Fortinet Security Fabric

The Fortinet Security Fabric provides an intelligent architecture that interconnects discrete security solutions into an integrated whole to detect, monitor, block, and remediate attacks across the entire attack surface. It delivers broad protection and visibility into every network segment and device, be they hardware, virtual, or cloud based.

• The physical topology view shows all connected devices, including access layer devices. The logical topology view shows information about the interfaces that each device is connected to.

• Security rating checks analyze the Security Fabric deployment to identify potential vulnerabilities and highlight best practices to improve the network configuration, deploy new hardware and software, and increase visibility and control of the network.

• Fabric connectors provide integration with multiple SDN, cloud, and partner technology platforms to automate the process of managing dynamic security updates without manual intervention.

• Automation pairs an event trigger with one or more actions to monitor the network and take the designated actions automatically when the Security Fabric detects a threat.

As part of improvements to reducing memory usage, FortiGate models with 2 GB RAM cannot be the root of the Security Fabric topology or any mid-tier part of the topology. They can only be configured as downstream devices in a Security Fabric or standalone devices. The affected models are the FortiGate 40F, 60E, 60F, 80E and 90E series devices and their variants.

A maximum of 35 downstream FortiGates is recommended.