Fortinet Expands Network Security Solution Suite
with New Dedicated Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Protection Products
Family of High Performance Appliances Helps Today’s Enterprises to Defend
Against DDoS attacks
Mandaluyong, Philippines – November 27, 2012 - Fortinet®, a world leader in high-performance network security,
today introduced the FortiDDoS product family for enterprises, Web hosting and
cloud service providers. The new FortiDDoS-100A, FortiDDoS-200A and
FortiDDoS-300A are dedicated appliances that are designed to detect and help
protect against today’s most damaging and sophisticated DDoS attacks. The
appliances feature custom ASICs that are capable of mitigating DDoS attacks
while maintaining incredibly-low latency (less than 26 microseconds),
preventing loss of availability to critical systems, servers and applications.
“This launch is significant because
as systems become more inter connected, the need for greater network protection
against targeted DDoS attacks become more pronounced,” said Jeff Castillo,
Fortinet's Country Manager for the Philippines. “This specialized protection ensures customer
confidence and decreases the liability of Philippine enterprises in the long
term.”
Providing granular real-time
network traffic visibility and automatic protection against targeted DDoS
attacks, the FortiDDoS appliances will be the only solution on the market that
supports network virtualization and automatic and continuous traffic
baselining. Network virtualization helps prevent attacks on one segment of the
network from affecting other segments, thereby preserving availability in
virtualized environments of datacenters and cloud-based service providers. The
automatic traffic baseline model building is also unique, enabling the
FortiDDoS products to build a network behavior model initially and adaptively
update it continuously with practically no end-user intervention, resulting in
significantly reduced administrative overhead.
“DDoS attacks aren’t just an
annoyance and minor inconvenience, they are a serious problem that could cause
significant liability to businesses today,” said Michael Xie, chief technology
officer and vice president of engineering at Fortinet. “The damage from a DDoS
attack can include loss of revenue, loss of customer confidence, loss of brand
equity and potentially huge legal liabilities. A FortiDDoS appliance installed
in front of a network infrastructure can act as a shield against DDoS attacks.”
FortiDDoS appliances are easy to
deploy and manage, and are designed to recognize today’s attack vectors and
deliver hardware-accelerated performance to block attacks quickly.
“Fortinet appliances’ support of
virtual instances is a valuable feature,” said Michael Suby, Stratecast vice
president of research at Frost and Sullivan. “This feature is not only
beneficial in supporting multiple layers of defense but also is a cost
containment and administration-friendly feature for organizations that have
multiple Web properties to protect, and need unique policies for each. Virtual
instances can also be effectively used in defense escalation. Rather than have
a single set of policies, multiple policy sets can be defined in advance, such
that the organization can apply a more stringent set of policies if the
preceding policies were inadequate.”
Hacktivism via botnets and network
testing applications has increased significantly in the last year, which has
led to an increase in volumetric and application layer attacks. These attacks
bring down sites by filling up Internet pipes and overloading application
servers. As businesses consume more software as a service (SaaS) offerings and
other public cloud-based services, DDoS attacks have become a serious concern
for CIOs and CSOs whether they are moving to the cloud or keeping their systems
and data on-premise.
The most common motivations for
DDoS attacks today are either financial or political. Financially motivated
attackers seek to extort funds from sites by launching an initial attack and
demanding payment to avoid future attacks. Politically motivated attackers
launch an attack in response to an organization’s policies by disrupting the
victim’s business operations. Regardless of the motive, any downtime affects
not only a victim organization’s customers, partners and employees, but can
damage its brand and credibility as well.
FortiDDoS Highlights
All FortiDDoS appliances feature eight virtualized network partitions with
independent protection policies for virtualized environments, automatic traffic
profiling and rate limiting context-aware policy enforcement for maximum
effectiveness. They also provide real-time and historic attacking traffic analysis
that delivers unmatched granular visibility on top attacks, top sources and top
attackers. The FortiDDoS family will also utilize an innovative design that
eliminates a common performance bottleneck by ensuring there is no CPU or
operating system in the path of the packets.
• The FortiDDoS-100A features 1
Gbps full-duplex anti-DDoS throughput, four 1GbpsRJ-45 copper and SFP ports for
LAN and WAN connectivity and one terabyte of storage. This model can be used to
protect 2 Internet links.
• The FortiDDoS-200A features 2Gbps full-duplex anti-DDoS throughput, eight
1Gbps RJ-45 copper and SFP ports for LAN and WAN connectivity, a redundant
power supply and two terabytes of RAID storage. This model can be used to
protect up to 4 Internet links.
• The FortiDDoS-300A features 3Gbps full-duplex anti-DDoS throughput, twelve
1Gbps RJ-45 Copper and SFP ports for LAN and WAN connectivity, a redundant
power supply and two terabytes of RAID storage. This model can be used to
protect up to 6 Internet links.
Fortinet acquired technology
powering these products through its asset purchase from Silicon Valley-based
IntruGuard Devices, Inc., which occurred during Q1 2012. The terms of asset
purchase are confidential and the amount paid by Fortinet as consideration for
the assets is considered immaterial to Fortinet’s business.
Availability
The FortiDDoS-100A, FortiDDoS-200A and FortiDDoS-300A are scheduled for release
immediately.
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Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) is a worldwide provider of network security
appliances and the market leader in unified threat management (UTM). Our
products and subscription services provide broad, integrated and
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the IT security infrastructure. Our customers include enterprises, service
providers and government entities worldwide, including the majority of the 2011
Fortune Global 100. Fortinet's flagship FortiGate product delivers
ASIC-accelerated performance and integrates multiple layers of security
designed to help protect against application and network threats. Fortinet's
broad product line goes beyond UTM to help secure the extended enterprise -
from endpoints, to the perimeter and the core, including databases and
applications. Fortinet is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., with offices
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