New Fortinet Next-Generation Firewall Increases Security and Networking

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Fortinet, a supplier of broad, integrated and automated cybersecurity solutions, 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, FortiGate 3000F enables ultra-scalable, security-driven networks that seamlessly converge networking and security without compromising security performance.

FortiGate 3000F helps secure the datacenter and hybrid IT architectures in the following ways:

• Scalability: FortiGate 3000F continues to deliver scalability via purpose-built Fortinet SPUs, including the NP7 and CP9. These are engineered to increase the speed, scale, performance, efficiency, and value of Fortinet solutions while improving user experience, reducing footprint, and lowering power requirements. FortiGate 3000F reportedly offers 22x the Security Compute Rating for concurrent firewall sessions when compared to competitive offerings.
  
  
• Advanced Networking and Explicit Application Control: FortiGate NGFWs come with natively integrated ZTNA access proxy to allow users to access applications and resources from anywhere, at any time, with constant authentication while building and maintaining effective compliance and security controls. FortiGate NGFWs seamlessly converge and accelerate networking and security and offers routing capabilities to peer with multiple providers on the WAN (Wide Area Network) side, and interconnect with a wide array of vendors on the LAN (Local Area Network) side. Many Fortinet networks have simplified their operations by replacing routers with a single FortiGate device that offers both networking and security.
  
  
• Enterprise-Grade Security: Fortinet solutions seamlessly weave networking, security and essential AI/ML-powered FortiGuard services into a single platform, enabling IT teams to effectively manage internal and external threats, prevent lateral spread and ransomware, and avoid business disruptions and brand damage. FortiGate offers advanced content policies, like video filtering to mainstream services, like YouTube, Vimeo, and Dailymotion. Enterprises can build flexible policies to allow one or many categories as well as stringent network security controls that can allow or block up to the channel level. With SSL inspection (including TLS 1.3) performance, the FortiGate NGFW is a platform that detects threats hidden in encrypted paths and offers automated threat protection with the least performance degradation.
  
  
• Automate and Simplify: The Fortinet Fabric Management Center provides single-pane-of-glass management, automation, and orchestration across the Security Fabric, including support for over 470 ecosystem partners, to simplify enterprise-wide workflows. Its open API approach and cross-environment connectors also help simplify and ensure consistent security posture and enforcement across multi-cloud environments.