Fortinet FortiGate 50B Series

Overview:

The FortiGate-50B appliance offers complete security and high performance for telecommuters and small office/home office (SOHO) applications. Its FortiOS operating system offers a full suite of security services in one hardened platform: antivirus/antispyware/antimalware, intrusion prevention (IPS), web filtering, stateful firewall and traffic shaping, and IPSec/SSL VPN. This combination offers superior protection against threats such as IM/P2P traffic, phishing and pharming, and sophisticated blended threats. Rapid, turn-key deployment and easy management deliver low total cost of ownership and facilitate compliance with important legislative requirements such as PCI-DSS and Sarbanes-Oxley.

FortiGate-50B/51B Features & Benefits:

• 50 Mbps firewall throughput delivers integrated, enterprise-class network protection for small-businesses, remote offices, and home offices.
• Dual WAN links for redundant ISP connections deliver higher availability with load balancing and failover
• Three internal switch ports eliminate need for additional hub, reducing equipment investment and management burden
• Available FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer appliances simplify security management and reduce operating expenses in multiple deployments
• IPv6-ready platform with strong authentication options for secure network access and security policy compliance
• FortiGuard Subscription Services deliver automated, real-time, up-to-date protection against security threats and exploits.

Enterprise-Class Protection for Remote Offices, Retail, and Customer Premise Equipment

The FortiGate-50B/51B and FortiWiFi-50B multi-threat security platforms deliver comprehensive enterprise-class protection for smaller locations at an affordable price. The FortiGate/FortiWiFi-50 series platforms make it easy for you to protect your smaller locations, branch offices, customer premise equipment (CPE) and retail networks. With the FortiGate platforms' integrated set of essential security technologies, you can deploy a single device that protects all of your applications and data. The simple per-device pricing, integrated management console, and remote management capabilities significantly reduce your costs associated with deploying and managing complete protection.

Comprehensive Protection and Optional Internal Storage

The FortiGate multi-threat security platforms deliver an unmatched range of security technologies. They integrate firewall, IPSec and SSL VPN, antivirus, antispam, intrusion prevention and web filtering into a single device at a single price. They also include data loss prevention (DLP), application control, and endpoint NAC.

In addition, Fortinet's Global Threat Research Team is on duty around the clock and around the world, looking for any changes in the threatscape. It delivers dynamic threat updates to protect your network against emerging threats.

The FortiGate/FortiWiFi-50 series platforms specifically address many policy enforcement requirements included in government or industry regulations, such as the PCI Data Security Standard. The internal storage in the FortiGate-51B enables local caching of data for policy compliance and industry best practices. The internal storage also enables WAN optimization, which lowers your networking costs and improves your application and network performance by reducing the amount of data transmitted over your WAN.

Purpose-Built Performance and Reliability

Fortinet's purpose-built hardware and software prevent your network security from becoming your network bottleneck. FortiASIC processors maximize throughput while preventing unauthorized access and eliminating unwanted traffic from your network. The custom FortiOS operating system minimizes delays in processing your data while efficiently enforcing your policies.

Blended Security Threats Within Small Businesses and Enterprises:

Cyber crime and network attacks pose serious threats to small businesses. Intellectual property, revenue, customer and company records, and other mission critical resources are at risk. As larger companies work to increasingly lock down their networks, more and more security threats are being targeted at smaller companies. Small office/home offices (SOHO) often lack the infrastructure to meet the technical sophistication of today’s complex blended-attack methods and remote offices/branch offices (ROBO) often lack the on-site expertise to tackle such complex security issues. Point-based security appliances are inadequately equipped to protect against these types of attacks because of the multitude of attack vectors used. The Fortinet FortiGate series of SOHO and ROBO security appliances tightly integrate multi-threat protection onto a purpose-built platform to effectively block application- and network-borne attacks.

