Fortinet Beefs Up Enterprise Security Management Capabilities
Fortinet® – a market-leading network security provider
and worldwide leader of unified threat management (UTM) solutions – today
announced enhancements to its centralised security management portfolio with
the new software release of FortiManager™ 4.0 and FortiAnalyzer™ 4.0, which
significantly improve the enterprise management capabilities of Fortinet’s
FortiGate® multi-threat security appliances.
FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer appliances provide a
single hub for network and security administrators to define, deploy, monitor
and manage Fortinet security devices. They also provide the means to oversee
security events, perform forensic analysis and generate fully customisable
graphical reports that detail the security posture of an enterprise network.
The new software releases for FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer platforms deliver
improved performance, scalability and usability.
Charles Cote, Fortinet regional director for Australia
and New Zealand commented, “When you are trying to manage the security of a
large organisation, the last thing you want to do is manually tinker with
settings on individual devices. FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer are designed to
work together to greatly streamline administration and automate reporting for
your security infrastructure. This allows organisations to reduce ongoing
running costs, and proactively detect vulnerabilities before they are
exploited.”
FortiManager 4.0 and FortiAnalyzer 4.0 offer the
following new enhancements:
• Improvements
in the performance and scalability of FortiManager 4.0 software which allow
administrators to deploy and manage thousands of FortiGate devices within the
network and from a single FortiManager platform.
• New
centralised policy management features greatly reduce the effort required to
manage large numbers of devices using FortiManager 4.0
• Improved
disaster recovery features, including support for fully redundant and
geographically separate FortiManager devices. This allows the security
infrastructure to be effectively managed in the event of a major disaster or
outage.
• Improved
vulnerability management, including automatic correlation of vulnerabilities
with security policy using FortiAnalyzer 4.0. Reporting tools not only discover
vulnerabilities, but also provide guidance on adjusting the security policy of
Fortinet devices to protect against those vulnerabilities. The new VM component
is kept up to date through Fortinet’s FortiGuard® Vulnerability Management
Service.
“The growing adoption of FortiGate integrated security
appliances among large-scale enterprise and carrier customers required us to
incorporate advanced functionality on our management and analysis platforms to
meet the evolving demands and complexities of these environments,” said Anthony
James, vice president, products, Fortinet.
“FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer 4.0 are industrial
strength products that enable network administrators greater functionality and
performance in an elegant, centralised solution.”
Pricing & Availability:
Version 4.0 of both FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer are
immediately available at no additional charge to current FortiManager and
FortiAnalyzer customers with valid support contracts.
Fortinet products are distributed in Australia by Ingram
Micro, WhiteGold Solutions and Firewall Systems. Australian pricing for
FortiManager-400B starts from $12,899 ex GST, and with FortiAnalyzer-100C
starting from $1,899 ex GST.
Fortinet products are distributed in New Zealand by
Ingram Micro and Firewall Systems. New Zealand pricing for FortiManager-400B
starts from $16,399 ex GST, and with FortiAnalyzer-100C starting from $2,399 ex
GST.
About Fortinet (www.fortinet.com)
Fortinet is the pioneer and leading provider of
ASIC-accelerated unified threat management, or UTM, security systems, which are
used by enterprises and service providers to increase their security while
reducing total operating costs. Fortinet solutions were built from the ground
up to integrate multiple levels of security protection--including firewall, antivirus,
intrusion prevention, VPN, spyware prevention and anti-spam -- designed to help
customers protect against network and content level threats. Leveraging a
custom ASIC and unified interface, Fortinet solutions offer advanced security
functionality that scales from remote office to chassis-based solutions with
integrated management and reporting. Fortinet solutions have won multiple
awards around the world and are the only security products that are certified
in six programs by ICSA Labs: (Firewall, Antivirus, IPSec, SSL, Network IPS and
Anti-Spam). Fortinet is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California.
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