Fortinet FortiGate 311B

Overview:

The FortiGate-311B multi-threat security appliance delivers proven, consolidated security at switching speeds. Its enterprise-grade performance and no per-user pricing make it ideal for your growing enterprise. The FortiGate-311B appliance integrates two purpose-built security processing ASICs to provide the high-performance protection you need in your network. The FortiASIC™ Network Processor provides acceleration for firewall, encryption/decryption, signature, and heuristic packet scanning. The FortiASIC Content Processor provides additional acceleration for content intensive security technologies such as intrusion prevention and antivirus scanning.

The FortiGate-311B appliance's eight hardware-accelerated interfaces (expandable to 12) enable you to enforce firewall policies between network segmentation points for increased security, while preserving switch-like performance. The modular expansion slots give you even more flexibility, offering incremental ASIC-accelerated ports for additional throughput or increased disk-based storage. The appliance's included storage provides localized event logging, content archiving, or WAN optimization. The FortiGate-311B appliance enables you to create multiple security zones for various departments, users, access methods and devices, to enforce your critical network security at accelerated speeds.

FortiGate-311B Benefits:

• ASIC-acceleration delivers wire-speed firewall and near wire-speed IPSec VPN performance, combined with superior IPS and antivirus/antispyware/antimalware operation.
• Modular expansion offers you maximum configuration flexibility, such as additional hardware-accelerated gigabit Ethernet ports.
• Integrated multi-threat security features provide the ability to augment existing systems or replace aging security infrastructures, increasing security while protecting the value of your investments.
• Internal network security segmentation delivers increased security, with security event isolation and greater network visibility.
• Available integration with FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer appliances lowers your operating expenses by simplifying security management, reporting, and analysis.
• FortiGuard Subscription Services deliver automated, real-time, up-to-date protection against emerging security threats and exploits.

ASIC-Powered Security at Switching Speeds:

The evolution of network security threats has driven the expansion of security products to include multiple threat recognition systems within a single appliance. Unified Threat Management systems from Fortinet include firewall, VPN, intrusion prevention, antivirus, antimalware, antispam and web content filtering to identify numerous types of threats from a single device. While the ease of use of UTM products has created a prolific adoption trend, administrators still struggle with limited physical deployment options due to the available throughput and port density of mid-range devices.

The FortiGate-300 series appliances answer the call of growing enterprise networks by integrating a purpose-built security processing ASIC, known as the FortiASIC Network Processor, into the FortiGate system to deliver security throughput at switching speeds. Eight hardware accelerated interfaces (expandable to 12) allow networks to enforce firewall policy between network segmentation points for layered security with switch-like performance. An additional purpose-built ASIC, known as the FortiASIC Content Processor, provides additional acceleration for content intensive security technologies such as intrusion prevention and antivirus scanning. The inclusion of modular expansion slots allow for even more flexibility, offering additional ASIC-accelerated ports for additional throughput or disk-based storage for local logging and content archiving. With numerous accelerated multi-threat security interfaces, organizations can create multiple security zones for various departments, users, access methods, and even devices to enforce network security at accelerated speeds.

Key Problems: Solutions: Voice, video, and other time-sensitive applications require extremely low latency during transit. FortiGate-300 series appliances ensure that security is never a bottleneck, thanks to the FortiASIC network processor which provides microsecond latency, up to 12 Gbps firewall performance, and up to 9 Gbps IPSec VPN performance. Many security devices have a limited number of ports, preventing desired internal network segmentation. The FortiGate-300 series appliances come standard with ten (10) 10/100/1000 interfaces (expandable to 14 interfaces), to permit a wide-array of deployments. Most security devices have limited expansion capabilities. The FortiGate-300 series feature modular expansion bays extend the base system with additional security processing, accelerated interface, bypass, or wide area network modules. To obtain effective protection from threats, it’s necessary to cobble multiple products together to form a solution. Fortinet combines firewall, VPN, intrusion prevention, antivirus, antispam, web filtering, data leakage prevention, application control, and more into a single platform, providing an effective all-in-one solution.

FortiGate-310B (FG-310B) FortiGate-311B (FG-311B)

Fortinet’s Multi-Layered Security Solution

Fortinet’s multi-layered security solutions efficiently and economically provide an integrated set of security services in a single, easy-to-manage high-performance appliance that is capable of supporting a wide range of deployment scenarios. In addition, FortiGuard Subscription Services include everything from technical support, antivirus updates, antispyware, antispam, and Web content filtering to ensure that your security environment remains current and your corporate resources are protected against the latest blended threats. FortiGate systems come with a one-year limited hardware warranty and 90-day limited software warranty.

Technical Specifications:

All performance values are “up to” and vary depending on system configuration Antivirus performance is benchmarked using HTTP traffic (32 Kbyte Objects) IPS performance is benchmarked using UDP traffic (512 byte packet size)

Services & Support:

FortiGuard Security Subscription Services:

With FortiGuard™ Security Subscription services enabled, customers can rest assured that their Fortinet security platforms are performing optimally and protecting their corporate assets with the latest security intelligence. FortiGuard services deliver the latest security content directly to Fortinet products. Fortinet offers four standard subscription services: Antivirus, Intrusion Prevention, Web Filtering and Antispam services to protect against multiple types of new and emerging threats. FortiGuard services are updated by the Fortinet Global Threat Research Team, a team of experts working around the clock and around the world to keep Fortinet customers secure. The Fortinet Global Threat Research Team enables Fortinet to deliver comprehensive multi-threat protection, including zero-day protection from new and emerging threats. The FortiGuard Network is a network of global data centers that automatically deliver updates quickly and reliably to Fortinet products.

For customers requiring guaranteed response time to suspicious malware threats, Fortinet offers a premier version of the FortiGuard Antivirus Security Subscription service. Along with Service Level Agreements (SLAs), the premier service provides the customer with a direct conduit to the Fortinet Global Threat Research Team.

Fortinet also offers a premier version of the FortiGuard Web Filtering Security Subscription service. This higher-tier service offering includes guaranteed SLAs and a larger quota for rating URLs submitted to the Fortinet Global Threat Research Team.

FortiCare Support Services:

Includes:

• 24/7/365 FortiCare Web-based support
• 8x5 telephone-based technical support (24x7 - optional)
• 1-Year limited hardware warranty
• 90-day limited software warranty
• Technical account management service available
• Professional services available

Documentation:

Download the Fortinet FortiGate 300 Series Data Sheet (PDF).