Fortinet FortiGate 82C

Overview:

Today’s sophisticated threatscape challenges enterprises of all sizes. They must protect the data residing in and traveling between ROBOs, SOHOs, customer premise equipment (CPE), retail networks, and headquarters. The need to comply with continuously evolving data protection and log retention policies places additional burdens on already overloaded IT departments. Enterprises need a simple-to-install, cost-effective, and proven approach to safeguarding their distributed networks.

The FortiGate-82C is a multi-function security platform that combines essential security functions of firewall, IPSec and SSL VPN, antivirus, antispam, intrusion prevention, and web filtering into a single device. The advanced FortiOS operating system also delivers enterprise-class data loss prevention, SSL inspection, and application control.

The FortiGate-82C provides two additional benefits: WAN optimization for improved network performance, and storing of system logs and audit files for policy compliance. WAN optimization increases network performance by reducing the amount of data transmitted across a WAN. It lowers resource and bandwidth requirements, thereby reducing networking costs. The FortiGate-82C’s expandable storage eliminates the need to add storage devices for WAN optimization.

The user-expandable storage includes one terabyte of disk space. Enterprises can use the FortiGate-82C as the foundation for complying with policies requiring the storage of log files or audit records from applications, servers, and devices. This integrated, comprehensive approach to data security and storage significantly reduces the cost of deploying multiple technologies separately.

Features & Benefits:

• Ships with one terabyte (1 TB) of user-expandable storage, which facilitates policy and regulatory compliance for storing of audit files and system logs
• WAN optimization enables organizations to lower costs and improve their WAN connection performance by reducing bandwidth requirements, lowering server resource requirements, and improving network speeds
• Integrated, all-in-one security delivers enterprise-class multi-threat protection for enterprises of any size that need to protect sensitive data in remote locations, small-businesses, remote offices, and home offices
• SSL inspection provides visibility into encrypted SSL traffic, enabling policy enforcement blocking of malicious content within encrypted communications
• Data loss prevention stops the accidental or intentional communication of regulated, proprietary, or confidential data from inside the network
• Application control enables organizations to enforce application-specific policies to block unauthorized activity and rogue applications from their networks

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 loss prevention.

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)
** RAID storage requires installation of additional hard drives

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 82C Datasheet (PDF).