Fortinet firewall family flourishes

Stephen Withers
Tuesday, 10 August 2010 18:09

Business IT - Networking

Fortinet has added a pair of enterprise-scale firewall appliances to its FortiWeb family.

Fortinet's new FortiWeb-1000C and 3000C firewall appliances are aimed respectively at medium to large enterprises, and high-end enterprises and service providers.

Both are designed to protect against attacks targeted at web applications and web services infrastructure, and to comply with PCI Data Security Standard sections 6.5 and 6.6.

They also help protect against SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and the exposure of personally identifiable data.

"Customer demand for more powerful web application infrastructure security is soaring due to a combination of evolving attacks, security breaches, regulatory compliance and web defacement incidents," said Michael Xie, founder, CTO and vice president of engineering at Fortinet.

"At the same time, more content is being delivered via the web, and both cloud providers and large enterprises need robust security solutions that can protect web application infrastructures without affecting application performance. The addition of the FortiWeb-1000C and FortiWeb-3000C appliances to the FortiWeb product family directly addresses this demand," he added.