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Leading Managed Security Service Providers Find Performance, Flexibility and Scalability at the Heart of Fortinet's Security Solution
LONDON, UK, April 21, 2008
- Fortinet® - a pioneer and leading provider of unified threat management (UTM) solutions -
today announced that leading managed security services providers (MSSPs) are turning to Fortinet for scalable, flexible and high-performance consolidated network security solutions. Fortinet's FortiGate™ integrated security platform, along with the company's sophisticated management, logging and reporting appliances are ideally-suited to meet the varied needs of all types of MSSPs.
MSSPs such as Belgacom, NTT Europe Online and Orange Business Services have chosen Fortinet solutions as the basis for providing an array of managed security services to address the security needs of their customers while saving on both capital and operational expenses. Whether they leverage Fortinet's extensive range of security appliances or the unique virtualization capabilities of its chassis-based systems, MSSPs benefit from multi-layer security, ASIC-accelerated performance and modular scalability, enabling them to optimize their deployment and management costs.
MSSPs operating a centralized architecture, like N9uf Cegetel, require highly scalable performing security solutions to cope with real-time service delivery for their entire customer portfolio. The chassis-based FortiGate-5000 Series is ideally suited to this scenario as it provides multi-gigabit performance and a full suite of security modules enabling the implementation and delivery of a wide range of security services - including firewall, antivirus, intrusion prevention, VPN, Web filtering, anti-spam and traffic shaping - which can be combined based on customers' specific requirements. FortiGate-5000 Series virtualization capabilities enable the concurrent service and management of up to 3,500 separate customer domains per chassis. As a result, customer services can be customized ‘on demand' to access any combination of Fortinet's security applications.
"With Fortinet, we can deliver our customers various combinations of security functions as a real-time service - all from a single appliance," said Laurent Jacquet, marketing director for enterprise products at N9uf Cegetel. "What the end customer experiences is a seamless, effective and reliable choice of security services, while we enjoy the best potential returns from our business model with a platform that can scale as our customer base grows."
In scenarios where Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) is remotely deployed, Fortinet offers a complete range of security appliances which provides tightly integrated security capabilities and flexibility to the end user.
"Only Fortinet could demonstrate a commitment to the performance requirements our customers demand while delivering a full range of security services, easily tailored for various types of customers," said Avel Alvarez, Internet services manager at R Cable, the Galician service provider. "With FortiGate systems as CPE, our customers benefit from a comprehensive technology approach and we benefit from simplified, centralized management and maintenance of our security services."
Fortinet also offers MSSP's other valuable solutions and services. The FortiAnalyzer™ appliance is key to any MSSP security offering as it securely aggregates and analyzes log data from FortiGate security appliances to provide MSSPs' with a comprehensive view of network usage and security information - including traffic, event, virus, attack, Web filtering and email filtering data. FortiAnalyzer also provides advanced security management functions such as quarantine archiving, event correlation, vulnerability assessments, traffic analysis and content archiving.
In parallel, Fortinet's FortiManager™ is a centralized management platform that allows MSSPs to deploy security services to thousands of customers and eases the administrative efforts required to deploy, configure, monitor and maintain a full range of network protection services. At last, the FortiGuard™ subscription services enable MSSPs to deliver real-time security updates to their customers as a managed service in order to ensure continuous protection against the latest Internet threats.
"MSSPs have been around for more than a decade now, but it's only now that we're seeing a demand from the enterprise for such services," said Andre Stewart, EMEA vice president at Fortinet. "In order to build a successful and profitable business model, MSSPs have to look closely at their deployment and management costs while giving visibility to their clients on results. Fortinet's broad security platform, along with our analysis and reporting tools, have been developed to meet those specific requirements."
About Fortinet (www.fortinet.com)
Fortinet is the pioneer and leading provider of ASIC-accelerated unified threat management, or UTM, security systems, which are used by enterprises and service providers to increase their security while reducing total operating costs. Fortinet solutions were built from the ground up to integrate multiple levels of security protection--including firewall, antivirus, intrusion prevention, VPN, spyware prevention and anti-spam -- designed to help customers protect against network and content level threats. Leveraging a custom ASIC and unified interface, Fortinet solutions offer advanced security functionality that scales from remote office to chassis-based solutions with integrated management and reporting. Fortinet solutions have won multiple awards around the world and are the only security products that are certified in six programs by ICSA Labs (Firewall, Antivirus, IPSec, SSL, Network IPS, and Anti-Spyware). Fortinet is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California.
Copyright © 2008 Fortinet, Inc. All rights reserved. Fortinet is a registered trademark of Fortinet, Inc. FortiGate, FortiOS, FortiAnalyzer, FortiASIC, FortiCare, FortiManager, FortiWiFi, FortiGuard, FortiClient, FortiReporter and other names are trademarks of Fortinet, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks referred to herein are the property of their respective owners.
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