As your clients accelerate their cloud-first initiatives, they’re relying on you to build, scale and adapt their cloud security to meet their new business needs. Fortinet has you covered. The FortiGate Cloud-Native Firewall (FortiGate CNF) on Amazon Web Services (AWS) is an enterprise-grade, managed next-generation firewall service specifically designed for AWS environments. With FortiGate CNF, you can deliver enhanced protection for your customers’ critical data and applications, without unnecessary complexity.
FortiGate CNF provides immediate access to FortiGuard AI-powered Security Services for enterprise-grade protection, including URL filtering, DNS filtering, IPS, application control and other FortiGuard security services. It incorporates FortiGuard AI-powered Security Services for real-time detection of and protection against malicious external and internal threats. FortiOS is at the heart of this solution, providing a consistent network security experience across AWS and on-prem environments.
For customers seeking robust, streamlined network security operations, FortiGate CNF provides the following benefits:
1. Expanded security coverage and optimized costs
FortiGate CNF is designed to easily aggregate security across cloud networks, availability zones, and virtual private clouds (VPCs) in a cloud region. It also natively supports AWS to help optimize cloud security spend and uses AWS Graviton instances to deliver better price performance than other offerings.
2. Simplified network security ops with cloud-native integrations
In a recent survey of more than 800 cybersecurity professionals, 78 percent of respondents indicated that a cloud security platform with a single dashboard could help them better protect data across their cloud footprint and strengthen their security posture. FortiGate CNF provides an intuitive dashboard to easily manage security policies across your customers’ AWS deployments.
3. Increased compliance with consistent enterprise-grade security across on-prem and cloud deployments
As part of the Fortinet Security Fabric platform, FortiGate CNF offers a single pane of glass through FortiManager to centralize policy management, increase visibility and automate policy enforcement on AWS. This capability helps your teams effectively apply security controls seamlessly across hybrid cloud and on-premises deployments
4. AI-powered global threat intelligence
FortiGate CNF includes a suite of trusted FortiGuard AI-powered security services, developed by FortiGuard Labs. Using AI and machine learning (ML) models, FortiGate CNF with FortiGuard Security Services enables a proactive security posture and remediation of known and unknown threats based on real-time threat intelligence, behavior-based detection, and automated prevention.
Your clients want to simplify and modernize their cloud security. Fortinet’s collaboration with AWS delivers solutions that simplify security management, facilitate full visibility across environments, and provide broad protection across your clients’ workloads and applications.
Read the full announcement about FortiGate CNF here.