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Consistent Security for Cloud and Virtualized Environments

Overview:

Consistent Security for Cloud and Virtualized Environments

Fortinet FortiGate VM is a cloud firewall that provides robust, consistent security across cloud and hybrid environments. By consolidating security tools into a single platform, it optimizes your security investment while improving threat response.

FortiGate VM delivers exceptional performance and security with no degradation of service or protection. As part of the Fortinet Security Fabric, it extends across clouds and distributed locations, mitigating blind spots in virtual infrastructures. FortiGate VM can be rapidly deployed, managed through a centralized platform, and offers a range of purchasing options to suit every need.

Highlights

• Protection from a broad array of threats, with support for all of the security and networking services that the FortiOS operating system offers
• Increased visibility within virtualized infrastructure monitoring
• Consistent security with central management across your entire compute infrastructure
• Move and scale your cloud firewalls without impacting business outcomes, with flexible consumption models

Platform:

FortiOS, Fortinet's Advanced Operating System

FortiOS enables the convergence of high performing networking and security across the Fortinet Security Fabric. Because it can be deployed anywhere, it delivers consistent and context-aware security posture across network, endpoint, and multi-cloud environments.

FortiOS powers all FortiGate deployments whether a physical or virtual device, as a container, or as a cloud service. This universal deployment model enables the consolidation of many technologies and use cases into a simplified, single policy and management framework. Its organically built best-of-breed capabilities, unified operating system, and ultra-scalability allows organizations to protect all edges, simplify operations, and run their business without compromising performance or protection.

FortiOS dramatically expands the Fortinet Security Fabric's ability to deliver advanced AI/ML-powered services, inline advanced sandbox detection, integrated ZTNA enforcement, and more, and provides protection across hybrid deployment models for hardware, software, and Software-as-a-Service with SASE.

FortiOS expands visibility and control, ensures the consistent deployment and enforcement of security policies, and enables centralized management across large-scale networks with the following key attributes:

• Interactive drill-down and topology viewers that display real-time status
• On-click remediation that provides accurate and quick protection against threats and abuses
• Unique threat score system correlates weighted threats with users to prioritize investigations

Advanced Virtual Security Processing Units (vSPUs)

Virtual firewalls are commonly used to protect virtualized environments in software-defined data centers and multi-cloud environments on the basis that they are the least expensive and the most portable, enabling users to easily move a virtual firewall from cloud to cloud. One disadvantage of most virtual firewalls is that they deliver significantly lower network throughput as compared with physical firewalls, creating bottlenecks throughout the network and reducing business agility and performance.

FortiGate virtual firewalls (FortiGate-VM), featuring advanced virtual security processing units (vSPUs), overcome the throughput barrier to provide top performance in private and public clouds. With FortiGate-VM, organizations can securely migrate any application and support a variety of use cases, including highly available large-scale virtual private networks (VPNs) in the cloud.

FortiGate-VM removes the cost-performance barriers to adopting virtual NGFWs, with several industry-leading features:

• The FortiGate-VM vSPU is a unique technology that enhances performance by offloading part of packet processing to user space, while using a kernel bypass solution within the operating system. With vSPU enabled, FortiGate-VM can achieve more than triple the throughput for a UDP firewall rule.
• Support for Intel QuickAssist Technology (Intel QAT), working on the latest QuickAssist Adapters, accelerates traffic processing through site-to-site IPSec VPNs. With QAT enabled, FortiGate-VM can achieve two to three times throughput improvements depending on the packet frame size.
• Fortinet is the first NGFW vendor to support AWS C5n instances, which enables organizations to use a virtual firewall to secure compute-heavy applications in the cloud.

Deployments:

Next Generation Firewall (NGFW)

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

VPN Gateway

• Direct Connect utilizing FortiGate firewalls for VPNs into and out of the VPCs
• VGW to FortiGate VPN between VPCs
• Hybrid cloud site to site IPsec VPN
• Remote access VPN

Deployment and Automation

FortiGate VM offers versatile deployment options across both public and private clouds, supporting all major public clouds including AWS, Azure, and Google as well as most hypervisors such as VMware, Hyper-V, and KVM. These deployments enable organizations to create scalable, high-performance firewalls that can be tailored to different virtualized environments and hyper-scale public cloud infrastructures. FortiGate VM integrates seamlessly with various infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Jenkins and GitLab, supporting security as code practices. Common IaC methods include Terraform modules for cloud resource orchestration, AWS CloudFormation templates, Ansible playbooks for automated configuration management, and REST API integration for fine-grained control and rapid deployment.

