New Fortinet Firewall Gives Networking Convergence Across Hybrid IT

Fortinet which works in broad, integrated and automated cybersecurity solutions, has announced the FortiGate 3000F, the latest Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) powered by Fortinet’s purpose-built NP7 and CP9 security processing units (SPU) to support organizations in building hybrid IT architectures that accelerate digital innovation and fuel business growth. With built-in network and security convergence, dynamic network segmentation, automation and natively integrated Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) capabilities, this firewall enables ultra-scalable, security-driven networks that seamlessly converge networking and security without compromising security performance. FortiGate 3000F also offers the highest performance figures in the industry with Security Compute Ratings of up to 6x greater connections per second than competitive offerings.

Organisations today must balance the pressure to accelerate digital innovation and ensure critical applications meet certain compliance, performance, control, and strategic business needs. In fact, because of these challenges, “customised and legacy applications — about 55% of enterprise applications — are only very slowly migrating to cloud-based options.” Organisations instead are developing hybrid IT architectures, comprised of data centers, campuses, interconnecting branches, home offices, and multi-cloud deployments. This has led to an expanded attack surface, creating a perfect storm for bad actors to launch cybersecurity attacks. This firewall helps secure the datacentre and hybrid IT architectures in the following ways.

FortiGate NGFWs deliver industry-leading enterprise security for any edge at any scale with full visibility and threat protection. Organizations can weave security deep into the hybrid IT architecture and build security-driven networks to achieve:

• Ultra-fast security, end to end
• Consistent real-time defense with FortiGuard Services
• Excellent user experience with security processing units
• Operational efficiency and automated workflows

The firewall enables high performance and dynamic Internal segmentation, and elephant flows that provide secure high-speed cloud on ramps. With high-performance IPsec encryption capabilities, enterprises can build massively scalable remote access solutions.