Cost-Effective Security Platform:

The Fortinet FortiGate series of security appliances deliver high performance, multi-threat protection at a compelling cost that is ideal for securing smaller locations. Complete Unified Threat Management (UTM) features including firewall, VPN, intrusion prevention, Web filtering, antispam, antivirus, antispyware, traffic shaping and IM/P2P controls prevent blended attacks or unauthorized use from interrupting business. All FortiGate devices support High Availability (HA) configurations to ensure maximum uptime. FortiGate appliances operate in either transparent or routing modes and are available with integrated multi-port switches and modems, integrated WiFi access points and PC Card slots for 3G/UMTS modems, all of which enable FortiGate devices to adapt to any network environment. Moreover, with Fortinet FortiGuard Security Subscription Services, the FortiGate-50 thru -100 Series become an affordable and easy-to-manage security solution for an enterprise’s remote/branch offices, a service provider’s customer premise equipment (CPE) or as an all-in-one solution for small-to-medium businesses.

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.

Features & Benefits:

FortiOS 4.0: Redefining Network Security

FortiOS 4.0 is the software foundation of FortiGate multi-threat security platforms. Developed solely for security, performance and reliability, it is a purposebuilt operating system that leverages power of the FortiASIC content and network processors. FortiOS software enables a comprehensive suite of security services: Firewall, VPN, intrusion prevention, antivirus/antispyware, antispam, web filtering, application control, data loss prevention, and end point network access control.

Fortinet's ASIC-Based Advantage

FortiASIC is the foundation of Fortinet's unique hardware technology. FortiASIC is a family of purpose built, high-performance network and content processors that uses an intelligent proprietary content scanning engine and multiple algorithms to accelerate compute-intensive security services. FortiASIC provides the performance required to deliver enterprise and carrier-class UTM services. Coupled with the FortiOS security hardened Operating System, FortiASIC delivers extreme performance and security.

Technical Specifications:

	FortiGate-50B	FortiGate-51B	FortiWiFi-50B
Hardware Specifications
10/100 WAN Interfaces (Copper, RJ-45)	2	2	2
10/100 Internal Switch Interfaces (Copper, RJ-45)	3	3	3
Console (Copper, RJ-45)	1	1	1
USB Interfaces	2	2	2
Internal Storage	N/A	32 GB	N/A
Wireless Standards Supported	N/A	N/A	802.11 b/g
System Performance
Firewall Throughput (1518 byte UDP packets)	100 Mbps	100 Mbps	100 Mbps
Firewall Throughput (512 byte UDP packets)	50 Mbps	50 Mbps	50 Mbps
IPSec VPN Throughput	48 Mbps	48 Mbps	48 Mbps
IPS Throughput	50 Mbps	50 Mbps	50 Mbps
Antivirus Throughput	19 Mbps	19 Mbps	19 Mbps
Gateway-to-Gateway IPSec VPN Tunnels	20	20	20
Client-to-Gateway IPSec VPN Tunnels	20	20	20
Concurrent Sessions	25,000	25,000	25,000
New Sessions/Second	2,000	2,000	2,000
Concurrent SSL-VPN Users (Recommended Max)	20	20	20
SSL-VPN Throughput	15 Mbps	15 Mbps	15 Mbps
Firewall Policies (Max)	2,000	2,000	2,000
Virtual Domains (Max / Default)	10 / 10	10 / 10	10 / 10
Unlimited User Licenses	Yes	Yes	Yes
Mean Time Between Failures	More than 5 years	More than 5 years	More than 5 years
Physical Specifications:
Dimensions (HxWxL)	1.38 x 8.63 x 5.8 in (3.51 x 21.92 x 14.73cm)	1.38 x 8.63 x 5.8 in (3.51 x 21.92 x 14.73cm)	1.38 x 8.63 x 5.8 in (3.51 x 21.92 x 14.73cm)
Weight	1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)	1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)	1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
Wall Mountable	Yes	Yes	Yes
Environment
Power Required	100-240 VAC, 50-60 Hz, 0.8 Amp (Max)	100-240 VAC, 50-60 Hz, 0.8 Amp (Max)	100-240 VAC, 50-60 Hz, 0.8 Amp (Max)
Power Consumption (AVG)	6W	6W	6W
Heat Dissipation	42 BTU	46 BTU	42 BTU
Operating Temperature	32 – 104°F (0 – 40°C)	32 – 104°F (0 – 40°C)	32 – 104°F (0 – 40°C)
Storage Temperature	-13 to 158°F (-25 to 70°C)	-13 to 158°F (-25 to 70°C)	-13 to 158°F (-25 to 70°C)
Humidity	5 to 95% non-condensing	5 to 95% non-condensing	5 to 95% non-condensing
Compliance and Certifications
Compliance	FCC Class B, UL/CUL, C Tick, CE, VCCI
Certifications	ICSA Labs: Firewall, Antivirus, SSL VPN, IPS, FIPS 140-2, Common Criteria (EAL 4+)

