As global companies increasingly rely on e-business to gain competitive advantage, they are more and more relying on networked supply-chain management and Internet trading communities that offer manufacturers efficient means to build an extended enterprise. Because sensitive, business-critical information flows through VPNs in and out of the corporate network, gateway security at the central data center level, as well as network perimeters, is required to prevent harmful virus, worm and intrusion attacks.

Fortinet's FortiGate™ Multi-threat Security systems address the key network protection needs of manufacturing networks. Fortinet's ASIC-powered systems scan email, IM, Web and file transfer content at the network edge and in real time - protecting the manufacturing network from viruses, worms and other inappropriate and malicious content before it can enter the network. In addition, every FortiGate system includes built-in intrusion detection, intrusion prevention, firewall, VPN, web filtering, spam filtering and traffic shaping functionality in one easy to install, maintain and update unit.

A few of the manufacturers that rely on Fortinet for Network Protection

"We needed a lot of functionality that the Linux-based firewall could not easily provide. We had to implement more De-Militarized Zones (DMZ) behind the firewall, bring in antivirus capabilities at the edge of the network and setup an effective intrusion detection system." - Debanjan Dutta, Head of IT for Crompton Greaves