Fortinet enables intent-based segmentation with Fortigate Nextgeneration Firewalls
Fortinet, a global leader in broad, integrated and automated cybersecurity solutions, announced its new high-performance Fortigate Next-generation Firewalls (NGFWS), comprised of Fortigate 3600E, Fortigate 3400E, Fortigate 600E and Fortigate 400E Series, enabling organisations to implement intent-based segmentation into their security architecture.
Fortinet India and SAARC Regional Vice President Rajesh Maurya said: “Segmentation is becoming as fundamental as patching vulnerable systems. Intent-based segmentation aligns business goals with infrastructure changes and ultimately, dynamically separates infrastructure to protect users, data and systems. A fundamental element of intent-based segmentation is the high-performance NGFW. The new Fortigate 3400E and 3600E Series provide industryleading threat protection and SSL inspection performance allowing customers to implement a holistic end-toend architecture.”
The combination of business growth, workloads migrating to multiple clouds and increasing cyber attacks makes it difficult for organisations to maintain a robust security architecture that effectively implements consistent security policy across all network environments. Having flat networks with a single enforcement point further compounds this problem by making it easier for cybercriminals to get inside the network. Once inside, they become part of the trusted zone, allowing them to quickly spread threats laterally. It’s extremely hard to detect and contain these cybercriminals as they move deeper into the network, resulting in cascading risks and exfiltration of valuable data.
As existing security strategies are failing to keep pace with a complex security landscape, organisations are seeking adaptive and predictive protection that prevents the spread of threats throughout the network. With intent-based segmentation, organisations achieve adaptive security by intelligently segmenting IT assets in accordance with the business intent, like addressing compliance, by having multiple enforcement points.
Adaptive protection is achieved by implementing granular access control based on varying trust levels and highperformance advanced security.
Fortinet is making it easier for organisations to adopt intent-based segmentation with the introduction of its new high-performance Fortigate NGFWS.
As part of Fortinet’s Security Fabric, the new Fortigate NGFWS give organisations an integrated and consistent security policy across on-premise and cloud assets. Powered by customised security processor units (SPUS), the new Fortigate NGFWS provide full visibility and advanced threat protection without the fear of performance degradation.