Fortinet, a global provider of unified threat management (UTM) solutions, has announced that leading managed security services providers (MSSPs) are turning to Fortinet for scalable, flexible and high-performance consolidated network security solutions.
Fortinet's FortiGate integrated security platform, along with the company's sophisticated management, logging and reporting appliances, are ideally-suited to meet the varied needs of all types of MSSPs.
MSSPs such as Belgacom, NTT Europe Online and Orange Business Services have chosen Fortinet solutions as the basis for providing an array of managed security services to address the security needs of their customers while saving on both capital and operational expenses.
Whether they leverage Fortinet's extensive range of security appliances or the unique virtualisation capabilities of its chassis-based systems, MSSPs benefit from multi-layer security, ASIC-accelerated performance and modular scalability, enabling them to optimise their deployment and management costs.
MSSPs operating a centralised architecture, like N9uf Cegetel, require highly scalable performing security solutions to cope with real-time service delivery for their entire customer portfolio.
The chassis-based FortiGate-5000 Series is ideally suited to this scenario as it provides multi-gigabit performance and a full suite of security modules enabling the implementation and delivery of a wide range of security services - including firewall, anti-virus, intrusion prevention, VPN, Web filtering, anti-spam and traffic shaping - which can be combined based on customers' specific requirements. FortiGate-5000 Series virtualisation capabilities enable the concurrent service and management of up to 3 500 separate customer domains per chassis. As a result, customer services can be customised 'on demand' to access any combination of Fortinet's security applications.
"With Fortinet, we can deliver our customers various combinations of security functions as a real-time service - all from a single appliance," said Laurent Jacquet, marketing director for enterprise products at N9uf Cegetel. "What the end-customer experiences is a seamless, effective and reliable choice of security services, while we enjoy the best potential returns from our business model with a platform that can scale as our customer base grows."
In scenarios where Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) is remotely deployed, Fortinet offers a complete range of security appliances which provides tightly integrated security capabilities and flexibility to the end-user.
"Only Fortinet could demonstrate a commitment to the performance requirements our customers demand while delivering a full range of security services, easily tailored for various types of customers," said Avel Alvarez, Internet services manager at R Cable, the Galician service provider. "With FortiGate systems as CPE, our customers benefit from a comprehensive technology approach and we benefit from simplified, centralised management and maintenance of our security services."
Fortinet also offers MSSPs other valuable solutions and services. The FortiAnalyzer appliance is key to any MSSP security offering as it securely aggregates and analyses log data from FortiGate security appliances to provide MSSPs' with a comprehensive view of network usage and security information - including traffic, event, virus, attack, Web filtering and e-mail filtering data. FortiAnalyzer also provides advanced security management functions such as quarantine archiving, event correlation, vulnerability assessments, traffic analysis and content archiving.
In parallel, Fortinet's FortiManager is a centralised management platform that allows MSSPs to deploy security services to thousands of customers and eases the administrative efforts required to deploy, configure, monitor and maintain a full range of network protection services. At last, the FortiGuard subscription services enable MSSPs to deliver real-time security updates to their customers as a managed service in order to ensure continuous protection against the latest Internet threats.
"MSSPs have been around for more than a decade now, but it's only now that we're seeing a demand from the enterprise for such services," said Perry Hutton, Fortinet manager for Sub-Sahara Africa. "In order to build a successful and profitable business model, MSSPs have to look closely at their deployment and management costs while giving visibility to their clients on results. Fortinet's broad security platform, along with our analysis and reporting tools, have been developed to meet those specific requirements."
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