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FortiCloud Concept Guide

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Introduction

Introduction

This document provides an overview of the FortiCloud Service portals and how it supports and relates to Fortinet Inc. Security-Driven Networking.

FortiCloud as Fortinet's suite of Cloud portals

FortiCloud provides a single point of access to all your Fortinet Cloud portals.

At Fortinet, to best serve our customers with our Security-Driven Networking, we have a range of cybersecurity and secure networking products that can be managed online through a web browser (Security as a Service). These service portals simplify management of our products, and maintain their data and configurations in Fortinet managed secure data centers; a vital service for businesses that would prefer not to maintain their own data centers.

FortiCloud is the umbrella portal for delivering all of Fortinet’s cloud-based security and security management services. FortiCloud provides easy single sign on to all Fortinet cloud security services, and unifies those services with FortiCare support, Asset Management and Identity and Access Management (IAM).

The FortiCloud portal does not, of course, preclude using Fortinet products in, or as part of, a cloud-based infrastructure. FortiGate VMs, and other Fortinet VM products, can absolutely be deployed in, and used to secure, public, private, and hybrid cloud infrastructures, including all the major Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) vendors, including AWS, Azure, Google cloud and others. Nevertheless, this document is focused not on those types of cloud computing, but on FortiCloud portals.

Several FortiCloud Cloud Management solutions are particularly well suited to LAN Edge and SD-Branch solutions, with several options targeting Security-Driven Networks built around FortiGates, FortiSwitches, and FortiAPs/WLANs.

About this guide

This guide aims to provide a broad overview of Security as a Service and FortiCloud concepts. It introduces Fortinet Inc. Cloud products, particularly the Fortinet Inc. Cloud Management products used with Security-Driven Networking devices such as FortiGate, FortiAP, FortiSwitch, and FortiExtender.

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Introduction

This document provides an overview of the FortiCloud Service portals and how it supports and relates to Fortinet Inc. Security-Driven Networking.

FortiCloud as Fortinet's suite of Cloud portals

FortiCloud provides a single point of access to all your Fortinet Cloud portals.

At Fortinet, to best serve our customers with our Security-Driven Networking, we have a range of cybersecurity and secure networking products that can be managed online through a web browser (Security as a Service). These service portals simplify management of our products, and maintain their data and configurations in Fortinet managed secure data centers; a vital service for businesses that would prefer not to maintain their own data centers.

FortiCloud is the umbrella portal for delivering all of Fortinet’s cloud-based security and security management services. FortiCloud provides easy single sign on to all Fortinet cloud security services, and unifies those services with FortiCare support, Asset Management and Identity and Access Management (IAM).

The FortiCloud portal does not, of course, preclude using Fortinet products in, or as part of, a cloud-based infrastructure. FortiGate VMs, and other Fortinet VM products, can absolutely be deployed in, and used to secure, public, private, and hybrid cloud infrastructures, including all the major Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) vendors, including AWS, Azure, Google cloud and others. Nevertheless, this document is focused not on those types of cloud computing, but on FortiCloud portals.

Several FortiCloud Cloud Management solutions are particularly well suited to LAN Edge and SD-Branch solutions, with several options targeting Security-Driven Networks built around FortiGates, FortiSwitches, and FortiAPs/WLANs.

About this guide

This guide aims to provide a broad overview of Security as a Service and FortiCloud concepts. It introduces Fortinet Inc. Cloud products, particularly the Fortinet Inc. Cloud Management products used with Security-Driven Networking devices such as FortiGate, FortiAP, FortiSwitch, and FortiExtender.

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