RETAIL/HOSPITALITY SOLUTIONS

Hospitality Network Security | Retail Network Security

Fortinet's multi-threat security systems enable retail firms and hospitality businesses to secure multiple, geographically-dispersed sites and critical applications such as inventory control, point of sale, and reservation systems while complying with PCI-DSS or GLBA regulations and without overloading the IT budget or personnel. Powered by Specialized FortiASIC™ processors purpose-built for content and network processing, FortiGate® systems provide full, multi-layered security that scales from remote-office appliances and mobile POS applications or kiosks to multi-gigabit core network or data center platforms. Every FortiGate system offers complete threat protection within a single solution: firewall, intrusion prevention system (IPS), VPN, traffic shaping, antivirus, antispyware, antispam, web content filtering, and application control. The available FortiManager™ and FortiAnalyzer™ management and reporting appliances enable centralized control of any size deployment, including vulnerability assessment and logging/archiving for regulatory compliance. And Fortinet database security and compliance products offer centrally-managed database hardening; fast, comprehensive policy compliance; and vulnerability assessment for improved data security across the organization.

Fortinet Retail/Hospitality Benefits

  • FortiGate systems provide scalable, comprehensive protection against network-level and content-level threats without degrading performance of critical applications, network availability, or uptime.
  • FortiGuard® Security Subscription Services provides continuous, automatic updates for antivirus/antimalware, intrusion prevention, Web filtering, and antispam functionality to keep retail and hospitality firms ahead of the latest threats.
  • Easily-managed platforms with integrated, multi-threat protection reduce management burden and capital expenditures for lower TCO.
  • Intuitive, web-based management interface for FortiGate appliances eased deployment at remote sites and reduces IT support burden.
  • FortiClient PC™ end-point security agents provide comprehensive, centrally-managed security for remote personal computers and mobile laptops, with support for 3G for remote locations without wireline broadband.
  • FortiWifi™ appliances with built-in wireless access points and PC Card slots for broadband wireless support rapid deployment of retail kiosks, Internet access for hotel guests, and other POS applications.
  • Available FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer appliances ease management of multiple sites and help maintain PCI retail compliance with extensive logging and archiving capabilities to help safeguard credit card usage by customers and guests.
  • Available FortiDB database security and compliance products protect critical database resources with hundreds of pre-installed policies covering standard industry and government requirements and security best practices, including compliance reporting for important regulations such as PCI-DSS and GLBA.
  • Extensive virtual domain and security zone capabilities deliver fine-grained control of network and application access across multiple, widely-dispersed sites.
  • Traffic shaping and application control (e.g., IM and P2P) preserve network bandwidth and help control inappropriate network usage.
  • Simple per-device/unlimited-users licensing reduces costs.
  • Any and all security functions available on every FortiGate system for easy addition to existing solutions and incremental deployment without additional investment in hardware or software.





Since deploying the FortiWifi appliances, we have enabled our employees to work more efficiently and have also given customers the benefit of working on their laptops in a secure and wireless environment. Fortinet has allowed us to dramatically improve customer service with the wireless network. Not only are customers able to be productive while getting a vehicle oil change, but the time to process the information for such service has gone from three to five minutes to three to five seconds.

Bryan Justice, Manager of Business Technology and Computer Services
Ashland