Cloud Integration

The FortiGate VM's deep, native integrations with public clouds empower organizations to:

• Automate security operations: Leverage cloud-native tools and serverless functions for rapid response and scaling
• Centralize visibility and analytics: Streamline log forwarding and event correlation into leading cloud SIEM and SOAR platforms
• Scale protection dynamically: Use auto scaling, load balancing, and IaC along with flexible licensing to match security capacity with business needs
• Enforce consistent policies: Integrate with cloud identity, tagging, and networking services for unified policy enforcement across environments

FortiConverter Migration Service

FortiConverter Service provides hassle-free migration to help organizations transition from a wide range of legacy firewalls to FortiGate Next-Generation Firewalls quickly and easily. The service eliminates errors and redundancy by employing best practices with advanced methodologies and automated processes. Organizations can accelerate their network protection with the latest FortiOS technology.

Specifications:

	FG-VM00	FG-VM01 / VM01V	FG-VM02 / VM02V	FG-VM04 / VM04V	FG-VM08 / VM08V	FG-VM16 / VM16V	FG-VM32 / VM32V	FG-VMUL / VMULV
Technical Specifications
vCPU Support (Minimum / Maximum)	1 / 1	1 / 1	1 / 2	1 / 4	1 / 8	1 / 16	1 / 32	1 / Unlimited
Network Interface Support (Minimum / Maximum)	1 / 10	1 / 10	1 / 10	1 / 10	1 / 10	1 / 10	1 / 10	1 / 10
Memory Support (Minimum / Maximum)	1 GB / 2 GB	1 GB / 2 GB	1 GB / 4 GB	1 GB / 6 GB	1 GB / 12 GB	1 GB / 24 GB	1 GB / 48 GB	1 GB / Unlimited
Storage Support (Minimum / Maximum)	32 GB / 2 TB	32 GB / 2 TB	32 GB / 2 TB	32 GB / 2 TB	32 GB / 2 TB	32 GB / 2 TB	32 GB / 2 TB	32 GB / 2 TB
Wireless Access Points Controlled (Tunnel / Global)	32 / 32	32 / 64	256 / 512	256 / 512	1,024 / 4,096	1,024 / 4,096	1,024 / 4,096	1,024 / 4,096
Virtual Domains (Default / Maximum)	1 / 1	1 / 10	10 / 25	10 / 50	10 / 250	10 / 500	10 / 500	10 / 500
Firewall Policies (VDOM / System)	5,000	20,000 / 40,000	50,000 / 100,000	50,000 / 100,000	50,000 / 100,000	50,000 / 100,000	50,000 / 100,000	50,000 / 100,000
Maximum Number of FortiTokens	1,000	1,000	1,000	5,000	5,000	5,000	5,000	5,000
Maximum Number of Registered Endpoints	N/A	2,000	2,000	8,000	20,000	20,000	20,000	20,000
Unlimited User License	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
System Performance
Firewall Throughput (UDP Packets, SR-IOV Enabled)	-	9.0 Gbps	11.5 Gbps	15.0 Gbps	20.0 Gbps	25.0 Gbps	-	-
Concurrent Sessions (TCP)	-	1.0 Million	2.6 Million	4.3 Million	8.5 Million	18.0 Million	38.0 Million	-
New Sessions / Second (TCP)	-	85,000	100,000	125,000	150,000	175,000	200,000	-
IPsec VPN Throughput (AES256+SHA1, 512 Byte)	-	850 Mbps	1.15 Gbps	2.65 Gbps	5.2 Gbps	6.25 Gbps	6.85 Gbps	-
Gateway-to-Gateway IPsec VPN Tunnels	-	2,000	2,000	2,000	40,000	40,000	40,000	-
Client-to-Gateway IPsec VPN Tunnels	-	6,000	12,000	20,000	40,000	50,000	64,000	-
SSL-VPN Throughput	-	500 Mbps	750 Mbps	1.5 Gbps	3.5 Gbps	6.0 Gbps	7.3 Gbps	-
Concurrent SSL-VPN Users (Recommended Maximum)	-	1,000	2,000	4,500	10,000	25,000	40,000	-
IPS Throughput (HTTP / Enterprise Mix)1	-	3.0 Gbps / 950 Mbps	4.4 Gbps / 1.7 Gbps	7.5 Gbps / 3.0 Gbps	13.5 Gbps / 5.5 Gbps	16.5 Gbps / 9.5 Gbps	18.3 Gbps / 15.5 Gbps	-
Application Control Throughput2	-	1.5 Gbps	2.6 Gbps	4.0 Gbps	8.0 Gbps	11.0 Gbps	14.0 Gbps	-
NGFW Throughput3	-	550 Mbps	1.3 Gbps	2.2 Gbps	4.0 Gbps	5.5 Gbps	11.0 Gbps	-
Threat Protection Throughput4	-	450 Mbps	1.0 Gbps	1.7 Gbps	3.2 Gbps	4.5 Gbps	8.8 Gbps	-
CAPWAP Throughput5	-	1.0 Gbps	1.6 Gbps	2.4 Gbps	-	-	-	-

