Ken Xie, Founder, Chairman of the board and CEO, Fortinet said, “The demands of today’s digital economy are driving increasingly complex networks that require highly skilled and rare talent to design, deploy, operate, and most importantly secure. Today’s point products and platform security solutions simply aren’t capable of providing the solution breadth, processing performance, or advanced automation necessary to address these demands.
According to a recent report by Joe Skorupa and Andrew Lerner of Gartner, “Intent-based networking adoption is being driven by digital business transformation's requirements to increase network agility while increasing reliability/availability. The increasing complexity of networks, combined with critical skills shortages in design/deploy/operate tasks, are increasing pressure on infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders to find a better way to map the requirements of the business to infrastructure behaviour in a timely, consistent and verifiable way.”*
Fortinet’s vision is to deliver complementary intent-based network security that will enable the Fortinet Security Fabric to automatically translate business requirements into synchronised network security actions without human intervention. This will free enterprises to design more advanced security architectures while greatly simplifying complex deployments and reducing operational burdens; ultimately delivering largely self-sufficient technology infrastructures capable of continuously maintaining an optimal security posture across the entire attack surface.
The major enhancements to Fortinet’s flagship operating system combined with its Security Operations Solution deliver visibility and automation capabilities across an enterprise’s entire infrastructure, from the endpoints to the cloud.
The FortiOS release 5.6 delivers universal and centralised capabilities beyond those of traditional security platforms or point solutions available today, Fortinet said. As a foundational technology of the Fortinet Security Fabric, FortiOS 5.6 scales from the Internet of Things (IoT) to the cloud and across physical, virtual, and hybrid environments to segment and protect the entire attack surface of the largest, globally distributed enterprises.
FortiSIEM is an all-in-one network operations centre (NOC) and security operations centre (SOC) solution that offers automatic security, visibility, performance, and availability monitoring in real-time. FortiSIEM is capable of compiling and correlating intelligence from the Fortinet Security Fabric plus data from thousands of additional IT assets including switches and servers, to desktops and IoT devices, all through a single pane of glass.
FortiSIEM also supports external threat intelligence feeds and event logs to extend the advanced analytics and compliance capabilities of the Fortinet Security Fabric to every physical and virtual asset across an enterprises entire technology footprint.
Interested?
FortiOS Release 5.6 will be available to download in the first quarter of 2017. Fortinet’s Security Operations Solution is available now.Contact authorised Fortinet distributors for additional details.
*Gartner, Emerging Technology Analysis: Intent-Based Network Design and Operation, Joe Skorupa, Andrew Lerner, 8 November 2016.
"It’s clear that traditional approaches to security are quickly becoming unsustainable. The Fortinet Security Fabric delivers the broad, powerful, and automated security solutions needed to solve today’s challenges while laying the foundation for the self-sufficient, intent-based network security that will be critical to protect tomorrow’s enterprises."
According to a recent report by Joe Skorupa and Andrew Lerner of Gartner, “Intent-based networking adoption is being driven by digital business transformation's requirements to increase network agility while increasing reliability/availability. The increasing complexity of networks, combined with critical skills shortages in design/deploy/operate tasks, are increasing pressure on infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders to find a better way to map the requirements of the business to infrastructure behaviour in a timely, consistent and verifiable way.”*
Gartner explains further: “Unlike any other approach, intent-based networking algorithmically proves the 'correctness' of the configuration before deployment and continuously monitors the operation of the network. If it detects a condition that no longer satisfies the intent of the design, it alerts operations and, if possible, takes corrective action to re-establish the correctness.*
“Intent-based networking solutions promise to dramatically improve network design and operation. In today's enterprise networks, we are dependent on network architects' ability to understand the totality of the environment, and their ability to generate a design that meets the needs of the applications they support. However, as computing environments became larger, more complex and more dynamic, it became impossible for the architect to achieve more than an "informed best guess" of the required configuration — to verify or prove the correctness of the design/configuration — the intent. This leads to unplanned outages and sometimes long, difficult troubleshooting activities.”*
“Intent-based networking solutions promise to dramatically improve network design and operation. In today's enterprise networks, we are dependent on network architects' ability to understand the totality of the environment, and their ability to generate a design that meets the needs of the applications they support. However, as computing environments became larger, more complex and more dynamic, it became impossible for the architect to achieve more than an "informed best guess" of the required configuration — to verify or prove the correctness of the design/configuration — the intent. This leads to unplanned outages and sometimes long, difficult troubleshooting activities.”*
Fortinet’s vision is to deliver complementary intent-based network security that will enable the Fortinet Security Fabric to automatically translate business requirements into synchronised network security actions without human intervention. This will free enterprises to design more advanced security architectures while greatly simplifying complex deployments and reducing operational burdens; ultimately delivering largely self-sufficient technology infrastructures capable of continuously maintaining an optimal security posture across the entire attack surface.
The major enhancements to Fortinet’s flagship operating system combined with its Security Operations Solution deliver visibility and automation capabilities across an enterprise’s entire infrastructure, from the endpoints to the cloud.
The FortiOS release 5.6 delivers universal and centralised capabilities beyond those of traditional security platforms or point solutions available today, Fortinet said. As a foundational technology of the Fortinet Security Fabric, FortiOS 5.6 scales from the Internet of Things (IoT) to the cloud and across physical, virtual, and hybrid environments to segment and protect the entire attack surface of the largest, globally distributed enterprises.
FortiOS 5.6 provides instant visibility into every security element through a single pane of glass** and provides open application program interfaces (APIs) to connect with Fabric Ready partner solutions. Capabilities include:
- Expanded vision into Fortinet’s wireless access points, switches and sandboxes results in enhanced management and truly centralised control over networking components and advanced threat protections.
- A revamped user interface (UI) is designed to turn IT awareness into security action. New network topology visualisations and enhanced interactive views for auditing, logging, and reporting enable IT teams to modify their networks in real-time.
- FortiOS 5.6 also provides proactive security recommendations to help improve network effectiveness and compliance.
FortiSIEM is an all-in-one network operations centre (NOC) and security operations centre (SOC) solution that offers automatic security, visibility, performance, and availability monitoring in real-time. FortiSIEM is capable of compiling and correlating intelligence from the Fortinet Security Fabric plus data from thousands of additional IT assets including switches and servers, to desktops and IoT devices, all through a single pane of glass.
FortiSIEM also supports external threat intelligence feeds and event logs to extend the advanced analytics and compliance capabilities of the Fortinet Security Fabric to every physical and virtual asset across an enterprises entire technology footprint.
Interested?
FortiOS Release 5.6 will be available to download in the first quarter of 2017. Fortinet’s Security Operations Solution is available now.Contact authorised Fortinet distributors for additional details.
*Gartner, Emerging Technology Analysis: Intent-Based Network Design and Operation, Joe Skorupa, Andrew Lerner, 8 November 2016.
**A single pane of glass refers to being able to see consolidated information on a single display screen, as opposed to clicking through multiple screens to locate all the information.
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