UNCOVERING THE LAYERS
risks. Additionally, FortiGate 1800F
intelligently adapts to segmented
users, devices and applications –
regardless of their location, whether
on-premise or in multiple clouds –
providing automated threat detection
and enforcement.
• Accelerating the cloud on-ramp:
IPsec encryption must be high
performing to enable and accelerate
the cloud on-ramp for organisations
adopting multiple clouds for IaaS and
SaaS services. FortiGate 1800F offers
the highest Security Compute Rating
of 14x for IPsec encryption when
benchmarked against competitors,
enabling the required speed, scale
and availability organisations need
when on-ramping to the cloud.
• Removing blind spots: With as
much as 60% of encrypted traffic
containing malware, SSL inspection
performance has become critical
to properly secure the network.
FortiGate 1800F offers the industry’s
highest SSL inspection performance
with a Security Compute Rating
of 20x, as well as support for the
industry’s latest TLS 1.3 standard,
to eliminate network blind spots by
enabling full visibility of clear-text and
encrypted network flows.
• Securing services across hybrid
architectures: Traditional softwarebased
security solutions have low
performance and high latency, which
increases time to service and provides
a poor user experience. The FortiGate
1800F’s hardware-accelerated Virtual
Extension LAN (VXLAN) feature
enables massively scalable, adaptable
internal segmentation and allows
super-fast communication between
enormously scaled services such as
compute, storage and applications
that are co-hosted on physical
and virtual platforms. This allows
organisations that leverage a highly
scalable virtual services architecture
to launch services and applications in
the most agile fashion possible
to increase productivity and
revenue opportunities.
• Enabling secure advanced research:
Organisations often transition their
research to AI and ML simulations to
allow for faster discovery of their
objectives. For example,
pharmaceuticals can measure the
effectiveness of new drugs or
develop drugs faster with reduced
risks and potentially with lower costs.
AI/ML simulations require the transfer
of huge datasets (e.g. 1 TB files),
called an elephant flow, that today’s
data centres struggle to securely
transfer, bringing research and
collaboration to a crawl. The
performance capabilities of FortiGate
1800F allow research organisations to
perform Big Data analysis and
natural language processing at
unprecedented speeds where a
single elephant flow can reach up to
40Gbps. Just as important, with
FortiGate 1800F NGFWs, these
elephant flows are secured using
high-performance encryption to
ensure privacy and compliance.
Fortinet’s commitment
to industry-leading
segmentation solutions
In the September 2019 Gartner report,
Critical Capabilities for Network Firewalls,
Fortinet received the highest score
for the ‘Enterprise Data Center’ use
case. The score includes parameters
associated with ‘firewalls protecting the
enterprise data centre, and firewalls
doing segmentation inside the enterprise
data center’. Fortinet believes this result
highlights its dedication to helping
customers manage internal risks with
industry-leading segmentation solutions.
With the introduction of its FortiGate
1800Fand NP7, Fortinet is well positioned
to even further help customers meet
these escalating business needs.
NP7 secures tomorrow’s
hyperscale data centres
The adoption of digital innovation has
ushered in an era of huge transformation
within data centres. To remain competitive
in this era of explosive demands for
unprecedented scale, availability and
application delivery requirements, some
of the largest enterprises in the world
are developing hyperscale architectures
within their data centres that are capable
of rapidly expanding to millions of
physical and virtual instances in order to
meet massive demand. With unmatched
scale, performance, acceleration and
internal segmentation capabilities, the
speed and agility that NP7 offers provides
these large organisations the ability to
develop and segment services, manage
internal and external risks and preserve
user experience. NP7 will also power
future FortiGate appliances to enable
agile, high-performance security for
hyperscale data centres. ◊
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