Fortinet, a pioneer and global provider of unified threat management (UTM) solutions, has announced that leading market research firm Butler Group, a Datamonitor company, has published a positive technology audit on Fortinet's FortiGate family of multi-threat network security appliances, recognising it as an unrivalled integrated network security solution.
Butler Group's industry-leading Technology Evaluation and Comparison Reports deliver the organisation's thought leadership, independent opinion and best practice through in-depth technical analysis, supported by comprehensive technology audits, product comparisons and rankings.
Butler Group made the following observations about the FortiGate product line in its technology audit:
* Unlike most of its competitors, Fortinet delivers a completely homegrown and integrated set of hardware and software products.
* A fully featured set of eight security software applications is available (firewall, anti-virus, anti-spam, web filtering, SSL & IPSec VPN, traffic shaping & application control, intrusion prevention).
* Virtualisation is already catered for within the FortiGate offering.
* The company retains a refreshingly strong technical product development ethos.
"Today, many organisations are reviewing their current security commitments with a view to consolidating their efforts around a smaller, more integrated set of product and service providers," said Andrew Kellett, senior research analyst at Butler Group. "We find Fortinet's integrated network security strategy to be a relevant and effective security approach that is essential in the fight to provide cost-effective protection to enterprises and other business operations. It would be difficult to find a competing vendor whose range of secure and integrated hardware and software solutions could match the Fortinet portfolio."
In its technology audit, Butler Group validates the fact that FortiGate appliances are designed specifically to address the needs of high-performance, high-throughput operating environments by providing network security functions at multi-gigabit per second data rates. In support of the need for a dynamic throughput approach, Fortinet's FortiGate security platform embeds FortiASIC processors that provide content analysis and scanning capabilities, as well as acceleration for firewall and encryption/decryption.
Butler Group also reviewed Fortinet's security virtualisation capabilities, which add value in a number of different operating environments, specifically for service providers - Internet service providers (ISPs) and content service providers (CSPs). The report states that across its product portfolio, Fortinet's dynamic approach to virtualisation supports the manageability of multiple domains and brings with it the scalability and performance to support literally thousands of virtual networks.
"Since our inception, Fortinet has developed our products with a vision for high-performance integrated multi-threat security to address the complexity of Internet threats and the strong requirements of our customers in terms of security, performance and TCO," said Ken Xie, founder, president and CEO of Fortinet. "Butler Group's technology audit further validates our product and sales strategy, recognising our market leadership for integrated network security."
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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, anti-virus, 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, Anti-virus, IPSec, SSL, Network IPS and Anti-Spam). Fortinet is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California.
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