet is simply unmatched, but what is less recognized is just how far FortiGates have evolved as network controllers. A FortiGate is much more than a NGFW. It is a network controller and security appliance.

A FortiGate combines, in a fully integrated form, multiple network controller and security functions. A FortiGate integrates a full-featured WiFi and Switch Controller, a full featured router and SD-WAN solution, a wireless WAN (WWAN) controller that supports 5G and LTE cellular gateways (integrated with SD-WAN) and much more. All such network functions are fully-integrated with the FortiGate’s extensive cybersecurity functions. With Security-Driven Networking, inspection of network traffic is not a ‘bump in the wire’, but part of the wire. There is no additional licensing for any of this extensive additional functionality. It is all included in every FortiGate.

FortiCloud Management Portals provides options for managing the full suite of Fortinet Security-Driven Networking products simply and remotely over the Internet.