Fortinet introduces FortiGate-300D and FortiGate-500D

Fortinet, a high-performance network security provider, has two next-generation firewall (NGFW) platforms – the FortiGate-300D and the FortiGate-500D – that provide increased protection against today’s advanced threats. 

These new models are ideal for midsize enterprises, branch offices, as well as state and local government, education, healthcare and other market segments that need strong security and easy-to-manage functionality at affordable price points.

“Traditional firewalls have not kept pace with the changing threat landscape, forcing organisations to look to next-generation firewalls for a deeper level of inspection,” said John Maddison, VP of marketing at Fortinet. “With Fortinet’s high performance appliances, any natural firewall refresh or web filtering renewal presents the opportunity to add new security functions yet consolidate security devices – a ‘win win’ scenario for customers.”

The FortiGate 300D and 500D offer industry-best price per protected next-gen gigabit throughput, and enterprise capabilities powered by the FortiOS Network Security Platform:

· NSS Labs Recommended NGFW capability

· Intrusion protection services (IPS), anti-malware and anti-phishing

· Flexible web filtering of more than 100 million sites across 75 content categories

· Actionable visibility and rich reporting

· Optional NSS Labs Recommended Breach Detection System

As security threats evolve, network security professionals expect NGFWs to provide both security and efficiencies beyond what they can expect from traditional firewalls, according to a Forrester Consulting study. Today, customers want gateways that fight advanced threats, like zero-day malware and that respond to new cybercriminal tactics, such as encrypting payloads or stolen data inside of an SSL tunnel. Advanced threat prevention, sandboxing and other techniques are becoming the norm in this new generation of NGFWs, with an emphasis on security effectiveness and performance above all else*.

Both the FortiGate-300D and FortiGate-500D sport the latest FortiASIC NP6 processors, which operate in-line with firewall and VPN functions to deliver several key benefits. These include wire-speed firewall performance at the network edge for any size packets, including IPv4 and IPv6; VPN control, generic routing encapsulation (GRE) acceleration, anomaly-based intrusion prevention, and traffic shaping and priority queuing. All of this allows for high-performance throughput, even when additional security features, such as web/URL filtering, IPS and application control, are active.

These new FortiGate platforms, along with models that support power over Ethernet (POE), the FortiGate 200D-POE and 240D-POE, will be available in Asia Pacific in September from authorised Fortinet channel partners. 

*Firms Turn To Next-Generation Firewalls To Tackle Evolving IT Threats, a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Fortinet, April 2014.