Antivirus performance is measured based on HTTP traffic with 32 Kbyte file attachments.
IPS performance is measured base on NSS like test methodology with 44K HTTP files.

Security Features:

FortiGate-50/51 series platforms provide the following security features:

Deployments:

FortiGate 50 series appliances are designed to secure small size offices and businesses.

Secure Wired and Wireless Gateways for Small Business

Through the integration of essential security technologies, Fortinet protects both mobile workers and workstations at SOHO and ROBO locations. To keep resources safe, Fortinet’s advanced antivirus, antispyware, antispam, and intrusion prevention systems utilize the integrated FortiASIC processor and a combination of signature and heuristic detection engines to provide multi-layered, real-time protection against a multitude of attacks. The FortiWifi series offers the ability to broadcast multiple SSIDs (Service Set Identifiers), maximizing infrastructure flexibility in multi-provider environments and conserving spectrum. Moreover, different security policies can be set for each SSID, increasing security flexibility. FortiGate 60-series models provide a PC card slot that allows a 3G/UMTS PC card to be used for secure network connectivity.

Enterprise ROBO Deployment

Workers at various remote offices are tasked with vastly different business processes: some use messaging applications while others use database applications. Sales offices that use email and IM applications are protected from blended threats that use multiple methods to attack a system: viruses that spawn dormant Trojans, rootkits, and bots, for example. Combining Fortinet’s antivirus and antispam technology with IM and P2P controls, employees are assured that email and IM messaging remain secure and won’t result in lost revenue or lost data. Application and database users, such as a remote manufacturing site, are guaranteed secure connectivity—via firewalls and VPNs—to the application servers it uses at the central office. Finally, Fortinet offers a complete management solution for centralized monitoring, reporting, logging, and analysis to ensure that remote offices remain up and running.

Managed Security Service Provider Deployment

Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) can distribute FortiGate appliances throughout their Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) deployments because of the wide array of connectivity options and the modular security architecture. Different customers can be protected in different ways, according to their needs. For example, one set of customers can be protected with a firewall and intrusion prevention system, while another can be protected with a firewall and web content filtering. MSSPs can centrally monitor and manage all customers using FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer for end-to-end reporting, logging, and even forensic analysis of security events.

Services & Support:

FortiGuard Security Subscription Services:

FortiGuard Security Subscription Services deliver dynamic, automated updates for Fortinet products. The Fortinet Global Security Research Team creates these updates to ensure up-to-date protection against sophisticated threats. Subscriptions include antivirus, intrusion prevention, web filtering, antispam, vulnerability and compliance management, application control, and database security services.

FortiCare Support Services

FortiCare Support Services provide global support for all Fortinet products and services. FortiCare support enables your Fortinet products to perform optimally. Support plans start with 8x5 Enhanced Support with "return and replace" hardware replacement or 24x7 Comprehensive Support with advanced replacement. Options include Premium Support, Premium RMA, and Professional Services. All hardware products include a 1-year limited hardware warranty and 90-day limited software warranty.

Documentation:

Download the Fortinet FortiGate-50B/51B and FortiWiFi-50B/51B Datasheet (.PDF)