1. IPS performance is measured using 1 Mbyte HTTP and Enterprise Traffic Mix.
2. Application Control performance is measured with 64 Kbytes HTTP traffic.
3. NGFW performance is measured with IPS and Application Control enabled, based on Enterprise Traffic Mix.
4. Threat Protection performance is measured with IPS and Application Control and Malware protection enabled, based on Enterprise Traffic Mix.

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.

Network and File Security

Services provide protection against network-based and file-based threats. This consists of Intrusion Prevention (IPS) which uses AI/ML models to perform deep packet/SSL inspection to detect and stop malicious content, and apply virtual patching when a new vulnerability is discovered. It also includes Anti-Malware for defense against known and unknown file-based threats. Anti-malware services span both antivirus and file sandboxing to provide multi-layered protection and are enhanced in real-time with threat intelligence from FortiGuard Labs. Application Control enhances security compliance and offers real-time application visibility.

Web / DNS Security

Services provide protection against web-based threats including DNS-based threats, malicious URLs (including even in emails), and botnet/command and control communications. DNS filtering provides full visibility into DNS traffic while blocking high-risk domains, and protects against DNS tunneling, DNS infiltration, C2 server ID and Domain Generation Algorithms (DGA). URL filtering leverages a database of 300M+ URLs to identify and block links to malicious sites and payloads. IP Reputation and anti-botnet services prevent botnet communications, and block DDoS attacks from known sources.

SaaS and Data Security

Services address numerous security use cases across application usage as well as overall data security. This consists of Data Leak Prevention (DLP) which ensures data visibility, management and protection (including blocking exfiltration) across networks, clouds, and users, while simplifying compliance and privacy implementations. Separately, our Inline Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) service protects data in motion, at rest, and in the cloud. The service enforces major compliance standards and manages account, user and cloud application usage. Services also include capabilities designed to continually assess your infrastructure, validate that configurations are working effectively and secure, and generate awareness of risks and vulnerabilities that could impact business operations. This service includes coverage across IoT devices for both IoT detection and IoT vulnerability correlation.

Zero-Day Threat Prevention

Zero-day threat prevention entails Fortinet’s AI-based inline malware prevention, our most advanced sandbox service, to analyze and block unknown files in real-time, offering sub-second protection against zero-day and sophisticated threats across all NGFWs. The service also has a built-in MITRE ATT&CK® matrix to accelerate investigations. The service focuses on comprehensive defense by blocking unknown threats while streamlining incident response efforts and reducing security overhead.

OT Security

The service provides OT detection, OT vulnerability correlation, virtual patching, OT signatures, and industry-specific protocol decoders for overall robust defense of OT environments and devices.

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.

Documentation:

Download the Fortinet FortiGate Virtual Appliance Series Datasheet (.PDF)