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Independent testing firm NSS Labs
“Recommends” the FortiGate-1500D and FortiGate-3600C for their stability and
reliability, policy enforcement and threat detection
Dubai, UAE, October 2, 2014 – Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT) – a
global leader in high-performance network security, today
announced that the FortiGate-1500D and FortiGate-3600C demonstrated best value
for performance, with the lowest price per protected Mbps of throughput in
real-world comparative analysis conducted by third party testing firm NSS Labs.
Both products exceeded all benchmarks, earning a “Recommended” rating from NSS
Labs.
In comparative tests against other
vendors’ products, both the FortiGate-1500D and FortiGate-3600C earned these designations
for stability and reliability, application control, firewall policy
enforcement, identity awareness, malware evasion detection, throughput
performance and TCP connections.
An NSS Labs “Recommended” rating
indicates that a product has exhibited strong performance
and deserves serious consideration by end user customers. As an independent,
third-party testing firm, NSS Labs reserves its “Recommended” rating for only
the top technical products, regardless of vendor market share, size or
marketing efforts.
“Our customers and partners are
looking for high-performance, next-generation security that won’t slow down
their business or break their budget. They also require robust, highly
effective solutions in order to defend themselves from new crops of
sophisticated attacks. In a market awash with hype, they look to third-party
experts for vendor neutral guidance. NSS Labs sets the industry gold standard for
testing the security, performance and overall value of enterprise-class next-generation
firewalls,” said Tamir Hardof, vice president of product marketing for
Fortinet. “As demonstrated by both our FortiGate-1500D
and FortiGate-3600C, Fortinet FortiGate appliances continue to meet and exceed the
high security standards set by NSS Labs, while delivering the best security
value.”
NSS Labs “Recommends” FortiGate-1500D, FortiGate-3600C
NSS Labs found that the
FortiGate-1500D and FortiGate-3600C successfully passed 100 percent of tests gauging
stability and reliability, while detecting all anti-evasion techniques and
enforcing all tested security policies related to Firewall Policy Enforcement,
Application Security and user/group Identity Aware Policies.
“Integrating the FortiGate-1500D
with the Active Directory implementation was simple and intuitive,” according
to the NSS Labs report. “Testing verified that the FortiGate-1500D correctly
enforced complex outbound and inbound policies consisting of multiple rules,
objects, and applications. NSS engineers verified that the device successfully
identified the users and groups and took the appropriate action based upon the
firewall policy.”
NSS Labs found that in general, the
high-performance FortiGate-3600C exceeded expectations for throughput
performance. “The Fortinet FortiGate-3600C is rated by NSS at 17,050 Mbps,
which is higher than the vendor claimed performance (Fortinet rates this device
at 14,000 Mbps.),” according to the NSS Labs report.
“Independent, third-party tests are
critical resources for partners in determining the reliability, performance
capabilities, feature set and overall value of a product, which we can in turn
leverage to help our customers make better informed decisions about their
network security options,” said Ron Ben-Yishay, CEO of DynTek Services, Inc.
“Fortinet has met these high industry standards with its FortiGate-1500D and
FortiGate-3600C, demonstrating its continued commitment to the needs of its
customers by balancing high-performance security with strong value- a hallmark for which
all FortiGate appliances are known.”
In addition, NSS Labs’ analysis
found that both solutions maintained high exploit block rates. The FortiGate-1500D
successfully blocked 94.1 percent of exploits, including 97 percent of attacks
against server applications and 91.8 percent of attacks against client
applications. The FortiGate-3600C blocked 96.3 percent of exploits, including
98.3 percent of attacks against server applications, and 94.7 percent of
attacks against client applications.
“We deployed next generation firewalls to
better protect our intellectual property and employees, so the effectiveness of
security technologies and the performance to run them in our production
environment were key reasons we selected the FortiGate 1500D,” said Laz Corrales,
director, Global Security Organization for Citrix. “Having evaluated many
products as part of our selection process, we highly recommend to all
enterprises before making a security selection that they consider real-world
testing- testing themselves or with the help of credible third parties like NSS
Labs.”
For more
information, the full product analysis reports for the FortiGate-1500D, the FortiGate-3600C,
and the Security Value Map, are available for download. http://www.fortinet.com/resource_center/whitepapers/nss-labs-annual-next-generation-firewall-results-2014.html
About
the FortiGate-1500D
The FortiGate-1500D
high-performance next generation firewall provides enterprises with unparalleled
price/performance in a flexible appliance form factor to accommodate an array
of deployment scenarios, including data center and campus edge.
The FortiGate-1500D achieves 80 Gbps of firewall throughput as well as 10 Gbps of next generation
intrusion prevention and application control performance, representing a speed
five times faster than competitive next-generation firewalls. The custom
hardware incorporates the latest FortiASIC NP6 and CP8 content processors, which allow for accelerated content
inspection and the ability to offload encryption/decryption. The solution is
powered by FortiOS 5,
the industry's most advanced network security operating system and foundation for all network security
platforms.
About the FortiGate-3600C
The FortiGate-3600C
next generation firewall offers exceptional performance and deployment
flexibility, along with advanced security features, for the most demanding
network environments. The 30 high speed
ports and 60 Gbps of firewall/14 Gbps of next generation intrusion prevention
throughput make the FortiGate-3600C ideal for high-traffic networks requiring
excessive bandwidth.
Availability
The
FortiGate-1500D and FortiGate-3600C as tested by NSS Labs are available now. To
learn
more about
FortiGate products or other Fortinet network security products, please visit www.fortinet.com. For a no-risk evaluation of our FortiGate
family of High Performance Data Center Firewalls, Enterprise Next Generation
Firewalls or smaller Unified Threat Management devices, please visit: http://www.fortinet.com/how_to_buy/try_and_buy.html
About Fortinet
Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) helps
protect networks, users and data from continually evolving threats. As a
global leader in high-performance network security, we enable businesses and
governments to consolidate and integrate stand-alone technologies without
suffering performance penalties. Unlike
costly, inflexible and low-performance alternatives, Fortinet solutions empower
customers to embrace new technologies and business opportunities while
protecting essential systems and content.
Learn more at www.fortinet.com.
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