Fortinet Receives Recommended Rating in NSS Labs Data Center Intrusion Prevention System Test Report

Fortinet announced the results from NSS Labs’ annual data Center Intrusion Prevention System test report. The testing revealed that both Fortinet's FortiGate IPS 3000D and FortiGateIPS 7060E excelled in the areas of performance, the total cost of ownership, and security effectiveness, and as a result received NSS Labs' coveted 'Recommended' rating.

• TheFortiGateIPS 3000D delivered the highest combination of Security Effectiveness and Value per protected Megabit Per Second (Mbps) in the NSS Labs Security Value Map (SVM) for Data Center Intrusion Prevention Systems (DCIPS).
• The FortiGateIPS 3000Dwas demonstrated to exceed the IPS throughput guaranteed in its datasheet.
• The FortiGateIPS 3000D blocked 98.73% of exploits and 100% of evasions.
• NSS Labs' Data Center IPS report provides the industry’s most comprehensive test results for effectiveness and performance for security appliances protecting today’s complex and high-performance data centre environments. It plays a critical role in helping customers evaluate and select the best solutions for their data centre environments based on real-world results.

SecuringModern Data Centers at Scale
Today’s digital business model depends on the collection, processing, and distribution of data. Increasing demands for real-time information are being fueled by the growth of IoT, consumer and user-based applications, and Big Data, all of which are having an impact on the data centre. To compete effectively, organizations are deploying high-performance data centre architectures coupled with cloud scalability.

These dynamic and increasingly hybrid environments require security solutions that not only can keep up with their increasing volume of traffic, but also secure a mix of traffic types, such as IPv4 and IPv6 or the growing volume of SSL-encrypted traffic, as well as tracks and manage unique data centre challenges such as asymmetric traffic.

At the same time, cyberattacks are becoming increasingly effective at evading detection, which means that today’s data centres also require advanced intrusion prevention system (IPS) capabilities that can identify and stop sophisticated threats at line speeds.

Fortinet’s FortiGate solutions are designed to deliver the high throughput and granular security effectiveness required for today’s elastic and distributed data centres. To accomplish this, FortiGate solutions leverage patented security and network processors to deliver high-performance security combined with single-digit application traffic latency to protect both IPv4 and IPv6 traffic.

Whether delivering IPS throughputs of nearly 30 Gbps on the FortiGate IPS 3000D, or over 130 Gbps on the 7060E, FortiGateIPS appliances are able to meet critical network performance demands without compromising the demand for comprehensive data centre security.

DCIPS Test Report Highlights for the FortiGate IPS 3000D

• Exploit Block Rate: 98.73%
• Evasions Blocked: 100%
• IPS Protected Throughput: IPv4 –28,743 Mbps, IPv6 – 24,756 Mbps

Fortinet Delivers a Security Fabric built around NSS Labs Recommended Solutions

Fortinet solutions consistently demonstrated superior security effectiveness, advanced features and superior performance when put to the test. Fortinet’s commitment to testing and validation has resulted in nine Fortinet solutions earning NSS Recommended ratings across eight different group tests:

• Data Center Intrusion Prevention Systems: FortiGate 7060E and FortiGate 3000
• Data Center Security Gateway: FortiGate 7060E and FortiGate 3000
• Breach Prevention Systems: FortiSandbox Cloud, FortiGate 600D, FortiMail Virtual Appliance, and FortiClient
• Next-Generation Intrusion Prevention System: FortiGate 600D
• Breach Detection Systems: FortiSandbox 2000E and FortiClient
• Next-Generation Firewall: FortiGate 3200D and FortiGate 600D
• Web Application Firewall: FortiWeb 3000E
• Advanced Endpoint Protection: FortiClient