Fortinet FortiGate 51B

Overview:

The FortiGate-51B appliance offers complete security and high performance for small and medium enterprises, remote offices, branch offices, and customer premise equipment networks. 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.

Taking advantage of the new FortiOS 4.0 operating system, the FG-51B boasts data leakage prevention, identity-based policies, IPS enhancements, and application control to offer protection against Web 2.0 threats and evasive applications and users. Shipping with a built-in solid state disk drive, the FG-51B also supports the new WAN Optimization features of FortiOS 4.0. This WAN Optimization functionality increases network performance by reducing the amount of communication and data transmitted between applications and servers across a WAN.

FortiGate 51B Benefits:

• WAN Optimization-enabled to reduce data transmissions between remote offices, reducing bandwidth requirements and server resource requirements for improved network speeds and reduced costs.
• Local hard disk drive facilitates compliance through local logging and quarantine, with auditable logs stored locally.
• Integrated, all-in-one security delivers enterprise-class multi-threat protection for small-businesses, remote offices, and home offices.
• Dual WAN links for redundant ISP connections deliver higher availability with load balancing and failover, and bring scalability and reliability to telecommuters and SOHO applications.
• Three internal switch ports eliminate need for additional hub, reducing equipment investment and management burden.

In order to comply with legislation and secure the valuable data traversing networks, small and medium enterprises (SME), remote offices and branch offices (ROBO), and customer premise equipment (CPE) networks need a security solution that integrates multiple attack recognition technologies into a single device. With limited budgets and modest remote resources, these smaller networks desire a cost effective solution that is simple to install, connect and maintain. Just as importantly, networks are ever-expanding and need a solution that leaves them with room to grow over time. Ideally, these networks could avoid the installation and maintenance complexities of numerous point products by combining multiple networking and security technologies into a single device.

The FortiGate-51B and FortiGate-111C are multi-function security devices that protect and connect remote and branch offices, retail networks, and telecommuters to centralized headquarter or regional offices. The FG-51B and FG-111C combine firewall, IPSec and SSL VPN, antivirus, antispam, intrusion prevention and web filtering into a single device to reduce the management costs and complexities of deploying each of these technologies independently. Taking advantage of the recently introduced FortiOS 4.0 operating system, the FG-51B and FG-111C also boast data leakage prevention, identity-based policies, IPS enhancements, and application control to offer protection against Web 2.0 threats and evasive applications and users. Because both of these FortiGate models ship with a built-in solid state disk drive, they can also support the new WAN Optimization features of FortiOS 4.0. This WAN Optimization functionality increases network performance by reducing the amount of communication and data transmitted between applications and servers across a WAN. In addition to the simplicity of uniting multiple ICSA-Labs certified security technologies on a single device, the FortiGate-51B and FortiGate-111C leverage the power of FortiOS 4.0 to reduce resource and bandwidth requirements and save networking costs.

Features & Benefits:

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.

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 purpose-built operating system that leverages power of the FortiASIC content and network processors. FortiOS enables a comprehensive suite of security services – content inspection firewall, IPS, antivirus, web filtering, antispam, IM/P2P, virtual network security and bandwidth shaping. Recent improvements to FortiOS include identity-based policies, IPS enhancements, application control, WAN optimization, and data leakage prevention.

The Fortinet Product Family The FortiGate-51B and FortiGate-111C multi-function security appliances protect and connect ROBO, SMB and CPE networks, and are complemented by additional members of the FortiGate multi-threat security appliance family, the FortiDB database security family, the FortiWeb web security family, the FortiMail email security family, the FortiClient endpoint security family, and the FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer centralized management, reporting and logging solutions.

Technical Specifications:

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:

Available:

• 24/7/365 FortiCare Web-based support
• 24x7 telephone-based technical support
• 1-year limited hardware warranty
• Technical account management service
• Professional services
• 90-day limited software warranty

Documentation:

Download the Fortinet FortiGate 51B/111C Datasheet (PDF).