Fortinet Unveils Next-Generation Firewall

Fortinet Unveils the Industry’s First High Performance Next-Generation Firewall with Integrated Zero Trust Network Access and Ransomware Protection to Secure Hybrid Data Centers

Rajesh Maurya, Regional Vice President, India & SAARC at Fortinet

“Adding to our industry-leading NGFW portfolio, FortiGate 3500F offers high performance and integrated networking and security at hyper-scale for hybrid data centers. With the FortiGate 3500F, Fortinet is the only vendor that natively integrates access proxy capabilities in its NGFWs to turn on zero-trust network access. Additionally, FortiGate 3500F further enables organizations to protect against evolving threats and rising ransomware attacks, delivering the industry’s highest security compute rating of 6x for performance compared to competitors- including TLS1.3 -to deliver consistent end-to-end security.”

News Summary

Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT), a global leader in broad, integrated, and automated cybersecurity solutions, today announced the FortiGate 3500F Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) to protect organizations with hybrid data centers against the ever-growing threat landscape and ransomware attacks. FortiGate 3500F offers some of the industry’s highest performance numbers, including TLS1.3, with automated threat protection post decryption. Additionally, FortiGate 3500Fis built with zero trust network access (ZTNA)capabilities, further delivering consistent security and seamless user experience to any user at any location with its security-driven networking approach.

Evolving Threat Landscape Poses Security Risks Across Hybrid Data Centers

With the shift to working from anywhere, organizations are adopting hybrid data centers to increase operational agility by deploying some resources across multiple clouds while keeping other business-critical applications and data in on-premises data centers for compliance and control. As the data center infrastructure becomes more distributed, however, the attack surface expands and more blind spots emerge, reducing visibility and increasing the potential for breaches and attacks. It’s critical for organizations to inspect encrypted flows to detect all types of attacks, especially malware that hides insecure channels, to prevent ransomware and the disruption of command and control attacks from stealing customer and corporate data.

Organizations also need a strategy to manage excessive implicit trust and provide inspection into the growing volume of encrypted traffic which is increasingly used by cyber adversaries to mask malicious traffic. Otherwise, organizations struggle to securely grow and accelerate digital transformation as their traditional security strategy and solutions can’t keep up with escalating business demands.

Securing Users, Data and Applications Everywhere

To address these challenges, FortiGate 3500F NGFWhelps organizations ensure business continuity and advanced security for hybrid data centers. With the industry’s highest security Compute Rating (SCR) of 6x IPsec, FortiGate 3500F NGFW secures the data center edge, core, and interconnect by providing ultra-fast secure data center to data center paths to build disaster recovery sites. It also enables organizations to secure data center to cloud paths for cloud on-ramps with full compliance and controls. Other key highlights of the FortiGate 3500F include:

• FortiGuard SecurityServices andFortinet ASIC SPUs enable hyperscale protection for ransomware and advanced threats: FortiGate 3500F ispowered by Fortinet’s purpose-builtASIC Security Processing Units (SPUs), like the NP7 and CP9. FortiGate 3500F offers the industry’s highest security compute rating of 6x forperformance compared to competitors – including support of TLS1.3 – to detect attacks, like ZEUS, Trickbot, Dridex,and protect organizations from network, application and file-basedattacksand many other sophisticated threats. FortiGate 3500F also natively integrates withFortiGuard Security Services. This further helps organizations protect themselves against network anti-virus, mail security, anti-DDoS, and similar functions, like IPS and anti-malware solutions.

• Natively integrates access proxy capabilities, such as zero trust network access (ZTNA): FortiGate 3500F is the only NGFW in the industry that natively integrates access proxy capabilities to enable zero trust network access (ZTNA).This allows organizations to host applications anywhere with consistent policy controls to enable and secure hybrid workforce models with seamless and superior user experience.

• Seamless user experience through consolidation: Fortinet further delivers a security-driven networking approach withFortiGate 3500F, whichcombines security and networking capabilities, including Secure SD-WAN and Zero Trust Network Access. An industryfirst, only Fortinet offers Secure SD-WAN, SD-Branch and ZTNA in one single offering.

Scaling Business with Superior Performance and Advanced Security

Powered by Fortinet’sASIC SPUs, FortiGate 3500F offers some of the highest performance numbers for NGFW with 12xhigherspeeds than leading competitors. As a result, FortiGate 3500F delivers unparalleled performance levels and hyper-scale to inspect, segment, and secure locally hosted data and workloads at network speeds. Organizations are able to host business-critical applications and provide secure access to corporate users, customers and partners.

Below is a comparison of the FortiGate 3500F compared against top firewalls on the market.

Specification	Fortinet  FortiGate 3500F	Industry   Average	Security Compute Rating3	Palo alto networks  PA-5260	Checkpoint  SG-26000	Cisco Firepower  FPR-4125	Juniper   SRX540024
Firewall	600Gbps	95Gbps	6x	60Gbps	106Gbps	80Gbps	135Gbps
IPsec VPN	165Gbps	28Gbps	6x	28Gbps	40Gbps	14Gbps	30Gbps
Threat Protection	57Gbps	29Gbps	2x	34Gbps	24Gbps	N/A	N/A
SSL Inspection	64Gbps	8Gbps	8x	6.5 Gbps	–	8Gbps	N/A
Concurrent Sessions	330M1	28M	12x	32M	10M	25M	45M
Connections Per Second	4.8M1	771.5k	6x	586k	550k	1.1M	850k

1. Performance with hyperscale license applied
2. SRX5400E-B1-AC, IPsec non-power mode​ 

“Fortinet’s NGFWs provides organizations like DTDC Express Ltd with industry-leading high performance making it possible for us to remain agile and provide customers with superior user experience without compromising our security posture. With the increase in hybrid data centers and distributed users, Fortinet continues to innovate its Next-Generation Firewall portfolio with the FortiGate 3500F.”

Mrinal Chakraborty, EVP IT & Innovations at DTDC Express Ltd., India

About Fortinet

Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) makes possible a digital world that we can always trust through its mission to protect people, devices, applications, and data everywhere. This is why the world’s largest enterprises, service providers, and government organizations choose Fortinet to securely accelerate their digital journey. The Fortinet Security Fabric platform delivers broad, integrated, and automated protections across the entire digital attack surface, securing critical devices, data, applications, and connections from the data center to the cloud to the home office. Ranking #1 in the most security appliances shipped worldwide, more than 510,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses. And the Fortinet NSE Training Institute, an initiative of Fortinet’s Training Advancement Agenda (TAA), provides one of the largest and broadest training programs in the industry to make cyber training and new career opportunities available to everyone. Learn more at https://www.fortinet.com, the Fortinet Blog, or FortiGuard Labs.