Fortinet FortiGate 100F
Enterprise-Grade Protection for Smaller Networks

Overview:

The FortiGate 100F series combines next generation firewall and SD-WAN capabilities for mid-sized to large enterprise distributed locations. Powered by purpose-built Secure SD-WAN ASIC, FortiGate 100F delivers optimal performance for business-critical applications along with best security effectiveness.

• Comprehensive Connectivity and Redundancy: The FortiGate 100F features an extensive array of connectivity options including 22 GE RJ45 ports, 4 SFP ports, and 2 10G SFP+ FortiLinks, backed by dual power supplies for redundancy, ensuring continuous operation and connectivity flexibility for diverse network environments.
• Enhanced Security with AI Integration: Offers advanced protection against malware, exploits, and malicious websites in both encrypted and non-encrypted traffic. Leverages AI-driven threat intelligence from FortiGuard Labs to detect and prevent both known and unknown threats, enhancing security efficacy.
• Superior Performance with Secure SD-WAN: Powered by a purpose-built Secure SD-WAN ASIC, the FortiGate 100F delivers top-notch performance, ideal for business-critical applications, while providing cost-effective and high-performance threat protection and SSL inspection.
• Robust Firewall and Threat Prevention Capabilities: Delivers industry-leading threat protection performance with ultra-low latency, capable of managing up to 1.5 million concurrent sessions and protecting networks with advanced firewall, IPS, and application control capabilities.
• Streamlined Management and Deployment: Features a simple-to-use management console for comprehensive network automation and visibility, including Zero Touch Integration with Fortinet's Security Fabric for a centralized, single-pane-of-glass management experience.
• Certified and Tested for Reliability: Independently validated for security effectiveness and performance with certifications from NSS Labs, ICSA, Virus Bulletin, and AV Comparatives, ensuring a reliable and robust security solution for mid-sized to large enterprise distributed locations.

Security

• Identifies thousands of applications inside network traffic for deep inspection and granular policy enforcement
• Protects against malware, exploits, and malicious websites in both encrypted and non-encrypted traffic
• Prevent and detect against known and unknown attacks using continuous threat intelligence from AI powered FortiGuard Labs security services

Performance

• Delivers industry’s best threat protection performance and ultra-low latency using purpose built-security processor (SPU) technology
• Provides industry-leading performance and protection for SSL encrypted traffic

Certification

• Independently tested and validated best security effectiveness and performance
• Received unparalleled third-party certifications from NSS Labs, ICSA, Virus Bulletin and AV Comparatives

Networking

• Best of Breed SD-WAN capabilities to enable application steering using WAN path control for high quality of experience
• Delivers advanced networking capabilities, high-performance, and scalable IPsec VPN capabilities to consolidate networking and security

Management

• Includes management console that’s effective, simple to use, and provides comprehensive network automation & visibility.
• Provides Zero Touch Integration with Security Fabric’s Single Pane of Glass Management
• Predefined compliance checklist analyzes the deployment and highlights best practices to improve overall security posture

Security Fabric

• Enables Fortinet and Fabric-ready partners’ products to provide broader visibility, integrated end-to-end detection, threat intelligence sharing and automated remediation
• Automatically builds Network Topology visualizations which discover IoT devices and provide complete visibility into Fortinet and Fabric-ready partner products

Deployment

Next Generation Firewall (NGFW)

• Reduce complexity by combining threat protection security capabilities into single high-performance network security appliance
• Identify and stop threats with powerful intrusion prevention beyond port and protocol that examines the actual applications in your network traffic
• Delivers industry’s highest SSL inspection performance using industry-mandated ciphers while maximizing ROI
• Proactively blocks newly discovered sophisticated attacks in real-time with advanced threat protection

Secure SD-WAN

• Secure direct Internet access for Cloud applications for improved latency and reduce WAN cost spending
• High-performance and cost-effective threat protection capabilities
• WAN Path Controller and Link Health Monitoring for better application performance
• Security Processor powered industry’s best IPsec VPN and SSL Inspection performance
• Simplified Management and Zero-Touch deployment

Dual Power Supplies

Power supply redundancy is essential in the operation of missioncritical networks. The FortiGate 100F Series offers dual built-in non-hot swappable power supplies.

Fortinet Security Fabric

Security Fabric

The Security Fabric delivers broad visibility, integrated AI-driven breach prevention, and automated operations, orchestration, and response across all Fortinet and its ecosystem deployments. It allows security to dynamically expand and adapt as more and more workloads and data are added. Security seamlessly follows and protects data, users, and applications as they move between IoT, devices, and cloud environments throughout the network. All this is ties together under a single pane of glass management for significantly thereby delivering leading security capabilities across your entire environment while also significantly reducing complexity.

FortiGates are the foundation of Security Fabric, expanding security via visibility and control by tightly integrating with other Fortinet security products and Fabric-Ready Partner solutions.

FortiOS

Control all security and networking capabilities across the entire FortiGate platform with one intuitive operating system. Reduce complexity, costs, and response time with a truly consolidated next-generation security platform.

Services

FortiGuard™ Security Services

FortiGuard Labs offers real-time intelligence on the threat landscape, delivering comprehensive security updates across the full range of Fortinet’s solutions. Comprised of security threat researchers, engineers, and forensic specialists, the team collaborates with the world’s leading threat monitoring organizations and other network and security vendors, as well as law enforcement agencies.

• A truly consolidated platform with a single OS and pane-of-glass for all security and networking services across all FortiGate platforms.
• Industry-leading protection: NSS Labs Recommended, VB100, AV Comparatives, and ICSA validated security and performance. Ability to leverage latest technologies such as deception-based security.
• Control thousands of applications, block the latest exploits, and filter web traffic based on millions of real-time URL ratings in addition to true TLS 1.3 support.
• Prevent, detect, and mitigate advanced attacks automatically in minutes with integrated AI-driven breach prevention and advanced threat protection.
• Fulfil your networking needs with extensive routing, switching, and SD-WAN capabilities along with intent-based segmentation.
• Utilize SPU hardware acceleration to boost security capability performance.

FortiCare™ Support Services

Our FortiCare customer support team provides global technical support for all Fortinet products. With support staff in the Americas, Europe, Middle East, and Asia, FortiCare offers services to meet the needs of enterprises of all sizes.

* Copper SFP module is not supported. Note: All performance values are “up to” and vary depending on system configuration.

1. IPsec VPN performance test uses AES256-SHA256.
2. IPS (Enterprise Mix), Application Control, NGFW and Threat Protection are measured with Logging enabled.
3. SSL Inspection performance values use an average of HTTPS sessions of different cipher suites.
4. NGFW performance is measured with Firewall, IPS and Application Control enabled.
5. Threat Protection performance is measured with Firewall, IPS, Application Control and Malware Protection enabled.

Documentation:

Download the Fortinet FortiGate 100F Series DataSheet (PDF).