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With over 1.7 million units shipped and more than 210,000 customers worldwide, including most of the Fortune Global 100, Fortinet continues to cement its position as one of the world’s preeminent network security vendors. This is backed up with Fortinet partners on every continent, Fortinet offices in more than 30 countries and a 24/7 global support organisation encompassing FortiCare services and FortiGuard threat research and response capabilities.

With Fortinet’s FortiGate-VM, RAD’s D-NFV engine offers its service provider customers a comprehensive virtual security platform for protection from a broad array of threats across physical, virtual and hybrid environments. These features, deployed according to customers’ needs, include antivirus, firewall, VPN, intrusion prevention (IPS), antispam, antispyware, Web filtering and traffic shaping amongst others. The robust security solution is also available for mission-critical communications such as required by power utilities and public transportation.

The Critical Infrastructure Challenge

Actions Threat Intelligence and Network Security vendors must take in order to protect against new threats:

As an example, containment of contaminated devices is a huge issue for customers, particularly when the compromise is characterized by Fortinet’s High performance Next Generation Firewall, as an Advanced Threat that could lead to a data breach. FortiGate appliances derive intelligence from FortiGuard threat intelligence research services, and FortiSandbox analytics, resulting in a coordinated hyper performance system for defeating advanced threats. In HP SDN environments, FortiGate appliances or virtual machines (VMs) could proactively instruct the HP VAN controller to contain such infected endpoints at the closest switch in an automated programmable way. This would significantly reduce the risk of threat proliferation and data theft, without any incremental investment required for containment technologies.

Looming Threats for Holiday Shoppers:

"As more and more enterprise customers incorporate cloud deployments into their overall infrastructure, there is a fundamental effect on how network security is designed and deployed,” said Chris Sharp, vice president of cloud innovation at Equinix. “As businesses move more and more sensitive data to cloud infrastructures, the addition of Fortinet’s proven, carrier-class solutions to our Cloud Exchange will enable large global customers to deploy a robust virtualized security infrastructure without compromising performance.”

In April 2013, Telefónica inaugurated the largest data center in Europe at the Alcalá de Henares Science and Technology Park (TecnoAlcalá). This data center is classified as Tier IV Gold by the Uptime Institute, recognizing its highest level of availability and IT efficiency. The Alcala data center offers cloud computing and mass processing services to businesses, while also hosting internal IT infrastructures owned by Telefónica Global Technology (TGT).

On November 3rd, FortiGuard researchers reported an updated version of “Backoff”, dubbed ROM, which performed many of the same functions as its predecessor, but leveraged a slew of new techniques that made the threat more difficult to detect and analyze. This version circumvented security controls by disguising itself as a media player with the file name mplayer.exe and dropping a file in the user’s Application Data folder.

In addition, FortiSandbox features tighter integrations with an array of established Fortinet security products, including FortiMail, which is now able to hold messages for sandbox inspection and then subsequently act on the results. This enhancement complements numerous existing integrations between FortiSandbox, FortiGate and other Fortinet products.